Plus you can plug the mac into itself for free charging.

Holy removed I think I have the same problem, mesh network and all. I assumed it was a driver issue; thanks for the pointer!

I suppose I don’t see what is conceptually challenging about chords; they’re just physically annoying and require memorization. Most people are used to control key chords at least, so emacs benefits from that. Whereas vim requires a deeper shift in thinking.

Memorizing chords is conceptually simpler than taking on a modal mindset. I sure got pissed at insert mode plenty of times while I was learning vim.

Thankfully this was during my college masochistically-acquiring-skills-that-make-me-feel-cool phase where I was also learning LaTeX, so I just focused on the future gainz. I’m so glad I did on both counts.

Well of course, but some of us want to be well-informed on the tradeoffs we’re making.

What do you mean? Payment isn’t anti-FOSS at all, it’s just a lot harder to make money when the source is libre.

‘Need’ as in why do they need to stretch their development resources to cover a video player when they’re already stretched thin and perfectly serviceable alternatives exist.

I have no actual idea, but that’s what was meant. My guess is they want everything written in Qt6 so it can all be portable to windows etc.

What got you onto Linux so early? Wasn’t it much less practically useful than BSDs at that point?

That’s what I get for not using autocorrect 😆

There’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.

Perhaps your parents recognized the valuable skills you were developing!

I see it more as pride in the community and administrators. Plenty of distros are complete passion projects and aren’t undeserving of pride.

Cool; I’ll check quickpkg out

Was it much of a pain to set up? I was hemming and hawing about distcc recently, but binhost sounds potentially better.

When I learned that snap has a hardcoded requirement for a snap directory polluting your home directory, and that the devs answer is basically to shrug their shoulders, that was enough to turn me into an anti-snap zealot.

Binary speed is really the least reason to use Gentoo.

There are a lot of thorny issues in package distribution that source builds completely sidestep.

Install-it-yourself plus source updates are a lot to ask, but if you can get the hang of it the benefits are pretty sweet.

I’m not saying anyone is wrong for shying away from Gentoo, but using a comprehensive desktop environment, systemd, and gentoo-kernel gives a very non-fiddly experience.

Combine that with running updates overnight or honestly just running them in the background while you work, and it’s not nearly as bad as its reputation.

Still very much a commitment vs other distros, but not as bonkers as it can seem.

Sounds like an awesome setup. I can’t quite let go of my illusory -march=native benefits lol.

Having Gentoo update overnight is no big deal. Even better, just leave a core or two free and let updates run while you use the machine anyway!

That being said, Gentoo is definitely a time commitment and I completely understand that it’s a particular taste.

Building from source does provide a lot of advantages though, and I don’t mean faster binaries.

Kubuntu