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Yeah, I won’t pretend like Neovim is perfect at all either. I do agree that setting up LSP & TreeSitter is needlessly convoluted as is. lspconfig+mason.nvim+mason-lspconfig+null-ls.nvim just to get a couple linters/formatters and decent completion... I’d love it if I could just open a file, and… it just… worked, you know.

I’m surprised the author is both a long-time vim user and defends the idea that everything being built in to the editor and config being purely declarative as positives. In my mind, vim being as slim or bulky as I want it to is a strength, not a weakness, and its config being a full language (especially since neovim/lua) is a superpower. I’ve yet to have my config just randomly break in almost a decade of tweaking it from vim to neovim, across multiple distros and package managers, for what it’s worth.

Helix does look pretty intersting though, but man does the idea of relearning everything after how long it took me to build that vim muscle memory sound very daunting. vim bindings being available almost everywhere, including other editors, some websites and third party apps, and my browser as an extension, is also a big part of why I hesitate to even give it a try…

Probably…? Not gonna lie, the question is pretty vague, IMHO. What are you looking for, exactly? An active community of autistic people? The presence of people that happen to be autistic you could follow? Plain curiosity about who uses that platform? Opinions/questions about Mastodon from autistic people on this community?

If your answer is more than “one”, it usually means you don’t have the right pillow for your sleeping position. I have broad shoulders and I was a side sleeper. I used two pillows for the longest time, otherwise I had to twist my shoulder in while sleeping, or tilt my head towards the bed, neither being really comfortable for long time periods. Then I bought a thick foam one on sale in some random store I was at, and it made a world of a difference.

I agree with the premise, but not your conclusions. I don’t think one should have to be able to justify why they like something. It’s by definition extremely subjective. You could have all the best arguments in the world that some game is on paper superior to another one, I may prefer the first cause of when I played it, or who I played it with, or just what it made us feel at a certain point in time.

To give you an example in another order or idea, I’m a classically trained pianist. I was raised with Beethoven and Bach. I then expanded to all sorts of metal, jazz, progressive, experimental or ethnic/traditional stuff. I should technically hate everything about it, but I’m also a sucker for pop punk. I know it’s musically trash, that they aren’t particularly good musicians, that most of the songwriting in the genre is extremely uninspired and generic, but I still love a good catchy hook that makes me feel like I’m a kid riding on my skateboard, listening to Blink or Good Charlotte on my Discman.

However, yes, I have to agree that many gamers, and IMHO, more generally, many we’d qualify as the “nerdy” type, myself included, seems to like to pretend like they know more than they actually do. I try not to, nowadays, but teenage me half a lifetime ago seemingly thought otherwise…

Aaaaaand now I understand why looking at gameplay footage really didn’t look all that fun to me. I generally dislike the crafting survival genre. Even No Man’a sky, with how light on the “survival” aspect it is, and as a space nerd with a deep space exploration fetish, didn’t manage to capture my attention for more than 10 hours. The endless resource gathering and crafting time just inevitably bores me to death after a couple of loops. Feels like work, and I am paying for it?

I don’t have specific recommendations, but IMHO, “future proofing” is not really a thing so much as upgrade paths are. You can keep some wiggle room with your PSU, try to anticipate/sync upgrades with sockets or RAM generations, or keep RAM sockets free… but old hardware gonna get old regardless. Can’t think of many CPUs that held up for that long. And DDR5 will probably be considered rather slow by then, who knows.

If you’re going into data science though, you may want to think about ever needing CUDA stuff, therefore have stick with Nvidia…?

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Yup, M is for “mille”.

Their very existence in our capitalistic market would heavily raise my suspicions as to what they do with my traffic not to be immediately running at a loss.

I have a feeling you’re talking about the TTY. You can’t use the mouse cause there’s no graphical interface to begin with. You’re in “pure” console mode. It’s probably why fonts look weird too. It’s probably just not running at your monitor’s native resolution.

As other people said though, it’s pretty much expected. Servers are more or less expected to run “headless”. You’d typically SSH in rather than plug a monitor directly in the machine.