I feel like part of the impetus for the name change, and perhaps the extreme hype to some extent, came from trying to distance themselves from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
There’s a bit more subtlety to it than that. The PC architecture that dominates today is a direct descendant of the 1981 IBM Personal Computer, which was made to run DOS and later Wondows. The cultural association makes sense in that context.
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One thing I haven’t heard others mention is fun. The better I get with vim, the more fun I have applying my skills to work efficiently.
I also love that I can use it with a phone keyboard and still remain highly efficient. Being able to SSH into my server on the go and not be terribly hampered in my admin and editing is pretty amazing.
Ubiquitous, powerful, flexible, lightweight, fun: it’s a pretty good mix of positives in the tradeoff for vim.
Then you lose the benefit of tabs: you can’t adjust the tab width without destroying alignment. So you end up with a confusing mix of characters for no benefit.
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
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A handy visual guide to Bones (startrek.website)
I immediately knew it was a scam because the USPS would never wish me a wonderful day (i.ibb.co)
Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun (www.fastcompany.com)
owo rule (sopuli.xyz)
P'takh means Girlfriend (startrek.website)
It was arch linux rule (lemmy.ml)
Btw, I'm.. (lemmy.ml)
What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?
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'Oppenheimer' Surpasses 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Highest-Grossing Biopic of All-Time (streamsgeek.com)
Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code?
Hey everyone!...
What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?
I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050 (www.reuters.com)
Bedrule (i.imgur.com)
[POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone? (strawpoll.com)
Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?
Modern cars ... (gizmodo.com)
Can I please just get a car, instead of a rolling computer / infotainment / privacy nightmare?
Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com (gomakethings.com)
Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun? (kbin.cafe)
Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.
English Language Problems (lemmy.ca)