#unix/linux

[netbsd-official]

[virtualgirladvance]

i am a tboy and i started using ubuntu (my first linux experience ever) like 3 months ago and i just realized using linux is exactly like being transgender

like some things get difficult cos most people arent using linux but everything that's harder about using linux is completely trumped by how pleasant it is to not use windows

This is poetry to me, thank you anonymous Ubuntu tboy I will think about this forever

[nixcraft]

[joeybreat]

Computer and Video Game Museum, Yekaterinburg

[surfeitoflampreys]

It is so handy how on Unix you can just write files to /tmp and they will be cleared up automatically upon shutdown!

So if I want to write a disposable python script to test something - put it in /tmp!

Or if I want to view e.g. an MS Word document that my browser can't read, just save it in /tmp.

And of course if it's worth keeping, then move it to somewhere permanent.

[piratesexmachine420]

When I'm writing shell scripts, I prefer to use the long form of a flag, if possible. Just to make things a little easier to read for future me.

Here's something that annoys me when I'm doing so:

If you didn't know already, sed and grep are both derived from the same original tool: ed. sed is the stream ed, grep started by lobotomizing ed until it could only run the command g/[Regular Expression]/p (globally search for any line matching that regular expression and print it).

Because of this shared ancestry, grep and sed behave pretty similarly and take a lot of the same arguments. One of these arguments is -E: "use extended regular expressions". Who doesn't love POSIX EREs?

Buuuuut... in sed, the long form of this flag is --regexp-extended, and in grep it's --extended-regexp. What the hell happened here, GNU?

[nimbergarden]

FTU linux stamps by me

[serigel]

@i-love-linux-and-need-cat-ears haiiiii :3

[tanukicomputing]

We don’t appreciate the humble Xeyes enough

Look at her beauty; 38 years old and still the peak of software

[the-herdier]

Being neurodivergent is like you're a computer running some variation of Unix while the rest of the world runs Windows. You have the exact same basic components as other machines, but you think differently. You organize differently. You do things in a way that Windows machines don't always understand, and because of that, you can't use programs written for Windows. If you're lucky, the developer will write a special version of their program specifically with your operating system in mind that will work just as well as the original, and be updated in a similar time frame. But if not? You'll either be stuck using emulators or a translator program like Wine, which come with an additional resource load and a host of other challenges to contend with, or you'll have to be content with an equivalent, which may or may not have the same features and the ability to read files created by the other program.

However, that doesn't mean you're not just as powerful. Perhaps you're a desktop that just happens to run Mac or Linux. Maybe you're a handheld device, small and simple but still able to connect someone to an entire world. Or perhaps you're an industrial computer purposely-built to perform a limited number of tasks extremely well, but only those tasks. You may not even have a graphical user interface. You could even be a server proudly hosting a wealth of media and information for an entire network to access- perhaps even the entire Internet. They need only ask politely. You may not be able to completely understand other machines, but you are still special in your own way.

[sunos-official]

Been a while since I posted on this blog, but I got a server a while back and put Solaris 10 on it!

I have it set up as both a file server and a boot server for Sun, Apple, and PXE clients.

[fish-shell]

in the termin all. straight up “changing”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s just say. My shel .

[nixcraft]

[fornaxter]

Xenia and Chujin are K&R friends

[vim-official]

vim is 33 years old today!

[paintthedeadflag]

There's something so nice about a terminal. Like a base tty, there are no pop ups, no ads, no websites, it's just you and prompt. You make of it what you can, but it will be you doing it.

I'm trying to actually learn to code, and I'm just learning like this, with a base vim install and a c compiler.