certified emacs cultist (no not doom.)

well, i did a thing chat. i was using emacs, and was using a random window splitting function from stackoverflow. i was getting tired of how the windows were splitting in such a way that it was getting unwieldy, so i, in classic emacs fashion, hacked up a master-stack layout splitting function.

does tumblr even support code blocks?

dotfiles linked here with the whole file as the second link attatchment

oh so not only do you replace me with a symlink to vim but you also alias me away too? will i ever be enough for you people?

that's it i'm out

editing text is a dirty fight for survival with blunt and barely functioning tools. maybe some day something will pick up helpless little me and push me into using something that does work for me.

you have found my only weakness (autism, object personification, need for harmony, being super easy provoked into a challenge, nostalgia and longing for computer tech i never used, ...) so i now have:

"get the build of traditional vi to work on my machine (hopefully just configure the Makefile, but i don't know how to do that right)"

much my friend put it on my

30th birthday cake

The entirety of Pokémon Crystal took up slightly less than a MB of storage iirc. Meaning the clock app on my phone takes up as much space as a little more than 82 Pokémon Crystals

A game, which–to be clear–Has a Clock.

When getting into OpenBSD, just a fair warning. If you think Gentoo/Arch is very RTFM-y, you will be jarred by how RTFM OpenBSD’s culture is.

The OpenBSD community feels like 90s hacker culture. No one will help you if you don’t have the capacity or skills to learn yourself. You need to show efforts and want to learn.

I'm kinda an exception to that TBH. I tend to be more friendly than the larger userbase. They aren’t trying to be mean, they want you to learn in the best possible way. They put all this effort into documentation, it would be an insult to them to neglect their efforts.

Generally, just show you actually had the capacity to learn yourself and showed what you tried, and you'll be golden.

If you look how I eMail on the ports@ mailing list, I try to make terse yet detailed accounts on what I have tried.

for example: x11/stumpwm broke on the latest snapshot of -CURRENT. I sent a mail to look into fixing that.

OpenBSD has very good documentation, but its mainly local and not online.

Learn how to read manpages, read afterboot(8), read the "Welcome to OpenBSD" mail in your user's inbox. Don’t know how to do that? Check the mail manpage.

I am all for auto-didacticism. That is- learning on your own terms at your own pace because learning matters to you. I feel that when people say "RTFM" they are trying to nudge you on a path to learn in the best way possible.

I would probably never outright say RTFM as a non-joke, but i wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment the people who use it have.

you can’t learn if you don’t try. i don’t think we should shut off new users, and i think largely the OpenBSD userbase agrees with me here. But- when you are learning you can and should expect some things to not work the way you would expect them to. Realizing the power of self discipline and discovering things is really helpful in easing the inevitable frustration here.