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Get out now while you can - except give me grandkids first!

At any point, someone could be thrown through a wall and crush the internet box (I am talking about that IT Crowd sketch - so good!:-P).

Thanks for the update - I so rarely use emacs that I might be guilty of misinformation here, as in what may have been true two decades ago is not any longer. I'll try to remember that.:-)

That sounds like a good idea. Lemmy is still beta version software and there are not that many mods, in part bc they have to expose themselves to this kind of thing all the time.

It should get better as people build new tools. But it takes time, and effort. For instance, even this system that we are talking about could devolve into a "mod harassment tool", where someone falsely reports something and in the report itself puts horrible content.

Some people just suck. It takes real effort to make the world suck a bit less, and for the most part it's a thankless job that brings 99% heartache. With that in mind, I think the mods are doing great, but yeah more needs to be done at the same time. And it will.

Let us also not forget that AI does not work. They made internal promises to themselves about how it was going to radically transform everything, within the next couple of quarters it seems, and when those "promises" did not materialize... the workers are the ones holding the bag (not "blamed", yet jobless all the same). So much irony at every single level. Like AI really will transform everything, but dayum give it a second will you?

In short: everything is performing fully normally, more's the pity:-(.

Counterpoint: it's often better than failing captchas? :-P

Viva la oppression! :-P

The reason is b/c vim predates GUIs. Yes, as in all of them:-D. (Or rather, its predecessor vi did and vim unlike others very much remained true to its origins)

Even now, there are many places e.g. when doing server maintenance or accessing a compute cluster via SSH, sometimes you do not have a handy GUI environment accessible, at which point your choices become extremely limited, and it helps that vim has been installed on every Unix-i/Linux-ish machine since the 80s.

GUIs are superior, ofc, when they work. On a daily basis I even use a GUI for vim - MacVim (for Windows there used to be Cream but I am very out of date there), and there is always gVim. I could use something else but I am familiar with vim and it is EXTREMELY powerful - e.g. I could indent 100,000 lines in the middle of a file without having to manually select all of them at once first, or better still only do the indentation based on matching a pattern.

It is very advanced, and thus not for everyone, and even those of us that use it often prefer the GUI way for simple tasks like select a contiguous block of 5 lines, but it offers the benefit that it works in the widest possible number of scenarios - e.g. more than nano. emacs does too, except its commands are so configurable that the X-windows GUI number 1, X-windows GUI number 2, and command-line versions all use entirely different shortcuts, so a cheat sheet would not help. vim offers consistency that, afaik, is absolutely unmatched anywhere.

Now you know:-).

You don't ever close vim. You pray to the gods and hope that vim chooses to quit for you. (technically accurate if you think about it - i.e. otherwise you leave swap files all over the place:-P)

And hope that you do not mess up and summon a daemon instead:-P.

Using perl is not the problem, now trying to read perl code later? That's the challenge! :-P

Yeesh. I mean, perl would tell you about that immediately, I'm just saying... :-P

It is only baffling if you still think that Google's aim is to help people. At one point they were trying to gain market share and so that was true. It is not anymore.