Yeah, I thought so, too, but I got that from here on Lemmy, so maybe we both read the same misinformed comment.

I think, it’s cool, though, that the official Thunderbird app can be published on F-Droid.

I’m not seeing it in my just-upgraded “Thunderbird Beta for Testers”.

Ah, yeah, I don’t think there was anything in the app. I guess, they could’ve mentioned it in the changelog, which gets shown in the app by default after an update.

But yeah, I think we’ll have to excuse a bit of a bumpy ride here. I know, it says “Mozilla” on there now, but to my knowledge, it’s still just the one core dev…

I’m not sure, if I’m misunderstanding, but the K9 devs definitely talked about it: https://k9mail.app/2022/06/13/K-9-Mail-and-Thunderbird

Yep, how to make predictions about the Future™:

1. Find something that offers a mild advantage, but we don’t do, because of the massive disadvantages that come with it.
2. Claim that those disadvantages have been eliminated, because it’s the Future™.

Hmm, maybe this was considered for putting onto the Voyager Golden Record or something like it…?

At the risk of calling someone’s work boring: Might help people fall asleep?

In case you like feature-rich software, QuiteRSS is good.

I thought, the +? was going to be a syntax error. 🙃

Ah, “pop like popcorn” was maybe a bit misleading. I mainly meant that it jumped out of the pot violently. It didn’t turn inside-out like maize popcorn does.

So, the taste was essentially unaltered. The seed had burst open, though, so maybe that would help, if you wanted to make a sauce more spicy.

Did you know that when you fry mustard seeds, they pop like popcorn?

Well, I didn’t, so I hadn’t put a lid on.

I was still finding the little fuckers several months after the incident, in all kinds of corners of my kitchen.

I think, the main problem is that “X” doesn’t look like a name.

When someone’s not starkly aware of the platform being called that, they might think the author typoed.
Or is using it like the idiom “they posted it to X, Y and Z” (so just a nondescript set of platforms).
Or genuinely means the letter X and that just doesn’t make sense in the context presented.

“X, formerly Twitter” is just a better name than “X”, because it is recognizable.

I’ll often browse Lemmy by Top 6 Hours or Top 12 Hours, depending on when I last checked, and if I get through all the posts, I’ll start browsing via ‘New’ sorting…

Yeah, fair response. I started writing that comment thinking “if it’s in high-end hardware now, it’ll be broadly available in 10–20 years”.
Then with the last sentence, I realized that it isn’t in high-end hardware, not in the form that allows you to throw out all the tricks.
And with publishers simultaneously wanting ever more fidelity, which makes it more expensive to calculate appropriate raytracing, yeah, I would be surprised, if that happens in our lifetime, too.

I guess, I’m personally somewhat excited at the thought of not having to learn all the tricks, with me having dabbled in gamedev as a hobbyist.
But yesterday, the (completely unilluminated) 2D gravity simulation I’m working on started kicking in my fans and you see me immediately investigating, because I’m certainly a lot more excited about making it available to as many people as possible…

I feel like gamedevs and game publishers are more excited about raytracing than consumers, because it would allow them to throw out the entire range of smokes and mirrors tricks currently used for simulating lighting. Which makes the code simpler and cheaper to implement.

Raytracing is really the more obvious way of implementing complex lighting, it’s just always been out of reach performance-wise.
Well, it still is. Games still use those same tricks and then only mild raytracing on top for the finishing touches.

Non-Youtube link: https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-space-time-speed-light-not-about-light/

Yeah, when I then used Visual Block mode to do the multi-line cursor, I realized I probably could’ve selected+yanked it that way, too.

But that is some good info nonetheless. I wasn’t actually aware of the different Visual modes…

That is a very good question. It all started as a dainty test setup, and I guess, we had lost the routine of always scripting hardware setups, because our previous project hadn’t required it.

Obviously, the second-best time to start doing it is now, but I’d need to properly learn one of these first to be able to lead the way on that.
Which collides with me not really wanting to use any of the ones I’ve experienced so far (Ansible, Puppet) in my freetime. 🫠

Doesn’t that just cut one line at a time? Or is this Emacs-like, where it buffers the lines?

That host doesn’t have internet access, though, so installing a different editor wasn’t really an option to begin with…

Recently had to edit the hosts-file on a remote host, and I don’t know if using two proxy jumps to SSH into it broke it, but it just wouldn’t let me select text with the mouse.
I had to duplicate seven lines and edit the IP addresses, and without being able to copy-paste, I already saw myself manually typing it out.

Then I remembered that in Vim, you can do d5↓ to delete 5 lines. Surely that would also work with copying/yanking. And yep, a y7↓ and a paste later and I had duplicated the lines.

Then use the multi-line cursor like I routinely do for changing all 7 IP addresses…
…and now I feel like I’ve crossed the line where people will think I’m just a wizard.