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Sure, that's extremely fair! Those qt dependencies are no joke! How do you feel about Evince (apparently now called gnome document viewer)? It seems to be the standard gtk pdf viewer, but I've never used it, so I actually don't know what it's features are like. It's a heavier application than mupdf (of course), but at least you don't need to install qt to use it!

When zathura (my beloved) isn't feature-rich enough for my needs I usually turn to okular. Sure, it's kde, so if you're on a pure gnome system you're going to have to install a bunch of dependencies, but if that's not a problem for you, okular is quite good in my experience!

I can think of a couple of uses. Well, basically just one use. You could hide posts that cause distress for whatever reason. For example, I hate snakes and if someone posted a neat picture of a snake I'd probably hide it, just so I don't have to keep seeing the same post and jump scaring myself with a picture of a snake while scrolling. Another example might be a thread in which people are arguing and you don't want to get dragged into the argument. I actually literally did this earlier today with a thread where people were yet again arguing about the upcoming US election and whether voting Biden is a reasonable choice. I've read this argument so many times and it's so tempting to jump in and be an asshole to someone who is wrong and I just don't want to do that today, so better to hide the post so I don't keep seeing it while scrolling.

So yeah, you can hide posts you don't want to keep running across while scrolling for whatever reason. Seems like a pretty useful feature to me, I'm glad we have it now.

Demonstrating ~~absences~~ anything beyond math's clarity and definiteness can be challenging if not impossible to say the least.

ftfy

Anyway, just a tip for future comments on the internet: I'd suggest not being an asshole in your very first reply to someone you disagree with unless there's a good reason to be, because it makes you look extremely silly if your shitty comment is actually just wrong. I wouldn't have commented in this thread at all if you hadn't been an immediate asshole to frightful_hobgoblin, but here we are.

Yes you absolutely can. Here's an extremely trivial example: 6 is not prime, which I can prove by simply saying 6 = 2*3. Bam, I've proved a negative.

But what if we grow? What if more people pirate?

Good. Unlimited piracy on media and software corporations.

I'm a communist first and foremost. Private property is wrong in all its forms, this wrongness is just most obvious when talking about intellectual property, because intellectual property can be easily copied and isn't something physical like the tools in a factory. Of course corporations will always try to clamp down on piracy, they've been trying to do so my entire adult life. It doesn't really matter how many pirates there are, because corporations don't just want money, they want all the money. If even one person pirates, corporations will try to make piracy difficult.

I guess I fundamentally disagree with your statement that "The world can handle a stable population of pirates." I don't think that's a meaningful statement. It's not like there's some "carrying capacity" for piracy after which point the intellectual property ecosystem will tip out of equilibrium and cause pirates to become an endangered species.

Nah, it's way easier than that: pirate everything, give as much money as you can afford to small creators. Intellectual property is a fuck and the vast majority of any money you pay for media goes directly into the pockets of wealthy executives, not to the people who actually make the media you enjoy.

I love lemmy, having been here since the very earliest hexbear days. In my view, the devs are doing the best they can. They're a tiny team surviving on grants, trying to produce software that the users, for some reason, expect to have feature parity with reddit, a large corporation with a large paid dev team. It's weird to say the least.

My understanding is that nutomic and dessalines survive solely on that 4000 euros per month, because all of their time goes to lemmy. How do you want them to survive? They need to eat and pay rent, you know. The real world exists and they're humans in it, needing food and sleep and shelter.

It seems to me you want magic. You don't want the lemmy devs to be humans, you want them to be magic coder gods who are infinitely patient, with boundless time and energy. But that's completely unrealistic, you surely must see that, right?

There's a pinned post at the top of this very comm talking about exactly this issue: https://hexbear.net/post/403920?scrollToComments=false

Long story short, yes, it's a racist term with a racist history and should not be used. Please change it

You could try spacemacs (what I use) or doom emacs. Both have vi-like keybindings as a default and are slightly easier to get going with than vanilla emacs. On the other hand, especially with spacemacs, there's more to learn than vanilla emacs and more that can go wrong.

what, on the surface, is a pretty trivial ask

I don't think having my real life phone number tied to a website or game account is a trivial ask. I'd like my data to be private, especially something as real-life and tangible as a fucking phone number. Sure, there are ways around these things, you can get a fake phone number for cheap (or possibly even free), but that's rather more effort than I'm willing to put in for most things. If I need to enter a phone number to sign up for an account for something, chances are very extremely good I'll just decide I don't need the account that badly. I don't think I'm alone in this.

For years I used vanilla vim before finally switching to spacemacs like 4 years ago. I've never used neovim, because it just didn't seem stable and mature enough before I switched to spacemacs and at this point I'm happy with spacemacs and will probably stick with it for the foreseeable future.

My issue with vim, and the reason I switched, is that vimscript was an absolute nightmare. I was doing easy stuff, writing LaTeX, but getting vim to compile LaTeX and talk to my pdf reader (as you need if you're going to be working with LaTeX in any kind of serious way) took way too much configuration and my setup would break fairly often as well. Spacemacs is significantly easier. I was shocked when I went from "I've never used spacemacs before" to "I'm comfortably writing LaTeX here" in about half an hour. My setup still breaks occasionally and sometimes it's a bit difficult to figure out why and how to fix it, but it's much easier than vim was, that's for sure.

I also just like the emacs workflow. I like helm, I like being able to change how the editor works on the fly just by writing some elisp anywhere, I like how easy it is to access the documentation on functions, variables, keybindings, whatever else you might need. I like org-mode. I like that emacs has been around for decades and will be around for decades more.

I'd never heard of doomemacs. I'm pretty happy with spacemacs so I probably won't switch, but I'll at least read about it some more.