https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

No, nobody else does. It’s just you.

The fuck is this question?

Coming soon: “Does anybody else hate it when they get a paper cut?”

Emacs is a pretty nice OS - all it’s lacking is a good text editor.

I guess I should take another look at evil-mode.

git config --global core.editor "ed"

if you don’t like using vim.

Yes, started using vi when I started using a Unix login at university. That was in about 1994 or so. When I started using Linux it was definitely vim.

I’ve tried using evil-mode and vim keybindings in other editors. I somehow keep coming back to vim, though.

Yeah, that tracks - I came back to Debian after a few years on Ubuntu, and even before I returned, I removed snap from my Ubuntu system.

I’ve recently migrated from ubuntu Noble to Debian Forky (testing) on my laptop, and I’m super happy with it. I install updates every time I shut down, and there’s almost always something to update, but everything’s humming along very nicely.

And despite your confidence, your answer is wrong. You’re talking about a 3-cube embedded in 4-space instead of a 4-cube, which is why you only see 6 faces, whereas a 4-cube (a tesseract) has 24 faces.

There’s no “constant 4th dimensional vector” here.

You’re overcomplicating it by treating the 4th dimension as time. In a tesseract puzzle, the 4th dimension is just another spatial direction. The ant simply walks across adjacent cubic cells on the hypersurface, much like walking across faces of an ordinary cube. The problem reduces to finding a path through the adjacency graph of the 8 cells.

*its

The ant is a mathematical metaphor - a point that can trace a path along any surface and can cross to another surface only by crossing an edge, but cannot leave the surface.

In mathematics, the 4th dimension isn’t in any way privileged, so the ant isn’t “traveling across the fourth dimension” as such, it’s tracing a path through all four dimensions, just like you’d trace a path through three dimensions.

Debian Project Leader Bruce Perens worked at Pixar in the mid-1990s, not Ian.

I’ve always been doing apt dist-upgrade. What’s the difference between dist-upgrade and full-upgrade?

Where do I get that?

Oh, I had already removed snapd completely from Ubuntu before moving back to Debian.

One thing I really miss about AfterStep was that they had a widget that showed you your virtual desktops next to each other, with rectangles for all the windows. You could even drag them around from there.

Well, the middle button above the touchpad was working fine for pasting in the terminal etc, but wasn’t working to rotate the view in Blender, and also in Blender, two-finger scrolling was raising and lowering the view instead of zooming, so I had to go into GNOME tweaks and disable middle button scrolling on the pointing stick, and tell Blender not to use multi-touch gestures.

But the touchscreen works out of the box (even in the graphical installer!) as does the wi-fi module, and everything else I’ve tested so far.

Ah, that I didn’t know!