Oh. Nope, though I now see how it may have put Pierce Brosnan on the radar…

1. That should be on by default.
2. It has no features that Zed doesn’t have that I use and takes up more system resources (it’s noticeably slower).
3. It’s far more confusing in its design with the project-pane thing which keeps constantly closing between reboots, and it has no recent-files menu section, which I rely on a lot (and if there is a plugin for this, I shouldn’t need a plugin for such a common feature).

I’ve made my decision for the time being. I am aware of Zed and can always change in the future should the need arise, but Kate frankly looked better, anyway.

Viol8?

Right, the true cost efficiency is lentils and chickpeas. People who dislike these just don’t know how to make them in appealing ways which is frankly not hard with just some exploration.

Some people tried to get me into Zed as well, and that was sure not a fun experience seeing how heavily pro-AI it was. I literally ended up just returning to the built-in Zed.

Oh, I wasn’t sure if that character was from some media.

no telemetry

In 2026?

Rather, is there something wrong with KDE ISO Image Writer’s v1.0.0 Windows VERSION, even if it is 3 years old by now? https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/

Yeah, I always thought it was suspect because of the balenaCloud ad. Why do people even use this? Why did it get popular? Did paid balenaEtcher shills make it go viral or something?

*newbie tries to comprehend*
*head explodes*

Source?

Alt+F4 is for p|_|ssies. Alt+Space, X is the ergonomic way to go.

Well… they weren’t expecting this to happen, of course.

do they still recommend arriving at the airport 2 hours early?

Idk who “they” are but I was always taught 1 hour for domestic and 2 hours for international and it has never failed that I can recall, even amid this administration’s multiple airport crises, and I’ve flown a lot recently.

Now, that doesn’t mean I didn’t encounter delays (I even had a 14-hour overnight delay or something monstrous like that, and several 2-to-4-hour delays and an entire reschedule to the next day), but they were never due to me not arriving early enough versus an issue with the plane, airport computers, weather, or runway.

It was kind of impossible to know how far it could go anyway; seeing the pace at which it’s been advancing, even despite all the hallucinations, has been blistering. I mean, look at me; I’m recording this partly via Whisper+ using an offline, open-source model by speech-to-text (manually cleaning it up after delivery, of course, but still). Even just 6 years ago, people would have been, like, “WTF?! How is that sorcery possible?”

Wasn’t it even just 2 years ago that it struggled big-time with legible text and kept butchering hands and fingers on visuals of generated people? Even that already is a thing of the past, which itself was incredible to even see at all right after COVID times. The speed is bewildering…

Anyway, I digressed a bit. The book Empire of AI comes to mind in terms of researchers’ intentions indeed.

That’s a horrible abuse of power…

Definitely.

and got shouted down.

Well, they’re stupid, because you’re absolutely right. This is some fantastic stuff happening. 2026 is way too late, frankly, but better late than never!

You can also point out how greater wealth tends to attract problems; just look at how many lottery winners end up losing their fortunes and sometimes even worse off than they were prior.

TIL, cool!

Huh, I apparently already had this installed amid my tinkering. Thanks, but it didn’t seem to help… I had to keep clicking or alt+tabbing to the window where I wanted the hints to appear right after typing hints in the console. Then the hints displayed in a zigzag fashion with no rhyme nor reason with respective to the buttons’ location. FWIW, my display is at 200%, which may be what’s causing the mouse to overshoot the coordinates, but even the hint locations are off.

I also wasn’t expecting to have to pull up the Terminal to type “hints” and quickly Alt+Tab to the target window to generate the hints… though I suppose a keyboard shortcut could bind the script to a function key or something…