I saw the “break the bulb” solution before I commented. Points for the most straight-forward solution, assuming its a simple light-source and not something more secure that a few bulbs at most.

I mean, my solutions either require more information or for the question to be stupidly open-ended.

I’m fond of “leave the door open”, but that only works if the doorway is visible from the switches and the space between too bright.

“send someone else into the room and call them” requires the freedom to do that, but end-runs the need for me to go into the room entirely.

Gimme two smartphones and I’m video-calling one I leave in the room.

In all of my answers and others I’ve seen so far, we’re either making presumptions or making shit up. The question fails as an “only one right answer with only the information given” logic test, but would work to reveal how we approach problems - a personality test.

Thanks, I hate it. I hate it BECAUSE I get it, to be clear. F’ing digits …

Apologies.

Yeah, I’m bookmarking this. No vapor-wave or anime, just calm productivity with minimal eye-strain. That said, I hope you’re using a large monitor with all that otherwise miniscule text.

EDIT: Rules.

Ya’know, it shouldn’t be too hard to setup the ╔ and ╚ characters to function as or be substituted for quotes or brackets, depending on the language, then handle the rest as ligatures. Straight display substitution could allow for clean code and portable touch-typing, while still providing this sort of “visual training wheels” for those who want it in their own editor/ide

Dark ages? MFer’s all but pried my Palm Pilot TX from cold dead hands …

Only reason I ditched MX was that it didn’t have ARM builds at the time, and its not so hard to get Debian working how I like it.

The hard part is launching a nuke without setting off nuclear armageddon when all of the nuke-holding countries panic and launch theirs, so uh … why bother with the asteroid part?

Pretty sure I understand less about the slang now that I’ve seen it in this format, but I still prefer it to other encounters I’ve had.

Came here to say, I find this more palettable than most such refferernces in the wild.

Where does this imply that I downvoted anything for the reasons you mentioned? There were maybe five or six comments prior to my own, and I downvoted all of them besides OPs(which I did upvote, tyvm - funny how that didn’t work out to you noticing).

Less spammy than “trying to set the record straight” by correcting them all, nevermind that, as I stated, I don’t have a better solution anyways, but again, yes, I also up-voted the one-or-two comments that had anything to do with OPs problem, both clarifications by OP themselves.

I’ve also up-voted other comments since, but there have been none talking about Ribbons and Tabs since, at least. Almost like what visibility my own comment got served its purpose.

Things don’t have to be positive to work. Sometimes Loud Garbage can slow the buildup of even-more-useless-if-well-meaning garbage. Well-intentioned, useless, basically-un-true-in-context things only pass one of Socrates criteria, btw.

Thus, that last line in my comment. My frustration in this case is just sooo much more to do with the issue than with comments.

Partially implimented system theme. Comments: oP MuSt wAnT It tO LoOk lIkE MiCrOsOfT!

The only one who so-far realized the theming is the problem suggested a quick fix that will likely leave this issue cropping up again in other applications.

Me: down-votes comments because I WANT there to be a better answer, not because I know one. Happy Monday, people!

Sure, if that’s your level of thought and reading comprehension, let’s say you’ve got it. Is it really so hard to understand the notion that what works for you doesn’t work for me, but I’m okay with you doing whatever?

Keep practicing, kid.

Your life isn’t my life, and restoring backups is no less a hassle just for having them(personally, I backup files, and either fix what I break or do a clean install). Auto-complete also makes me lose my train of thought, but if its helpful to you, enjoy.

Reason’s I never use auto-complete in the terminal. Sadly, that’s sometimes not enough.

No one should be basing their “how to do it right” on a single forum comment. Talk about scope-creep for the offering of advice.

“… and God said, let us make man in our own image.”

Yeah, dial-up isn’t the part I miss.