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DeltaWingDragon @ DeltaWingDragon @sh.itjust.works
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What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • What is unclutter?

    • what should we call cake day?

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  • And your first pet's name, and your social security number

    • Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon?

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  • Not really trying to accomplish much, just trying to save a few seconds in the manual installation process.

    • Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon?

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  • Mounting /var/log in RAM just seems like more trouble than it's worth.

    • Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon?

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  • What if I'm on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn't use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I'm not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.

    • Is it good practice to run a system without a syslog daemon?

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  • What if I'm on another minimal distro, like Artix, that doesn't use systemd? Journald is a systemd thing, and I'm not going to install systemd on top of a perfectly good init system.

    • Safe to Install New Dual Boot?

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  • Today on "Was this caused by stupidity or malice"...

    Microsoft said earlier this month it would apply “a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update to block vulnerable Linux boot loaders that could have an impact on Windows security,”

    (emphasis mine)

    • "Mini Text" scratchpad utility

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  • That is a cool app.

    • "Mini Text" scratchpad utility

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  • Linux Mint has Xpad for sticky notes.

    • "Mini Text" scratchpad utility

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  • Mousepad? The standard text editor on XFCE?

    • It ain't me

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  • As opposed to modern helicopters, which sound like this.

    Or this in stealth mode.

    • And nobody would get your references

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  • Waterboy? Did he solve puzzles in temples with his partner Firegirl?

    • "Bust a nut"

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    • Iconic Characters Go Rogue [Grok-2]

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  • A volumetric flask full of weed. Gotta have a metered dose.

    • We need to settle this debate once and for all.

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  • Gonna be like the Vietnam War. High tech powerful army vs low tech actually competent guerrillas. Amish gonna win.

    • Before your change to Linux

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  • Vista on one machine, 10 on another.

    Vista was actually good, it just started running slow because the computer was old. Switched to Mint and Lubuntu, those ran faster.

    I got a new computer, and went, gasp... BACK TO WINDOWS! Kept planning the switch to Linux for years, because I liked the operating system, then got an SSD and just did it. Installed OpenSUSE, currently on Debian.

    • The only correct way to indent

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  • Null\0bytes?\0This\0is\0big\0brain\0time.

    • I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that.

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  • as opposed to chrome?

    • What is/was your distrohopping journey?

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    • Started on a Windows Vista machine, but I dual-booted Mint on it when it started to run slow.
    • The software broke or got corrupted, so I installed Lubuntu.
    • Lubuntu started to freeze, so I installed Mint again.

    The hardware was really outdated at this point, so I got a new machine. Windows 8.1.

    Got a different new computer with Windows 10. Started trying out lots of distros of VMs.

    • Switched out the drive and installed... OpenSUSE, I think?
    • Catastrophic system error during an update, left the system corrupted. I installed Debian.
    • Another system error (which may have been caused by me) led me to install FreeBSD.
    • FreeBSD was usable, but not super usable. I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
    • Catastrophic system error during an update, left the system corrupted. I installed Debian (again).

    tldr: Windows Vista -> Mint -> Lubuntu -> Mint again -> Windows 8.1 (new computer) -> Windows 10 (new computer) -> OpenSUSE Leap -> Debian -> FreeBSD -> OpenSUSE Tumbleweed -> Debian again

    • What’s the best ad blocker for you? - Firefox Add-ons Blog

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  • Got a source about Adguard? I use it on my phone, and I don't get any ads.