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I managed to build it and test it a little bit and damn, it's not just marketing to describe it as having an insanely fast start up time. It launched almost as quick as I can spawn new client windows from my Emacs daemon and scrolling and text editing seems to be buttery smooth as well.

However, I really don't like the fact that there is no way to navigate tabs using vim's commands.

I also find the VSCode similarities distracting and it seems to be causing confusion to would be investors of this due to the assumption it's some branch of it as opposed to a completely new editor.

Finally, is there a way to remove the system bar on the top in the configuration? I can toggle most elements of the UI but that system bar is visible even in zen mode and I never use it in any text editor with support for keyboard driven commands.

I don't think it should ever be on by default but I do find it useful situationally, when scrolling through very large files (which ideally you want to avoid in your codebase in the first place) and when I don't necessarily have a specific search term or keyword in mind.

Tabs are fine as long as they represent workspaces instead of a one-to-one mapping to files or buffers. I think the browser tab metaphor does not work very well in a text editor without some modification since you often want to do split layouts and I really don't like the messiness of multiple tab bars.

I think Emacs still has the most advanced system for window management and the only thing it should do is maybe modernise the UI surrounding it a bit.

For me, my Emacs runs fine up till I try using lsp for java development and then it's a bloody nightmare. Currently, I'm being forced to resort to the indignity that is Eclipse as a result of that.

I'm frankly ready for a total reimagining of Emacs even if it means that extension support might be compromised for a while. The last time there was a major divide, we had XEmacs and a lot of the massive improvements that made eventually made it to mainline Emacs so it could only be a good thing for this project long term.

Just so I understand this correctly, the version of Onivim 2 from 18 months ago will be open source? That's not the worst solution if true. John Carmack would do something similar with many of his game engines back when he was working with Id Tech (albeit with a much longer lag time).

> I was thinking about trying out Onivim someday but this one thing was the whole dealbreaker. I thought that if your program is advertised to be light and fast it would also be easy to build, but welp that's unfortunately not the case.

This is not really a reasonable expectation to have for non-free software. The software is made for those willing to pay the licensing fee to download a prebuilt binary, not those that will end up wanting to compile it themselves. Fast performance != fast build times.

I personally appreciate the fact that the source is even provided - though obviously with a non free license.

>I think that's quite a huge assertion to make, personally.

Not really, especially in the context of the discussion which is privileging the continuity of experience which objectively breaks when you lose consciousness during sleep or anesthesia.

I really don't see the problem here. The AI rights debate is fringe at best and is currently purely hypothetical. Maybe if it was genuinely at the level where it's competing with NGOs or international aid for funding, I could see the problem but we're not there at all and what investment towards AI there is has nothing to do with their imagined future rights but their current and near term utility.

I don't quite buy that you could really have said the same about the 32 bit to 64 bit transition. 4 Gigabytes is a far cry from 18 exabytes! It is going to be a long while till we scale up to that level.

Yeah, I can develop and test for both platforms on a machine with Linux installed so your whataboutism is both disingenuous and factually incorrect.

Assuming that this comment is 100% in earnest, why are you under the impression that we have to choose between treating human prisoners and self aware AI with dignity? Why not do both or is there some sort of compassion budget that I'm missing here?

The problem with this argument is that this is effectively happening every time you fall asleep or get knocked out. Your consciousness shuts off during both and you rely on memories to preserve the illusion of continuity. In a very real sense, you are dying every day and having your previous state restored - albeit with some behind the scenes processing of the day's experiences during sleep.

Obviously, these companies themselves are not involved in the policies themselves but am I supposed to believe that all the major social media platforms independently decided to ban the then president of the United States when he had repeatedly violated their terms of conditions in the past with no response? That stretches credulity.

I also don't know where you're getting this idea that armed conflict between the people and the state is rare in democracies, least of all the US which has had several riots and armed conflict between the state and guerrilla organisations since the civil war, many of which have had a direct effect on legislation and happened decades before the Civil Rights act of 1960.

If your hourly rate is nearly minimum wage but you have a $5K PC build and the latest MBP, something tells me you have put the cart before the horse.

That's assuming there is a viable alternative for the same price point - and no, I don't consider abstinence as a valid alternative.

It also has a bs annual "support" cost of $180 so short of robbing one of them, you're better off waiting for the root method for the Quest 2 becoming publicly available or if you like to live a little dangerously, just use the workaround for the login that I did (search it on Youtube, I'd rather not detail it on this site).

Every time you violate the tos of a company like Facebook, you're making the world a better place and I'm only half joking.

Your comment ironically reeks of scientific ignorance itself. Science is as much about confirmation of prior observations and testing of established theories (and in fact more so by sheer volume of studies) as it is investigation of unexplained phenomena.

"If we just changed the rules and the public didn't change, imagine what would happen. Also, note that people with political causes invest enormous resources in manipulating public opinion."

You cannot in fact change the rules if there hasn't been a shift in the public so this seems a rather moot point. I'm not arguing that you shouldn't invest in PR and education on these issues but muzzling the opposition just gives the next rulers in charge an already existing muzzle to use back on yourself.

There is a history of often murderous suppression of "radical" groups in the US and by and far the majority of these were socialists, environmentalists, and marginalised people.

The current fake appeasement to these demographics is just that - a mirage. They're willing to ban Trump from the internet but not raise the minimum wage, abolish the drug war, really come after companies for their industrial scale damaging of ecology or cease trade relations with countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

Excuse me for not taking this current "wokeness" fetishization by fundamentally hierarchical power structures entirely as good faith.

It's also not clear to me at all that "speech plays the largest role". Of course, existing power structures want you to believe that because the thing they fear the most of all is armed and genuinely effective resistance and it also helps perpetuate the illusion of a free and democratic society as if all it took to conquer racism and imperialism was to have a sit down and chat - with the hidden assumption that prior exploited people were just too stupid to consider this before - but MLK and Ghandai would have gone nowhere if there weren't decades of riots and militant struggle preceding them that pushed the US and British governments to enter negotiations with these parties.

"If these providers have built in the ability for the CCP to access user data, then there's no way they could ever stand up to US gov't asking for the same access"

There are plenty of good reasons to refuse to cede to CCP demands but this makes no sense.

The only tech company that were able to mount serious resistance against a serious data access request by the US government were Apple and a couple of things:

1. They are a trillion dollar company.

2. They are primarily a hardware company, not a cloud services company

3. There is no guarantee (and I would argue rather unlikely) that if the FBI were unable to break the encryption of that phone independently that they would not have kept mounting pressure on Apple till they cracked.

It's a complete fantasy to believe that any individual or company has guaranteed data protection in the US or indeed most nation states. Once the government really want your data, they will get it with enough time.

Just search it on Youtube. I normally hate comments like this but I have reasonable reluctance to explicitly detail the workaround on a site where FAANG employees (and employers) frequent.

Sorry, I think this might have been my bad since I forgot that PC is synonymous with Windows computer in the US. I just mean you obviously need something to backup that data to. It could be a Mac or whatever but there many iOS users who don't own a laptop or desktop computer. I'll edit my prior comment for better clarity.

Assuming she didn't have something to backup the data to, then it would make some sense for her to disable the passcode so somebody could perform the repair without requiring the erasure of her data.

Ok, so it was not a straw man argument, then.

I feel like you're veering dangerously close to victim blaming here. Them asking the customer to erase their devices to "protect their data" seems like a thinly veiled attempt to cover their asses if one of their apparently not well vetted technicians decide to violate somebody's privacy illegally. It also sounds like a major pain in the ass especially for people who don't own a computer to backup that data to.

I have no sympathy for Apple here especially considering the level of FUD they spread about the Right to Repair movement exposing your Apple device to allegedly dangerous third party technicians.

Civil rights are not granted from cancelling racists from exposing their hateful views online, it's from taking action against the racist systems and people in power that really impact their rights. This can take the form of both violent and non-violent struggle but the key word is struggle, not just speech or the curtailment of wrong speech.

I cannot disagree though I would point out that nothing in the market really comes close to matching the value for money that the Quest 2 provides.

However, by bypassing the Facebook requirement, I like to believe that I'm screwing them over by depriving them of the personal data that they likely wanted to use to subsidise the low price of the headset.

Pretty sure the PiMax "8K" (Misleading term since it's not 8K, it's just 4K per eye) fits the bill. They have had issues with production before but more recent reviews indicate a major improvement.

Do expect distortions on the edges though especially if you set it to display the full FOV.

While this is true, I managed to bypass the Facebook login requirement through a workaround and the Quest 2 has apparently recently been rooted. The method has yet to be made public yet but it's only a matter of time.

Russia and China or do those not count?

Or it could have also been due to the whole having access to orders of magnitude more mechanical power on tap, assembly line production allowing for rapid prototyping, and industrialisation of agriculture leading to a population boom.

I have no problem with this person who probably had legitimate issues with Google but "You are not worth having any conversations about this, since you are not someone whose humanity (let alone expertise recognised by journalists, governments, scientists, civic organisations such as the electronic frontiers foundation etc) is acknowledged or valued in this company" is a pretty clear and cut accusation of bigotry to me.

How exactly would you fail to acknowledge somebody's humanity thanks to "naivete"? I'm making the presumably safe assumption that she is not a sentient piece of lint.

The exact same restrictions on free speech disproportionately impact black activist groups who might not have the same corporate backing as many right wing think tanks or organisations.

The only thing restrictions on free speech incentivise is conformity to the ruling party's policies and there is an implicit assumption here that the democratic parties values are really the correct ones - which many people of colour will dispute.

The moment the Republicans take over (which they will inevitably considering how few campaign promises Biden has so far delivered), they will turn this on groups like BLM and the Antifa movement in general.