Aha, as I thought then, thanks :) (As a young kid I was afraid of a fictional character called Banarne, so I think I can relate to this feeling.)

Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask, but what’s the story behind your user name? Not sure why, but for some reason I have always wondered. It’s ok if it’s secret.

I love his art :)

It seems interesting! But like, it’s $43 to get the URL to watch it on my computer?

ed is the standard entertainer.

Is there something for lemmy what snac is to mastodon? Like, something with a small footprint that is easy to set up on a cheap vps?

lemmy.sdf.org

Didn’t they have a fundraiser a few months ago where they got 130000 CAD? Not saying it’s wrong to have more fundraisers, but what happened with that?
Edit: it was pixelfed, not peertube

what does augmenting user retention mean in practice?

It’s because LaTeX has abstracted away all the lovely plain TeX macros and people treat it as a way to not have to think about typography. This is a good explanation: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-2/tb39taylor-para.pdf

People are disagreeing, but there is also the fact that the question reveals something about you. The people who say you might have some kind of empathy disorder could be right. That part is beyond disagreeing. If you care about people around you I think you should be open to the possibility.

Yes! “Concepts weren’t a thing.” This is for me the impossible thing to describe. In retrospect, I’m glad I had that experience, but I also say never again.

The caring you describe is part of the helping.

I had a similar experience on ketamine, and it’s been so frustrating, because I want to explain but no words can explain it. I can’t even say it was an experience I had because there was no concept of “I”. It wasn’t the case that I was “one with everything”, because there was no I. I’ve been looking for the right words to describe what it was like, but it’s just not possible to describe with words and concepts.

Distance between pole and equator is… 10 km?

So, how do you feel about Gail Slater? She has a history of going after big tech, which is why choosing her was a surprise to many.

Sadly Sweden has a government that wants to force backdoors to encrypted services. They haven’t succeeded yet, but Sweden might not be safe in the future.

Sometimes I think “if debian had a flashy website and a few tweaks for user friendliness, then it would be just as attractive as linux mint or ubuntu for new users”, and other times I think “isn’t this exactly what most debian based distros are already?” Would there be a benefit if those projects worked under the debian name, something like debian workstation pure blend, or debian corporate pure blend? I don’t know.

Expanding on this, we could make it so that root must use ed(1) to edit files?

For JavaFX I ended up putting both JDK and JavaFX in my home dir and pointed vscodium to the right paths, I could get programs to compile but for some reason it would not let me open windows from inside, complaining that DISPLAY was not set or available iirc, even though I did set the env variable inside. Either way, I’m not ready for this container work-flow. Though I suspect that I could get used to better practices. Do you install git and your editor of choice separately in all dev containers? Like, how much of the tooling should be inside or on host?