edge is my daily browser rn (i may have said this before) honestly it’s really good for me. i use the Collections feature daily to have random… collections… of links and stuff
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I’m kinda glad to see that Clarus is back.
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experimenting with new media player MPV, since MPC-HC is discontinued… to play 10bit h265 movies and whatnot…
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this person/team is continuing support mpc-hc if you end up not impressed with this new one you’re trying out. I’ve been using it for like a year without inconvenience or issue.
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Do y’all direct downloads or just use the default download folder that windows loves?
God I wish I could have non-collasped task bar in win11.
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i do both, installers and one-time garbage goes in Downloads (which I regularly clear out) and everything else goes in bespoke folders if i’m not in a hurry
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I occasionally go “oh yeah shit I should move stuff out of downloads” and spend a few minutes dragging files around
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yeah this is me and my downloads folder gets so bloated.
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I have it set to put downloads on the desktop. When I download a bunch of stuff my desktop turns into shit and forces me to decide what to do with each thing. I tend to put my permanent icons towards the right so that the left can fill with downloads
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In their own folders but they all reside within a single folder that’s had the same name since the late 90s. Which functionally is basically like the downloads folder I suppose, but it’s mine.
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anyone have any experience w Vim or Neovim? i’m switching code editors now that Atom is slated for execution, but i’m just slightly too young to have had any real experience w the command line, so this is all kinda new to me (i’m on Windows too, which is making things slightly more difficult).
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Yes, I have decades of experience with Vim, and I finally this year switched to Visual Studio Code with a vim plugin. Vim is increasingly dated especially in terms of the experience editing multiple files. VSC+plugin has all the vim features I care about and generally far superior otherwise. (Neovim is not really “neo” in any meaningful respect, I tried it but was disappointed.)
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I use vim over emacs or nano if I have to work on the command line and it’s too much trouble to open a file in a GUI editor over SSH, but I wouldn’t use it on a local machine for any reason – sublime or vscode are good
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i’ve found MS Visual Studio to be a laggy nightmare mess whenever i’ve had to use it at uni, is VSCode any better in that regard? (i also don’t appreciate a text editor asking me to log in)
yes, they’re nearly nothing alike
Microsoft decided to leverage the brand of their IDE that only game programmers use when they made a text editor to compete with sublime and atom and actually successfully ate everyone’s lunch
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Yeah they’re completely different. VS is a Jenga tower waiting to collapse with decades of bloat built in. VSC is an electron app that kinda builds itself into what you need it to be with plugins it’ll fetch automatically if you let it based on what you’re using it for.
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vim is brilliant for server janitoring, editing a config file, a docker-compose etc. but the amount of faff you’re gonna have configuring a full neovim + plugins setup is just not worth it for actual code and vsc is by far the most performant electron app i’ve ever used
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Emacs all the way. It’s nice to be able to use the same software for 20+ years and not feel like I’m missing anything. Steep learning curve of course but not as steep at the beginning as vim. Sure it isn’t a traditional ide but It has fantastic git integration with magit and supports auto-completion with certain plugins.
Reporting back: Davinci Resolve is incredibly good for free, much easier to use than e.g. Reaper for the uninitiated, and I like many features better than the same in Premiere.
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I briefly used emacs in college but would not recommend it – I very quickly (within a month) got “emacs pinky” from reaching for the control key too often. That’s when I switched to vim. Plus I already knew the vi movement keys from playing so many roguelikes on a laptop without a numpad.
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