this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of high school. The jocks (mathletes) would stuff me into server closets because I used nano instead of vi. Popular girls would laugh at me because I didn't know about tab complete until junior year. Bad times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Honestly if you use nano you deserved it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Why the hate on nano?

I prefer it but generally use vim because I don't want to install it on work machines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nano is perfectly fine as an editor.

Sure, Neovim might be the best, but Nano will do fine in a pinch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, micro is the real goat. Vim and emacs are just bloat.

[–] irelephant 1 points 1 day ago

I forgot micro existed. Nice editor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

My preference is VIM with gasp mouse features enabled. Blasphemous, I know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The title of this post seems deranged and nonsensical. No idea what it's supposed to mean. The post itself? Pressing the fuck out of X.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thank you. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the fediverse to know nothing about Tumblr.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Glad I could help!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You're not the only one.

[–] irelephant 2 points 1 day ago

Its a reference to spiders georg, a tumblr joke.

[–] andybytes 2 points 1 day ago

I love making desktop entries that run scripts. I feel like god as the dominoes fall yet I see myself as a person who knows nothing. Windows makes this process easy, yet I am not a fan of windows or the new menus ... Like like the right click window...just change the stupid icons back to plain old "cut" and "copy".There is probably a way to change this but I hate windows and spending time on it. windows makes me sad.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I was using a command line and modifying games I typed in out of a magazine in like, 4th grade. Also not normal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm with you, I was writing programs in BASIC for ten years before I touched a boob

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

I learned BASIC in my 30s too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In 5th grade I couldn't find the internet explorer icon. The mousepad was full of icons but no internet explorer.

[–] PolarKraken 3 points 1 day ago

Well, if you were looking for internet explorer on your mousepad, I think 5th grade you was lacking some important info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

if it was a something like a c64 in the 1980s, it certainly was normal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think there were enough C64's produced for it to be "normal".

I was coding Fortran on punched cards then, I didn't know anyone with a computer at home then - they were still expensive hobbies. The Commodore was certainly part of opening it up, but damn few people had them.

I was definitely looked at as unusual at the time for doing any kind of "computer stuff".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

in the mid 80s, the c64 was the best selling computer (afaik, still is to this day, the single best-selling model ever), sold like 2m+ units a year, outsold even PCs and apple, and had ~ 40% market share.

it was cheap, it had lots of software, and was accessible--selling at discount retailers instead of just computer stores and shops.

yea. it was 'normal'.

abnormal would have been an outlier like a trs80 or ti99/4a instead of one of the 'big three' of the day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Normal for personal computers... which were abnormal at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It was a Tandy 1000 in the 80s. Which was a weird computer to have, but worked well enough.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Nothing taught me more about networking than our LAN parties. Even the least computer literate in our friend group knows how to set up a small network without DHCP.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When I was six, the idea of a personal computer was science fiction.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ha ha you're old.

I mean so am I but you too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Greetings fellow geezer! Let's have a brewski on the porch and talk about how young people just don't have any respect any more!

[–] embed_me 4 points 1 day ago

Me too but we were just poor

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My 7 year old has a Linux box but only uses it to read comics infrequently. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.