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  • Well completion-ignore-case is enough to solve this particular problem, the other options are just sugar on top :)

    I’m going to add completion-prefix-display-length to these related bonus tips (I have it set to 9). This makes it a lot easier to compare files with long names in your tab completion.

    For example if you have a folder with these files:

    FoobarSystem-v20.69.11-CrashLog2022-12-22 FoobarSystem-v20.69.11.config FoobarSystem-v20.69.12 FoobarSystem-v20.69.12-CrashLog2023-10-02 FoobarSystem-v20.69.12.config FoobarSystem-v20.69.12.userprofiles

    Just type vim TAB to see

     ...1-CrashLog2022-12-22   ...1.config   ...2   ...2-CrashLog2023-10-02   ...2.config   ...2.userprofiles
    $vim FoobarSystem-v20.69.1
    

    GNU Readline (which is what Bash uses for input) has a lot of options (e.g. making it behave like vim), and your settings are also used in any other programs that use it for their CLI which is a nice bonus. The config file is ~/.inputrc and you’d enable the above mentioned options like this

    $include /etc/inputrc
    
    set completion-ignore-case on
    set show-all-if-ambiguous on
    set completion-map-case on
    set completion-prefix-display-length 9
    




  • you still instinctively hate me, simply because I’m not exactly like you. I really don’t, I feel worried for you, and intimidated by your hostility. How would I even know whether you are like me or not? We know nothing about each other!

    I am not questioning that you have been abused and that it must have been truly horrible. The paranoid delusion is thinking that every person is a sadist who’s out to hurt you, and that some stranger saying “sorry” on the internet is doing so with some undefined malicious intent.

    I hope you get better.



  • People think it’s about Stallman being bitter. But it’s because GNU is a political project with the goal of total user freedom and control over their computer. The software is a step on the way there. But if people use free software without understanding, valuing or taking advantage of the freedom it gives them, the GNU project has failed.


  • I think this is what people mean with it being “unstable”. If you keep the system up to date, things will break at some point, and it’s up to you to sort that out. This is because Arch makes very different promises and tradeoffs than something like Debian. It’s a distro for those who want or need to customize or just like to tinker.

    The reason I left Arch was because I carelessly installed a new major version of my WM which took me hours to get working. This made me realize that while learning how things work is fun, I want my OS to be a tool rather than a project.

    (If you needed to reinstall Ubuntu every six months I guess you were already using it as if it was Arch ;D)



  • While we can all agree that bodycams don’t solve the problem, the argument presented for why they are bad is incredibly weak.

    If a cop is close enough for their bodycam to see or hear you, then you are already being surveilled, and you are already being intimidated. Anything you say or do can already be used against you. At least a camera (if it’s on) will limit their ability to just make shit up.

    It’s also a bit strange for someone arguing for taking action outside of the system to also seemlingly think that the only meaningful repercussion for police murder would be conviction.