Because it was the last Mac that could boot into MacOS 9. And we all know what that means…
Why do stars twinkle so pretty? Same reason fuck Jeff (he knows what he did) that’s why.
IIRC somebody said the eMac computers like this were actually really good for their age. Either the iMac shaped ones like that, or the ones with the half-sphere foot for a base.
There’s no separate computer, it’s all in the monitor!
I remember having a somewhat difficult transition from a keyboard editor to Word, Notepad, etc in the 90s. I didn’t use EMACS but a similar one called EDT. I had used it so much I never thought about which keys to press, it was more like playing the piano - my fingers knew how to do what my brain wanted. Moving a mouse around and watching the cursor are additional mental activities you don’t need with keystroke editors. This is one reason many Linux users are still hardcore command-line users. They get stuff done a lot faster.
Depends on the operation. There are some things, especially interacting with remote servers, that can be done with a GUI tool. For example, exploring a kubernetws cluster. Sure, you could enter 5 different commands to get the info you want, or you can use a GUI app like OpenLens that is constantly sending dozens of commands in a polling loop to display all kinds of info on one view.
I suspect the world would collapse into some kind of singularity if someone ever ran vim on an emac.
dbrady, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time
- previous Relay user
Maybe it has to be vim in emacs on an emac
I’m sure emacs is great but I learned about it but vim and neovim first so it’s kind of a done deal already, not a lot of us Linux users are open source enthusiasts with so much time that we can noodle in all different flavors of text editors.
vim works great for me shrug, if emacs works great for you then awesome
When I started with Linux, I started with vim because the tutorials I was working off used vi and vim. Once I started with vim and learned the commands, I wasn’t going to switch to something else… there’s a joke somewhere in there about not knowing how to exit… but I’m not making it.
If I was going to write documentation now for a Linux newbie, I’d probably pick nano to start with.
I started with nano and I hated it, I didn’t understand what anything meant in the bottom bar, like what is ^X. Unironically vim was easier to understand. I know what it is now but as a new user I didn’t like using it.
Micro is Nano but the commands make sense. It’s so nice.
It even prompts you for a sudo password when you try to save but don’t have permission.
Vim is well emulated in Emacs, but it really shouldn’t be thought of in the same category.
Emacs is more of an unbelivably editable lisp system to streamline your computing that happens to have a decent default editor.
do folks do pc builds inside of old CRT cases? that seems like a niche that should exist.
You’ve given me a great idea
babe i’ve given BOTH of us a great idea. i’ve still got my very first big ass CRT. i’d love to give it life again.
bonus points if you reuse the old DVI hookup as a video out. TIL regular-ass DVI can handle 1920x1200 @ 60hz!
I’m a little fresher on the block than you are, we had a CRT when I was little but that thing is long gone for LEDs and OLEDs about a million moves ago.
Will I go scour the web for someone’s junk however to breathe life into it again? Fuck yeah that sounds fun
try thrifting if that’s an option near you!
The eMac was one of the best of the era IMO
Not a mac guy but this was my favorite era.
I loved when it was redesigned for lcd’s. move the screen anywhere you want.
Remember when monitors were so fat you could hide a whole computer inside one?
Apple’s still doing it.
my computer lives inside my keyboard, next to the keyboard’s computer
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Running emacs on emacs. Inception!
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