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I feel so seen, so… so… touched (by so very many processes).

Ouch, and also does not visually scream at us in light mode when we have dark screens.

The reference being made in Revelation is Nero.

I have heard before how Nero may have been the one who caused the tribulations that early Christians went through - e.g. not being able to buy food without having his (Nero’s) approval, but not necessarily in reference to Nero being the actual Antichrist himself.

So I looked it up, and according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist, that term is widely thought (e.g. Martin Luther, father of the Protestant reformation, and John Calvin) to not necessarily refer to Nero, or rather not just him alone. Similar to how a “man of the law” can refer to anyone who upholds it - a sheriff for example - a “man of lawlessness” can refer to anyone who opposes it.

Cool, TIL 😎

You will be baked, and then there will be cake 🎂

cut?

The stage of your degeneracy will involve learning PERL.

Edit: one-liners FTW! 😁🐪

I’m guessing the translation in the OP is: “fancy”. In which case you can buy a fancy Mac anywhere Macs are sold.:-P

Alright, I now totally believe that you are not a bot, wink 😉. Only a human could hold so well to the true path of enlightenment.

I-i-it’s surely okay, as they must have meant neovim, r-r-right?!?!?!?!

Probably… so long as Emacs can be used to open up Vim. :-P

N-n-no!

~$ sudo touch grass

Okay.

FAKE! There is no way that touching grass is an actual part of the Linux experience! 🤣

POSIX compliance jealousy? 🤪

We are using their tools though…

Well, you are, while I am on PieFed:-P If you do not like what you’ve heard here, then consider switching to Piefed.World (Lemmy.World’s recently-announced PieFed replacement for Lemmy)

The only way I can think of to break out of that is to not play the game at all - e.g. instead of Windows vs. Mac, make FOSS Linux, and instead of Facebook vs. Reddit, make Lemmy, Mbin, and PieFed. On the other hand, people that already own a house have greater abilities to donate their time to such coding efforts, whereas younger people today… not as much.

Wait… Microsoft is shit?!

Worse: they actively do not care. “I don’t know how to [insert business type here], but I know how to manage.” Like the former CEO of McDonald’s taking over (one of?) the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Who needs a PhD, MD, or knowledge of things like biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, etc., when you know how to uh… what was the goal again? Oh yes: “make number go up”.

They have no incentive to care about the product they’re offering because they couldn’t care less about it.

I think it’s kinda even worse: they’ll take a good product and actively make it worse, so it’s not mere indifference to it but active hatred towards the wants of the customers, in contrast to the desires of the Board.

Like why change a perfectly good logo? If it serves its purpose, then leave it alone?! But no, line must go up, and even if changing the logo makes it go down, then oh well…

There is something horribly symbolic in all of that 🤮👿📚

It seems (a little) akin to burning books: sure maybe you can get away with doing whatever you wish to a printed copy that you purchase (legally speaking), but that doesn’t mean that we (the bystanders) should rush to enjoy using the final product of the endeavor.