NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for staying more than ONE VERSION behind

Joke’s on you, my servers are largely unaffected by regreSSHion because they’re too outdated.

Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.

Now, if we were talking about one Nokia…

Doctor Ignaz Semmelweiss in the mid-1800s suggested that obstetricians should wash and sterilize their hands before attending their patients to reduce the chance of postpartum infection. He was rejected by the medical community, ridiculed by colleagues, and eventually locked in an asylum where he was killed.

We’re sliding back in time.

That’s pretty much how he kept the public image of “eccentric genius” for so many years. I once read an article (can’t remember where, don’t care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.

When Twitter was infested, it didn’t have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.

Blender uses Alt+A.

It consistently uses Alt as a modifier to execute inverse operations. I to insert a keyframe, Alt+I to delete it. Ctrl+F to set a text filter/search, Alt+F to clear it. Ctrl+P to set parent, Alt+P to clear it. H to hide selected objects, Shift+H to hide unselected objects, Alt+H to unhide all. {G,R,S} to move/rotate/scale, Alt+{G,R,S} to reset transformations. It’s not exactly industry standard, but internally consistent that makes learning it easy.

Ctrl+D to deselect is stupid.

The Unity desktop’s search would display Amazon ads based on the query. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Conformity_with_European_data_privacy_law

It’s like the “nazi bar” anecdote. It always starts small. You let in a bit of ads, a bit of self-promotion, then the revenue reaches a plateau. You let in a little more ads, maybe a pop-up saying that you could be more secure. Then a few years later you have a Recall situation. If you let one nazi drink at your bar, he’ll bring his friends, and you’ll be running a nazi bar.

I don’t trust Canonical to act with integrity.

It’s Debian-based, but Canonical has been really Microsofty about its development. They now have Snap as a universal packaging format, and have mandated that all official Ubuntu flavors (so X/K/Lubuntu and others, but not derivatives like Mint) must include Snap, and must not include Flatpak in the default installation. They’ve also fucked with APT where installing certain packages, like Firefox, would first install Snap and then the application’s Snap package, without even telling the user. They’ve had some controversy with Amazon ads in the search results, and advertising Ubuntu Pro in the fucking terminal. The default GNOME desktop also has a ton of issues.

I, and many others, recommend against Ubuntu. Linux Mint is the most commonly recommended “just works” distro. That being said, switching to Ubuntu, if able, is still preferable to staying on Windows.

My dad is now pissed at both Microsoft and Adobe, and curious about Linux. If I can find a Lightroom alternative, he might actually switch.

Skullcandy has been a good experience. Cheap and durable. I’ve had two, a pair of Smokin’ Buds 2 (died from a broken cable, now discontinued), and a pair of Jib True (my current earbuds).

I bought the Jib True five years ago for about $40 and so far they’ve survived a dog, getting dropped in the toilet, and multiple drops onto a hard surface. I haven’t noticed any battery degradation. The audio quality is kinda mid (I used them in a factory at my previous job) and I can’t speak for the microphone, but they’ve served me well. My biggest issue has been some oxidation on the charging pins and contacts.

Sisko and Picard.

I hope they enjoy analzying my once-a-month subscription to FFXIV and nothing else.

From the torrent, the deluge, the unending tidal wave of this exact meme in various formats. The “exit vim difficult” meme must constitute at least 50% of online content regarding *nix and *nix-adjacent systems. It is so stale that Slackware considers it outdated. It is the “mayonnaise is spicy” equivalent of funny. It is the white bread, picket fence stereotype of meme culture, yes offense. I’d like to say that it’s beating a dead horse, but the horse is gone; its flesh has been tenderized, pulverized, and evaporated from the sum total of energy imparted by the constant beating. If the heat death of the universe were to happen tomorrow, and from the uniform vacuum energy a Boltzmann brain were to spontaneously form, it will have been already tired of this meme.

But to answer the question, it was either that, or the big

type :q<Enter> to exit

splash that appears when I open it with an empty buffer, and following its instructions.

No offense to you or your house, but I’m really tired of this meme.

Still more reliable than Wayland on nvidia.

Isn’t that what the basic “Export” does?

As I understand, the person who ultimately made the decision to ban Vaxry was also on a massive power trip.

Right now I’m in a bit of a bind because part of my workflow relies on exporting particular layers and layer groups as separate images. GIMP has a plugin for it, but it uses Python 2, no longer developed, and likely won’t work in GIMP 3. If Krita can do this, I’m switching immediately.

Anyone praising GNOME can be dismissed if they forget to define client-side decorations for their comment.

(this comment was made by The Entire Desktop *nix Ecosystem Except GNOME gang)

You are in the wrong audience for that, and I don’t know what thought process led you to expect anything but scorn. It’s like going to a sporting event and sitting with the fans of one team while wearing the other team’s colors.

Btw, I don’t disagree with the title. Of the WYSIWYG markdown editors I’ve tried, Obsidian easily has the best UX with the single-pane preview and inline editing. That being said, Obsidian is trying to be more than a note-taking app. The wobbly graph, canvases, the nonstandard markdown elements might turn people off. The average *nix-user will also likely prefer a community-driven application instead of closed-source, corporate software, gratis or paid.

The issue is that you made the post in bad faith, to evoke a negative reaction. Some will call it an attempt at trolling, but I think the most appropriate description is “being a dick.”