The follow up question then is, how do we deal with that as a species? If we assume that humans have tribalistic tendencies, I don’t want to say inherent, but, deeply rooted? Can education and external pressure make it go away? Can we direct it into something else? It seems like sports teams with their fans is an outlet at least preferable to war, for example.

How did it go? I use ed once in a while, but honestly just for fun, I wish I had time to learn it better.

I have a cycle that goes like this:

1. I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
2. The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)

Repeat every 6 months or so. I’m never happy with my current system.

I wonder how much is philosophy and how much is not wanting legal troubles. Those things aren’t contradicting of course.

I am also on team old thinkpads. What I use computers for doesn’t require recent hardware.

That was an interesting read. I am even more confused about the community part. When Debian switched to systemd it was a very… lively public discussion with lots of people stating their opinions. It seems to me like the opensuse world is different.

I have a perception based mainly on a feeling, but is it true that the opensuse community is mainly Suse employees actually deciding what happens?

Ken Thompson uses Raspberry Pi OS, he said that he switched from Apple to RPi OS maybe two years ago.

Adwaita is the one and only!

This is the reason I sometimes come back to the BSDs, they just feel more coherent as a whole.

Nice! I read in a wiki that the fn+space key combo didn’t work on the T14, but perhaps that’s outdated info now.

I work with old people and can tell you it’s not just when they’re young.

To me, a downvote means “what you wrote contributes nothing to the discussion, and should be less visible”. If someone downvotes me, I take it as a sign that no further discussion in that direction is meaningful.

Does the keyboard backlight work out of the box? I heard you had to fiddle a bit to get that working on newer thinkpads.

“At this point, not enough information exist to answer that question. I have carefully investigated the material provided, and it appears like the necessary information has been deliberately redacted. Given this, the best course would be to avoid speculation.”

You got your answer, I guess.

I think the idea is that what we want to see more of is genuine discussions in good faith using sound arguments, even if we don’t personally agree with the viewpoint.
If I’m just tired of seeing certain types of posts I can block them without downvoting their posts.

Do they start at the same time or waiting for one to finish before doing the next?

If I were you I would read his actual words and decide for yourself, don’t trust people online.

I made a serious attempt at using ed(1) for a few weeks. Read the book by Michael Lucas and everything. In the end, I kind of do want to see the file I’m editing, etc. But, some features, or lack of features, stuck with me. Do I need a menu item to count words in the file? That’s why we have wc -w after all. This can be said about a lot of functionality built into editors. It made me really appreciate the idea of programs that do one thing, and can be combined. But yes, in the end it was too much for me, mostly because I’m not good enough with coreutils.