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at this point seeing a new ✨ on any user interface triggers my fight or flight response

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Wandered through deep layers of my laptop's BIOS and found these images that look like they were created by some graphic designer back in 1997 and forgotten about ever since.

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Underutilized aesthetic: when you try to do something a little too specific with your modern OS and it pops up a window with a completely different UI style than the rest of your computer software to do it, usually from an older version of the OS

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for all the slop that Mozilla has done and will continue to do, I commend them for instilling the mild association between foxes and FOSSware into people's heads. as a real life fox I benefit from this greatly

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Hey, I recently installed fedora but there's no candy crush ad in my app menu? Any way to fix that??

Thanks for your feedback! We'll look into adding that into the next release (Fedora 43), which should land in late October or November.

In the meantime, if you use KDE, you can right-click the launcher icon (fedora logo), go to edit apps, and create a new item called Candy Crush that opens a link directly to king's website 😄

Happy linuxing!

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I made this wallpaper for my desktop and I thought it might be cool to share it :)

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ANALOG Computing April 1984

Along with his editorial, Brian Moriarty contributed a type-in text adventure (suitable for those stuck with 16K machines) to this issue. The reviews included Ultima I, Ultima III, Saigon: The Final Days, and Planetfall.

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I previously posted my .xinitrc, so here is my .bashrc.

# # ~/.bashrc # # If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- != \*i\*]] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto -v --group-directories-first' alias grep='grep --color=auto'\ PS1='[\e[0;36m]\u[\e[0m][\e[0;36m]@[\e[0m][\e[0;36m]\h[\e[0m] [\e[0;34m]\w[\e[0m]$ ' # useful utilities alias nvpower='cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/control /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_state /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0/power' alias camera='mpv av://v4l2:/dev/video0 --profile=low-latency --untimed --demuxer-lavf-o-set=video_size=1920x1080,input_format=mjpeg,framerate=30 2>/dev/null' alias screenrecord='ffmpeg -video_size 1920x1080 -framerate 60 -f x11grab -i :0.0+0,0 /home/asuka/documents/output.mp4' alias printers='xdg-open http://localhost:631/' alias histcoarse='history | awk "{print \$4}" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr' alias histfine='history | awk "{\$1=\$2=\$3=\"\"; print \$0}" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr' alias xauth-clean='touch /home/asuka/.local/state/xauth-clean.lock' # keep certain applications from being unreadable, and cluttering /home alias golly='GTK_THEME=Breeze boxxy golly' alias praat='GTK_THEME=Breeze boxxy praat' alias unigine-superposition='boxxy unigine-superposition' alias beersmith3='boxxy beersmith3' alias discord='boxxy discord' alias elinks='boxxy elinks' alias thunderbird='/home/asuka/.local/lib/hunter.sh & boxxy thunderbird' alias firefox='boxxy firefox' alias nvidia-settings='nvidia-settings --config="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/nvidia/settings' alias piper='gtk3-nocsd piper' alias audacity='GTK_IM_MODULE= audacity' alias caprine='boxxy caprine --force-device-scale-factor 0.9' # turn off screen when slock is run from cli alias slock='xset dpms force off' # alternate quiet startx alias startxquiet='startx /home/asuka/.xinitrcquiet' # shell convenience options alias logout='loginctl terminate-user asuka' set -o ignoreeof set +o histexpand shopt -s histappend # readline options bind 'set show-all-if-unmodified on' bind 'set colored-stats on' bind 'set colored-completion-prefix on' # custom functions for file encryption encrypt() { gpg --encrypt --output "$2" --recipient MY@EMAIL.com "$1"; } decrypt() { gpg --decrypt --output "$2" "$1"; } # custom function for unicode entry and lookup uni() { if [ "$1" = "-c" ]; then unipicker --copy --command 'dmenu -l 10 -i '$2' '$3'' elif [ "$1" = "-l" ]; then unipicker --list elif [ "$1" = "-i" ]; then unipicker --command 'dmenu -l 10 -i '$2' '$3'' else echo "unipicker: invalid argument" fi } # source custom bash completions source /home/asuka/.local/share/bash-completion/_kitty-launch

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I only use left shift for capitalizing. I did have a week where I tried using both like you're "supposed" to, but I couldn't get the habit to stick.

I do still use right shift for a handful of shortcuts (Shift+AltGr for Compose, Shift+F12 for Greek letters, etc.).

REAL personality test: do you use the left shift key or the right shift key on your keyboard

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Mondo 2000 (1996)

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BTW you wouldn’t know this unless you’re a programmer but the format for programs on linux (and a lot of linux-related things) is called the Executable and Linkable Format (formerly the Extensible Linking Format), or ELF. 

Which is cute, but it’s twice as cute when you learn that metadata for debugging format which can be embedded into ELF is called DWARF. It’s been suggested this could stand for “Debugging With Arbitrary Record Formats”, but really it’s just because Dwarves and Elves go together. 

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Every single time I take my laptop in for repair, I make a point of telling the people there that I dual-boot and not to touch the Linux install. I've never run into trouble so far but I'm sure it'll happen eventually.

I asked for a backup of my SSD (in these exact words!!! I did not say 'of my documents' I said 'une sauvegarde du SSD') and what did I get. Not a backup of my SSD. A copy of my windows documents and downloads folder. I don't even use windows, everything in there is 2 years old from when I first set the laptop up.

Does he think I'm someone's grandfather. I know what I asked for and I asked for it for a good fucking reason. Namely that I needed a backup of my entire fucking SSD.

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Unix is so beautiful and powerful. I can run a command to get a bucket of text, grab only the lines I care about, and append them to the end of a file with a single command. And I realize this is a super trivial application, but That’s the point. It does, trivially, things that would be a pain in the butt without it.

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