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Comment Re:why vim? (Score 4, Informative) 112

If somebody has X or Wayland and a DE on top of it, why would s/he want to use vim? Why not just use one of the editors that come w/ the DE?

Because vim has super-powerful features for development. I still prefer it to any IDE I've ever used over the past 30 years. (Although I will say that VS Code is better for read-only browsing of large code bases. Other than that use, I find its behavior to be infuriating, and its "vim mode" is crap.)

vim is also superior to nano-type editors for any nontrivial editing of non-code files, with macros and powerful commands that can reorganize thousands of lines instantly. Notepad++ is also OK for that work, but you have to install it separately and is mostly just for Windows.

BTW, with a desktop environment, use the GUI-based gvim, not plain vim in a terminal. You get scrollbars, better cursor and mouse behavior, etc.

Comment ISPs have forgotten what their job is. (Score 5, Insightful) 64

I don't see why a device that simply shuffles data between the internet and your house needs more than 100 MB. Let's be charitable and say 1GB (which was an absurd amount needed only to power high-end servers and workstations just a couple of decades ago). Looking on Digikey, you can still get the cheapest 1GB chip for $3, retail. This is worth about two days of a $50/month internet connection fee.

Luckily, I have an old ISP box that they doled out before all their equipment had to be a router, and I doubt that it has even 1GB inside. My own WiFi router runs OpenWrt just fine with 128MB. If ISPs would just stick to their core mission of delivering packets, this memory crisis wouldn't be a problem for them at all.

Comment Re:modern cars are less safe (Score 1) 181

No HVAC systems should function to keep the air temperature correct. Many cars do this. I've not touched the HVAC system in my car in 2 years now.

There are other important functions used while driving:

Defrost (front fans and/or rear electric heater): The need for this usually doesn't show up until you've been driving for a few minutes.

Recirculate: For when you get stuck driving behind a badly tuned diesel or a classic muscle car.

Thankfully, my car has physical buttons for all of these.

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