I've learned something about SSTO design and flight in KSP. What I learned is I'm shit at it
Have you checked where the center if lift is vs the center of mass?
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I've learned something about SSTO design and flight in KSP. What I learned is I'm shit at it
Have you checked where the center if lift is vs the center of mass?
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Been going for like twelve hours. It takes longer than I thought it would to transform a 9tb array to a 12tb array, and once that's done I have to hunt down a dead drive and transform it again to a 15tb array.... Maybe I'll just swap that dead drive for a third redundant drive
I'm sorry but every time I see someone put a number greater than 1 Infront of a terrabye I'm assuming that person is a walking talking posting data centre.
That's an amount of data a single person doesn't produce. That's corporation level of data.
You're not even working for IBM; you are IBM, and you just filled an entire warehouse with nothing but storage
I don't even know when the last time was that I used neofetch (or any fetch utility in general)
I'm like, actually using the command line for work nowadays, instead of just for vibes.
I'm evolving so hard right now, going from arch user to actually productive person. I haven't told anyone about arch in a long time. Even when people see me typing in commands, I don't mention it anymore. I'm free.
My usage of arch is no longer of importance:
I'm finished with the work I was supposed to do btw.
I don't even know when the last time was that I used neofetch (or any fetch utility in general)
I'm like, actually using the command line for work nowadays, instead of just for vibes.
I'm evolving so hard right now, going from arch user to actually productive person. I haven't told anyone about arch in a long time. Even when people see me typing in commands, I don't mention it anymore. I'm free.
My usage of arch is no longer of importance:
I'm finished with the work I was supposed to do btw.
Okay, so far I’ve got
LibreOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird (took a little troubleshooting)
Wine 🍷
BitLocker (no passwords in it yet)
ClamAV (haven’t run it yet)
Steam
Anything else I need? I want to start ricing soon! ≧ω≦
Okay good, now you need to replace them all with TUI/CLI applications instead.
They will require more complicated setup, are more difficult to use, are missing some important features, but you (hopefully) get vim keys and they look good on screenshots :)
I'm a true neckbeard no-life and basically live in the terminal lol
elinks, nano/vi, wpa_supplicant, bluetoothctl, alsamixer...
you also reeeaaally dont need an anti virus on linux, itll just eat system resources and nit do anything, the tiniest bit of common sense will go further than any AV ever will
If you're really bothered, look into apparmour of SELinux, but traditional antiviruses have pretty much no use
Okay, so far I’ve got
LibreOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird (took a little troubleshooting)
Wine 🍷
BitLocker (no passwords in it yet)
ClamAV (haven’t run it yet)
Steam
Anything else I need? I want to start ricing soon! ≧ω≦
Okay good, now you need to replace them all with TUI/CLI applications instead.
They will require more complicated setup, are more difficult to use, are missing some important features, but you (hopefully) get vim keys and they look good on screenshots :)
I'm a true neckbeard no-life and basically live in the terminal lol
elinks, nano/vi, wpa_supplicant, bluetoothctl, alsamixer...
you also reeeaaally dont need an anti virus on linux, itll just eat system resources and nit do anything, the tiniest bit of common sense will go further than any AV ever will
If you're really bothered, look into apparmour of SELinux, but traditional antiviruses have pretty much no use
Okay, so far I’ve got
LibreOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird (took a little troubleshooting)
Wine 🍷
BitLocker (no passwords in it yet)
ClamAV (haven’t run it yet)
Steam
Anything else I need? I want to start ricing soon! ≧ω≦
Okay good, now you need to replace them all with TUI/CLI applications instead.
They will require more complicated setup, are more difficult to use, are missing some important features, but you (hopefully) get vim keys and they look good on screenshots :)
I'm a true neckbeard no-life and basically live in the terminal lol
elinks, nano/vi, wpa_supplicant, bluetoothctl, alsamixer...
I know it's not a fair comparison due to differences in memory management, but it's still crazy how Linux Mint uses half the RAM Windows does on idle, and CachyOS uses half of that.
i recently helped a friend with their windows computer, and noticed it used 4 gigabytes at idle.
compare that to my linux box, wjich draws a whooping 105 megabytes at idle.
no wonder everything runs smoother when your computer isnt doing busywork.
Long live Linux
“bailing out, you’re on your own, good luck!”
praise be to tux, the enabler of shitty commands.
let they who have not irreparably broken their install forever stay silent in his prescence.
sudo rm -rf /
Hmm. You know, I never encountered that error myself, but couldn’t you just chroot in anyways and fix the broken fstab?
Like, an unmounted boot partition seems like a reasonably easy fix
Yup, a *ton* of issues can be easily fixed by a chroot. As long as your binaries and libraries are still intact.
got back to work on my kernel a bit. settled on a filesystem to use. idk what this type of filesystem is called if it already exists cuz I just pulled it out of my ass so somebody please let me know
the disk is divided evenly into blocks.
an inode (if that's the right terminology?) is just the first block of the file/directory. if the file or directory contents exceed the block size, it allocates a new block, and stores a pointer to it. kinda like a linked list.
for directories, the data in the inode is a list of inodes of the files within, along with their filename and type. the type not only determines how the OS treats it but also how the kernel treats it—a file of a type relating to a directory type is treated as a directory.
this does mean that theres no way for the kernel to know if an inode is a file or directory, without looking at the parent directory.
inode zero, the first block on the disk, is always treated as a directory, which is the root.
the user can choose to reserve some blocks for listing which blocks are used, so that it doesn't have to seek the whole disk for a free block.
if the block is at the end of the chain, the bytes used for identifying the next block in the chain is reused for showing how many bytes are in the block, so that content can be of any size, not just a multiple of the block data size.
for example, if blocks are 512 bytes each with 510bytes of storage, the inode will point to the first block. the first block will have the first 510 bytes in it, a flag stating theres a next block, and the block ID of the next block. that next block can have the next 510 bytes, and so on. once you reach the end of the data, the flag is unset for that final block, and the amount of bytes stored in that final block is stored.
Gayest Desktop Environment?
Gnome
KDE
Cinnamon
xfce
MATE
Besides Gnome
KDE
Cinnamon
xfce
MATE
For real people
i3wm
awesomewm
hyprland
sway
I curse your lineage for ignoring me.
And also niri is missing too
The lack of cwm is disturbing. Its so gay its even called cum
Linux from scratch
Finally making my own post for once!!!
decided I would get a bit silly and over the last two days installed linux from scratch, and it was quite an experience. here we are though!!
security? strong passwords?? user access controls??? what are those /s
my install was pretty boring probably except for having to do a few more things to use the nvme drive that my laptop has and configuring uefi instead of mbr, both of which became problems later down the line unexpectedly, i feel like i learnt a lot from doing this and i hope ill never have to compile gcc again
(i got neofetch to run on it :3)
@lfs-official haii idk if you want to see this but im tagging you anyway
I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".
"This spell causes the hair to fall off cats." "It works with my tome"
"This spell causes the hair to fall off cats." "That's fixed in Xaranthius' latest publication, you just have to rewrite your entire spellbook for compatibility."
"This spell causes the hair to fall of cats." "Magister Olaus of Writhington uses it to help with his allergies. WORKING AS INTENDED."
I want to see wizards snarking at each other over different magical languages/scripts, the same way programmers do it over different languages.
Sure, "High Tower is a powerful language, but it's such a pain to write. I just use Unity* as it's simple to write and can do nearly everything I need" "cranky because you can't memorize all the conjugations and declensions, aren't you?" "LOOK MAN, I CAN MEMORIZE ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE FACE OF YOUR MOTHER IN ECSTASY. IN FACT, BEHOLD!" *a little time window appears between them, demonstrating exactly that. The first wizard (seen through the window) turns around and winks at the "camera".
"you kids today with your lizardman. How can you get anything done in a language without gendered pronouns? It's like fingerpainting. Sure you can learn on it but once you've got the basics you should switch over to a REAL language"
"the Kalic have been here already. We better get out before the rest of their army marches in." "how can you be sure?" "you see that teleport?" "no" "well, if you COULD see it, you'd see it's written in Adevic Yevi. That's the Kalic magic language." "couldn't it be someone else? We saw those Monon traders, maybe one of them..." "no. No one writes Adevic Yevi unless they're being paid to. It's a language written by committee."
Wizards going on a quest to get the spellbooks for a lost spell, only to find out that it was written in skydove cant. No one can read that shit! The creator must have been one of those weird "functional wizards". (They're obsessed with making sure their spells have no side effects)
There's a small library on the outskirts of Freeport which tries to collect versions of basic spells in every language. The Adevic Yevi version of "fireball" takes up 7 pages, mostly boilerplate setting up the interfaces with fire and explosions and ExplodingMagicalBallFactorySingletons. The Lizardman version is basically "AHAHAHA, YOU GO BOOM!"
There's a bunch of wizard apprentices working on porting an old "Summon Bread and Fishes" spell from the absolutely archaic language it was written in. Once it's in Unity, it'll be easy to modify and teach to more wizards, which'll obviously be good for disaster areas. It's just too expensive to keep paying the ancient guys who can still do magic in TRAN-FOR.
Eccentric wizards keep inventing new languages for spells. You look at them and they're neat, but it'll never catch on. And either you're right, or the next time you're applying to be a court wizard, the advisors want to know if you have at least 5 years experience in Tilted Runic and you're like "it only came out 2 years ago!" "aren't you a chronomancer?" "oh good point. Yeah I've been using it for 20-30 years."
There's wizards who will spend incredible amounts of time doing silly things with spells in strange ways. There's this guy (Vorth) who made his own language where there's only one basic spell: fireball. Everything else is basic magic glue tying multiple fireballs together. So like, he's got a breakfast spell. Stand back (good advice for all his spells), and you'll see a fish get knocked out of the local pond, flung through the air by successive explosions, and eventually it lands on his plate, nicely cooked and deboned, if slightly charred (the glass of milk is harder to explain). His magical door locks involve a quicksilver sphere and molten lead changing shape when heated... It's tricky but it seems to work. He's working on a teleport spell, but so far it's mainly just killed test subjects (primarily sheep from a nearby farm).
* so the funny thing here is that this isn't a reference to the unity game engine. The main country in my One Hundred and One Magical Pistols setting is called "the union" and their language is called "unity".
It's wands vs staves vs bare hands.
Wanders are like "they're available everywhere and once you learn how to do it it's so powerful!"
Staffguys always talk about how you can do ANYTHING with a staff. Wanders claim it's a pain to carry around an overpowered device that can do ANYTHING when you just need to cast fireball or a simple one man teleport.
Meanwhile the bare wizards are showing off how they don't need any magical tools and can just do hand motions.
Wanders and staffguys retort that when a spell goes wrong, THEY need to go to store for a new magical tool. YOU need new hands.
We're not gonna save the stars💀🙏
I like Linux.
The Linux users on this site will reblog anything that's about Linux.
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chromebook is coming tomorrow.
plans for tomorrow as soon as it comes:
boot it, view system specs and stuff to make sure its the right one. dont wanna get scammed again lol. also verify the codename
take it apart and find the WP jumper and solder it closed
follow the instructions on mrchromebox.tech for flashing the firmware
boot into the gentoo ssd I have prepared
get it set up for compilation — plug it into an Ethernet adapter, use ectool to limit battery SOC, place computer on a fan, and plug in power.
set the compile opts in make.conf as they should be and set up distcc
set up the USE flags, and re-emerge the whole system except for the kernel
compile exec-in-chroot
emerge firefox in amd64 chroot
while all that's going, set up keyd
format the emmc to have a small ESP and the rest as F2FS for rootfs
when everything is done, verify it still boots and everything is okay
copy rootfs from ssd to emmc (using tar so we preserve hard links, permissions, xattrs, etc)
change fstab
grub-mkconfig
might also need to re-emerge grub
reboot into gentoo
peruse the kernel options and trim it down
also trim down linux-firmware
reboot again
enjoy :3
this may seem really complex but thats because I'm intentionally doing it all in a fuckass way for optimal funniness