An external shareholder wouldn’t need to create a matrix account just to talk to you.

That’s a really good point. I have forgotten whether there are anonymous accounts in Matrix for rooms, but even if so it wouldn’t be the same as scheduling a meeting and sending a specific meeting link a-la Zoom.

Yeah, this is the reason.

It’s an interesting system; it does clutter your workspace with a lot of files, especially if you have a lot of rules. I use it in one project and came away with mixed feelings.

Lots of good, some noise.

No, I didn’t. I don’t use Pis, I have ODroids. Heck, they may sell batteries for ODroids, too.

For me, it wouldn’t have made much difference because I have UPSes around the house serving things like routers, modems, and switches. And I do care about size and energy use. I’m only saying there are advantages to using laptops.

You can get little integrated LCD cases for Pis too, can’t you? And maybe even a little fold-out keyboard. Congratulations! You’ve re-invented the laptop!

B/c cigars?

Cigarette smoke is far more noxious than cigars or pipes. Pure burned tobacco just mostly smells like fragrant smoke. Cigarettes smell foul because the pre-packaged ones are full of chemicals.

Buh-bye Gnome.

To each their own! I do like summaries when it can be summarized. A great many can; videos of someone chronicling their experience flying across country in an ultra-light? Video. Someone listing top 10 whisks? Text.

That’s my preference, but I get you: some people would prefer to watch than read.

I wasn’t arguing that cycling wasn’t superior for many reasons, only that I didn’t like that they didn’t quote the specific statistic supporting the claim that cycling was better than walking. I do notice they left out jogging.

Someone else pointed out that there is a graphic in the article that shows cycling>walking; a graphic you don’t see if you view websites in text-only mode. I’d have liked to see the supporting statistic in accessibility-friendly text, and not hidden in a graphic, but it is there.

Thanks! That’s all great information.

I’d bet there are a bunch of college students involved in the implementation, too. I don’t see ongoing maintenance taking much more manpower than MS; we certainly had dedicated teams for it at my last company, so maybe that will be a budgetary wash, and what they save will be the probably significant licensing.

Dunno, but good theory. The other theory someone suggested that makes sense is that it’s spoken shorthand, like “I like 3-5 beer” was written “3/5”. Mist people would probably pronounce “3.5” as three-point-five, so writing it 3/5 does make sense.

Fair, fair. Although, some of us also believe that Palestine has a right to exist as a sovereign state, same as Israel. That goes beyond anti-genocide.

At least!

I can’t wait for whatever replaces TikTok, and the next generation starts calling TikTok’ers “boomers.”

I low-key love how “boomer” came to mean “anyone older than me.”

Gosh, yes, love that site. I don’t use it much since it’s almost impossible for it to stay comprehensive; for example, it’s missing both the Piantor and Piantor Pro, and the Piantor had been around for a couple years at least.

It is a wonderful tool, though. I think it’d be a full time job to keep it current with all commercially available keyboards, much less all of the bespoke builds.

Wow. That’s… that’s quite something, there. Yup.

Haha! Yeah, my bad. I read most articles in text mode; I didn’t see the graphic until I turned that off.

Hah! I’m having trouble distinguishing between the Cantor and the Piantor Pro, which is what I’m currently using.

My issue with these is the thumb key placement. The innermost two are fine, but having to tuck my thumb almost into my palm to reach those outer (looking at the keyboards, or inner, if you look at each hand) keys is not very ergonomic for me. It’s also a fairly wide horizontal span to move the thumb, and sequences requiring inner:outer are both tedious and unavoidable.

I don’t doubt you like it; for me it’s not ideal.

Thanks for the suggestion!!

Thanks. I wonder why both jitsi and Matrix. Someone in the thread said it was too bad Matrix’s video conferencing wasn’t good enough that they had to add an extra software component, but I wonder what, exactly, the evaluation found wrong with it.

I have a lot of issues with Matrix, but the video conferencing didn’t seem worse than the horrible key management.

Every day?

• Herbstluftwm, the window manager. I used i3 for a decade, then bspwm for a few months, then landed on hlwm which I’ve been happily using for over a year. I don’t foresee changing until I’m forced to switch to Wayland. I’ve used almost every window manager and DE available for Linux and Solaris. Hlwm has things I can no longer live without:
  • It’s entirely configuration-file-less, which means the CLI client is the first class citizen for C&C.
  • It’s tiled and keyboard controllable is, again, a first-class citizen
  • It has a sane tree model, with no weird exceptions
  • It’s stable
  • It’s fast and small. You never see it in top, sorting either by CPU or memory
• Zsh, the shell, in which I run 90% of my applications (the regular exceptions being the Luakit browser and Factorio, the game. everything else is CLI or a TUI). Zsh is bash backwards compatible, and it has a bunch of extra convenience syntax that makes scripting more powerful, pushing out the border where switching to a real programming language is necessary. I have lived in sh, bash, and csh over my life, and I’ve tried fish and a number of others; the rich data model for process communication is compelling, but I’ve always discovered it lacking, so on zsh I remain.
• Tmux, the terminal multiplexer, which is (almost) invariably the first child of every terminal (rio -e 'tmux attach -t#'). Because terminals crash, because it survives session restarts, because it lets me log in remotely and continue what I started in my desktop, and because it works over ssh and having a consistent multiplexer environment across machines is nice. I used sceen for years before discovering tmux, and have tried almost every other terminal multiplexer; and none add any significant value for me over tmux.
• Helix, the editor in which I spend most of my time. Because I started with emacs and used it for years before switching to vim. Then I used vim for decades before switching to Kakoune. Then I used Kakoune for about 2 years before switching to helix. Kakoune was too much like Emacs for my taste: heavy on chording, light on modality. Helix is much more like vim: lighter on chording, more mode-driven. Chording aggravates my carpel tunnel, and I’m more comfortable in modal editors. I switched from vim because the plugins necessary to be a competent development environment got insane, and my vim was starting to take as long to start up as emacs, which was unacceptable. Also, LSP integration was super flaky and broke every six months; it’s what initially drove me to Kakoune.

I’m currently using Rio as my terminal. It has bugs, but it’s actively developed and regularly releases will fix one more thing. It has both ligature and sixel support, and it’s wildly fast and far, far less memory intensive than either kitty or ghostty, which are both pretty fat. I am not including it in “the list” because some remaining bugs are pretty big, like randomly crashing when it gets resized or sees some sequence of asci escape codes. It’s not much of an issue because I run everything in tmux, and it crashes less with every release, but I hesitate to recommend it until it’s more stable.

Look at that fat, sloppy fucker. He never served his county.

It’s the Bell Riots, not the Bell Peaceful Protests. Playing it safe is probably going to stop being an option sooner or later. That said, there’s good evidence that if No Kings hits 3.5% turn out, the movement is practically guaranteed success, so maybe riots can be avoided.

I wish I could have gotten a riot shield in advance; apparently they’re pretty good at reflecting LRAD back to the sender. The next best thing appears to be over-the-ears construction muffs, which are inexpensive and easily available at Ace, Home Depot, and Lowes.

This is, in my mind, one of the benefits of laptops over micro computers: integrated UPS. Even an old, degraded battery will probably get you a couple of hours with the screen off.

IME, power consumption is going to be worse overall, for any laptop likely to be in the recycle bin, it’s probably double the consumption of an ARM SBC. The integrated UPS and usually decent power conditioning of the power supply saves you more money with a laptop. Plus, keyboard and screen for emergencies - I just generally expect that, over there life of a micro I’m going to have to drag out and plug in a spare keyboard, mouse, and monitor because something in a device, or an upgrade, or BIOS flash, is preventing a boot.

There are a lot of good reasons to use laptops instead of SBCs, if you don’t mind the extra power draw and (as she says) don’t have size requirements.