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if you’ve ever actually used Vee Eye, you’d throw your computer out the window

I have used vanilla VI on real Unices (i.e. pre-Linux and pre-Minix). In fact, that’s the VI I learned VI with.

The first “better VI” I used was Elvis. Then VIM of course. But here’s the thing: even decades later, I still consider their extended features niceties rather than essentials. In other words, I’m still very happy to run vanilla VI to this day. The only thing from VI of yore I can’t really stand anymore is HJKL: I kind of need the arrows, and the ability to move in edit mode.

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How weird. I’ve always said “Ed” - like the name 🙂

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My “everyday carry” isn’t a USB stick, but it can act as one - and much much more: I always have my trusty Flipper Zero with me, and the image I carry in the mass storage emulator is the Linux Mint installer, with extra space in the image to store small files.

To be honest, the Flipper Zero’s mass storage emulator turns it into the slowest USB stick you never saw. But in a pinch, it’s there and it’s usable. I use my Flipper for a variety of other things all the time - including, with my laptop, as a presentation remote and secondary mouse - and I almost never need a USB flash drive. So slow though it is, it’s enough for when I do need one.

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The right sequence of buttons on any calculator is 5318008. That was determined shortly after the invention of the pocket calculator.

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Everybody knows you shouldn’t talk about periods, silly.

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If you have any interest in promoting who you endorse, you’re tainted and your integrity comes into question. It’s that simple.

You in your heart of hearts may genuinely be trying to be impartial, but we can’t know that for sure because we don’t have access to your heart of hearts. The only proof of your independence is keeping whichever company’s interests you promote entirely separate from your own interests.

When Techlore has affiliate links, or accept free flights to Taiwan from the companies whose products they review, they lose all credibility. If you do that too, you do too.

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AI product violates your privacy. What a shocker… I would have been surprised if it didn’t.

Actually I’m surprised when any product respects privacy these days, not just AI products. But AI in particular owes its very existence to corporate surveillance and runs on privacy violation. It just comes with the beast.

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I like rössypottu myself - a specialty of the Oulu region where I live. But since you’re a vegetarian, the blood pudding (veripalttu) might not be up your alley.

https://www.k-ruoka.fi/reseptit/rossypottu

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