Posts by canicus_pol@canic.us
(DIR) Post #A4LVDNNgqJVdErFiWu by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-02-16T22:45:35Z
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I took a different road. I started on Debian, moved to Red Hat (it wasn't Fedorah yet), heard about the then-new Gentoo, moved to it and stuck to it, moved to LFS, moved to Arch, moved to Arco, moved to Parabola, then Artix, then Manjaro, probably going to try Guix next.
(DIR) Post #A4LcLN2yfTv0CMK7sG by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-02-17T00:07:59Z
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@louis I'll share. We've got a lot on our plate ATM, so it's going to be a ways off before I ever have time, but I'll share 😀
(DIR) Post #A5OFPYHuvc4qFXZXtI by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-03-20T04:26:22Z
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This video is hilarious, from the dumb style to the deliberately bad misinformation.
(DIR) Post #A5XwuBUsngO8mjQ0X2 by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-03-24T20:48:02Z
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I don't agree with a great many things, but this cancelling nonsense is garbage, and I wouldn't be where I am now without his influence. If/when the vote comes up in the FSF, I'll throw my lot in with him.
(DIR) Post #A5XxZKMwiencAqKBpQ by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-02-14T03:38:36Z
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Hey @derek, since the subject is crypto, you should set up a Cointree. I don't do Patreon, but I'd be willing to throw some occasional crypto at you 😀A Crypto Donation Platform
(DIR) Post #A5pLu0VoHgNciOfOnA by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-04-02T06:13:00Z
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I rather like Elfeed. I tried it a few months ago when I started experimenting with Emacs, and except for my Youtube RSS feeds, it's pretty much replaced Newsboat...and I've had Newsboad for a *long* time.
(DIR) Post #A6POcEWEfROBFIeS7U by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-04-19T15:40:40Z
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When I can get to a coffee shop I'm going to have to watch this. That would be my dream laptop. 😀
(DIR) Post #A7OjiTavTmpNQ4DeMq by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-05-19T05:41:24Z
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Finally got internet at the house again 😁
(DIR) Post #A8CYJ2nq6wNRREQzGy by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-06-12T06:39:17Z
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I say this as someone who uses both vim and Emacs. This video will not persuade anybody. If you want to persuade people, you need to target what your audience desires. Vim users in a terminal tend to value or want.The objection is best summed up as: "Why should I spend six months learning something when I have simple utiities I can pipe together that are usually better at the same task, and I can spend that time learning more productive things. My time is valuable. Sell me."Telling someone to take six months to learn a utility that, in general, is not as good at a given task as the one people already use is asking them to waste their time, and that's how it's taken. Different font sizes? If they cared a lot about that, they'd be using vscode, gedit, or something like that. A commandline that makes a bad calculator? There's bc. REPL for elisp? They aren't using it. The ability to run short segments? They already have that with commandline REPLs (e.g. test Haskell with ghci). EWW? They have browsers that can render Github.I say this as someone who uses both Emacs and Vim. If I saw this video when I was deciding whether to learn Emacs, you'd have persuaded me that it would be a total waste of my time. I have a family, full-time job, a class to teach, and the desire to study things independently. If I cared about decorations or tricks, I'd not be a Vim user.As it stands, I use Emacs because it has very real use-cases that are worthwhile to me. The System Crafters channel showed that. Perhaps you should do a video on Magit. That's an easy one. It's the best Git interface. Another idea is show how you can pipe information into and out of Eshell and manipulate it in ways you simply can't in a terminal (and show where Eshell just isn't the right tool). Show how you can make small modifications to reading documents or the like that reflect your interests (e.g. I made my Emacs process ancient gematria so I can predict how an ancient author would read a given text; that's too niche to expect an application to do and too complicated to do by hand regularly).Focus on things that will interest your audience. Most of the stuff is a dog and pony show. Emacs users will agree with you. Vim users will say "So what?" People who don't like Vim won't care.
(DIR) Post #A8HDSRQmmqBxBF5fZw by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-06-14T12:38:00Z
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A video that simplifies someone else's simplification of Karl Popper on how to evaluate evidence and presents it as "critical thinking" while telling people not to listen to a caste of people so as to never hear the evidence because they have no evidence is as jumbled up as the conspiracy theorists themselves.
(DIR) Post #A8KviXmLvr4OxUXwNE by canicus_pol@canic.us
2021-06-16T07:34:45Z
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This is a good video. I know a few people I'm going to have watch it that might enjoy it