Woah, did the media learn something from the California bill? That was only reported very much on after it had already passed. Now this is getting significant coverage when nothing except introduction has happened yet (and let us hope it stays that way).

At the time vi was originally developed, such keyboards did exist (on terminals). That’s the reason it works the way it does.

since interface has been designed to be as unfriendly as possible

No, it hasn’t.

It (well, vi, which vim is a clone of) has been designed to be a possible interface on a keyboard that doesn’t have arrow keys or other modifier keys than shift. There aren’t that many ways to program a visual text editor when those are your constraints.

That it’s more productive once you know it is a side-effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Origin_and_acceptance

I still remember, in the late 2000s and early 2010s, finding that somewhat weird too. I was already regularly using the Internet (including forums) well before hashtags were invented and when I started to see hashtags in all kinds of contexts, I on the one hand found it great that the Internet was apparently arriving in more people’s lives, and on the other hand somewhat disappointing that they weren’t using forums or wikis or anything like that that I was already highly familiar with, but this weird new thing called Twitter… oh well…

So how is it the best times if the last generation had it better.

The sentence was “one of the best”, not “the best”, so it’s not a contradiction at all.

There are ways to store office formats as single XML files, look up “flat XML ODF”. Those are more suitable for repos than ordinary zipped ODF or OOXML files.

If you’re reasonably good at using computers (you probably are if you’re posting here?), you should be able to find office jobs where your job is to enter information into computers or do similar “secretary”-like tasks. But I don’t know what it’s like in your area.

Lots of toilets in Europe have a “poop shelf” which makes splashing a complete non-issue.

As someone who has both LibreWolf and Amarok pinned to the taskbar, I can definitely say the icon similarity is confusing.

What do we want?

Autocorrect that doesn’t make mistakes!

When do we want it?

Nor! Not! North! I mean…

I was taught to always look at and focus on the spot I want to drive to when driving.

“No, you can’t accelerate when your head is turned to the right to check for traffic! First look where you want to drive, then start driving!”

Also somewhat useful advice for racing (or generally driving) video games.

I already sometimes access YT through Firefox for Android, mainly for playing music in the background. Maybe I’ll change that at some point, but currently I still normally use the official YouTube app for watching videos.

Android consists of way more free and open source software than iOS. There’s a fork of Android, Replicant, which is endorsed by the FSF. Free and open source software does not have owners. It’s true that most people who use it (including me) still use versions of it that are mostly nonfree software. But Android is a step in the right direction, while iOS is one in the wrong direction.

It’s possible to use an Android phone and rarely or never see ads at all. Pretty much the only place I regularly see ads on my (stock) Android phone is in the YouTube app, and I could probably live without that too if I wanted.

I only heard it about Germany under Hitler.

Oh come on. I dislike copyright law as much as anyone, but this just makes the case against it look stupid.

The German cognates of these mean the same as in Spanish, and I think that’s also true for most other languages, so English is the weird language here.

Doesn’t “Handy” come from Swabian dialect “hen di koi Schnur” or something? /s

I actually dislike the term “social media” in the first place, only used it above for convenience…

I (seriously) discovered that there were websites that allowed the general public to participate in the mid-2000s when I was a preteen. I immediately liked that concept and started to participate on such sites (first forums, later wikis) myself and found that fun.

Then around 2008, everyone started to insist that such sites were now called “social media” and the most important ones were Facebook and Twitter, both of which I hadn’t heard of until around that time, and both of which didn’t seem like very fun or appealing places at all.

Now I keep hearing about the horrible things apparently caused by “social media” and wonder, what do you even mean, what could possibly be wrong with web forums.

It reproduces how reddit works. Or used to work because over there nowadays I sometimes randomly (unpredictably) get notifications for lower-level comments too, which isn’t an entirely useless feature, but very much looks like “trying to increase engagement”.