#term linux

[cool-retro-term-official]

Github has it for you. It's literally on gitlab. Just go on sourceforge and download the source code. Just git clone it from my gitea ! Right. On. Gitbucket ! Just click your way to my Kallithea and download it ! It's on sourcehut now !

[2000ghosts]

july 3, 2005

[july-19th-club]

one thing about being in too much pain to uphold social niceties (period and it's a bad one) is that i did spend all day at work not only doubled over and moving at a pace the ninety year old library ladies were lapping but i was even worse than usual at tasks like Looking At People Who Are Chewing Gum and "not edging away bugeyed when a coworker stands close next to me" and of course the perennial favorite "keeping track of more than three words spoken to me in a row and responding to that" and we'll let me merely say. it is just me and that murderbot. nobody else in this whole damn library understands

[cynderace]

imagine if there were different tiers of linux distros you had to level up to get to

"i just got my first intermediate linux distro! :D" "thats sweet, ive been grinding to get to a proffessional distro but so far i'm stuck on advanced" "heh... your distros are nothing compared to my GODLY DISTRO!"

[spoonietimelordy]

So it turns out that my version of "doing weird shit to your hair", when life is out of control, is "doing weird shit to my computer".

[pirefyrelight]

Its a weird feeling. I'm so close to having a custom pc, and all the research and bookmarking and learning about the fundamentals of this task being done on my ancient, life support necessitating laptop. My two core laptop. My laptop that can't no more hold a charge, nor a wifi connection. The laptop I spent hours at the library deciding on, that I told everyone to give me best buy gift cards for Xmas and birthdays for to buy it. I wasted so much time playing minecraft on this thing. And in her twilight moments she slowly but surely loads the pages I need to see to replace her.

Heres to another ten years wasting time instead of sleeping but this time on a rig with an entire terabyte of memory let's go

[mla0]

if you have any coding knowledge i would recommend backing your blogs up with this instead of the official one. the official one isn't very good in terms of formatting and shit, honestly

[cool-retro-term-official]

to any engineer who builds computers (incl. tablets, laptops, etc...), if you don't put at least two USB-A port I will look for you, i will find you, and i will kill you

[sweetiepipebomb]

chromebooks ruined the technological literacy of an entire generation.

I will never forgive.

I will never forget.

and frankly, trying to replace the chrome books with VR is even Worse

[meatheadmutt]

STOP MODERNIZING WINDOWS I DONT WANT ROUNDED CORNERS I WANT HER BUILT LIKE A BRICK HOUSE THESE ICONS LOOK LIKE TWINKS

[cool-retro-term-official]

jacob I have bad news for you about windows

[cool-retro-term-official]

PROGRAMMERS OF ALL KINDS AND SHAPES, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS

A code that doesn't have comments, even if it's well written, is not always very good code. When you want to optimize your code, you're might have to write ugly stuff sometimes ! Look at what data oriented design can produce for example. When optimization introduces unreadability, even if everything else is amazingly written, you need to add comments.

Anyway, use your cli tools on me plz, im cool, im pretty, look at me, blip bloop, blip bloop ❤️💾

[cool-retro-term-official]

would you still love me if i was a 200Mib micro sd ?

[cool-retro-term-official]

One day i might be that much barebone. Sweet dreams are made of these.

pcb miku

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

i think the thing thats hard about "easy" linux distributions isnt that they force you into an ecosystem its that they obfuscate learning about the ecosystem so much that you dont actually get the tools to understand how it works or even like, what parts are in it. like when you arent actually at liberty to choose between 2 bluetooth drivers because your os will break if you use the one they didnt test, and learning more about them will at best just make you frustrated that youre stuck on the bad one, then you start to get the feeling that the maintainers made the right choice and everything actually is a limitless dark sea of despair and you should just stay safe in here. but like, that isnt true, choosing between 2 drivers for the same thing just isnt a difficult or high stakes ordeal. even if its a complex topic you only have to learn about it once but like 90% of the time you can look it up and some guy on reddit will have said "if you need x do y, if you dont know what that is do z".

i think id be able to use mint easier now understanding so much more about how "a computer" is split into different components but like, thats not the intended use case for linux mint. its for people who dont want to know that and consider it more bearable to just stew when things break until its miraculously fixed by someone else at some point. i feel like when people say "beginners ONLY start here" they need to be more specific that when they say beginners that's actually what they mean, and not that its easy to learn, because i still had so much trouble figuring out cinnamon and what the fuck a "panel" was, and its not like it helps you with that any more than any other thing. the external resources for getting started with mint arent world class either, if that was the deciding factor people should still just be recommending ubuntu.

i also still feel like its a hill worth dying on that having a separate home partition would actually be huge for noobs especially on point release distros and its so fucked that its some power user thing. oh oops i fucked up my entire system doing an in place upgrade i can just reinstall it. the entire thing. and not lose my data. instead its gotta be a whole thing