Our council gives us the replacement bags for free, which is great--But, in practice it hasn't been smooth sailing. The bags disintegrate in a few hours if they're in close proximity with anything slightly moist, to the point I've noticed many people stopped using the bags and dump their FOGO waste directly into their green waste bin. This is a problem in itself, because while the green bins are now supposed to be collected weekly, it appears they're not.
johnwicksdog
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I’m aware. You may have missed that I made that distinction in my first sentence.
With modern Usenet there are about 8 or so backbones used for file sharing. Your Usenet provider/server would connect to one or more of these backbones.
Its true Usenet is designed for federation, and in the 80s and 90s it was thousands of servers but today commercial Usenet providers just resell these 8 backbones.
I was also forced to use it at uni (a few decades ago), but didn't start using it until professionally until several years into my dev career. I promise that I don't think I'm superior because I use it. But I do encourage junior developers to learn it for reasons that appealed to me.
Among other things, appealing things are modal editing (the biggest advantage IMO), it runs on pretty much on any server you will be ssh'ing into, less IDE lock in. And, there's a bunch of additional things that other editors do that I think Vim does better: regex is first class in the environment, extensible workflows, macros. Then there are definite advantages being able to quickly navigate from the home row.
I agree that some people will demonstrate their enthusiasm by bragging and being pretentious. But I don't think that's why they stick with Vim.