Yes. Thank you for speaking the only truth in this thread.
The number 1024 is my favourite, it feels like a smooth slippery ice skating rink, with lots of room for activities.
12 is another good number, it feels like a sharp 12 pointed knife, very good at slicing things up evenly.
This number always feels like a completely full glass, one drop would overflow it.
Prominent open source projects you’re involved with or have contributed to.
Bro, people normally don’t comment in the form of a regular expression.
Yep, not bricked. Just frozen.
There are two forms of bricked:
Both are terms from the Phone modding community (ie, a phone has become as useful as a brick after this update) it’s quite hard to actually brick a modern PC.
If you take the plunge and switch to systemd-boot it’s worth it. It’s the only boot manager I’ve tried in the last decade that feels like an upgrade from GRUB.
Obesity, and bounciness.
In my early 20s I had a part-time job as a pizza delivery driver. When there were no deliveries, I would answer phones or take orders at the counter. One day one of the touchscreen monitors at the counter stopped working. It was just black all the time. So we were told not to use it.
A few days later I was on lunch shift and bored, I was trying random things to see if I could fix the monitor. Switched the inputs, switched to a different VGA cable, etc. At one point I discovered the touch panel was still working, I could interact with the OS, even though nothing was displaying. I was pressing around different areas of the screen and I accidentally found that pressing right in the centre of the screen caused the display to re-appear! It would disappear again after a few seconds. Press that spot again, it came back. I was fascinated by this, I showed some coworkers, they didn’t care.
Over the course of the day it was getting harder to make the display re-appear. It gradually needed to be pressed quite forcefully to come back. I started using my knuckles to knock sharply on the spot, and that was working.
When my manager arrived for the night shift, I was excited to show him my discovery. I said “hey man, I kinda fixed this monitor, watch this!” And I enthusiastically knocked hard on the centre of the screen with my first. The LCD lit up and showed the display, but at the same time shattered in a rainbow ring the shape of my fist.
The look on my manager’s face was of awe and horror. I was trying to explain what I had meant to do, but I realised what it must’ve looked like to him. “Hey man, watch me fix this monitor!” Before smashing the screen with a swift punch. It wasn’t possible to explain it a way that didn’t sound crazy.
In the end I convinced him that the monitor was faulty anyway, and we were going to replace it anyway, so my accident breaking it more is not a big deal.
I love it when the phlebotomist tells me I have nice veins. Makes me feel proud, and I like that it makes their life easier.
I believe FileLight (in OP above) is a fork of or built on top of QDirstat.
Ncdu is my go-to tool. Can’t live without it on the servers I administer. However from this thread I’ve also learned about gdu, diskonaut and du-dust that I need to check out.
I like Strawberry, for two reasons:
It was the first player I found that supported playing directly to a pipewire sink, without going through the Pulseaudio compatibility layer.
It can stream hi res FLAC files from Tidal.
How many eggs is a reasonable amount? Asking for a friend.
I agree. I’ve never bought an iPhone or iPad myself, but I’ve had old ones given to me.
When using an iPad (or an iPhone) the one thing to keep in mind is it’s NOT a computer. You cannot treat it like a PC, or expect it to behave like one. You cannot apply your decades of experience with PC operating systems, you need to forget what you know.
The iPad is an appliance. It is designed for consuming apps from the App Store. That’s all.
Android has been trying to do the same for years, but the benefit with Android is it’s Linux based, so we can always install a terminal emulator, and a file manager, and other admin tools that allow us to use the familiar PC patterns we’ve become accustomed to.
The whole company is just the one guy. He obviously has mental health issues.
I first tried a version of red hat that I got from a CD on the cover of a PC magazine back in 1999. I was barely a teenager, didn’t know what I was doing, ended up hating it. Then a couple years later I read about Mandrake, again got it from a CD on the front of a magazine. I used it for about a year before hopping to Slackware.
Mandriva is the new kid on the block. Real classic Linux users will remember Mandrake.
Okay. I’ll implement this change on Friday at 4.30pm.
I did Gentoo from stage 1 too back in the day, it’s was a valuable learning experience for me, and those skills helped me to fix things when they went wrong down the track.