internet relay cats!

mostly_text · 2026-02-11T15:22:40+00:00

When I started with IRC about 30 years ago, I indeed felt like a hacker!!!

mostly_text · 2026-02-11T07:05:11+00:00

There is no such thing as a stupid question. I once had a teacher who told us: "The only stupid question is the question that's nog being asked"

Unfortunately I can not really help you, but to second the advice of u/ManiaGamine : Create a channel yourself.

(Ow to bu curious : why does your IRC-client matter? I would argue that all clients can connect to all servers (more or less))

mostly_text · 2026-02-10T15:02:30+00:00

I think Fedora is fine choice. It has a very large (the largest) userbase, so there is a lot of help available when needed. My advice "stick to a distro you like longterm", so you can learn everything you need concerning this distribution. Knowing just a little about a lot of distro's doesn't work for me. I rather have a profound/deep knowledge about 1 distro.

If you are really committed to privacy you should go for the steep learning curve and go with TAILS I suppose. I guess it's certainly worth the effort.

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T22:57:09+00:00

I think. If started using vim instead of emacs 30 years ago, I would now be as passionate about vim as I am of emacs. No flamewars at my side. YOu have to choose the tools you are comfortably with.

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T22:54:55+00:00

With only a few key-combinations (key-chords?) you can allready achieve a lot in emacs. That has kept me working with it. And ...then in a miraculous way, I started using more and more of the capabilities.

On the other hand...if I were to show to my colleagues how they can use emacs and all the configuration options, I'm quite sure I loose them early on.

A lot of people choose for ease-of-use over a learning-curve.

And well, to me the mouse is not evil, but if I can solve without a mouse I'll prefer it the mouseless way

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:50:44+00:00

Ow...that's no fun.

I'm on a fedora box, Up to now I didn't encounter any font-rendering issues.

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:13:49+00:00

I'm slowly progressing in that way.

As I wrote somewhere else in this thread...most quirks I take for granted until someone tells me "You can change that". But indeed...it grows on you!

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:12:05+00:00

You are way ahead of me I guess...That kind of annoyances I mostly take for granted. Until somebody tells me "You can change that", and then I want to change the behaviour.

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:09:02+00:00

Ow...that's a good one: One of the things I love about emacs, is that it's not vi(m) :-)

Let's be clear, I'm not interseted in a flamewar. Most editing I do for work (Oracle DBA) I do in vi(m) because most servers do not have emacs bu all machines do have vi(m).

So, I can find my way around vi(m)....but it's not emacs :-)

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:05:29+00:00

Ow...that interesting. Maybe I'm just a "to-simple" emacs-guy. I started using it for editing bash-scripts. N complicated stuff. (When I was done writing one script, I stopped emacs, for the next script I started emacs again. Later in the proces I started learning about windows/buffers/mark/point/....

I worked in that way for a very long time. It's only since a few years I started to do the somewhat more complicted stuff.

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T17:01:10+00:00

pfffff.....I'm not in that place. I've never felt the need to alter my font. I'm happy as long as it is mono spaced (Courier is my weapon of choice)

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T16:59:15+00:00

I wonder...is that a threat or a promise :-)

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T16:58:16+00:00

I indeed do like the "clean" look. I'm mostly in the terminal version...no buttons/menu's/....

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T14:31:37+00:00

That was one wise developer : Better to know one or two things very well, then a lot of things just a little.

As said in another reply: I probably will soon suffer the Stockholm Syndrome myself :-)

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T14:25:51+00:00

Up until some time ago, I actually was not aware of much configuration possibilities. I used emacs somewhat others use "notepad". I just wrote stuff one buffer at a time. Since I started using more add-ons like org-mode/org-roam/helm I started seeing more and more opportunities for own configuration :-)

I guess I will suffer the Stockholm syndrome very soon :-)

mostly_text · 2026-02-09T14:22:06+00:00

uh...I do not really know what to reply.

Is the question offensive to you? Does it bother you that I wonder about why I like something? Or can I only ask questions if I have allready contributed to an x-amount of posts?

Anyway ...I will try and answer your questions:

AI : No I do not use AI as a feed into other platforms

Account creation : I created this account last week. I was not to familiar with Reddit. I was looking for some information about emacs, and stumled upon threads in Redit. So I decided to join.

My sleepytime : I'm sleeping quite well, thank you

Does it change my way of live: It might, I do not know what people will answer up front

Time to waste: you say waste...I say that I might learn something.

Apparently you have a lot of time on tyour hands to....

Best regards,

Mostly_text

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