This is just opening a website in a browser from vim, meh.
Let me know when vim can do this without a browser and when it pays with Bitcoin.
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Let me know when vim can do this without a browser and when it pays with Bitcoin.
* Linus Torvalds
* Satoshi Nakamoto
* Donald Knuth
* Yukihiro Matsumoto
* Terry A. Davis
What are those "more resilient technologies" that you speak about? I want to know, because all the other shitcoins are either more centralized or a scam and not worth looking at in my opinion.
I dare you to tell me another cryptocurrency that is more decentralized than bitcoin.
> I am disgusted by the kind of people Bitcoin attracts today and I don't want to be associated with that crown in any possible way!
What I want to know is why you associate the technology with the people, or why even generalize the whole community because of a few bad actors.
I agree there are many toxic people in bitcoin, but you know what? I don't give a shit, just ignore them I'd say.
There are far worse people in the current financial system, but you don't seem to be talking about that, I wonder why.
I'm not paranoid, I want the world to be a better place. Banks and governments are the cause of the global financial crisis/recession. Lots of families and people's future were destroyed by them.
The US is 4.3% of the total world population, there are other 6 and a half billion people in the world.
Most of the other 6 and a half billion are completely unbanked, they never had access to a bank account. Bitcoin can help those people.
> Something that solves a problem for <1% of the global population and some niche cases is of virtually no utility.
I don't know how you can say that. You must be blind.
Your "instant bank transfers" claim is irrelevant. Traditional banking lacks the openness, borderless access, censorship resistance aspects of decentralized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
With traditional banking you are in a master-slave relationship, where your bank is the master and can wipe your money clean at a whim. Bitcoin means you are your own bank.
It's pointless to compare "instant bank transfers" with bitcoin, bitcoin makes traditional banking obsolete.
I think the price will slowly reach $100k and $500k and we'll see trillions in market cap. I think the bitcoin price reflects our economy; the more governments/central banks print money, the higher the bitcoin price will be.
Bitcoin already is a good store of value, but I think in the long term we'll also see bitcoin being used as money, with things like the Lightning Network.
I think we'll see more soft-forks being done by the community to improve the network and make things more efficient.
Also, when the price goes higher than $500k people won't even notice price fluctuations anymore, so the price will remain stable and people will start using it as money.
I also think that people will stop comparing bitcoin to fiat eventually. Maybe we'll say 1 BTC == 1 BTC, or 1 BTC is worth N mBTC?
Of course this won't happen overnight, but it will happen, the only thing bitcoin needs to do is survive until it reaches mass adoption.
We already hit $100 billion market cap, $1tn is right around the corner. The price should only increase with the market cap increasing.
"When bitcoin goes to the moon, it becomes the moon" —Richard Heart
I got paid a few BTC for remote work when the price was about ~600 USD per BTC, I will never sell.
I'm using Arch Linux with i3 on a dual core with 2GB of RAM and it works like a charm.
I even dual boot Ubuntu on this machine and have no issues.
Docker on Windows is not native, it runs on a VM and uses Linux under the hood.
> Chocolatey is a great package manager. Others also exist.
Chocolatey is a step in the right direction, but it probably doesn't integrate as well as apt or dnf, you still have the Windows Store to update separately, and the Windows Store is what Microsoft wants you to use.
Chocolatey is more like a bandaid solution that was made by the community to deal with the limitations of software installation on Windows.
So I think Linux does package management much better than Windows, but this isn't to say that Chocolatey is bad, it's just that Microsoft has total control over everything on Windows.
I also like how Linux distros share a common file system hierarchy and share libraries between programs, while minimizing disk space and reducing security issues.
> You can use most GNU tools.
Yes, that's because those GNU programs are cross platform, which is good.
Free software also allows others to port programs to other platforms, which is also a very good thing.
> You can use any hardware you want
This isn't completely true, you cannot take your existing Windows drive and just plug it into another computer and expect everything to work, but you can do this just fine with Linux.
An existing Windows install and its license is associated to the machine where you have it installed.
Also, Windows won't run on other architectures other than x86 and I think ARM? Linux is known to work with ~20 different architectures or more.
Another advantage with Linux is that the drivers are built into the Linux kernel, so when a driver is added to the Linux kernel, it will be maintained and improved as part of the kernel, so your hardware will be supported for a very long time / forever.
This is unlike Windows where hardware vendors will release a blob for Windows and won't provide updates after the hardware is EOLed or for the next version of Windows.
I still have old printers that still work fine with Linux but the same printer doesn't have drivers for the current version of Windows anymore.
Linux is the only OS kernel with more hardware support than any other OS out there.
> Performance is good on Windows
Performance tends to vary depending on what you are doing and what you are comparing against.
So this is debatable, and one would need to run benchmarks to be sure.
That said, I find Windows to always be slower than Linux, running Linux on the same machine tends to be faster for the things I do, and Windows tends to slow over time whereas Linux doesn't.
> Freedom, i.e. FOSS is ubiquitous on Windows too (not as much as on Linux for sure tho).
You don't have freedom with Windows, you cannot give a copy of Windows to your friends, and you cannot inspect the Windows source code to learn and/or to modify it or fix anything in it.
> Privacy and security is good on Windows 10. Linux desktops are honestly not that safe.
[citation needed]
Do you have any sources to back this claim? There are a lot of security/privacy concerns with Windows 10, especially with the likes of telemetry and backdoors.
> Powershell is way better shell then anything Linux has to offer.
How is PowerShell better than the many different shells we have on Linux? I don't think this is true.
There is also PowerShell on Linux.
> Games still work better and there are more supported.
Linux has Steam now and many games are being released with Linux support every day, Vulkan is also taking off on Linux.
> More commercial tools are available for Windows.
There are many commercial tools coming out for Linux too, and this is only going to increase.
> Honestly, the only difference now is the culture around it.
It's not just about the culture, GNU/Linux and Windows are different operating systems with different ideas, purposes and design.
Windows is merely a company's product.
GNU/Linux is about freedom.
* Containers (LXC, systemd-nspawn, Docker, etc. and native virtualization with QEMU/KVM), Apple doesn't even come close here.
* Use the WM/DE of your choice.
* Superior package management (pacman, apt, dnf, flatpak, etc).
* Use the distro of your choice.
* Use the latest GNU software unlike some crippled bash version like in Mac.
* Decide if you want bleeding edge or not.
* Use any hardware you want (older or new, Linux doesn't care and it will still perform well even with older hardware).
* Get more performance with Linux.[1][2]
* Freedom.[3]
* Privacy, security and transparency.
* Peace of mind, never be forced to upgrade your hardware or software. Your hardware is yours and you can use it until it literally breaks. You control your computer and not the other way around.
IMO, GNOME 3 and i3/sway are way nicer than the GUI on macOS, and you can use all the same development tools and editors on Linux today, tmux, Vim/Neovim, Emacs, Atom, VS Code, Sublime Text, etc.
There are so many other reasons.[4] Feel free to mention your reasons too.
I don't see what's the appeal with Mac at all, it seems like you are just paying for a logo.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos-sie...
[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos-101...
cat /dev/urandom | sox -traw -r44100 -b16 -e unsigned-integer - -tpulseaudio synth pinknoise band -n 1400 200 tremolo 40 .1 gain 8SegWit will activate soon and after that we'll get things like lightning with super fast / cheap transactions and no more waiting for transactions to get confirmed.
I think we'll see a lot more mainstream use after LN and the price will either skyrocket or stabilize as a result.
Q Like q, but store the current playback position. Playing the same file later
will resume at the old playback position if possible.
* RetroArch - for all your emulation needs in one package.
* ripgrep - better and faster than ag (The Silver Searcher).
* mpv - very nice video player, it can also be used together with youtube-dl for streaming from various websites, including youtube, etc.
To site admins: stop marking my comments as dead for no good reasons, my suggestions are valid.