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[–] trollercoaster@feddit.de 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Great, now consulting a search engine on questions about vim the text editor will yield equally awkward results as consulting a search engine on matters concerning latex the typesetting system.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Other examples that are horrible to search for:

matrix/element (yields html coding and other unrelated info)

Signal (pretty common term for anything but the secure messenger)

[–] Finadil@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Shit, I remember googling "How to kill a child", my next search was "How to kill a child process." I'm probably on a list somewhere.

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 7 months ago

I think we've all been at a point like this

For matrix i only got the movie's as a result

[–] Flipper@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While I understand the idea behind the naming scheme of matrix, it's an awful name. The naming behind synapse/dendrite is better I believe. But I don't have a better idea.

It was renamed, thats what pisses me off. The client was renamed from riot (much more unique in software context) to element. I assume riot was not investor friendly which is a lame ass reason too.