I'm still using .emacs today! and I have all my elpaca and the fancy pants stuff in it

I love Elpaca! The built-in package management story has gotten so much better in the past 10 years, but Elpaca is so, so good. My personal config is kinda the antithesis of Bedrock—it's bloated, slow, and uses over 100 packages. Elpaca handles installing/updating/managing those like a charm, however.

I kept Elpaca out of Bedrock because I wanted a strictly built-ins-first experience, but if anyone asks what I use when they outgrow package.el, Elpaca is my first and only recommendation.

I've done use-package, straight, quelpa, tried elpaca a few years back when the hype grew and it was a buggy mess, back to use-package when it was merged into core. I'm tired boss. There's a little too much churn I feel these days.

I dislike the default package management system, but until a better one is merged into core, I'll keep updating my packages manually once a year when I remember.

Exhaustion very understandable. Elpaca is nice and stable now, and the integration with use-package is fabulous.

But if the built-in is working for you, no need to change it. Now that use-package supports the :vc keyword, there’s imo much less of a compelling reason to use Elpaca and the like.

I think it popped up maybe a year or two ago on youtube/reddit but there was this meme that goes: "China: do nothing, profit".

Please stop writing straw man arguments to sell your product. Worktrees do work as intended for most people. And they work better than your broken homepage.

This is the wrong take. You are basically arguing that if we have one solution, why bother having a second one?

"Grandma needs to stop taking her statins and just exercise" type shi

May I introduce https://xkcd.com/927/

I guess I totally agree.

But wait why are we placing a 100% tariff on these EVs again? Are we saying that they are simultaneous not a threat and a serious threat?

So tiring to keep hearing this argument "humans only use vision to drive, so why would self driving cars need more?"

This argument is inherently anti-progress. It's like saying human had been using sextants to navigate for hundreds of years, why GPS?

A more sensible question is, why not?

Your comment seems to miss the point. It is totally possible to enable the first two of your bullet points without Visa or Mastercard, for example banks could just give lines of credit directly to consumers. Indeed, the myriad of loan products is run without Visa and Mastercard.

Yet if the airline goes under, or I never receive the product I bought online, using Visa/Mastercard I'm not left holding the bag.

If I take a random loan with the bank and use those funds to do the same purchases using debit, then I'm the one taking the loss.

Thank you sir. Love learning new things every day in a tech forum, especially Latin.

I don't think you understand the bigger issue. Locking out competitors will save these jobs for now, but it will not last forever. This is exactly what happened to the US automakers in the 80s and look at them now.