@natecull Parents force their kids to wear hats all the time if it's below like 10 centigrade, and the first thing you do when you move out from your parents' is you stop wearing hats. They're super annoying.
When it's minus 20 and your nostril hairs freeze to icicles on every breath, you put on a scarf to warm your earlobes. Once you get older than 30 you start considering hats again, because now you have proven your point and can choose to wear them on your own volition.
I agree that us layout is better for programming, mainly because you have convenient access to {} [] without having to touch AltGr, but the difference isn't all that big. I adapt quickly.
But if I'm on ANSI I have to flip between fi and us to type Swedish and have angle brackets. And also I loathe that wide enter key, especially on a small laptop keyboard. ISO all the way, baby. Even if I'd use us layout mainly, I'd prefer ISO.
Never heard the term https://deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_ISO before, but oh my god I so hate the wide return key layout as opposed to the tall return key layout. And I quite like the angle brackets key next to the Z key thank you very much.
us layout works well enough on both layouts, except I hit enter all the time when I try to hit backslash. But se/fi layout on 101-key layout just doesn't work, as there's no convenient way to type angle brackets.
5. "I've been stuck with ANSI boards sometimes for months on end and I hate them from the bottom of my heart, they're not real keyboards, they're 80s relics"
@galaxis @vertigo Wow, that's a cool background story. And it certainly has the same spirit as those C64 games. The things people do with the C64 today are to a large degree things that were deemed "not possible" 30 years ago. (I don't know if these C64 games specifically are that, but I'm assuming they are taking the lessons from the demo scene to push the envelope)
@jerry@rysiek@Aaron I have a feeling that right now, SMTP has the biggest adoption of all federated messagning protocols, and the second place is far far behind. Of all the new communication protocols I've seen recently, they're either popular, or federated, not both. And trying to get your new protocol adopted not just by people for their private communications, but also by companies, govts, and orgs for their internal and external communication is going to be extremely hard.
@Wolf480pl@rysiek@jerry@Aaron I do kind-of have questions about Matrix. From a distance it kind-of looks like they decided to reimplement XMPP with the latest fashion of JSON. And I still have to explore it's encryption situation.
As for SSB I'm starting to look into it, particularly with Git-SSB. And from what I've seen, the tech looks very elegant when dealing with group comms or reliability despite the clients. Though again I have to look at the encryption again.
@wolf480pl @rysiek @shamar @kaniini Yeah, that's the rms endgame. Copyleft hijacks copyright until the day copyright can be abolished *and* replaced with legally mandated source code. Without that, rms is against abolishing copyright.
@kaniini @rysiek @shamar Sadly (for the project, I'm happy for Fontana) he changed jobs several times, and each hop made him (my personal projection, I don't know Fontana and don't know the actual circumstances around his time budget) less bored and/or frustrated at work and therefore less active with copyleft-next. :-)