It’s always amusing when the Neovim users pretend to like Lua. It’s not like Emacs Lisp is the best language out there (it’s not, and I’d much rather Emacs was configured in Scheme, they’re working on it…), but at least it’s a good fit, by design, for configuration.

Maybe unconfigured. Even Jesus Christ wouldn’t be able to handle the Vimscript.

I’ve never understood the need for fish. The shell experience is basically the same as zsh, and although it’s much more pleasant to script for, you miss out on compatibility with POSIX-compliant snippets, and besides, if you’re writing long and complicated scripts that need anything more than a handful of scalar variables you should probably be using Python (or Perl if you’re an old-school masochist).

As if modern websites care about Firefox

Not really, it’s still fully FOSS, they were just terrible at communicating what they actually wanted to do and people got spooked.

It’s the other way around: RHEL is a corporate fork of Fedora.

Also, for people using some Readarr derivative with Hardcover metadata, how much of a pain is it to migrate from Goodreads to Hardcover (and is it worth it)?

Calibre-Web has always been interesting to me. Can it be deployed in such a way as to keep a Calibre content server also accessible? (e.g. for sync with the desktop app/Koreader/etc.)

Yeah, unfortunately. Apparently it was hell to maintain, especially the metadata server and all.

JREs, man providers, *roff, …

Arch does indeed have a special mechanism for Java, but Debian and Fedora have a general-purpose system (the same system actually)

Is Pacman still missing a proper alternatives system?

It’s true that there is a very large transfer between violin and viola, but just the experience of playing multiple instruments, even if this similar, increases one’s value by a lot. Depending on the situation wherever you happen to be, demand for violists can be much greater than for violinists, so playing both rather than the violin alone is a big boost.

It’s kind of linear, in the largest element of the array. Just not in the length of the array.

The Either monad (also known as Result) provides Go-like error handling, but automated. You only check manually for errors after the last call, the monad handles the process.

But this is just one example of a monad, there are many more.

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E

Many more basic Emacs keybindings work, actually! Including C-f, C-b, C-p and C-n (if you prefer them over arrow keys) as well as M-f and M-b to move by words, C-k, M-d and C-y for killing/yanking (but not M-w) and C-SPC, C-w, C-x C-x for region manipulation (tested in Bash and ZSH)

I interpret this being more about how GNOME apps function in general, also on other desktops, which is fair criticism.

If you want, you can also compile everything with Nix!

I kinda want to try LFS with Nix, but I think that’s literally just NixOS

Why does sudo su exist? sudo -i does exactly what you want.

Might as well just use Vim then