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Degoogling Guide: Replace Everything With Vim
IDEs Editors Post #7119 · source on Telegram

Degoogling Guide: Replace Everything With Vim

Description

A satirical 'DEGOOGLING GUIDE' showing a grid of Google services and their suggested replacements. Every single Google service - Gmail, Google Photos, Google Search, Chrome, Google Keep, Google Drive, Google Passwords, Google Auth, Google Calendar, Play Store, No VPN, ChatGPT, and Google Maps - is replaced with VIM. Each row shows the original service icon with an arrow pointing to the Vim editor logo. The joke plays on the vim power user stereotype where Vim enthusiasts believe their editor can do absolutely everything, combined with the degoogling privacy movement

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Comments

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick To be fair, once you figure out how to exit Vim, you've already spent enough time that you might as well use it for email, calendar, and navigation too
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    To be fair, once you figure out how to exit Vim, you've already spent enough time that you might as well use it for email, calendar, and navigation too

  2. Anonymous

    Sure, ditching Alphabet is easy - until compliance asks why your SSO, map tiles, and AI assistant now live in ~/.vimrc

  3. Anonymous

    After 15 years in the industry, I've finally achieved enlightenment: Vim isn't just a text editor, it's a lifestyle choice that replaces your entire tech stack. Who needs Google Maps when you can :!curl wttr.in and navigate by weather patterns?

  4. Anonymous

    Finally, a degoogling guide that makes sense: just configure Vim with 47 plugins, 3 custom keybindings per service, and a 2000-line .vimrc. Sure, checking your calendar now requires memorizing :CalendarToggle and navigating with hjkl, but at least you're not being tracked - just perpetually stuck in insert mode trying to exit your email

  5. Anonymous

    Degoogling complete: we replaced every service with Vim - hjkl never deprecates, pricing is $0, and vendor lock-in is just :q!

  6. Anonymous

    :wq to escape Big Tech - VIM: the only app where your data sovereignty is one ESC away

  7. Anonymous

    De-googling complete: consolidated 12 SaaS into one modal monolith - ~/.vimrc - so vendor lock‑in is gone, replaced by institutional muscle memory

  8. Deleted Account 11mo

    баян ебучий I saw this meme before + not funny

    1. @NaNmber 11mo

      ok but who asked?

    2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 11mo

      Because you cant relate

      1. Deleted Account 11mo

        ???

    3. @CCZeroOne 11mo

      Omg I forgot that was even a term

  9. @Icrarkie 11mo

    Meanwhile NeoVim: 🗿

    1. @Art3m_1502 11mo

      Deneoviming with vim guide⬆

      1. @SamsonovAnton 11mo

        But is Vim itself automorphic? 🤔

        1. @gongchanM1 11mo

          Anthropomorphic?

          1. @SamsonovAnton 11mo

            No, automorphic: Vim -> Vim

            1. @deadgnom32 11mo

              or isomorphic

              1. @SamsonovAnton 11mo

                vi is a symlink to vim

                1. _ 11mo

                  Sometimes vim is a simlink to vi, and you get only one level of undo

  10. @mihanizzm 11mo

    What's the explanation?

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 11mo

      That if you want to degoogle you need fo build fron source

      1. @mihanizzm 11mo

        Thanks

  11. @Broken_Cloud_1 11mo

    Google map how

    1. @Wash_feed_and_love_your_fumos 11mo

      Mapscii's pretty cool

      1. @Broken_Cloud_1 11mo

        co o l

      2. @Alepaff 11mo

        MapSCII preview:

  12. @Wash_feed_and_love_your_fumos 11mo

    But idk if that counts

  13. Deleted Account 11mo

    Same with emacs

  14. @Wintercoresystem 11mo

    We all love vim

    1. @batuto 9mo

      Just use evil-mode

  15. VP 11mo

    Sex with women -> Vim

    1. @pooyabehravesh 11mo

      The first time open vim and don't know how to exit -> getting rape

      1. @a_646_man 11mo

        honey, help, I am stuck in vim

        1. @pooyabehravesh 11mo

          😂😂😂 honey -> step bro

      2. @gongchanM1 11mo

        Bro just use !q it works 100% all time

  16. @moosschan 11mo

    Living happy life full of hopes and dreams -> Vim

  17. @gongchanM1 11mo

    (i use nano btw)

  18. Deleted Account 9mo

    what the ...

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