He followed me home, mommy, can we keep him?

No, dear, it's against the law now.

People surprised: 0.

DON'T BE FOOLED! This post was made by the cat! It wants narrower TV stands so it can knock them over easier when its owner forgets to feed it!

There's a tutorial for using Emacs - the key combination to enter the tutorial is on the welcome screen (I think it's "CTRL-h t" but I don't have it in front of me). It doesn't cover elisp.

There are two elisp manuals available via the info system (CTRL-h i), a reference manual and an introductory text. They're also available in other formats and are online as well. The reference manual is kept current with every release. I'm not sure about the introductory text, but the core of elisp hasn't changed (I think) since lexical scoping was made the default several years ago.

Edit: added availability of manuals in non-info formats.

Exhibit #1 why Hexbear/Lemmygrad are unpopular: this guy

I believe you've answered your own question.

Lemmy isn't Marxist-only. The majority of Lemmy users are what the more vocal Lemmygrad and Hexbear users deride as "libs." As a thought experiment, imagine that you are one of us for a moment and then browse Local on one of those.

Accusing people like Stallman of being rapists dilutes the meaning of the word.

Is he creepy? Sure. Does he have rather unpopular opinions on what constitutes pedophilia? Yep. Does he go around forcing people to have sex with him? No.

Scrappy Doo.

I'm for it, mostly because that's how I was taught to write in school.

I assume you're basing the abuse argument on the WWE logo in the corner. Everyone who didn't notice that (me included, at first) just see a girl with a "how dare he?" look on her face. Which is actually pretty funny.

In case you're wondering where all the downvotes are coming from.

I still maintain my boycott of Amazon over the one-click patent.

It's a hassle to buy stuff online without using Amazon. The patent expired years ago. Probably no other person is still boycotting them over it (not that it was ever an effective boycott in the first place). But I just can't bring myself to buy from them.

Writing. Specifically, tech writing. I've got an intuitive sense for it, but other than business communication and the occasional bit of internal documentation I don't have any desire to do it professionally.

I get along great with our tech writer, though, since I'm the only other person at the company who can hold a discussion about the Oxford comma.

It's a bit more complicated, really. The islands weren't usually politically united. China lost actual control of the Ryukyu kingdom well before the first Sino-Japanese war, but maintained a claim on it for quite some time.

The US took over administration during WWII and converted many of the Japanese bases to American ones. The US doesn't claim any of the islands anymore and has closed some installations, but a lot of bases are still active. The US is responsible for Japan's defense. Japan would rather have the bases in Okinawa rather than in mainland Japan (although there are a few bases there as well), which a lot of Okinawans feel is unfair. Okinawa is very well placed strategically though and Japanese people don't like foreigners (sort of... It's weird), so don't expect the situation to change any time soon.

BTW, if you ever want to visit Japan, Okinawa's a great option. It's beautiful there and it's not hard to get by on just English.

I've got a different Supermicro board. I've noticed that it's extremely sensitive to SATA issues - if something isn't just right it doesn't boot or gets all kinds of wonky. A flaky cable is enough to cause issues.

I assume you've tried it with nothing but CPU, RAM, and video, but if not give it a shot.

Favorite? No idea.

Least favorite? Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon. Dammit man, you were good in MASH, why can't you act in anything else?

You'll notice if you look that North America and South America are missing from the map. That's what the title means.

Also, there's no consensus on how many continents there are. Someone from the US would be very surprised to hear that North and South America are the same continent.

On a greentext community? Blasphemy!

I've never talked to an Arch user about Linux, so I dunno how toxic their community is. But I do read Arch documentation, and it's fantastic. Arch's documentation has (for me, anyway) taken the place that used to be held by the old HOWTOs back in the early days.

The kind of cooperation required to accomplish this doesn't speak of a toxic community to me. I didn't watch the video since I don't watch YouTube on my phone, but I'm guessing it's not the Arch community that has issues but annoying teenage "I'm more 1337 than you" jackwads that are the turd in the Linux punchbowl. Those little cretins are drawn to distros like Arch because they like feeling superior to the "normie" users.

I should know, I used to be like that thirty years ago. Most of us grow out of it after we start getting laid.

They wouldn't be able to build it. It wasn't until the 16th or 17th century that metallurgy and machining were advanced enough to build atmospheric steam engines, much less high pressure ones.

You need a lot of tech to jump start an industrial revolution.

Native Americans in what would become the US had stone-age tribal societies and oral traditions. It's difficult to establish a consistent history for groups like that. To make things worse, by the time anyone wanted to make a serious unbiased attempt to document their culture, their culture had been changed long enough that no one alive remembered what pre-contact life was like.

You might have better luck with Central and South American natives. The Aztecs and Mayans had written records, and the Incans left behind cities full of artifacts. Or check out the Inuit - they're largely isolated so they had less of a change forced on them than the tribes living in more desirable areas.

Or, depending where you are, you could always just seek out the local tribes and visit. Most of them have museums and books written by tribal historians and welcome people with a serious interest.

Install xterm. Bam, you've got sixel support.

Emacs doesn't follow the UNIX philosophy. It didn't originate on UNIX - it was born in a mainframe environment. Instead of lots of independent specialized utilities it's a Lisp engine with a text editor as its default program.

That said, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like vi will stop working. Just install it and run the tutorial, play around with customize, learn how to make an init file and install which-key, read some blogs (Mastering Emacs is a good one), browse the info pages, and use it.

So it did. That's interesting.

It was the fact that they used RPMs that made me think they were a Red Hat derivative. I didn't care for Red Hat (I ran Slackware back then, switching to Debian around Hamm) so I never gave them a chance. Pity.

It never caught on in the states.

IIRC it was originally based on Red Hat (back when Red Hat Linux was a thing), wasn't it?

Depends if the door was in the rear.

I paid for a car that I could drive halfway across the country in and be comfortable,not spend a fortune on fuel, and not worry too much about it stranding me on the side of the road. The smart screen just happened to come with it. So it seems to have worked out fine for me.

Are you naturally an asshole or are you making a special effort here?

The bisexual folks don't want any confusion over what the "B" means.

Or just don't connect your phone to it. That's what I do. I've never touched the "smart" screen in my car except to adjust the air conditioner.

Except the ones that aren't.

If he votes too much with the Republicans he'll lose party support. There's a reason party members tend to vote the same. Without party support he'll have a hard time getting reelected in a red district unless he flips parties again.

Sounds normal. The Linux kernel shipped by most distros detects (most of) the hardware automatically, and if you're using UUID mounts in fstab all your filesystems will be in the right place. Your network config is probably newly generated, but unless you're using wireless you probably won't notice.

You might check to see if Windows has deactivated itself.

I saw that as an adult and it fucked with me.

Oh, I've got no complaints about the article or even its title. Few people learn Perl or Raku these days so it would be surprising for most people.

I thought it was interesting myself - Perl's my go-to scripting language but I never used Raku. I might consider it next time I have a non-trivial scripting project.

You would kill billions of people just to make the rest conform to your ideals? Congratulations, you've graduated from communist school and will receive your diploma in the mail shortly.

I'm not sure why that's surprising. Raku started out as Perl 6. Perl was designed primarily for use in a shell environment. Convenience features like the arguments to MAIN bit are in line with Perl philosophy.

Everyone is gifted with the ability to control their own fertility. You're only fertile if you want to be. The only chance for pregnancy to occur is if both partners want it to.

I imagine that would cause a severe population decline, and I'm fine with that. There's too many humans on this planet already.

Some of the best Mexican food I've had was in Okinawa.

Where I really miss Mexican food is Spain.

It's got a fresh Lispy flavor, almost Schemey...

Why do I care about the state of the code? It works. Perhaps all these people complaining are really just sick of your proselytization.

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett, "You only get one life. You can pick up five causes on any street corner."

That's cool and all, but why would I want to? Display systems are invisible when they work right, and X has worked right for me (save for some pre-EDID config issues) since the 90s. I run a program, it pops up on my screen and I interact with it. That's all I ask of it.

None of the issues I've had with X (drivers, mostly) will be resolved with Wayland. For me, it's a solution in search of a problem. The only reason I have even a passing interest is that it's (theoretically) easier to maintain and change as computing changes.

I'll move to Wayland when I have to, but right now there's no reason to not use X.