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Likely you do or have without knowing it. The protocol is used in telecom quite a bit for all sorts of things. Jitsi is built on XMPP. Lots of games use it for chat - league of legends and unreal engine I believe. Xmpp shows up in all sorts of places if you look.

It's the muscle memory. I tried really hard to use things like vs code that do a lot of things better (or at least more automatically) and always end up more efficient in emacs.

Hopefully emacs can catch up.

The Cheapest NAS 2 years ago

There is 'amanda'. It will split your data up if and you can rotate a bunch of disks.

Used it years ago, we rotated disks every week or something and periodically would take one out of commission and get a new one.

I believe you can mix and match storage mediums - like have your monthly snapshot write to tape.

Emacs 29.1 3 years ago

The core issue is there isn't a 'emacs.tiny' package that contains a small subset of emacs features.

This makes it difficult to install emacs on a resource constrainted environment like a embedded system, and hard to justify installing on a server. (Yes we can use tramp but it's not always a option)

It's a real shame and why I still need to know vi and vim.

You certainly can use Kamailio but it will be much easier/faster to get something going in Asterisk.

You don't need to run any of the advanced features in Asterisk (and can completely unload the modules if you want).

Dark Horse Discord 7 years ago

I think there is probably room for discord to sell 'premium' voice channels. Currently their stuff works /most/ of the time but is unreliable enough that a lot of people still use stuff like mumble/teamspeak.

More detailed comments below, but in short: - lower power consumption (that you can control) - different environmental tolerances - peripherals with hardware support

Looks like this has a integrated Li-Po charger which should mean you can have a UPS like battery backup.

Folks may use this as a development platform that eventually gets a custom PCB made for the end product. ( it's open hardware so it has all the schematics https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino-PortentaH7-schemat... )

It's really just different features for different needs.

Worth mentioning that FedEx isn't horrible everywhere, in Canada they are pretty good and my preferred delivery method - really really good customer service. Purolator and UPS (most of the time) are terrible and even if you're home they won't even try and deliver to you instead just leaving a slip.

Emacs 26.3 7 years ago

using emacsclient in screen or tmux is kinda handy if you're using a flaky connection and keep disconnecting (like on a train)

Emacs 26.3 7 years ago

Main benefit is you don't need to remember to start your editor frame in screen/tmux and you can use both terminal and gui/x11. So when I'm at work I start emacs in X11 windows, when remote I simply ssh in and do emacsclient and connect to all the buffers I have open (if I have low latency i'll do x11 forwarding and start x11 emacsclient ) It's basically the same as tmux/screen but gives you a lot more flexibility.

Other big benefit is starting emacsclient is basically instant, so opening a file from a webbrowser or whatever is super fast (some folks have 30 second or longer emacs startup times).

Only real downside is it really sucks bringing back your state when emacs crashes and you have hundreds of buffers open for multiple projects across 20-30 emacs clients.