Honestly, I really liked Zork. (I was the right age when it came out.). Never been as captivated by a game. More in the imagination than in the graphics.

I’ll put Civilization V (and sometimes IV) in second place. Homeworld was great too.

You may be onto something… /s

(I almost went with British Broadcorping Castration…)

So I looked them up with my Mastodon account to try to follow but quickly discovered that not all searches for ‘BBC’ lead to accounts related to the BBC…l.

It drives me bonkers.

And, unfortunately, when I mention this issue I’m am frequently assured that I am mistaken and that there can be no issue. (paraphrasing).

It’s a real problem - I live Firefox (with its standards compliance) but people didn’t adhere. And here we are.

Thank you - next on list was trying to find an appropriate package in neovim to do this. (I was never in doubt that something existed - I mean, even midnight commander has this built in!)

I actually like sublime but the lack of virtual space for block selection (for a paid editor) moved out way down the list for me.

The plugins feel a bit janky and sparse too.l and the ecosystem feels a bit deserted.

It’s a good idea. But fundamentally, it suffers from the same (other) issues as vscode itself.

For sure - but it’s a matter of getting accustomed to vi. I also prefer to really understand what each add on does. Not ruling out pre-packaged, but am working through assembling my own config first.

And then there’s learning vi (I can use it, it’s just not yet second nature).

My go-to ages ago was UltraEdit. But I am not sure I want to fork over the cash. I’m contemplating Sublime. But I’m kind of diving into NeoVim to see if I can get used to it (vi isn’t natural for me at this time). It has the potential advantage of being terminal based and is therefore very portable. There are a ton of great modules and it is very activately being improved.

The killer feature that UltraEdit and Notepad++ have is virtual space (ie you can extend vertical blocks over lines that are shorter that the cursor position and it’ll automatically extend the line with white space. For SQL (and other things) this is a godsend for right aligned right brackets etc. (oh Geany does this too but it’s a very janky feeling application.)

Sublime doesn’t have it. Vscode ignores ongoing pleas to add it. Not sure NeoVim will have it, but there’s no cost to me for trying.

The main things holding me back from UEdit are cost, and he fact that UEStudio is windows only. Not being terminal based is also a strike against it, but not a showstopper. It’s just too much money when an employer isn’t paying.

I know emacs exists but it’s too deep a rabbit hole when I just want a go to edit text with a few minor bells and whistles…

Not being able to see the source code of extensions, and having them loaded and executing remotely really ought to be a non-starter, but for some reason we find ourselves ok with this?

Maybe there are checks and balances? I really don’t know - but I certainly don’t know what they are.

I’m actively exploring alternative cross-platform editors for this and other vscode usability reasons.

Vscode remote ssh is clever, to be clear, and in many cases is ideal. But it seems to me that they really need to ship an out-of-the-box extension that does edit over sftp with local caching as a fallback option. Notepad++ does this and it’s great.

I know that there are a bunch of 3rd party extensions that seem to do this but most seem a little bit janky as you dig in to it. This needs to be an official Microsoft extension.

In general, I don’t want my IDE running or depositing anything on my servers that I haven’t explicitly asked for, especially if a main goal is to simply edit config files easily via a familiar editor application. Basically a ‘leave no trace’ philosophy (for the sake of predictability, consistency and control, not for any nefarious reasons).

(that said, remote ssh with vscode server is fantastic - but only when I actually want it).

As per Apple’s wishes, I imagine.

A soup.

Note that if you want actual virtualization then perhaps Proxmox (not sure if it manages multiple hypervisors - I haven’t obtained something to test it on yet). Portainer is best for Docker management (it, and it’s client agents, run as docker containers themselves. Don’t forget to enable web sockets if proxying.

Give portainer a try. It’s actually pretty good for getting a birdseye view, and let’s you manage more than one docker server.

It’s not perfect of course.

Given how unenforceable this is (a sin of omission or source from another jurisdiction is all that’s needed to skirt), will we be seeing a formalized ‘certificate of authenticity’ demanded by people to highlight things that are not AI?

(Maybe NFT will find find its utility? I don’t know…)

Unfortunately no luck here. Same issue even when setting --unshare-all flag. I suspect I need to try a different approach.

It’s not the flatpak that’s the issue, it’s all the other stuff surrounding it that I need to contain. Much easy, potentially, if they are all in the same environment.

Thank you! I just read that and assumed audio wouldn’t. I don’t have warm fuzzies about this.

That said, I’ll give it a go.

Thanks - this gives me a few leads.

I know that I’m not getting a full sandbox - that’s ok. Ultimately I’m trying to get bottles running in the hopes of getting a semi-contained environment for me to test out yabridge and getting reaper to load the vsts without crashing. (Reaper is the easy part, the plugins not so much…)

A modicum of isolation here (even if not complete) will help me figure things out. Obviously, if I need different kernel/flags the host will get it too.

If I unshare-devsys, will that disable audio? (I’m still trying to get a clear picture of what’s shared and what isn’t with distrobox/podman (with docker, it feels a bit more straightforward, but I’m not sure docker would be the right choice here…)