My guess would be someone trying to make stone tools by banging rocks together, a spark fell into dry grass, etc. But, you know, just a guess.

Do you know which packages and what defaults? I’ve tried to find the differences but I can’t really find what is different, except for wallpaper etc.

What is in LMDE that isn’t in plain Debian out of the box beyond branding?

For buying gifts, for example.

I genuinely believe that more empathy is needed in both directions for people to come out of their trenches. Problem is, it"s hard to feel empathy for those who have no empathy in return. It’s a locked position reinforcing itself with every bad interaction. To break out of this we would have to listen and show that we care, while not getting the same things back. It feels bad. Unfair. Again, this goes both ways.

For some people, maybe behind the reason they seek these procedures is a wish that isn’t actually fulfilled by the procedures. I’ve never heard of someone getting addicted to transplanting kidneys or fixing cataracts.

I’ve had this idea a few times over the years, but I always get stuck at figuring out: what is it actually I want to happen? If I remove a local file, should it be removed from the backup too? If I edit a file, should the newer version replace the old in the backup, or be saved separately, or just the delta between the files? I could never decide what I wanted.

Is it known which distro they are using?

Recently I decided to try ed for real and used it exclusively for a coding project. There is a certain joy in the simplicity, but ultimately I found myself printing lines and searching files more than I liked. And rewriting long lines instead of getting the substitutions wrong again.

Is edlin still around?

Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, “Documentation is like toilet paper, when it’s good it’s good, when it’s bad it’s better than nothing”? Or, “Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it’s better than nothing”, or “Documentation is like having something you need, it’s better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all”?

Aha, as I thought then, thanks :) (As a young kid I was afraid of a fictional character called Banarne, so I think I can relate to this feeling.)

Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask, but what’s the story behind your user name? Not sure why, but for some reason I have always wondered. It’s ok if it’s secret.

I love his art :)

ed is the standard entertainer.

Now I want to know how different distros measure up in unix socks per 1000 users or something. I have a feeling that Debian has a higher total number, but NixOS a higher percentage, maybe?

How do you feel about other peoples Go code?

The caring you describe is part of the helping.

Isn’t a shopping list more like a data structure? A recipe would be an algorithm. I don’t know, I could be wrong.

If someone told me to use the fdisk app I’d be confused.