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kindaVim Drama: Let's Hear this Guy B***ch About his First World Problems

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We have to address the elephant in the room. The security concerns behind kindaVim, its subscription model, why it's not open source and a few other questions.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/wqUf1bm9y_k

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Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:21 - I'm late again, G's fault, blaming the apple ecosystem

00:01:57 - G installing Omarchy? Showing his underwear

00:03:11 - DevOps Toolbox youtube mention

00:05:01 - This MF doesn't even offer a 10 cent discount

00:08:50 - video by @devopstoolbox

00:09:33 - This guys prefers getting his ego fed than making money

00:11:19 - Why haven't you become a YouTube member? Cheap a** MF

00:13:39 - Are french people cheap?

00:15:18 - List of topics we're covering today

00:16:06 - Interview with G, previous video

00:16:38 - Cannot type lowercase k in Kindavim issue

00:17:55 - The thumbnail is a masterpiece, the tears look weird

00:19:41 - The reddit post that started this drama

00:21:45 - Can we trust this guy, is he living the john mcafee life?

00:22:55 - kindaVim captures each of our keystrokes, is it secure?

00:27:14 - What kindaVim goes online to check, Little Snitch macos app

00:28:56 - Have you thought about hiring a software auditing company?

00:30:29 - kindaVim was open source for a couple of months, you needed to compile it

00:34:50 - Why would you "demand" for the code of a closed source application?

00:38:40 - Did you release the code because of the reddit post?

00:40:28 - Went back toa close source, open source users started demanding support

00:41:58 - Simply put, there's not kindaVim alternatives

00:43:33 - When is Wooshy getting the homerow labels?

00:44:53 - The app is not karen friendly, why does it insult you?

00:52:33 - Do you want that type of person as a user?

00:53:52 - Why a subscription? A lot of people hate this

00:59:39 - Is there a real kindaVim alternative?

01:01:43 - The audience for the app is really limited. Why is netflix not free?

01:03:31 - Folks that don't care about open source, but just care about it being free

01:05:03 - Back to the software auditing company

01:07:34 - Can't believe the brew installation command wasn't part of the docs, shame

01:10:39 - Back on the "k" issue, probably kanata related

01:13:22 - The new karabiner-elements integration, what is it?

01:16:49 - With variables you can create a different mapping depending on the mode

01:19:45 - Before using karabiner G tried to create his own remapping solution

01:23:31 - G doesn't feel the time pass when he's with me

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