Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@AmenZwa I don't think there is any non-monetary reward anymore for most IT domains. For me the answer was to find a niche where most of the things you mentioned aren't a factor or less so, basically embedded work. They can creep in though.

@tristan957 I understand now. It’s a small paper cut I guess.

@jxf You need a high level of confidence to give the finger to the corporate machine.

@tristan957
Do you care about the directory structure or just where it's putting binaries? I set CARGO_HOME to ${HOME}/.local/share/cargo in my profile (which I also include from bashrc), all binaries end up in $CARGO_HOME/bin. I dunno what is setting ~/.opt, the default is $HOME/.cargo.

@freemo All the data indicates it felt 10 pounds lighter

@mppf that’s a big cat

@dpiponi deadman switch logic on the server?

Well, well, well, Who’s backing an old white guy in cognitive decline now, fuckers?

@pmaohj @al3x Please tell me the other software! I consider emacs one of the few pieces of software I use that doesn't suck (as much as others do anyway, it's all relative). It took me 25 years before I realized it though. Always interested in learning about something else I may have missed.

@al3x I think most people rebind it to their favorite emacs package for navigating buffers and probably don’t care what the default is. You can fight against the defaults but it’s a losing battle. The people who do like the defaults will fight change as if you are taking away their security blanket. Easier to configure it the way you like and forget about it. My opinion of course.

@RL_Dane

@ross :confused: is this something you are working on, something new in emacs, or some new unnamed package?

The Victim. Deserves more views 😆

https://youtu.be/AJJAsn1W_A4?si=28ETFOrz-k6_bWBQ

@shapr If I'm on linux I usually try the compose key a few times before giving up. Still undecided if the whole compose key idea is a good one, I can waste a lot of time guessing what the "intuitive" sequence is for a character. This is often futile, for example, someone decided that .= is a bullet • character. It took me a while to see the connection. On the other hand it only took a few guesses to find compose-s-o for §.

@rust I'd probably lean toward "y" as Y is relative luminance at least in the CIE XYZ colorspace, but it's not a perfect fit.

@ditherycarbon yeah I really don’t get the org mode fetish either. I’ve been using emacs for 9 years now. Org mode never really clicked for me.

@mjgardner This is literally the reason I use vim and Emacs (yes both, but mainly Emacs now). Decades ago I got RSI in my right wrist from reaching for the mouse while coding.

@louis@emacs.ch There's something on r/emacs about it, including alternatives, basically it appears the author no longer uses it so didn't want to maintain it. It should IMO be moved to the emacs orphanage (https://github.com/emacsorphanage), I don't know what that process is though.