Yeah, whenever I had a job that required a Mac, they had the decency to loan me one. If my job required me to buy one, I’d be looking for another job. I hate Macs.

It’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.

Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~

Whoopsie daisy-cutter.

It really all depends upon what you’re doing. Some people don’t like to leave the terminal, and editors like nano or micro aren’t powerful enough for them. If all you’re doing is working with configs or something like that, micro or nano is just as good as vim.

Learning vim has been fun for me, which is why it always seems weird to me when people say stuff like “why should I have to learn, etc.” It’s like there’s no point in doing something unless it puts money into your wallet?

Learning new things makes you a better person. It’s good for your brain.

It’s like asking why you should make the effort to bake cookies or learn origami.

Cool story

Douglas Crockford has a whole chapter of these in his latest book. There’s also this classic video.

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A male chicken?

So, you don’t know what accessibility standards are. You’re just using a term, “accessibility”, to mean “the way that I want it to work”.

Which accessibility standards does Mastodon break?

Serious question: why not? What’s bad about that?

I didn’t interpret the original post as “What would a generic user consider necessary installs?” I interpreted it as “Could you suggest some software that you consider absolutely essential so that I could discover some that I might’ve overlooked?”

Brilliant.

This is like somebody asking you what you want for breakfast, and you say “Food”.

Manipulated, you say? With propaganda?

Well, clearly this is a bridge too far! The Trump administration can never get away with this!

I love this, because it’s exactly the opposite of the received “wisdom” you’d get from many corners of the Internet. As long as you aren’t mucking around the internals of a Linux install, it’s going to be stable, and it will be adequate for common computing tasks. Arguably, even better than adequate.

Well, if they want to intimidate everybody who says anything anti-Trump…they’re going to be very busy. What I’m worried about are leaders of movements.

You don’t know what either of those words mean, do you.

It’s funny how they’re saying “You need to use Linux” and not “You need to get off Facebook”. How’s Linux going to save you from Facebook spying on you?