AVincentInSpace

@AVincentInSpace@pawb.social

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AVincentInSpace ,

Ummm... true. I'll go 'true'. Might've heard that one before, though, to be honest, sort of cheating

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so suppose you let trump win to spite the dnc. then what? what are you going to tell all the people whose rights are being taken away?

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"If there were enough people who cared about trans lives to actually change the outcome of the election, you wouldn't need the law to protect them -- you could just make them do it."

Please God tell me I'm misreading this. People in Texas can just get fucked I guess?

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Face it, Linux is just the kernel. You use systemd as your operating system.

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You forgot to put Windows 10 in "Maliciously Bad"

You will use Windows 11 or you will not use Windows at all

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Another day of GNOME developers doing everything they can to convince me I made the right choice sticking with Plasma

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Aren't those metallophones? Last I checked glockenspiels were a different (and much smaller) critter

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I'm currently using Plasma Wayland on Arch with the 1080p monitor built into my laptop and an external 4K monitor right next to it at 175%, and it works flawlessly. When a window is half on one monitor and half on the other it actually looks how it's supposed to. I can drag a window back and forth between the monitors and watch it rescale itself to run at that monitor's native resolution. Some apps, you don't even see the transition. The current scale is passed through to the applications, so text looks nice and sharp.

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What DE/WM do you use? Works great for me on Plasma.

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I cannot help but notice that Elijah just outed himself as a brony

AVincentInSpace ,

Comcast has finally gotten around to giving hosts inside the firewall publicly routable IPv6 addresses, but port forwarding (which, by the way, can only be done through Xfinity's website or mobile app which then connect to and configure the router through the ISP interface -- if you go to the port forward configuration in the router's webui, all you'll see is a message that it's now "easier than ever" to configure port forwards) can only happen on IPv4. Want to open a hole in the IPv6 firewall? Well that's just too fucken bad.

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If you download and extract the tarball as two separate steps instead of piping curl directly into tar xz (for gzip) / tar xj (for bz2) / tar xJ (for xz), are you even a Linux user?

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They really, really aren’t. Let’s take a look at this command together:

curl -L [some url goes here] | tar -xz

Sorry the formatting's a bit messy, Lemmy's not having a good day today

This command will start to extract the tar file while it is being downloaded, saving both time (since you don’t have to wait for the entire file to finish downloading before you start the extraction) and disk space (since you don’t have to store the .tar file on disk, even temporarily).

Let’s break down what these scary-looking command line flags do. They aren’t so scary once you get used to them, though. We’re not scared of the command line. What are we, Windows users?

  • curl -L – tells curl to follow 3XX redirects (which it does not do by default – if the URL you paste into cURL is a URL that redirects (GitHub release links famously do), and you don’t specify -L, it’ll spit out the HTML of the redirect page, which browsers never normally show)
  • tar -x – eXtract the tar file (other tar “command” flags, of which you must specify exactly one, include -c for Creating a tar file, and -t for Testing a tar file (i.e. listing all of the filenames in it and making sure their checksums are okay))
  • tar -z – tells tar that its input is gzip compressed (the default is not compressed at all, which with tar is an option) – you can also use -j for bzip2 and -J for xz
  • tar -f which you may be familiar with but which we don’t use here – -f tells tar which file you want it to read from (or write to, if you’re creating a file). tar -xf somefile.tar will extract from somefile.tar. If you don’t specify -f at all, as we do here, tar will default to reading the file from stdin (or writing a tar file to stdout if you told it to create). tar -xf somefile.tar (or tar -xzf somefile.tar.gz if your file is gzipped) is exactly equivalent to cat somefile.tar.gz | tar -xz (or tar -xz < somefile.tar – why use cat to do something your shell has built-in?)
  • tar -v which you may be familiar with but which we don’t use here – tells tar to print each filename as it extracts the file. If you want to do this, you can, but I’d recommend telling curl to shut up so it doesn’t mess up the terminal trying to show download progress also: curl -L --silent [your URL] | tar -xvz (or -xzv, tar doesn’t care about the order)

You may have noticed also that in the first command I showed, I didn’t put a - in front of the arguments to tar. This is because the tar command is so old that it takes its arguments BSD style, and will interpret its first argument as a set of flags regardless of whether there’s a dash in front of them or not. tar -xz and tar xz are exactly equivalent. tar does not care.

AVincentInSpace ,

Yes. You can specify tar -C somedir if you want it to extract them somewhere else.

As a rule of thumb, I always extract my tarballs in a newly created, empty directory, just in case whoever packed it didn't put all its files in a subdir

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I recently tried switching from Arch to NixOS and the experience I had can best be described as apalling. I have not had a new user experience this bad since my first dip into Ubuntu dependency hell back in 2016. I'd like to preface this by saying I've been a Linux user in one form or another for almost half my life at this point, and in that time this may well be the most I've struggled to get things to work.

Apparently they have this thing called home-manager which looks pretty cool. I'd like to give that a shot. Apparently I have to enable a new Nix channel before I can install it. I'm guessing that's the equivalent of a PPA? Well, alright. nix-channel --add ..., nix-channel --update (oh, so it waits until now to tell me I typo'd the URL. Alright), and now to run the installation command and... couldn't find home-manager? Huh?? I just installed it. I google the error message and apparently you have to reboot after adding a new nix-channel and doing nix-channel --update before it will actually take effect, and the home-manager guide didn't tell me that. Ah well, at least it works now.

I didn't want to wait for KDE and its 6 morbillion dependencies to download, so I opted for Weston. It wasn't a thing in configuration.nix (programs.weston.enable=true; threw an error and there was no page for it on the NixOS wiki), but it was available in nix-env (side note: why does nix-env -i take upwards of 30 seconds just to locate a package?), so I installed it, tried to run it, and promptly got an inscrutable "Permission denied" error with one Google result that had gone unresolved. Oh well, that's alright, I guess that's not supported just yet -- I'll install Sway instead. Great, now I have a GUI and all I need is a browser. nix-env -i firefox gave me the firefox-beta binary which displayed the crash reporter before even opening a browser window. Okay, note to self: always use configuration.nix. One programs.firefox.enable=true; and one nixos-rebuild switch later, I'm off to the races. Browser is up and running. Success! Now I'd like to install a Rust development environment so I can get back to work. According to NixOS wiki, I can copy paste this incantation into a shell.nix file and have rustup in there. Cool. After resolving a few minor hangups regarding compiler version, manually telling rustc where the linker is, and telling nix-shell that I also need cmake (which was thankfully pretty easy), I'm met with a "missing pkg-config file for openssl" error that I have absolutely no idea how to begin to resolve.

I'm trying to stick with it, I really am -- I love the idea that I can just copy my entire configuration to a brand new install by copying one file and the contents of my home directory and have it be effectively the same machine -- but I'm really struggling here. Surely people wouldn't rave about NixOS as much as they do if it was really this bad? What am I doing wrong?

Also unrelated but am I correct in assuming that I cannot install KDE without also installing the X server?

AVincentInSpace ,

tbf Tooning Out The News (which I think this is from) is basically that

AVincentInSpace ,

this is some serious Bosnian Ape Society shit.

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"Remember, kids, Biden isn't better than Trump. The only correct course of action is to not vote." --people who are upset that liberals are being propagandized

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...computer algebra system?

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wait hyprland is banned from freedesktop? what???

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As for me though, i can open GIMP without touching my mouse, make a handful of edits, probably stitch a couple images together all without touching my mouse, and then save export and close GIMP, without having touched my mouse. But i’m not a try hard, so lol.

do you fucking hear yourself

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(step 2) save it and close GIMP under 10 clicks.

File -> Overwrite (2 clicks)

File -> Quit (2 clicks)

Yes I want to quit, even though I haven't saved it as an .xpf file (1 click)

Total: 5 clicks

AVincentInSpace ,

the fuck do you mean "it's more like" i just reproduced those 5 steps using my copy of gimp

AVincentInSpace ,

Yes, that is what those steps do

AVincentInSpace ,

like you are aware that overwriting the file you opened, as opposed to saving a project file, is what I just told you how to do in 5 clicks?

AVincentInSpace ,

nah i don't care that you're using windows who the fuck still uses eclipse

AVincentInSpace ,

so without an argument to -j the number of concurrent jobs is unbounded???

AVincentInSpace ,

Better than a guaranteed loss, right?

AVincentInSpace ,

Still, better to vote for the candidate that will ensure that forms of political action besides voting will continue to be legal

AVincentInSpace ,

Best not to vote then? Best to let the guy win who has promised on the campaign trail to make the lives of trans people, women, immigrants, basically everyone who isn't a straight white male, as miserable as he possibly can, and not put up even a token resistance against Israel, because the other guy isn't resisting Israel as hard as we'd like and is therefore just as bad?

I hate Biden too but not voting is not the solution.

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Ah, fishhook theory, also known as "everyone even slightly to the right of me is a Nazi"

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The man is not shown in the picture

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Me in the corner with netboot.xyz: "I am four parallel universes ahead of you"

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You're not serious

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this lady is joking, right? right??

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Yeah. The Declaration of Independence was a Reddit post. The Constitution is the result of a bunch of 30 year old men arguing over what should and shouldn't be in there, and one guy hopelessly transcribing their argument and hoping they'll sign it because he'll be buggered if he'll copy all that out again.

("The Vice President shall be the leader of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." Yes, that's how having an odd number of voters works...)

It is good to know though that white Internet libertarians predate the Internet by about 2 centuries.

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if you're wondering why people hate vegans, it's because you post shit like this

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you can text 911 though?

AVincentInSpace ,

please let your grammar be indication that this is satire

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?????? Retransmitted packets don't get counted towards downloaded file size

AVincentInSpace ,

It's a protocol violation to do that, not least because it precludes connection reuse

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Forget playback. How was that video file recorded? How do you even store data that fast, let alone encode it?

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There are people who like VLC, but for me personally, MPV has a much cleaner interface, better configuration options, and when it comes to streaming video, MPV absolutely destroys VLC (especially when changing playback speed while the video is playing -- VLC has the audio cut out for several seconds and MPV doesn't, and that's to say nothing of the MPEG glitches)

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Ohhhhhh. It's a video decoder torture test. "If your app can play this it can play anything" sort of deal. That makes sense.

Also makes sense that VLC puked.

AVincentInSpace ,

of course not they'd be shot down

since there are no missile launchers in the ocean it is perfectly safe

AVincentInSpace ,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fbterm can take care of some of the limitations (use TTF fonts, for example) but support in general for nongraphical environments on Linux at the moment is not amazing

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scratches head at mention of both Debian and Debian With Newer Repos And Worse Management but no mention of Arch or Void

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No matter how much I stare at this I cannot see anything other than the boobs

Where is the horse I do not get

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