Screw that You’re all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.

Yeah between the forced binding arbitration and their claims to wanting to start pre-roll ads, Roku is dead to me, I will never buy another device from them nor recommend them to anyone.

ut never called it that. And I mostly would background or foreground tasks. I didn’t

yeah I had no idea about disown, Jesus the number of times I could have used that, I might have never learned tmux or screen :)

Had a little spark of glee looking at a fellow nix user in the wild

Defined in /nix/store/vicfr

Yes this meme is dated. You can run proprietary stuff in bookworm with just a couple of check boxes.

Yeah, I know. It’s just Sunday morning and I’m feeling cheeky.

I’ve been living that for years

I’ve run both. Started with Gnome.

I didn’t absolutely love the UI but it wasn’t bad.

Installed a bunch of plugins poked it, prodded, tweaked it. Made it exactly what I wanted.

One time I tried KDE and found that it was exactly what I was turning gnome into with all the plugins.

Admittedly, I think the Gnome control panels and tools are nicer.

Yeah I’ve been using Linux for a very long time. The amount of time I’ve spent on the case being incorrect is non-trivial. I’ve gotten better at not screwing it up throughout the years but the sum of advantages is far outweighed by the sum of debugging time spent.

It sucked when Crashplan’s home client went under. If you installed the client on two computers with internet access, it would let you set the remote computer as a target. Encryption was done at the source, it had dedupe, versioning. It ate a little ram but it was really nice.

Yep, I tried Tailscale at home… 3 weeks later I started using it at work, so insanely easy.

Test out that Nix, Mine refused to let me install from it when I just shoved their iso in Ventoy.

Someone got a hackintosh running from ventoy on specific hardware

• I’ve been trying to get a x86 Android one working, no luck yet.
• Kali
• WinPE EasUS partition manager liveboot
• Gandalf’s win10PE
• Gandalf’s win11PE
• Hirens CD PE (debatably useless in this age)

/opt/(app)/bin /usr/lib/(app)/bin /usr/lib64/app/bin /usr/local/(s)bin

I know there is logic and mapping of where everything’s supposed to be in theory but in practice s***'s kind of all over the place.

It’s easier to manage security that way.

Instead of having one binary folder full of stuff that’s intended to be run with privilege access and non-privilege access, all the privileged stuff goes in sbin and you don’t even see it in your path as a regular user. It also means that access rights can be controlled at the folder level instead of the individual file level.

I’m not against Rust. I’d like to see something less dangerous with memory than C, but I don’t think it’s time yet for the kernel to leave C.

It’s pretty clean, stable, it’s working well at the moment and the C language (or variants of it) is/are still actively used everywhere. I think the kernel universally going Rust will be a long road of everything under the sun going there first before it’s ported in earnest.

1. Eventually all the people who know and are good at cobol will die.
2. A while before that happens, the people who know it will continually demand more money for their rare skills.
3. Eventually, the cobol systems out there will need to interface new systems in some way it wasn’t designed to and it’ll be more expensive to shoehorn the remote system than to let the ancient beast retire.

I’m using NixOS, it’s really freaking awesome and super repeatable but it’s also like smashing myself in the face with a brick every time I want to do something slightly unusual.

That’s like a whole nother level of immutable.

Get’er Robbie she’s under the desk!

I do the same all the time with anytype.

I dropped notes into sublime and then go back and put them neatly into any type. I don’t really know why I do it either It takes any type a total of three or four seconds to start up and I have to enter in a passcode. But I only have to do it once. I guess I do have to think about where I’m going to put the document and making sure that it’s tagged correctly, it’s a lot easier just a scribble something into a random text window to forget about for a decade.