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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 132 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Every computer has a built-in "exit vim" button, conveniently located on the chassis, usually next to the power cord. Flick it to 0, then back to 1, and you'll find vim has been successfully exited. :)

[–] four@lemmy.zip 56 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What if my PC boots straight into Vim? It's not like I need anything else, can do everything in Vim

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Jokes aside, vim as PID 1 is just a bad idea.

Emacs on the other hand: https://github.com/emacs-os/el-init

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's a great idea from GitHub user el-sloppo and Claude.

To be fair, I’ve seen this done a long time before LLM slopped everything, but I think they ran emacs as PID2 in that variation.

Anyway, good luck doing it in vimscript.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the retrospective.md

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then you obviously didn't read it.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. That's literally what I said.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That settles it. Emacs is better than Vim

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I bet this comment actually pissed off some people. Lol

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As discovered by plyth, you can't do anything anymore. There are limits

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Seeing you reply made me click the link, where is my beloved! At least the new owners want to keep it Zombo.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You simply need to set up a MCP server which controls the smart plug and give the AI access to it.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

I don't even know what a MCP server is and I feel like I've somewhat dodged a bullet there. Ignorance is bliss. :)