Brewchin

Your initial response got peoples’ backs up because of its dismissive tone and (it seemed to me, as you hadn’t provided context) apparent advocacy for web-based tools like O365 or GSheets.

Many office application users wouldn’t consider vim as an “office application”, as they have their word processing app, their spreadsheet app, their email app, their chat app, their file explorer/manager, maybe something other than Notepad as a text editor, etc, and don’t really know much beyond some of what each of them can do.

The fact that vim (or Emacs or vim/nvim with plugins, or LazyVim or Doom Emacs) can do all of those things would blow many minds.

But the setup effort and learning curve is still there, and also requires that they have sufficient permissions/policy to be able to install things.

The UK seems to speed-run everything the US does politically, so “anyone” probably means a notable percentage of the population.

Today’s council elections give a hint: Farage’s Reform PLC blew many safe Conservative and Labour seats out of the water. You could fit a cigarette paper between the policies and actions of both parties right now, so they’ll likely both be falling over themselves to work out how to attract the fash vote. 😬

Today’s probably that grifter’s biggest success to date, and likely all strategised by the Heritage Foundation.

Indeed. I tend to think of humanism as atheism with a moral framework.

Suspect OP has a different question they’re really trying to ask.

I think the Spam thing is part of Korean food culture with their “army stew”, made from ramen, spam, baked beans, kimchi, cheese and such.

Like the @a.gup.pe ones? They are kind of autoboost bots, but they do have communities behind them and it’s annoying when people treat them like hashtags.

But I’d not use the term bots. They’re more like old-fashioned email reflectors: a message goes in, and it then gets sent to everyone on the list.

Hard agree. Mindsets stuck in 2005 or before when cool and useful stuff was, just, free online. We were such summer children then.

Anyone still like that obviously shouldn’t be in charge of anything sharp or dangerous…

I’ve been told off for reporting phishing attempts:

• Real: “Why did you receive it?!” Dunno mate. Woke up this morning and decided that I wanted it. We all have total control over what email we get sent, right?
• Fake: “This Isn’t a phishing attempt! What’s wrong with you?!” The From domain, the link domain both look suspicious, and the SMTP headers are dodgy AF. Should I have FAFO and then reported it after the fact?
• Test: “Why are you reporting this? It’s the test phish we commissioned!” You do realise that you’re meant to do some work, right? Sure, you paid someone to safely phish staff, but that also means following up on it’s effects.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And manglement gaze at their navels wondering why incidents don’t get reported… 😬

Anyone remember websites and RSS? Those were the days.

Why does everything have to get shovelled into someone’s walled garden…

(Speaking about updates and notifications here, not discussions.)

I don’t mind it with companies that produce multiple products, as nesting them does make sense.

But for one-hit-wonders it’s a bit… 😬

I was thinking more of one product companies using a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Boop Snoot Partners, Inc/<Software Name You Remember Installing>/ convention, which seems to be the norm inside %APPDATA%.

But I take your point. 😊

So much this. It’s like these clowns don’t read the XDG directory spec and think $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME are interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.

I’m not a fan of ~/.local/share/ being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it’s definitely where regular data belongs.

Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.

Rant over. :)