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Ah, the joy of using #linux π welcome to the dark side, we have cookies. https://x.com/saltyaom/status/1832329529580515714?s=46
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  @nixCraft@mastodon.social FFmpeg taking the piss out of sound wave is the best kind of internet irony i could have hoped for today Nothing unites Linux users like a heated debate (or as I call it 'holy war') about systemd or the merits of their favorite distro. It's a love-hate relationship that keeps the community passionate and the flame wars burning bright every day. π #linux #opensource
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 @nixCraft Windows just keeps getting ever worse because nobody screams - "Stop. This is bad". I dumped Windows back when XP was still around. There has been no version of Windows that hasn't been bad in some way or another. I went from XP to OSX to Linux. I've used Linux exclusively for most of the past 10 years.  @nixCraft and that, my friends, is the event that starts the year of the Linux desktop. 01. #Linux users open your terminal (you must have ffmpeg package installed). 02. Type the following bash command for i in {100..1000..100}; do ffplay -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=${i}:duration=0.1" -autoexit -nodisp -loglevel quiet; done 03. Enjoy!
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Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again #opensource
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@nixCraft 1980 for me was a lot closer to 1Mhz/1Kb where did they get all that ram from? Even Bill Gates didnβt need more than 640K  For me it greatly depends on how much I care about what I'm doing. If I don't care too much, I prefer GUI. If I care, I prefer CLI. @nixCraft It is because the command line is stable and does not change all the time. GUIs also generally lack consistency and modularity. It could be different in theory. i don't know why GUIs arre so bad and need to be change all time. Friend: what languages do you know? Me: perl, Python, bash, c, asm, cobol and java Friend: Me: Friend: me: you meant like speaking???!
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 @nixCraft I've always felt that the number of programming languages doesn't count, it's the depth of knowledge in them that counts. The person who knows one language perfectly well is more powerful than the one who knows the surface level knowledge of them all. The jack of all trades should be atleast master of one. Took me several language hops to realise it.  @nixCraft I can also speak in formal languages; that is, predicate, first-order, and second-order logic-and by speak, I mean read like how an archaeologist would read Egyptian hieroglyphics or Old Chinese.
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  @nixCraft It was a joke API, but that was secondary to it being a do-nothing syscall, useful for measuring system call overhead.  
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  kids who would run dos defrag utility and sit and look at the little squares change colors are either {developers, sysadmin, devops} now or retired farmers
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The CrowdStrike IT outage is a good reminder that if you don't have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place, there will be consequences. There will be many meetings and discussions about the need for DR, but by the end of the year, it will likely be forgotten amidst the usual job cuts, new priorities, and questions about IT budgets. This cycle will continue until another IT outage strikes. I speak the truth and nothing else. If I'm wrong, correct me below. #sysadmin #IT
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  @nixCraft Disaster recovery? That's for the flood that wipes out your DC. Software issues are not the subject of DR plans, because the best DR plans include replicating software updates to the recovery site! |οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£οΏ£|
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  @nixCraft @Jackiemauro esp for a company whose engineering team sits in Israel and is literally not allowed to work for the next 24 hours. Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Four hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself π§π»βπ»ππ₯°
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 @nixCraft after all, the code was vetted by the upstream community, right? Red Hat is working on a new scheme to replace the GRUB bootloader with a fast, secure, Linux-based, user-space solution: nmbl (for no more boot loader). You can just use #Linux kernel to boot https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/W3AVCT/ @nixCraft - My first linux machine booted the kernel directly from floppy.
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 @nixCraft@mastodon.social @nixCraft "work is being done" I don't know much about kernels but don't newer android flavors of linux kernels use clang for most/all of the compilation? #Linux distros: the gateway drug to a world of terminal commands, endless customization, and questionable desktop environments or apps. Enter at your own risk. But one thing is clear: you will not return to the old OS once you start installing Linux willingly on your Thinkpad. This is a better version: ThinkPad + Linux Distro = π for Your Old OS Once you go penguin on your ThinkPad, there's no turning back. Say goodbye to the boring default world and hello to a universe of terminal sorcery, personalized perfection, and the occasional desktop environment that makes you question your life choices. π§β¨ #LinuxLove sudo would be a great name for a dog sudo fetch ball  @nixCraft @nixCraft@mastodon.social but what about password prompt? Dog looks curious till you shout this complex 24 digit password with special characters. Now he fetches. #Mastodon doesn't directly support quoting toot like the bird app. Support (Literally) Quoting Public Toots https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22793 is still open. I hope they release support for this. This is killer feature.  @nixCraft @nixCraft IIRC, unfortunately the lead developer of Mastodon has repeatedly stated he is against the feature for... reasons. π€·ββοΈ I would not hold my breath.  @nixCraft Resourceful clients like Ice Cubes and Phanpy already will show the quoted Mastodon post if they recognise the URL to be a Mastodon post. I think people who wanted this feature already have it. |
@nixCraft I installed arch once just to see if I could and I could without much trouble.
well... on my SECOND go, on the first one I forgot to install the network drivers so I had no internet access at all and couldn't do anything anymore haha
@nixCraft No X usage please
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OMG. I did i with a tutorial π
yay -S network-manager-applet
yay -S networkmanager
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable system-resolved
sudo systemctl disable systemd-networkd
sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
and added "exec-once = nm-applet --indicator" to my hyprland .conf