Honestly this part of the XKCD meme never sat right with me. No self respecting emacs person would ever bind a command to C-x M-c
Meta after Ctrl rubs me the same way languages that use Subject Object Verb order do.
Like, you can do it, but it feels icky.
Also, you’ve gone to the trouble of creating a ‘butterfly’ key. Just use that.
They’re mimicking someone who’s trying to say the word dictionary but ironically lacks the diction to articulate it and instead says ‘wordbook’
It is humorous because of the implication that extreme right wingers ala Fox news and it’s viewers are illiterate hillbillies. They’re not. They’re just insane.
Ooh I see it now. They need to work on it lol
Honest question. Are you a real person?
Notice how they said
Not assessed to be criminal
And not
Assesed to be not criminal
Scottish Cops are still Cops I guess
Yeah the “tech tips” distro feels vaguely abusive and toxic
The implication, of course, is that the only way someone stops using Debian is if they die
Ah yes, python is psuedocode
I agree. I think that’s why nix-os is getting so popular these days.
I love the idea of declarative system builds even beyond just reproducability. The idea that you can essentially make your own distro without much difficulty is really cool.
Plus all the benefits of roll backs, light backups, etc.
Plus if you can dig deep enough you can craft a system that never breaks by pinning certain versions.
One of these days I want to check it out. As well as LFS. Oh but for the want of time.
Yeah, you will invariably remove something crucial haha. The nice thing with arch is that usually you can fix it without too much fuss.
Me learning to use Linux was like teaching a child that can’t feel pain to not touch fire.
I don’t know if that’s a widely recognized term.
Pacman used to be really bad at removing unneeded dependencies. I think pretty much every package manager has this facility now. For instant apt auto remove.
Suppose you installed gnome to try it out, gnome installs like 1000000 packages. The thing about some of those dependencies is that they’re really useful. It’s not uncommon for another package you have installed to use it as an optional dependency. In that case it doesn’t get flagged for autoremoval when you uninstall gnome.
When you apply this logic a couple layers deep they start to compound.
Also libraries and random python scripts tend to just exist forever in your system long after you used it lol.
I started developing the habit of checking what dependencies are being installed and to uninstall immediately when I realize I don’t need it.
This logic applies to language specific managers like cargo or pip too.
They all have really good tooling to figure out leaves, orphaned nodes etc. I just didn’t start using those until I got into the arch hype.
Arch breaking grub has happened to me twice. Second time I couldn’t even recover the install.
You learn a lot of good practices by using arch, eg a separate home partitjon, git repositories for your config files, maintaining a clean package tree etc. Installing Arch is also really useful for noobs like me to learn some Linux basics.
I use Fedora, btw.
Sounds like a skill issue. Some people just don’t know how to use Arch.
Signed,
Someone who has spent more days reinstalling Arch than using it.
I’m Indian. I’m willing to bet a bunch of kids who just built their first pc didn’t realize windows was paid just googled free OS and installed Linux lol
(This is a sarcastic whit at the frugality of my people. Truth is a lot of Indians my age are extremely tech savvy and care about privacy)
Corruptocracy
It’s pronounced Donger.
Look bud. I get that you want a trusty point of reference for their gender, and kudos to you on that. The whole reason they were brutally beaten to death is because of their gender non conformity. Them being trans has been the whole reason the police has been so virulent in their disinformation.
If you believe there is possible doubt about what they said their gender was or you are confused by conflicting sources, maybe just say Nex?
More and more it seems like it’s especially if it’s gonna make things better lol
Then, we’d have to shift the jokes to which editors can run in emacs.
Yeah you can. When I upgraded from the then middle tier to the unlimited I just paid the difference pro rata iirc