From the perspective of someone who uses Visual Studio Code, but also knows how to exit vim, there are a couple reasons that most developers who prefer one of the three, at least those I’ve spoken to.

1. VS Code is a Microsoft product, and while “open source” it isn’t really open source. The core utility is but Microsoft ships the final application with some proprietary features. If this is your main gripe, then you can try VSCodium instead, which is a “fork” that doesn’t have the Microsoft additions.
2. VS Code uses Electron, which is essentially browser emulation and isn’t exactly optimized. CLI editors like the above take up far fewer resources than a Visual Studio Code instance would. Unlike point (1), I don’t think there’s really a way around this in all practicality. It’s just an unavoidable fact. You can chose to still use VS Code of course, most personal computers can easily handle the load. But many see that as unnecessary when they get the same amount of “power” from a CLI editor.
3. Plugins for the CLI applications are very powerful, and the ability to navigate using only the keyboard is by design. Many swear by keyboard-only operation of a computer because it’s faster and promotes more optimal methods of doing tasks. It forces discovery of new features and hotkeys by making things annoying to do otherwise. VS Code (and most editors) include a “vim keybindings” specifically for this reason. You’ll find that it’s a very popular method of working.

Really it comes down to personal preferences and what you “grew up” using. It’s really hard to transition into something like vim and it takes a concerted effort to switch by most users. You have to want to switch, otherwise you’ll find it too difficult a learning curve or find yourself wandering back to more “featured” applications.

There are likely more reasons out there, but these are, in my experience, the primary reasons.

I refused to give up my headphone jack, so for my latest phone I switched to the Moto 5g Stylus

It’s an OK phone. It often has performance issues, but the battery life is massive and I expanded to storage to nearly 500Gb. The phone is long though - they increased the screen size and avoided increasing the width, so it’s just comically tall. That’s good for scenarios when you want to see more of the screen while keeping the keyboard out and for split screen apps and games, but mostly it’s a burden because you can’t effectively use the phone one handed. For its price, I’d say it’s probably worth at least a year or two of service, but I find myself wanting more power again like the Pixel 3a (my last phone).

I’m interested in a couple of the phones they listed in the article, but definitely will have to double check performance in the future. It’s the most annoying part of this phone

Oh one pro tip for the 5g stylus - the camera is good, but only when using their “Ultra-rez” mode instead of the default mode, and the preview looks a lot worse than the actual picture. The picture will preview as blurry and pixelated while you’re taking it, but once processed it will look great

I guess you could look at it like “I’d rather have a vote than no vote at all” but seems weird

I wish the article had more detail, like statements from the organizations or judges. Two paragraphs hardly seems enough

I was thinking about this earlier this week, in a sense. Not quite insurance but throwing away money.

The federal government is going to be providing aid and assistance during and after the hurricane, and I couldn’t help but think about how the more mild, less disaster-prone parts of the country are effectively subsidizing people to continue to move to Florida, despite how unlivable it really is. As Florida grows more the rest of the country has to pay too, it doesn’t just affect Floridians

Plex has a random button for movies and TV so often my friends/family and I will play a game I like to call the random game.

Everyone gets 1 veto, and any movie can be skipped by majority vote. Just keep hitting the random button until something sticks. Eventually you’ll hit a movie to watch, and it’s never failed to be a good time.

Bonus game is try to guess the movie first - unfortunately I usually win because I put the movies on there so I know the approximate list of options.

I came to suggest this one as well. I think about this book from time to time and it’s another one that they force on US high school students before they’re really ready to understand the themes within. I read it in high school and the only thing I remembered was the last chapter because something odd occurs, and I didn’t remember it because of any emotional or philosophical part but because “ew gross”.

I re-read it as a an adult and I loved the book. It’s depressing but truly I think it’s a great insight into the cause of the depression and the migration West. It may not be the most in depth explanation and doesn’t address the issues in the stock market, but it covers the western experience very well.

Beyond that, I haven’t read any other books on the topic but I can recommend the American History Tellers episodes if you are OK with listening. I love the series and if nothing else they will list a series of sources at the end of their episodes that you could reference. You can get it for free from most podcast sources

https://wondery.com/shows/american-history-tellers/season/10/

There’s a lot of Brave plugging in the post, which is off to me. Also the post itself is super barebones. It doesn’t cover each suggestion in depth - it doesn’t even go through their whole list at the top - and it provides no guidance on actually switching. The “article” is more akin to a Buzzfeed list

We do somewhere between 72 and 76. But at night in the peak of summer we’ll bump it down to 70. Our bedroom is on the top floor and can often be several degrees hotter than the lower floor where the thermostat is, so for a few weeks in the summer we have to really crank it.

I’m told we should look into a vent fan to help distribute the air better but I haven’t taken the time to put in the effort yet, I’m sad to say

This article makes me realize how not picky I am! Besides the profile switcher all these tips are just personal preferences that the author wanted to have in Firefox and were all things I’ve never even noticed

Really interesting, it’s an application I didn’t see coming. Definitely will be looking into this, and hopefully it spurs GitHub to do the same as well

Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.

Weird choice, so it has to be due to wanting to Paywall it (they mention that at the bottom of the article). Otherwise I’d rather have the option to install python locally and speed up my queries when working on large data sets

Neat. I may give this a go at work. My company decided not to buy an enterprise license for Docker Desktop so we’re locked to older, free versions.

We’ve also been using Podman (via buildah) in our pipelines with great success. It’s seems to be a pretty great drop-in replacement for Docker

Probably the hardest part of React, for me, was getting used to the callbacks. Passing data up to the parent component using a function. It’s a little difficult to get used to if you haven’t encountered it already

I agree with others that a single sitting improves the book. I’m not sure why it has such acclaim, but it was at the very least memorable to me. I read it a year or so ago now and I can still recall the plot

That’s a good point and it poses an interesting dilemma.

If a community chooses to not defederate, then their users will find their comments utterly unavoidable. Either userd will have to accept that or, best case scenario, have gaps in comment threads everywhere where their comments are being filtered out

Definitely would second Plex. Previously I just had an external hard drive with my library on it but that isn’t as accessible.

With Plex, you can easily get started just installing it on a personal computer and let it grow over time. I had mine on my personal computer for years before recently upgrading to a NAS and it’s top tier. Makes streaming to any device effortless and helps you organize your library

In the United States here and I haven’t had non-streaming television since I moved out of my parent’s house.

Toyed with things like Sling and YouTube TV once, but they just aren’t worth it.

There’s a scene from the OT that kills me. When they’re on Endor in the evening and Leia and Han are being “romantic” and it is some of the most soap opera dialogue in the whole series.

Its arguably not terrible when you read it, but watching it I was rolling my eyes. People love to hate on the Padme+Anakin romance but the Han+Luke+Leia love triangle is equally as hard to watch, in my opinion. If we’re going to give one a hard time we can’t ignore the other. Lucas just isn’t the best at dialogue

https://youtu.be/MDYX_PgorRY

Leia holds back her tears as Luke slowly lets her go and moves away. He disappears onto the walkway that leads out of the village. Leia, bathed in moonlight, watches him go as Han comes out of the Chief’s hut and comes over to her. Leia is crying, her body trembling. He realizes only now that she is crying.

HAN Hey, what’s goin’ on?

Leia attempts to stifle her sobs and wipes her eyes.

LEIA Nothing. I - just want to be alone for a little while.

HAN (angry) Nothing? Come on, tell me. What’s goin’ on?

She looks up at him, struggling to control herself.

LEIA I…I can’t tell you.

HAN (loses his temper) Did you tell Luke? Is that who you could tell?

LEIA I…

HAN Ahhh…

He starts to walk away, exasperated, then stops and walks back to her.

HAN I’m sorry.

LEIA Hold me.

Han gathers her tightly in his protective embrace.

No mention on a cause in this article, curious what it was

Here’s the GitHub which links to ModDb

https://github.com/Ravo92/Patch-2.22-Launcher