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kindaVim Drama: Let's Hear this Guy B***ch About his First World Problems
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- Sep 19, 2025
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Summary
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 What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough 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 i…