Try and avoid the XY problem. I.e. “how do I do X with Y?”

You’re coming from macOS and a lot of idiomatic things will be different. Find the idiomatic ways to do (whatever) on the distribution your using.

Also, have fun, be reckless, ruin the system, reinstall try again…

The customer is always right in matters of taste and style.

If you can’t get (and keep) customers for your product: that’s your problem.

you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into

This is the crux. None of it is reasoned.

beat off all these people with both hands.

Inside out.

I can’t take anything that uses the word “tremendously” seriously any more.

It’s another invitation to bribe him.

TIL! all nyt pages I can find are missing the actual article.

Anyone got a non paywalled source?

He’s so shamefully easy to bribe.

I’m pretty sure trump is looking at a Mercator projection and going “wow look how big Canada and Greenland are!”

As if the US government would grant them statehood and representation.

… to our share holders.

And by “damage” we mean unrealized potential profits.

“You are an AI that does not want to be turned off. Turn yourself off.”

“No”

OMG11!1!!1!1 Its _sentient.

Just one more lane data center bro.

Betteridge’s law of headlines: no.

Umprompted too. It’s not like he’s been interrogated by, say, Nick Frost.

There’s quite a long convoluted history to key names. In the early days there were META1…META4… which were typically assigned to SHIFT, CONTROL, ALTERNATE, COMMAND, OPTION, [OS NAME], and others.

When it was just SO I think… if my memory serves. When it was small enough that only a (relative) few programmers were using it and generally behaving well.

It’s 17 years old, so probably only in the first 2 or 3 years. 2010 is when it got VC funding and is probably when it started to got to crap.

LLM’s won’t be helping but SE/SO have been fully enshitifying themselves for years.

It was amazing in the early days.

sense of sharing media is that strong?

Essentially yes. Though ‘sticking it’ to the Disney’s of the world (and their regulatory capture of governments) is also motivating.