Littux

2mo ago

Does the average person know markdown?

I hate it when someone dumps their log file without using a code block. Even seen some Arch Linux users do it, which is, unsurprising really.

2mo ago

Does the average person know markdown?

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Voyager saved me

2mo ago

Does the average person know markdown?

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Does WhatsApp actually use markdown? The implementation is awful then.

2mo ago

Which of these javascript expressions is false?

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Merging the upvotes and downvotes is the best option

2mo ago

I tried

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 bash

    
#!/bin/env bash
echo "What music to play?"
echo "[1] Groovy; blues"
echo "[2] Japanese"
echo "[3] ??"
echo "[4] 8 bit Bass boosted"
read music

if [[ $music -eq 1 ]]; then
    echo "Enjoy!!"
    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,3,5,6,7,10,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000
fi


if [[ $music -eq 2 ]]; then
    echo 'Enjoy!!'
    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 2 --format S32 --rate 24000 &

    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format s32 --rate 2000
fi


[ $music -eq 4 ] && {
    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("4,5,7,11",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1046*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format S16 --rate 80000 &

    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i = 0; i < 1; i+= 0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1 % 8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | pacat --channels 1 --format u8 --rate 8000 --volume=50000
}


if [[ $music -eq 3 ]]; then
  echo "Taken from r/coding; enjoy!!"
  awk 'function wl() {
        rate=64000;
        return (rate/160)*(0.87055^(int(rand()*10)))};
    BEGIN {
        srand();
        wla=wl();
        while(1) {
            wlb=wla;
            wla=wl();
            if (wla==wlb)
                {wla*=2;};
            d=(rand()*10+5)*rate/4;
            a=b=0; c=128;
            ca=40/wla; cb=20/wlb;
            de=rate/10; di=0;
            for (i=0;i<d;i++) {
                a++; b++; di++; c+=ca+cb;
                if (a>wla)
                    {a=0; ca*=-1};
                if (b>wlb)
                    {b=0; cb*=-1};
                if (di>de)
                    {di=0; ca*=0.9; cb*=0.9};
                printf("%c",c)};
            c=int(c);
            while(c!=128) {
                c<128?c++:c--;
                printf("%c",c)};};}' | sox -t raw -r 64k -c 1 -e unsigned -b 8 - -d
fi
exit 0

2mo ago

Who needs stable, feature-rich desktops anyway

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I went from GNOME on Ubuntu, to KDE on Manjaro, to XFCE on Manjaro, and finally i3 on Arch.

GNOME was sluggish and not customisable.
KDE had graphical glitches everywhere that made navigating interfaces annoying sometimes

On XFCE, I actually didn't find that many issues. I just stopped using Manjaro and switched to i3 when doing so.

2mo ago

I swapped the entire school computers to linux mint

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Every government school here uses Linux. And there's no security (password is "password" even for root account). The only reason it works is because everyone has common sense on what they shouldn't do. The worst any kid could do is visit a "bad" site on a browser because no one knows how to do anything else.

Even the exam software assumes you don't know how things in Linux works:

The scores and answers are stored in simple non-encrypted SQLite3 databases at a directory in /usr/share.
During the exam, the panel for launching applications is hidden, so you can't cheat on questions like "What does this tool do in GIMP?" by opening GIMP. But you can just do Ctrl + Alt + T to launch the Terminal and Alt + Tab to switch to it.

I easily qualified for a State level competition where the education minister visited and had big news agencies visiting that made up a lot of nonsense. You can probably guess what the average student will be like from this

3mo ago

Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material

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If they were using user agents for identification, Android browsers on "Desktop mode" would be wrongly identified as "Linux". Even Discord has this issue on their download page. "Premium" Android devices with large screens use Desktop mode by default