TIL there is vim for Windows.

https://www.vim.org/download.php

Easily amused, you might say.

yeah, but now it’s even funnier to read complaints about Swift-plane memes.

At this point, I’m just so sick of every little thing being a huge struggle

Suffering is inevitable. This is the first noble truth in Buddhism. Troubleshooting Linux is Tao.

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I’m pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

Do you think it’s safe to upvote this?

Linux, dovecot, postfix and a large quantity of pain medication.

It was nice while it lasted. Moved to MX.

Presumably, we can expect 404 to eventually replace 42 as the answer to everything.

That’s Capricorn is it? https://piped.video/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM (Life of Brian - 3 wise men)

Operating Revenue: 33,723,297,000

Cost of Revenue: 19,715,368,000

Gross Profit: 14,007,929,000

Operating Expense: 7,053,926,000

Operating Income: 6,954,003,000

The valuable commodity is data. Think of it like eggs. The users are the chickens. Google runs the poultry farm.

great - I’d be interested to hear if this works for you.

had issues with Remmima and Win 10 last week - worked around it by using xfreerdp directly at the command line. this is what I use from a linux command line to set the resolution and sound (audio-mode:1 is same as Remmima local sound, or supposed to be)

xfreerdp /w:1680 /h:1050 /u:<username> /audio-mode:1 /v:<ip address> /sound /microphone

this keeps all audio local on the system, which is what I need.

Remmima was working fine until I messed with the settings to see if I could have both local and remote audio with RDP (you can’t) and then I could not get the local audio back no matter what I did - tried deleting profile, reinstalling, etc. Nothing worked until invoking xfreerdp directly. Been flawless since then.

According to this scholar: https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/the-ancients/jesus-of-nazareth

It is unlikely that his body was ever placed into a tomb. Part of the point of crucifixion was the public nature of the body being on display and those crucified were not given honorable burials by design.

The academic consensus seems to be that an influential Jewish man referred to as “Cristos” or “Crestos” did exist but that the resurrection and other mystical stuff was of course all embellishment.

‘Crestos’ was a apparently a common name for slaves in Judea. I wondered if perhaps the name Christ referred to a man who rose from the slavery caste to threaten the political establishment with revolution. Most of the new testament teachings are obviously political. ‘Life of Brian’ is probably closer to the truth than you’d think.

I can’t help but comment because I didn’t notice how beautiful the alliteration in the headline was until now. That’s a good one. Pity the car wasn’t a Prius.

Neither would I - you can browse Lemmy (and mastodon I think) pretty extensively without logging in. I also think we are at the start of a long term transition towards decentralization of media generally.

In terms of content I like Lemmy. I do see how concentrated the user base is - but I don’t see it getting smaller - if anything I see it growing slowly but surely. In addition to organic growth, there will probably be events that drive massive migration to the fediverse - like reddit’s nonsense but from different or more diverse sources - some media attention or a major celebrity plug and things could get crazy pretty fast. The platform will probably need a lot of extra TLC to scale rapidly if that happens.

When you see the major media companies start to stand up Mastodon instances - which I also think is going to happen eventually - expansion of the fediverse seems all but inevitable. I would be interested to see what that chart looks like in 5, 10 years. There are plenty of ways for the fediverse to grow apart from more lemmy users signing up.

All good. I think it’s funny. Another stupid thing that Melbourne and Sydney evidently can’t agree on. At least they both start with “P”. It’s a small miracle that they don’t have different letters on the plates and make them change at the border.

Amusingly enough it’s “Probationary” in Victoria… :)

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/licences/your-ps/p1-and-p2-probationary-licence-restrictions

Sort of. it stands for ‘probationary’. Drivers in Australia need to display “P Plates” for the first few years after they are licensed. I think “P1” is the first year and P2 the second and third years. There are additional restrictions also:

NSW (where this occurred) is the most restrictive on new drivers. P-platers must adhere to the following rules:

P1 license holders must not exceed 90 km/h
With a P1 license, maximum towing allowed is 250kg
If the P1 licensee is under 25, only one passenger under the age of 21 is allowed between 11pm and 5am
P1 licenses in NSW are only permitted up to four demerit points
P-platers under 21 years of age cannot operate a high-powered car
After 12 months, P1 drivers graduate to P2
P2 license holders see their speed limit increased to 100km/h and up to seven demerits are allowed