Eh, MS can just issue new requirements for their compatibility stamp, just like they did in the first place and many times previously. Newly produced laptop and keyboard models would have the fixed behavior, the same way they got the broken behavior.

Theoretically I think they could redefine it as a new distinct key instead of the combo — as is done with the windows and context-menu keys. That would allow it to be remapped properly.

After using Mac I’m never going back to pressing modifiers with the pathetic pinky instead of the strong thumb. It’s especially nice with an MS Natural keyboard with its gigantic alt keys, remapped to cmd.

Supposedly some early keyboards had ctrl under the thumb, which is why Emacs employs it quite a bit. I wonder if other apps and systems also had the same logic initially, or borrowed it from Emacs, leading to ctrl being used as the main modifier in Windows and Linux.

The ‘application key’ is useful for remapping as a modifier, regardless of the OS. It’s recognized as a distinct key in both MacOS and Linux, just like the ‘windows’ key.

I’ve used it yesterday. Haven’t been at the desktop today, but will use the key when I get at it.

Normally it’s mapped to alt in my setup, while alt is remapped to ctrl, but I haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to do that with Cinnamon. Meanwhile, Double Commander allows adding useful actions in the context menu, and Emacs has the commands menu (M-x) mapped to the ‘application’ key.

If you remap alt to ctrl as God intended, then this key would take the place of alt.

Eh, if the script always just calculates the sunrise time for the next day and overwrites the cron job, then its runtime shouldn’t matter — unless it gets stuck for 24 hours.

doing it in the woods is not

I keep wondering if Westerners lug a porta-potty with them when they go camping, or just plug their ass for a day or more.

Kind of a reverse situation of people writing ‘you’ and addressing the post OP in a reply under another comment. Which behaviour also baffles me to no end.

Did you mean six years? Because Sandu has been the president since 2020.

at least one extra nasty corner case I can think of

Well, now I’m curious about what that corner case is.

They should specialize in muscle cars. Those were fun.

Afaik Honda explicitly sided with the knobs crowd — though apparently after having flirted with the touchscreens, so presumably some of their cars do have them.

The horse was weirded out but mostly ok.

I mean, the whole idea is to teach the horse that these weird happenings won’t hurt it and are no cause for suicide by running away chaotically.

Lots of devs use Ansible configs to have any new machine or reinstall ready in ten minutes. It’s mostly just ‘these apps need to be installed’ and ‘these config files need to be written’, which are a no-brainer to add. The most annoying part is figuring out how to do things with the desktop environment, like install widgets or remap the keyboard.

One benefit of this approach is that I never forget what I fiddled somewhere: I can just look through my config for the particular setting. I have the config for the machine that I set up about ten years ago and which has been chugging along as a server since then — and I won’t need to poke around like an amnesiac should I decide to change something.

Notably, this and dotfiles are popular among devs using Mac, since MacOS has nearly all settings available either via config files or the defaults system from the command line. In comparison, Windows is total ass about configuring via the command line, and even Cinnamon gives me some headache by either not reloading or straight up overwriting my settings.

Since you already did the hard part and now have a text editor, you just need to make it run on bare metal, and then go the Emacs way of having everything else run in the editor.

Considering how the mainstream OSes dropped the ball on file metadata super hard without even approaching what you describe, exchanging files between Haiku and those OSes gotta be a pain.

MacOS is based on FreeBSD, with the kernel APIs almost fully compatible and the userland just taken from FreeBSD. Your turn.

I thought the whole point of Nix was that it makes system management simple with the declarative config.

Point me to where ExLisper said anything about building libraries.