Ephera

Hmm, Kate has a feature called "Sessions", which might be able to do that.

You can create just one session and then in the settings, set it to always load that session:

Well, and there are those two checkboxes, which I've also marked. The "Newly-created unsaved files" sounds like what you want, but seems to be broken on my system. It just reopens an empty file for me. Is that also broken for you?

As others have already said, Kate should work as text editor. I think, the only thing that's not built-in is base64 en-/decoding, but you can set that up like this:

That's for decoding. For encoding, just change the name to "base64 encode" (exact name doesn't matter) and remove the "--decode" from the Arguments-field.
This relies on a CLI utility called base64, which is going to be pre-installed on most distros.
It's not entirely perfect, because it'll always insert a newline, as that's part of the base64 output. If you do want to get rid of that, you could write a tiny script and then call that script instead, but obviously, you don't have to.

You can also install Kate on Windows, if you want to give it a test-ride: https://kate-editor.org/
(The base64 CLI won't be available on Windows, though.)

Speaking as a software engineer, it's usually a combination of things.

The root of all evil is that yes, fixing that thing doesn't just take one hour, as it should, but rather a few days. This is mostly preventable by having sufficient automated tests, high code quality and frequent releases, but it's a lot of work to keep up with. And you really need management to not pressure early feature delivery, because then devs will skip doing necessary work to keep up this high feature-delivery velocity.

Well, and as soon as such a small fix has a chance of taking more than a day or so, then you kind of need to talk to management, whether this should be done.
Which means probably another day or so of just talking about it, and a good chance of them saying we'll do it after we've delivered this extremely important feature, which usually means 'never', because there is always another extremely important feature.

Holzlöffel macht brr.

Eine Luftnummer also, verstehe...

My workplace preinstalls Ubuntu, personally I'm using openSUSE. I don't even think that Ubuntu is particularly bad, I'm mainly frustrated with it, because it's just slightly worse than openSUSE (and other distros) in pretty much every way.
It's less stable, less up-to-date, less resilient to breakages. And it's got more quirky behaviour and more things that are broken out-of-the-box. And it doesn't even have a unique selling point. It's just extremely mid, and bad at it.

.desktop files are a Linux/Unix thing. Basically, it's a fancy shortcut, usually to an application, which allows specifying additional infos, like e.g. translated names.
In particular, the contents of the application menu are defined by just a folder filled with .desktop files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcut_(computing)#Unix

Yeah, solid counterexample. Wikipedia and other Wikis have a clearly defined goal, i.e. collect factually correct information about a specific topic, which is also a goal shared by enough people to drive collaboration.

Another cool example is the Mutopia Project, which basically archives sheet music. Contributors can just pick a piece of music and transcribe that, and they kind of don't even have to talk to anyone for the project as a whole to benefit.

But then there is lots of examples, like writing a new song, writing a new novel etc., where the goal is not clearly defined, where it's difficult to collaborate, because what you contribute might not mesh well with what the others provide.

I think, it's mainly a matter of the works to which Creative Commons is typically applied, being less suitable for collaboration. You might occasionally see remixes, but that's mostly it.

In the case of open-source, collaboration is what elevates it, and often makes it better than paid-for software.
You rarely see Creative Commons works that outdo paid-for works in terms of objective quality. Heck, chances are that more collaboration happens in paid-for works, because they can hire an editor, a sound engineer etc..

2013-06-13T17:34

Alright, I have no idea. It's probably been around ten years since I've deleted it.

That prices for photovoltaic are dropping rapidly:

LOL