It's quite clear Microsoft are only a couple of years from either an official linux distro or some halfway house of using a linux kernel internally for major os functionality, so it makes little sense learning some new(ish) shell when you could just use bash (via wsl or whatever).
i think the whole bit implying that one has to be mentally ill or on drugs to see such a thing is kind of made in bad faith. for what it's worth, i certainly suffer from mental illness and i have been "out of this dimension" in terms of drug abuse in the past so to speak and i certainly have never witnessed such a thing in my life. so i find it hard to believe either of those things would make one more likely to perceive such things and view them in such a manner. if anything id be more willing to say that it would more likely be someone who has an overactive sense of confirmation bias, but of course I have no idea.
No, literally means literally, it's just picked up a figurative use, just like UFO actually means unidentified flying object, with a colloquial meaning of alien spaceship.
"If ads are too intrusive, I will 'vote with my clicks' and avoid that particular website in the future."
They'll never even notice, and in the meantime you're at risk of all sorts of trackers, malware etc. Plus...you're seeing adverts all the time. I used chrome on android the other day and I couldn't believe how many there were, or how annoying. If you're not clicking on them it means nothing anyway, as far as I can tell. I remember back in the day sites saying "click on the ads - it helps us" but I don't think that's a thing any more. Perhaps I should knock up a script to visit random sites with ads and maybe click on a few, in a container/vm. Would that help?
It was a bit like a Stack Exchange blog, wasn't it. They weren't keeping up with inflation. That's not even a price increase in real terms - they should probably do what (UK, at least) mobile networks do and just increase the prices by the official rate of inflation each April - that would let them defer actual price increases for longer.
"What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it?"
I know someone who was fine until he had to help select/edit news footage (unfiltered audio/video footage of wars etc) for the BBC. After a few months he needed counseling for intrusive images, lack of sleep, depression. So, no news either?
You could say exactly the same about anti-vaxxer nonsense. The lack of statistics makes it something where you can only wring your hands and say "oh, how awful" and not "yes, but..." and consider meaningful alternatives.
The problem is that to someone on the fence about vaccination, they take legitimacy from articles that appeal to emotions and don't back up facts with data. Anti-vaxxers write the same way.
Speaking for myself; vim's always available whereas I have to faff about (especially on older systems, or where I'm not admin) to get neovim working.
The .vimrc files seem to have to live in different places meaning the scripts I've written to install vim/vim-plugins will need to be altered.
Some plugins don't work properly.
I've never got neovim working on windows (can't get the colours quite right)
I tried the built-in terminal and thought it was a great idea but struggled to seamlessly hop between panes, pipe the output into files and open in other windows or copy/paste them. Tmux solves all those problems so I never use the terminal (and if I needed to it's in vim now).
I liked the attitude of the project, but I still have no use for it. One idea which might make sense would be for the vim project to accept the neovim source; merge it back in as vim 9 so all the great refactoring, and other functionality is available for everyone and any wasted effort on two almost-identical projects is avoided.
