• @[email protected]
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    I see at least two problems here:

    1. Don’t pull on the cable, pull on the plug.

    2. Use EU power sockets, it is safer, more like :q! when existing vim and unsaved changed you made to the file are lost for sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      Ah yes, I’ll just replace all my power sockets, get rid of all my electronics, and only buy imported European electronics from now on.

      It’s so obvious, why didn’t I think of it before.

      Oh yeah, and rewire my whole house to 240 V. Easy peasy.

      • @[email protected]
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        To be fair, switching to 240v is pretty easy, just move the neutral to a hot leg in the fuse box.

        • @bitwaba
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          Wouldn’t that hot leg need to be 180 degrees out of phase with the other?

        • @Bgugi
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          I’m no electricityologist, but wouldn’t that make half your circuits 240V and the other half deadly 0V?

      • NoFuckingWaynado
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        Major side benefit of finally having a decent vacuum cleaner…

    • Phuntis
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      58 months ago

      use UK power sockets it’s ever more safe

      • @[email protected]
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        258 months ago

        That’s how you brexit vim tho. Takes years to complete, no coming back and bricks everything else in the process.

      • @Aceticon
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        The UK plugs, on the other hand, are the only shape of plug known to man that when it’s left on the ground the pins always end up turned up, ready and eager to receive any feet not suitably protected by a hard shoe sole.

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          people say this and yeah it is kinda true but honestly who just leaves plugs on the floor who is this an issue for the plug is in the wall

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      See, that’s why I just flip the circuit breakers to ensure a successful exit

  • @AusatKeyboardPremi
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    Exiting Vim is for beginners.

    Veterans stay in Vim till the end of time. Probably for the same reasons why the meme in post was made.

      • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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        You (might be) joking but I did this for my home server and I absolutely love how powerful I feel controlling my entire network from a terminal app on my phone.

        My old man energy is showing because I’m so used to looking for a laptop/PC to do this.

  • @[email protected]
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    I see they reused the instructions for ed, great to see how intuitive Linux is between different programs

  • Delilah (She/Her)
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    Glad ubuntu defaults to nano. One of the few decent choices that distro ever made

  • @daniskarma
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    The laughing comes when you are so used to vim that you begin using :q in other programs and wonder why doesn’t it exit.

  • Séra Balázs
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    For the more advanced, there’s a button(the more sophisticated may call it a „switch”) for that(on the wall(the fuse))

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    I really don’t get the exit vim meme anymore. It’s just two key presses, trivial. When you hit <C-c> it tells you exactly what to do. Anyone stuck in vom either does not read or has no idea how to use a terminal.

    Edit: I’m German, I meant vim.

    • @iAvicenna
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      I mean how hard could it be, you just press some random letters until it exits

    • @[email protected]
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      Vim is unintuitive. If you are a new linux CLI user and follow some tutorials that tells you to run vim, modify something then save and exit, it can be daunting.

    • @[email protected]
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      ^^ The kind of person who doesn’t remember what it’s like being new at the CLI.

      or…

      Linux is so easy, n00b. You’re just stupid.

      • @[email protected]
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        I hope the first one. But the effect is real, stuff you know already was easy and stuff you don’t is hard. I’m feeling it with my migration to proxmox, it’s hard.

    • @Dasnap
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      :x simple as. Vim was the first terminal text editor I used so I’m biased.

    • @Windex007
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      ESC : q ENTER (assuming you haven’t modified the buffer)?

      What’s the two key press exit pattern?

  • Possibly linux
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    Don’t pull plugs out of the wall by the cord. Grab the base of the plug firmly and pull perpendicular to the wall

  • Draconic NEO
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    Just click the X on your terminal window.

  • @Treczoks
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    I simply avoid this issue by not starting vim in the first place.

  • rem26_art
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    Better turn off all the breakers in your house. Just to make sure you’ve really closed it