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Neovim, because I wanted something that would not just disappear.

I never really got along with VSCode, opting for Atom instead. Microsoft bought GitHub, which owned Atom, and promptly discontinued it.

Nvim has such an active community (and no "owner") that I'm certain that this won't happen again. At the same time, the plugin system is so flexible that I'm also certain that I will never miss out on any shiny new features.

Over the years, my config has matured, and is mine. The thought of going back to an editor, any editor, less flexible in its configuration than nvim is just... an absolute "no".

It's a steep learning curve, but well worth it.

Yyyyyyupp

"Oh no, this device is rooted! :(" Yes because I know what I am doing, now show me my account balance you stupid piece of ahit banking app.

No.

Apart from everything else, also consider that it's just respectful to at least try and learn the local language of wherever it is you are going. Doesn't matter if it's on vacation or long term company deployment.

Also, LLMs are absolute garbage at picking up on things like subtle language-based jokes, for example.

I'm actually hosting it public-facing, because in theory, gaining access to the VM and the vault shoult be unproblematic - since the vault is only decrypted client-side

Agreed.

You can also selfhost bitwarden/vaultwarden for even better privacy.

Interesting. I always loved how they fit the musical entries into the story in a way that it makes sense that everyone is singing all of the sudden, lol

Iain M. Banks' Culture.

I'm deathly afraid of the day some big studio manages to buy the rights and produce a Hollywood version of the Culture. Mostly because it is very easy to flip through the Wikipedia entries and then take the superficial aesthetic of the Culture and misunderstand or ignore the rest.

For an example on how easy it is to do this: I remember vividly when the German translations of the later books came out, and they all had some variation of

The Culture is the galaxy-spanning empire of mankind. Unbeknownst to its citizens however, their supposedly benevolent machine gods are about to dispense with the needs for humans at all"

in the blurb. Someone scanned the wiki page until they read something about "superhuman AI" or the like, then went "ah, got it, I've seen Terminator".

In a similar vein, I cannot imagine that Hollywood would portray the Culture as an unquestionably good Utopia. They'd not be able to resist to paint the luxury gay space communists as "...with a dark secret / actually dystopian /..." tones.

It has to have the same energy though. Dong have to be the same characters, doesn't have to feature Brakebills for Fillory, but needs the same "we're broken and magic doesn't make it better, but hey, here's a canonical musical" feeling

No, mate. I don't need a guide, or a tour. Just a single clarifying sentence.

"My product does x". Right now, x could be:

• help you scam people
• provide a meditation partner
• help you learn how to code in Cobol
• give travel tips
• ...

What does your product DO? And dong you dare answer "it helps you make money", that does not explain anything.

I have clicked every link on that site and I still have exactly zero clue wtf this is.

Ah, my bad then! I didn't see a repo linked in the post or on the site. That's great, then!