I uh, really hope it STAYS private posts that only both users can see, just with encryption on top.

Way too many people think it should be some kind of weird bolted-on IM system and like… ugh NO!! the current way it works is better than that!

– Frost

What Apple does is they give you a temporary certificate that expires in like a week.

Works for development. Makes actually using your own apps impossible.

– Frost

Yeah, don’t, please.

The mountain of slop isn’t a good thing.

– Frost

systemd used to be just an init system.

It’d actually be pretty good, if it stuck to just being an init system!

But noooo. Now it does DNS resolution. Network management. NTP time sync. They basically bought out udev and folded it into systemd, somehow. Login session management. A fucking BOOTLOADER.

It’s too much power to give to one project.

You uninstall systemd, half your system breaks and you suddenly have to relearn a bunch of crap all at once if you were using the systemd things for them before.

Oh, and did I mention that anyone using or talking about non-systemd methods of doing things tends to get painted as “oh that’s OLD and OUTDATED and OBSOLETE, just use the systemd way it’s Modern™ and good”? That’s a thing too. See: cron and systemd timers (oh yeah, they have a cron replacement now too for some reason).

– Frost

They have a direct APK download though, IIRC, which works fine.

Mostly because a) “use this other random distro” is a bit of a hard sell to people (but so is “rip out the rot inside the heart of your system and then patch up everything that was relying on it”, to be fair), and b) we’ve heard shit about the Devuan devs specifically. I can’t remember what that shit was, though, unfortunately. There’s also AntiX but IIRC it doesn’t offer OpenRC as an easy install option, and MX Linux but I can’t remember whether they do or not and I think they also don’t. But AntiX and MX are both good if you like one of the init systems they offer!

I think I also heard that some of the Devuan devs’ work got folded back into upstream Debian, and there’s a debian-init-diversity mailing list now at the very least. So like, just giving up and going “welp Debian is systemd now, can’t do anything about it” doesn’t sound great to me. Gotta have people actually installing other init systems on Debian if you want usability issues with doing that to be fixed!

– Frost

Never heard of liberated systemd, but you can also ditch systemd entirely if you want. At least on Debian; Mint being (indirectly) based on Debian, I bet it’d work there, too.

I have a whole blog post on doing that! https://frost.brightfur.net/blog/ditching-systemd-on-debian/

Expect stuff to break, though (which I cover in the blog post). liberated systemd would be more of a drop-in replacement. Installing it might be a pain in the tail though, because I doubt there’s a package for it.

– Frost

The pirates have been wearing archivist hats for a good while now, I think. At least in the movie space.

– Frost

Linux Mint uses apt for the regular system stuff.

with apt, canceling during the download phase is totally safe.

canceling during the install phase is ALSO fairly safe. apt tries to make sure you’re never in an unbootable state if you have to cancel it, or your power cuts out, or whatever. It will, however, put apt into an “ack things are half-done!” state and you’ll need to run sudo dpkg --configure -a after you’re booted up, which is “finish installing the half-installed packages that apt was in the middle of doing before”.

I think we’ve heard apt is better about this than most other package managers. So it might not be a good idea on EndeavourOS (Arch-based).

– Frost

Otherwise it’d only check for the lock once. It’d run, go “oops, apt is in use!”, and quit, and never check again.

The loop here is what makes it check again at all.

– Frost

Am in the US. Can confirm. Do not come here.

– Frost

Two of us.

And we’re on Linux even. It has its own share of issues. Generally, if a problem is game-specific, the fixes are stuff like “switch Proton versions” (there’s a little dropdown in Steam or whatever launcher you use) or “toss some environment variable in the launch options”. But those are really a thing of the past now, stuff just works.

And it never took installing drivers for a specific game (…huh?). Installing drivers is a thing you do once, if that, during initial setup, just like you’d do account creation for a console.

– Frost

We’re 26. The new stuff is crap, and that’s not just nostalgia goggles, it is actually objectively worse.

There’s plenty of new stuff that isn’t crap, like say indie games. But the platforms, the consoles, etc.? Those are intentionally disrespectful these days in a way even, say, the Wii/PS3 era of consoles wasn’t (and they certainly weren’t perfect either, it just started getting way worse way faster after that).

Oh fucking yikes.

Yes it does, check out Bodhi Linux!

It’s about squick.

Think about how they call sex with animals “bestiality”. It’s not “oh it’s because it hurts the animals!”, it’s because “ew, gross, you’re stooping to the level of an ANIMAL!”.

I don’t think it’s about consent, either. If you were somehow able to communicate well enough to actually get consent (which, to be clear, is pretty iffy what with the whole language barrier and such), people would still be squicked.

(also I’m pretty sure “zoophilia” is more about being into animals rather than actual sex with them, which is the whole “bestiality” thing. You can be into someone/a group of people without wanting to rape them.)

It’s probably because most of society fundamentally doesn’t see other animals as people, and therefore killing them is totally fine (“what? they’re not people!”), but having sex with them is Evil and Bad (“why would you want to have sex with them? they’re not even a person!”).

Yeah it makes no sense.

Perl has its own man pages, like commands do, but specifically for Perl stuff!

There’s also a “perldoc” command that works a lot like man, that documents the functions and things.

For this, check out perldoc -f s (the s “function”) and man perlretut (regular expressions). MagnificentSteiner here is using /e on the end of the regex to write Perl code in the replacement instead of a string (that’s mentioned in the perlre man page), and then using the sprintf function to do some formatting, which, perldoc -f sprintf.

For a general intro to Perl, man perlintro!

… Oh, uh, you may need to install the perl-doc package (or equivalent) to have any of this documentation.

– Frost

I have no idea honestly!

– Frost

Oh yep! If you’re on Linux, sudo apt install git should sort you out if you’re on a Debian-ish distro (including Mint or Ubuntu). Fedora it’s sudo dnf install git, Arch… uhh… I don’t know a ton about Arch’s pacman.

Pretty sure that’s an American vs. British spelling difference. So yeah, it is honour, for them.

– Frost