I have questions. Is this something in use today? Who is manufacturing them? Is this something you’re personally familiar with or just aware of?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium#Debate_over_millennium_celebrations

What do people have against the Mach kernel?

1 horizontal/1 vertical + laptop.

Horizontal is directly in front of me, used for whatever I’m currently focusing on - usually IDE or browser.

Vertical is to the side, used for anything auxiliary to my current task - browser, bug report, notes, chat, git gui, etc.

Laptop monitor is for anything I want to monitor, but don’t need to look at constantly - logs, news, incoming bug reports, etc.

I also make use of virtual desktops, so I have one for chat/email/general browsing, one for code editing with browser, git gui, IDE, and one for notes/zoom. Laptop screen doesn’t shift with virtual desktops so I always keep the monitoring open.

Favorite terminal? iTerm2 on mac, hands-down. Wish they would port it to Linux.

On Linux though, I usually end up using guake, as I like having easy drop-down global access to my terminal.

This made me go down a rabbit hole of server names and I now have a super long list of names from mostly Greek mythology that I’m going to use next time I have a chance

FYI user mentions in Lemmy are done with an @ not /u/, e.g. @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but GhostText might be useful. It lets you use your preferred text editor to write in any browser text field.

Oops yeah I just edited my comment, put the wrong symbol!

Oops sorry it’s &! / is find

less can enter a grep-like mode by hitting /

Edit: it’s & for the grep mode, / is search.

That’s not true! Getting an answer to something doesn’t necessarily mean the thing you’re asking about is possible. You could ask me how to split myself in half and become two people, and I’d say (within my knowledge) it’s impossible. But if you ask me how computers can show a pixel on the screen, I can give you a detailed answer. Either way, I’m answering your question, just perhaps not satisfyingly.

Answer: “you can’t.” And you just wasted your question!

That’s cool! I’ve never heard of a contronym before.

However the difference is that most of those have different usages - e.g. if you say “I’m going to clip the hedges” vs “I’m going to clip something to the hedges”, you have to use the word differently. With “dust”, it’s different based on the context, because you need to be talking about some sort of powder to be talking about putting something on. If I said “I’m going to dust the furniture”, you would assume I meant clean, but if I said “dust the furniture with cleaning powder”, you’d probably understand the difference. Different locations and activities also help here (e.g. skiing, cake decorating, cleaning, etc).

Nonplussed on the other hand likely derives its alternate meaning from an incorrect understanding of the original meaning, and so it’s used in the exact same manner and context to mean the exact inverse. If I say the sentence “he was nonplussed at the news”, which meaning am I referring to?

“Table” is another contronym that’s ACTUALLY confusing (learned that one from this post as well).

I have never heard it used as general acceptance. That really drives me nuts! What good is a word that’s self contradictory 😨

Personally, I would say Richard Stallman has respect for open source software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.

Having respect for free (as in “libre”) software means caring if the software can sustain its own development, and not just caring if you get it free (as in “gratis”). It’s not always viable to support a project on donations and free time the way GNU is. https://xkcd.com/2347/

Great explainer on the subject: https://youtu.be/lLCDca6dYpA?si=gUJlQJgfDxi-n_Y6

And a follow up on how calculators actually implement this inconsistently: https://youtu.be/4x-BcYCiKCk?si=g5pqwXvBqSS8Q5fX

Yeah but it’s awful, and can only install UWP apps which are just plain bad

Since I saw !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network, just wanted to let you know about my own !dndmemes@sh.itjust.works (4k subs, but not too many posts lately).

SSH will definitely break, I’ve had this issue before. If your private key in the .ssh dir is too open, ssh won’t let you use it.