@Nickiquote counterpoint the directors cut of alien 3 is better than aliens

@Szescstopni I ran out of fuel once. On the Bay Bridge. At rush hour. On a first date.

As you may expect, the rest of the night did not go well.

@Szescstopni I was in a car that ran out of gas with someone else driving. I was 11. Fortunately, it ran out of gas at the top of a really steep hill, and momentum was able to get us to a gas station. :)

@Szescstopni I have run so low that the car stumbled when making a turn though 😂

@Szescstopni @Flux I voted “never” but one time I was really pushing it and the car died like 30 seconds before the gas station, but I coasted in so I think technically that means I had *exactly* enough to get where I was going?

@Szescstopni Not sure if counts as the car was parked and it was the slightly sloped surface that made the little fuel I had not reach the pump in the tank. The other time while actually driving it turned out to be a faulty fuel pump. So the engine ran out of gas but not the tank.

Though I ran that thing on fumes as a rule so I'm surprised I didn't actually properly run out while driving at any time.

@Szescstopni Does it count as running out of fuel, when you run your fuel tank dry, but you have a full jerry can on board? Happened once for me.

@david_chisnall I've used vim since 1992. You lost me at looking for something new.

@david_chisnall thanks. I was thinking of checking out NeoVIM, but now I won't bother.

@david_chisnall I, too, employ the Vim tool as an extension of my nervous system. I, too, have found the NeoVim to be less than desirable.

@david_chisnall I looked VIM up today. How do I get to know how to you it? Its interesting..

@david_chisnall

You tease us with your Undo Life(tm) but do not grace us with your .vimrc snippets. Talk about clickbait....

@david_chisnall I was curious about the “platforming white supremacists” part. I’m assuming you’re referring to this? https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io/issues/501

@david_chisnall

"Our persistent data format is unstable. So you should not rely on your persistent data being persistent."

🤔

Interesting definition of persistence...

@david_chisnall it's just fantastic to know that everything i depend on is now either full of slop or influenced by fascists, or both.
hyprland, keepassxc, rsync, and now neovim.
i'm so fucking tired of this shit, man.

@david_chisnall What are the .vimrc commands to put files in .cache? I'd try to google it, but that feature has been neaped by AI.

@david_chisnall It’s startling how little regard or awareness developers have for things like protocols and file formats given how much it actually impacts users. Apple is surprisingly a major offender here. Multiple times, various syncing services have been broken, and the fix is to update to version x … except that for N reasons various systems CANNOT be updated to version x … 😡

@david_chisnall not a vim vs neo thought, but i have done 'emergency' surgery on servers headless (no monitor/console, just a keyboard) and never doubted that vim was doing exactly what i expected as i typed blind. that level of trust/comfort

that is a pretty rare tool to have in your tool box

@michal I agree, it’s obviously a more fragile design. Say I, typing on a phone with a busted USB-C port.

@michal Seriously?

@rl_dane its written by a 30 year old. assuming its a real human at all, and not a bot or a paid shill for the industry. I put weight in direct proportion to age and credibility, esp in the social media of 2026 awash with bots, trolls, teens, intoxicated, insane etc

@jwildeboer Yes, and just renewed last week :D

@jwildeboer
I never leave the house without my library card, and I have no plans to change that 🙂

@jwildeboer when I got my first library card I was really surprised how much I could do with it. It’s such a great service everyone should know about.

@jwildeboer I have 2! One for my local community library and one for the nearest big city. They have different collections.

@jwildeboer

Missing option: I've never lived anywhere that required you to renew a library card. Mind don't have dates on them. After some period of inactivity they may need some confirmation that I still live there, but there's no explicit timeout.

I have a card for my local library but I haven't used it much since they started charging to reserve books. I used to reserve 1-2 books I wanted to read and then go in and collect them and usually pick up 3-4 others at the same time after browsing. Now that they charge, I don't reserve books and that removes my reason for scheduling time to go into the library, so I also don't get around to browsing.

@jwildeboer yes, but no renewing planned because Onleihe 3.0 isn't working with my inkbook.

@jwildeboer I have one, but rarely used it. I use their online services more often. The card does not need to be renewed, but I am member of their 'Förderverein' which has a annual fee. The fee is to finance events and some extra services of the library

@jwildeboer And not just to support the library, but also because of Onleihe, Filmfriend and BibBot ;-)

@jwildeboer
Useful reminder: book due to be returned today but may extend it (again).
Our library aystem doesn’t require membership renewals, it’s perpetual (altho maybe not for children).

@jwildeboer And will not renew, because we don’t renew library cards here :D
But I voted as if.

@jwildeboer

In Denmark you can register at any public library (or online) with your national health card - a card you scan when you use our free healthcare system - and that's it, it now functions as a library card too.

Many libraries are open 24/7 unstaffed and you just scan the card, type a pin, and you're in.

We use this a lot - this week we took 50(!) books back, mainly books the kids have been reading, and took out another 30 or so.

@jwildeboer Living a short walk away from the America Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin it’s not really a question to have a library card. The AGB/ZLB offers a huuuuuge amount of books, music, movies etc… – and of course ebooks, audio and online-movies. And a library of things with e.g. tools and devices.
You can read and work there even without a library card.

@jwildeboer I never got a physical card because I have never actually entered any of the physical libraries, but I'll definitely renew my subscription to borrow ebooks!

@jwildeboer Wait--y'all's library cards expire?

@jwildeboer Where I'm from library cards don't have be renewed. But you can get it replaced if yours is lost or stolen.

@jwildeboer
Do you need to renew library cards? As long as I keep using mine, I don't have to renew it.

@jwildeboer afaik ours don't require renewal

@jwildeboer Ours is completely useless for me. They have a lot of books for children (which we use very often) and for the grownups...well...a lot of books about love and stuff, obviously targeted at women. Lots of pastel-colored covers. No Science Fiction or anything else that suits my taste.

@jwildeboer yes, but it doesn't need renewed because it doesn't expire.

@jwildeboer Yeah but what is the Dewey Decimal number for self-selection bias?

@jwildeboer yes I am pretty sure that I don’t ever have to renew it

For those with perpetual library cards, I hear you. Just vote with Yes, will renew if you plan to keep on using the library or No if you don't plan to do that. I only have 4 options, so some ambiguity is unavoidable. Thanks!

@jwildeboer we don't use that here.

Everyone here has a unique public health care id number.

You use this at the public library to check out books

@jwildeboer wait, di you need to renew it over there? Its not just forever? Why not?

@jwildeboer

I've never had to renew a library card (NSW, Australia), but did get an optional upgrade to my current local library card to allow me access during extended unstaffed hours.

@jwildeboer
We all remember how everybody was surprised by the GDPR. 🤦‍♂️

#EU #PPWR

@jwildeboer it does not surprise me that people are surprised. There are so many of these things running in parallel and it is hard to keep up when you are running a small business and have to worry about a million things.

I mean I grew up with "Stuttgart 21" planning. Back in high school in the mid 90s we even drew sketches of how it could look like.

But I never believed it would actually happen. So did many citizens in Stuttgart.

@michal

If you look at the list of people who donated a million each, you'll find DHH's business partner (Jason Fried), the CEO of Shopify, where DHH is on the board (Tobi), and other people close to him.

It's safe to assume most of them — maybe except Dell and Cloudflare ­— would not have donated to Linux-related projects that DHH is not involved in.

@michal seeing the funders that omacom has, it has a few months until it becomes corporate slop

@michal DHH sentient AI girlfriend is going to save us all, well, not all /s

@davidgerard

Oh my goodness, Apple is about to invent folding phones, six years later!! AMAZING!!!

Every time I see a MacBook with a notch, I'm very tempted to stand in front of the person using it, gently close the macbook, lean forward, stare into their flipping soul, and just say, "Get help."

@davidgerard I mean.. Obviously it should be called iFold
Or: iPhold

@davidgerard surely people will enjoy the ear cameras that read to them and the category of phone that’s most known for carriers begging people to downgrade to them because they’re extraordinarily expensive and break almost instantly

what do you mean you don’t want surveillance cameras in your ears and a scam phone

@davidgerard I mean if they're considering AirPeeps Bro Max, one could say this even makes a smidgeon of more sense. People do fall for foldables, I only didn't get one cos I can't afford, and there was a considerable amount of time about a year, year and a half ago where I was too stupidly enamoured by them...

@freedosproject
Very cool. And yeah, great title!

Back in the day I was an nroff/troff expert, I even taught classes on them.

@freedosproject Thats why its been quiet on YouTube 🥹
Congratulations 🎉

@freedosproject But, but... I was going to write this book! And now you tell me you've already written it? Well I guess I better read it then.

@freedosproject
RUNOFF?

@stefano I also have had a cappuccino, but mine wasn't as Instagrammable... I mean, as tootable 🤔 as yours

@stefano Coffee, chocolate and man are better when they're rich. 😉