This is research from before the API changes. Loads of astroturf efforts were easy to notice, there must have been more subtle ones.

I always wonder whether the famous post about vacuum cleaners was paid for by the company he recommended. If it was, they got their money’s worth - that redditor was convincing.

You don’t seem to be like me.

There’s a song 6.66 (1/100th of the number of the beast)

But nothing for 6.6.6

The good thing about vim or Emacs is that when you know the shortcuts they are so much faster to use than mouse and menu editors (though Emacs has a menu, and supports mouse, which smooths the learning curve)

So “vim can run it” by letting you open a terminal? Emacs has telnet built in, let alone Eliza

Vim can’t automatically handle other key maps? I’m sure it worked as designed in my dvorak system

:w to write, not :, (Dvorak has comma where qwerty has w)

I get it if the keyboard doesn’t use the letters we use, but that person could type in Lemmy with all the normal letters

Why would you have closed Emacs? You can do everything in Emacs

Sure for gaming you want a pretty expensive machine, but for a user who wants web and email a used low end laptop will perform great

Canonical will sell you an Ubuntu

I like the word, it fits well with biased which is approximately opposite

My least favourite new word is ‘doom scrolling’ which is now used to mean “scrolling internet feeds mindlessly” where it originally meant “constantly refreshing the internet feed in the hope the result of the American presidential election will change”

I’d be happy if it was used in another doomy context

I haven’t had luck with auto login, as soon as it’s logged in it wants a password to unlock its keyring

I wish installers let you set low local security mode. We don’t all need strong security, some of us are just playing games

Framework sell laptops with Linux

I have a 286 running DOS 6 for when I’m feeling especially nostalgic

You can, but it takes a little effort

Or a GNU operating system with a Linux kernel and KDE desktop environment

But that’s a mouthful

But you still need to get at the audio settings to tell it that it should use your microphone for a microphone, not the USB camera

There was a TCP/IP bug that shared it’s exploit on versions of windows from windows for workgroups 3.11 (which you ran from the DOS prompt by typing ‘win’) through to windows 7 (which was the new hotness at the time)

That’s a bug conserved from the very first Microsoft implementation of TCP/IP through to the state of the art at the time

People were surprised at the time that it wasn’t a windows NT bug

You could get Ubuntu in a free like America style

You can look up beer recipes and buy equipment and ingredients from it though. And use web based or spreadsheet calculators on it to do beer related calculations

That beer is also not free, but assuming you make beer for a long time the price per pint (half litre to split the difference between UK and US pints) tends toward about 20c (though highly hopped beers like hazy pale ale can get towards a dollar a pint) which is pretty cheap

GIMP will be great once it no longer needs to dodge patents

Audio players work great now MP3 is out of patent (before that MP3 was really only available if you were willing to ignore the patent)