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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I’m using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • JackbyDev@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]English
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    21 hours ago

    I feel like if I was forced to use PowerShell I’d fall in love with it and want to use it on Linux. Passing objects between commands instead of text sounds amazing. So many (Linux) shell commands use slightly differently shaped text, it’s annoying. New line separated? Tab separated? Null separated? Comma separated? Multiple fields? JSON? And converting between them all and using different flags to accept different ones is just such a headache.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Fish rulesEnglish
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    9 days ago

    “POSIX compliant shells” means shells that work with… Fuck how do I even describe this simplistically? A lot of scripts are ran by a program named “sh”. Sometimes it is bash, sometimes dash, but they’re all POSIX compliant which means they’ve got some standard things that most people expect.

    Using a non POSIX compliant shells will be okay, because programs trying to use “sh” will still work (unless you set something up wrong, which you’d probably have to go out if your way to do, so you’re probably fine).

    Genuinely the only downside to using a non POSIX compliant shell is that you won’t learn the standard stuff so you won’t be as good at writing and reading scripts. It’s truly not too big of a deal. Fish (non POSIX compliant) is what Arch (or at least Cachy) used by default. It’s been great. The defaults are useful. To get a similar experience with POSIX shells I typically have to use zsh with oh-my-zsh and some plugins. Fish does it all out of the box.

    So don’t worry about it!

  • JackbyDev@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux phones are more important now than everEnglish
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    13 days ago

    My wife’s pixel 3 just busted without any warning a few years ago. PLEASE be sure to have backups of your things and passwords. At the time they didn’t remember their password and was only logged in on their phone. We were able to recover through my email but it wasn’t a recovery address so it was really scary.

    The worst part is we already had a family password manager they weren’t using, so it was very difficult to not make it seem like an “I told you so” moment, but they’re on it now and have backups and stuff.

    But yeah. We took it to some phone repair guy and he tried a bunch of different stuff. The motherboard just failed or something. No way to extract anything. He said it happened a lot with that model (well, he’s only seeing the bad ones but still).