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The poorer they get, more reason to get rid of the leaders. And that is something only the people can do.

Anyway, I can't justify it with what I know and what we hear almost daily now.

Nothing unexpected for the 2016 Turkey. With everything that goes on in there now, it won't be too long until something really horrible happens.

Boycott everything turkish is the only thing we can do as normal persons I guess. That is at least what I've done for a long while now.

I just listened to a podcast that touched this topic, an interview with David Nutt, seems like he does similar research over in the UK.

It's a Swedish podcast but not that much in this episode, the interview starts 14 minutes in: https://soundcloud.com/user-659943582/david-nutt-magic-mushr...

Maybe so. But then one have to ask whose money we are saving by getting rid of the cash.

As I see it, this has the potential of being a disaster for certain groups of people in the society. Old and poor. And there are no free solutions, you have to spend to spend. The old paypal tax but on every purchase you do. There are problems with this that has to be solved before it's implemented but aren't yet there for the early adopters, which may then leave too many people behind. These are some of my concerns, but what do I know...

I've tried a bunch of file managers but I'm not really happy with any of them. I tend to go with the least annoying alternative when I choose among Linux desktop programs (because they are all pretty horrible), in the file manager case my pick is PCManFM, for now... :)

Not that exciting after running this for over a year:

  chromium --app=http://web.skype.com

Tried setting it to Swedish locale but either I did it wrong or it didn't do anything :)

"cal" is the only calendar on my OS, who needs that other bloat.

Try:

  cal -m

I even have it aliased to "calm" :-)

My main reason to why stuff gets done faster when I'm in vim is because I am in the terminal anyway. Compared to one virtual desktop with a browser if you're doing web, one with some editor, and one with a terminal to run some build tools and more, you'd have to jump around much more.

Another good reason to go with vim is that it will probably be around when other editors may become abandoned. Sure it's good with many editors to pick from, but most of us go for the latest shiny thing and it's always a learning curve even going between Sublime and Atom.

It's free, you can install it on anything. It's not the crazy commands that makes it fast really.

Thanks, but I already know it ofc :)

Most of the stuff there is nice but it's nothing more than this really:

- A nice background.

- GTK themes and icons which I have, easy enough.

- A nice looking bar, but the one most commonly used with bspwm is made up by a messy shell script.

- Custom terminal colours, looks good in ncmpcpp but I need a usable terminal.

This sure looks nice. My problem with nice looking Linux is that I becomes too limited and I get forced into habits that I don't like. Now all I use is bspwm, no status bars or anything, a lot of times I miss having something good looking though. But I became happier when I just let it go, it's easy to go down that road of constant tweaking.

Tmux recently merged a PR adding 24-bit colour, I'm a lot happier with the colours now. I think it will be in the next release if it's not out already.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/pull/112

This is an alias I have, very useful!

  alias shrug='echo "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" && echo -n "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" | xsel -b -i'

So, what is 5G anyway?

Aftonbladet was the reason I started using an adblocker to begin with. Much better nowadays when I visit their mobile page on my phone, though I did get a slightly annoying fullscreen ad over there a couple of weeks ago. But overall it's much better.

It's clearly a step up from 1080p at a distance of about 3,5 - 4 meters at least. But then, a lot of it is the difference of a 5 year old 40" vs. a new 55" tv.

The beginning of "Narcos" is filmed from a helicopter down on some streets in a city, that was the first thing I ever saw in UHD, pretty cool! Now I've gotten used to it haha

And Netflix is the only source of UHD, at least in my parts of the world. Which made me pay them even more for that subscription now when I bought a UHD TV last week. Oh, and I just ended my good old regular cable subscription one month ago.

I'm mostly in smaller channels, max 120 nicks. If someone joins a channel this size or smaller, it can take a while before someone comes around to answer a question. But when they do you will probably get your answer, and you are able to quickly ask some follow up questions if needed. And in the end I believe this often is a quicker way to solve a problem than asking on some forum or mailing list. And there is the room to be social with like minded people in every time zone.

I think it works great this way. And if people leave the smaller channels when they are not around I'm afraid many of them would just die.

Running skype on Linux, I was hoping the Skype web client would become a good alternative, but nothing really happens there...

Edit: I wanted to use the Skype app on my modern Android devices but last time I tried it didn't even work.

Most code editors are half-useless by default though. I don't think anyone is using the default Atom or Sublime. It takes time to both tweak them and learn how to use them. So I don't think Vim is THAT different.

So for the HN crowd they might be famous for being a successful company using Erlang.

All I really know is that they are all over the place if you go online shopping here in Sweden, they probably handles payments for a majority of online shops here, or a very large chunk of it at least.

I have a Nexus 9. I can't say that I need a tablet, I don't use it a lot, but it's still nice to have one. I use it for netflix in bed, ebooks, check the news whenever there is a commercial break on tv or to google something from the sofa, a couple of fun games, get access to my notes if I reinstall linux or do something that can break my computer. Stuff like that.

My opinion is that for reading and simple point and click stuff it is ok. Whenever I try to write a little more text than 3 - 8 keywords on google or to chat with people, it gets slow and wonky.

Maybe not. The gov. seems to handle the countryside extremly bad here in [name-redacted]. Depopulation might lead to those prices, cheaper than the building materials in some areas. People are forced, in a way, to leave for the cities.

I would say yes. I don't know this for sure but the level of english is good all over [name-redacted]. People might be a bit unprepared and shy but they will understand and reply in some way.

HTML5 player on Linux?

I've been using Chrome for six year on the month now. Probably about the same amount of time I used Firefox for before that. Been thinking a bit about switching back lately even though I have no real problem with Chrome, just think it might be healty to change stuff, six years is a long time. Plus, FF seems to be working better on a couple of points on my linux setup.

I know it won't be the same as when we all moved from IE to Firefox or Firefox to Chrome all those years ago, so I'm not in a hurry, and no Netflix in Firefox yet.

The key to learning vim for me was to create my own vimrc from the ground up. I decided to not add anything to that file that I didn't understand what it was for. That and time. As long as you can open a file in vim, add a couple of lines of code and save it, you're good to go. Just keep using it and that vim magic will come to you ;)

I did the switch from OS X to linux about six months ago and I am pretty much using the same tools for front and back end web stuff. Then there is a huge plus for all the free new knowledge you get from using linux as a "power user", so if anything, the switch made it easier to deal with all kinds of things.

I suppose the question was more about low level development than in my case, where tools depend more on the system it's run on, but for me it has only been positive.