> if you could change something about #Emacs from the ground up, what would it be?
Lively discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11nf8ry/rebuilding_emacs_from_scratch_what_would_you_do/
Potentially good discussion? #Emacs android integration possibilities.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11mbqvc/mobiletouch_specific_ui_elements_from_lisp/
@ninja but VPSes (sort of) cost money! And I've already got everything else running off of the home lab. What happens if...
Yeah, you're right. It's not that bad. Just a little... unsatisfying.
@ninja I'll have to give it another try - I suspect my ISP will want a monthly fee for opening the email ports...
Well, the poll I did on #Email has run its course.
It appears that most people who have a favorable opinion on email are older millenials / Gen X who participate in mailing lists and such.
It also looks like everybody has a distaste for big gooey monoliths like Outlook and Gmail - and that those of us who only know email through these, equate them.
In short: I only dislike email because big tech made it suck some time in the last 10 years.
Finally took the 5 minutes to set up #empv in #Emacs - it does some pretty cool things (I'm especially impressed with M-x empv-youtube-tabulated, which even shows thumbnails!
@otfrom buffers are useful as big strings that you can see and edit (since the code you're writing is literally in a buffer too).
@meliache @tfb @slevisak@mastodon.social homebrew (https://brew.sh/) can run and compile with no root whatsoever. Might be an option
@nebucatnetzer back up directories with `../` till you're back to / then drill down again like normal.
Extensions like ivy or vertico make this easier by showing the whole path in the minibuffer prompt - not sure what the behavior is on Vanilla...
@nnungest also:
Eshell and Tramp are generally known, but they actually stack! Right now I'm 30 miles away from home, but I can `cd` back into my main desktop and run commands from either environment. Emacs optimizes the connection, of course.