I’m the opposite, I sometimes find :w or :wq written in text files I have edited with non-vi editors.

Found it in the classic The UNIX Programming Environment from 1984:

But then, this is for return, which technically isn’t “enter”, but nowadays they are sort of interpreted the same by programs?

Isn’t ctrl-m the “enter” equivalent?

subreddits are all part of reddit, there’s a top part that can decide over all subreddits and make rules and ban people etc. Lemmy does not have a central point of authority. lemmy.world can only make rules and control lemmy.world, lemm.ee can only decide over lemm.ee. If you want your own rules, you can make your own instance and be as valid and part of lemmy as any other instance. The main point is: there is no level above this that controls all instances. Each instance is the top level of authority for that instance, and anyone can create an instance if they have the knowledge and resources.
Another aspect is that technically you could also interact with mastodon, peertube, etc, but that isn’t seamless and there’s no consensus if it’s even a good idea to pursue that, but it’s technically possible.

I have never owned a computer with more than 8gb RAM.

does that mean that pipes will work backwards?

You know how the ending of LOST or Game of Thrones can bring up feelings in people? That’s how it was for me when Gnome 3 first came out. I had been using Gnome 2 for a few years and had a good workflow, and then suddenly, everything changed. Back then Gnome 3 was buggy and lacked a lot of things, which didn’t help. It also didn’t help that the devs took a “the problem is you” stance to all feedback. That said, I use Gnome now, and I like it, it took some years to mature and become good. But the feeling is still there sometimes.

This is the correct answer.

Regular release distros do security updates, backported if needed. Rolling release means introducing unknown security bugs until they are found and fixed. To me, the whole dilemma between regular and rolling is do I want old bugs or new bugs? But the security bugs get fixed on both.

Is it not working well? What is it lacking?

Open source is free for everyone, I think the objection is more about an american company being able to directly influence the decisions, operating under US jurisdiction, etc.

I wonder if we could get Barbara to endorse or at least comment on this book on whatever social media she’s on.

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Kernel yes, but coreutils? It’s ls, sleep, who, pwd, and so on.

I know, but do they? Has big tech contributed to the code base significantly for coreutils specifically? sed and awk or ls has been the same as long as I remember, utf8 support has been added, but I doubt apple or google was behind that.

Do large tech companies contribute a lot to the GPL coreutils?

I like etymology, so when I learned anatomy I looked up the latin (or sometimes greek) origins, and they are usually very descriptive! Acetabulum = small vinegar cup. Processus coracoideus = the pointy thing that looks like a ravens beak. Occiput (via “ob caput”) = the back of the head. Etc.

By that logic proprietary licenses are best for desktop OSs because Windows has the biggest market share?

Plenty of people are ok with ads and such, and that’s fine. People who don’t want that may need to pay for the infrastructure of having an alternative platform. It all comes down to what you value more, and there’s no inherently right or wrong answer.

Time for nethack.