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Mastodon Myths (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago

Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who get that joke and those who don't.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And those who weren't expecting a ternary joke.

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago

I used Vim once. I still do, mostly because I don't know how to quit it.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Asking someone that doesn't know how, to close vim is my favorite password generator.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It’s my band name but all the members quit when I told them.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

"What's this machine do?"

"It is a dedicated word processor."

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Ah sweet that's some sick retro tech!"

"Haha yea...retro..."

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I know you are not joking because it was only a week ago really good tech journalism site The Register did a walk through on making a dedicated Word 5.0 bootable USB

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Now I understand what they use all those ThinkPads for

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You can always close vim but you can never quit >:3

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

"We are programmed to receive."

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

My brain is too smooth for modal environments. I require one mode or fewer.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

"Theres also a emacs plugin"

Truly heresy against the lord Linus Torvalds, Vim is the only correct option all else is unholy.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well obviously neovim is also a correct option, does that really even need to be said?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

My dad probably takes the cake as he used the OG VI back in the day.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sonny, we wrote it Vi back in the day. Capital V, lower case i. Now get off my lawn! Isn't it cold? Policemen look younger and younger every year.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Linus uses emacs. Not GNU emacs, but still emacs.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Nano is for people posing at using Linux

You have to commit to a side in the war

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Absolutely bloated (kate) and nano isnt vim therefore it sucks

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

I have to be honest I thought OP was being 100% serious until the last line.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That last line is why I shared it with others who have no idea what half the things it's referencing are.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

This is true because NetBSD runs on the actual Mastodon.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah, there’s loads of tech nerds, but it’s the internet so there’s always going to be.

But honestly, the vast majority of the people I follow are just regular folks who like to chat about regular stuff. Like how they use Arch, btw.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Why can't we contain all those tech nerds inside a dock or something?

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Hey! I know some of those words!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This is my favorite thing this morning. FreeBSD ftw.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

My lack of knowledge about whatever an emacs plugin is proves #4 wrong.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

This is most likely a joke akin to xkcd 2501

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Linux community in a nutshell and also way too many developers

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's a type of sausage that's famous in the Netherlands

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's the online handle of some Linus fellow, some would argue he's internet famous for whatever reason

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The concerns on using Mastodon and the likes is probably propaganda to dissuade people from using open source and defederated social media.

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