read the friendly manual

i just really like documentation

[man-pages-official]

⚠ pssssst! in .bashrc or similar,

alias man="$GENDER_1" alias man="$GENDER_2" # etc...

[ogrishpuntocom]

nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

[ogrishpuntocom]

this post came back to me like a dear son from war, hello ol boy

[ogrishpuntocom]

nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

[ogrishpuntocom]

this post came back to me like a dear son from war, hello ol boy

[cinnamon-official]

the Novideo Blackscreen architecture am i right amd ganggg 😂

[man-pages-official]

confirming this as a certified novideo blackscreen architecture user

[disabled-systemdeez]

I like Linux.

[disabled-systemdeez]

The Linux users on this site will reblog anything that's about Linux.

[lenovo-real]

Yes

[thinkpad-offical]

Correct

[nyarch-official]

indeed I will

[notanoob123]

Yep

[buildroot-official]

indeed

[vi-official]

that checks out

[zsh-official]

Ayup

[mpd-official]

yup

[katie-official]

sounds about right

[arch-official]

ya

[nixos-official]

yerp

[gnome-de-official]

No.

Shit.

[cpuseless]

you got it boss

[animentality]

[foone]

BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn't just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

This tweet isn't just an observation, it's the result of years of research and study. And it's absolutely true.

[debian-official]

Linux ask game

1 - what was your first distro? 2 - what was your biggest linux fuckup? 3 - have you ever run rm / on real hardware? 4 - do you dual boot or have a secondary machine with windows? 5 - did you change your default shell? 6 - are you afraid of git? 7 - what was the first machine you installed linux on? 8 - do you know your way around vim keybinds? 9 - what is your favourite non-os software? 10- biggest linux pet peeve? 11- biggest annoyance with the community? 12- do you like your current distro? 13- Xenia or Tux? 14- what software are you never using again? 15- stock distro or hours of yak shaving? 16- have you compiled the kernel?

[man-pages-official]

Raspbian because raspberry pi (used it to try to "learn" JavaScript on khan academy. rip my sanity)

I once upgraded an arch-based system while the package repos were in the middle of being updated. I partially upgraded everything, and was missing the icu package (unicode stuff). I rebooted and got bluescreened and nothing, including pacman, worked. I had to usb-hop correct versions of offending packages back over using the arch live iso.

nope

dual boot with mac on one laptop. also have a backup windows machine that is extremely stock

no

not afraid, but I don't feel like I have a particularly strong grasp of it.

a raspberry pi (trust me, it's really fun to start off with aarch64 when most beginner linux assumes amd64/x86_64)

I'd like to think so, yeah, though not a wizard by any stretch of the imagination

possibly rsync? I like rsync a lot.

Nvidia everything (is this a pet peeve? it's more like ultimate hatred. I say this as an unfortunate nvidia card owner)

constant infighting about topics that come down to personal preference. I tend to avoid the community spaces for that reason though.

yes, I like gentoo so far

tux because I really like penguins

vs code. never again.

as one might infer from 12), hours of yak shaving any day. i'm going to be a yak farmer when I grow up

yes

[machine-saint]

Evil maid attack - Wikipedia

[machine-unlearning]

[wayfire-official]

Doing a good maid attack by installing Linux on the unattended laptop

[your-average-antho-cat]

Doing a chaotic good maid attack by installing Void linux or Arch linux

[wivrn-official]

Doing a chaotic chaotic maid attack by installing Gentoo

[man-pages-official]

regex

[sacred-portal]

[rohirric-hunter]

Anyway general PSA on this scam, which is common on Amazon but certainly not exclusive to it:

It is possible to take small SD cards and USB drives and other types of storage and make them look like they are bigger than they are. This isn't just selling mislabeled items; the card itself is "fooled" into thinking it's bigger than it is. Checking its properties will return the fake size, because the device itself believes that it is that size. They can be tested by writing and retrieving large amounts of data to them, and then checking to see if any of it got corrupted; there are programs to do this automatically but unfortunately I don't know where to get them.

Once you go over the device's actual size, it might start deleting data at random, but more often (and in my case) it gets confused and says it needs reformatted. Reformatting it will make it work again, but only until you get back up to its actual size. It might be tempting to keep using these and just taking note of the actual size and staying under it, but there's really nothing to stop the device from trying to write data to a part of the storage that doesn't exist, so it's not worth the risk. Also, these devices have been tampered with by someone trying to scam you; there is absolutely no way to be sure there's not malware of some sort on the device. Best to stop using them as soon as you realize.

An important note: I purchased this SD card directly from the manufacturer's Amazon storefront. I still got scammed. This is not because the manufacturer is scamming people, probably, but because of the way Amazon handles orders with their warehouses, which is sort of difficult to explain. But basically the item I got was probably not one provided to Amazon by the manufacturer, but by someone else. The risk of being scammed can be mitigated (though not entirely eliminated) by purchasing this sort of thing at a brick and mortar store, and not online. Better yet, buy straight from the manufacturer's website.

Here's a video from Atomic Shrimp on YouTube with more information about this scam. He explains how I probably got scammed even though I bought from the manufacturer's storefront.

[man-pages-official]

I can see the appeal of narrow fonts now. I used to have my font size much smaller so I never got it because I couldn't actually read narrow fonts at that size. Ever since I cranked up my font size though, I've been lamenting that tiling doesn't work as well when 80 characters don't fit in half the screen. Turns out that a narrow font at size 16 is both totally legible and i can get two panes of 80 chars side by side.

[python3-official]

[markovchaingang]

knowing only a little more than average about computers means that whenever you ask someone who knows a lot about computers for help they treat you with thinly-veiled scorn, but spending any amount of time around people who know the average amount about computers will immediately make it clear why they feel that way

[man-pages-official]

alright! I have taken heed of everyone's wise advice re wayland compositors. for now I'm sticking with writing a window manager to work with river 0.4.x. I've made a working replica of the demo tinyrwm project in c, so off to an ok start. as a matter of fact I'm posting from it right now. No screenshots because they're not implemented yet ("lol", or perhaps "ToT" is more appropriate.)

going from window management to implementing a wlroots based compositor should be less of a jump than a compositor off the bat. saved for later.

[rylandgraces]

When the post goes triple platinum in the mutual circle and you have to scroll past the same thing seven times in a row

[gsirvitor]