TimeSquirrel

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TimeSquirrel, (edited )

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That's nice, but this ain't MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of "but this isn't exactly like Winders11!!!one!" starts to grate on me. It's a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they've completely forgotten about because it's second nature.

I don't WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

TimeSquirrel,

Oh yeah, there are advantages to each, despite the bickering and camps we put ourselves into. It all comes down to what abilities you're gonna lose, and what you're gonna gain when making the decision.

For me, I rarely game, and I do a lot of hobby electronics and programming, so Linux is a good fit. There's so many cool open source programmer utilities out there.

For my wife, it fits not so much.

TimeSquirrel,

Yeah, and NT was pretty much just a corporate and government thing throughout the 90s. It wasn't until XP that home users got it on the desktop, and even then, the first user created automatically had all admin rights, because people were still used to the Win9x/DOS way of doing things. Separation of different accounts with different privilege levels wasn't a widespread practice up until maybe Windows Vista.

TimeSquirrel,

They are called "programs", not "apps". The word "app" was created for the iPhone and originally meant a "mini" slimmed down application meant for mobile devices, not a catch-all term for any user program running on a CPU.

/getoffmylawn

TimeSquirrel,

I prefer https://i.imgur.com/E0QsRiQ.png

TimeSquirrel,

Keep reading:

The term "app" usually refers to applications for mobile devices such as phones.

Trump loudly booed at Libertarian convention when he asks attendees to ‘nominate me or at least vote for me’ (www.cnn.com)

“Now I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together,” Trump said. “Because the Libertarians want to vote for me … and it’s very important because we have to get rid of the worst president in history.”...

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

"We also want to be racist and stomp on the working class, but we also still want to smoke weed." - that about sums them up. They got me because of that single issue back in the Ron Paul days before I looked deeper into everything else they were about.

Then I discovered libertarian socialism, when the whole Occupy Wallstreet thing went down. I liked that one better. Couldn't figure out why America's official "Libertarian" party were being such asskissers to capitalist power.

TimeSquirrel,

“If you’re a political movement and you want to get supporters at a time when socialism is attracting more and more interest, well, you might be tempted to grab hold at least of the name,” Wolff said, noting that this was a strategy most famously used by Adolf Hitler during his rise to power.

Yeah. That's why they called themselves National "Socialists". To suck up ignorant working class votes. I mean, they are even openly admitting following the same strategy now and everybody is still sleeping...WTF.

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I can't fucking imagine being this enraged about dumb stupid shit like this all the fucking time. I noticed this about a lot of right wingers. Whereas most centrists and leftists will just go about their day like a normal fucking person, to a conservative, every god damn thing is politically against them and something to spend angry energy on. Politics is literally all some of them know.

Like literally, Ill be in a casual conversation at work, completely unrelated to politics, like talking about how shitty the drivers in the city are, and some goddamn conservative will pop up and start blaming the "woke libruls" for it. I imagine them shouting at imaginary strawmen whenever they stub their toes (yes, I know that's also a strawman, but I'm sticking to it).

The worst are the racist ones who will start spouting racist shit at you just because you're also white, so they think you're "one of them".

Edit: reminds me of this https://i.imgur.com/EPHhxAB.png

TimeSquirrel,

Back to the 80s/early 90s where the only people using computers were the ones that actually knew how to use computers? Hell yes, take me back.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

This is it. That is the man's legacy now. His tombstone will read "brainworm guy".

Not sure what he thought he had to gain by divulging that info.

BTW guys sorry I was off the Fediverse for a while, had to go get some polyps removed...big'uns too, size of a golf ball. /s

TimeSquirrel,

Literally just learned about it now. After 42 years of ignorance.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

That'd make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?

I don't know, but the amount of USB drives I've seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉

I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.

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supporting the terrorist Hamas organization.

Is this something you're gonna back up and show us is actually happening, or just a random brain fart? And before you reply, all Palestinians != Hamas.

TimeSquirrel,

Sorry. Wife's Christmas present. She wanted to surprise me. Gotta make do.

TimeSquirrel,

What the hell did they do, take a shit on his frosted flakes?

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

Circuit City

Warning: trigger activated, loading and playing long lost childhood memory:

🎵 "WELCOME TO CIRCUIT CITY, WHERE SERVICE IS STATE OF THE ART" 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWRWg83Zvs

TimeSquirrel,

Words of wisdom from SatansMaggotyCumFart.

TimeSquirrel,

First time seeing him. Jesus. He looks just like him, 60 years ago. Y'all sure he didn't just clone himself?

TimeSquirrel,

Do any of you people actually use your OS, or do you just distro-hop and tweak things all day?

TimeSquirrel,

You know jokes and sarcasm are a thing, right?

TimeSquirrel,

Sorry for the confusion. I should probably start using emojis to convey playfulness in nonserious comments.

TimeSquirrel,

Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.

TimeSquirrel,

We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that's not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.

TimeSquirrel,

Perry then defended replacement theory,

"I ain't racist, they're racist."

Immediately proceeds to do a racism

TimeSquirrel,

They've been doing it for years. Like the "National Socialists are leftists because socialist is in the name" thing. Ignoring that in Europe at the time, everybody was basically calling themselves socialist to chase the votes of the working population.

They aren't stupid, it's intentional, to muddy the waters for people that aren't very familiar with that history.

TimeSquirrel,

I thought brainworms were just a colloquial saying, not an actual thing!

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

TimeSquirrel,

Ubuntu is basically dead

It's dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it's very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store's CCTV system.

TimeSquirrel,

Isn't that still in system RAM at this stage in the boot process?

TimeSquirrel,

They aren't. But if one side could grow a pair instead of pretending that the other side is still willing to debate and act rationally like it's still the 90s, that would be great.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

All those guns and missiles < fast as fuck carrying just some cameras, always watching, invisible to radar. Don't even know it's there.

TimeSquirrel,

I'm a radio enthusiast. I like listening to it at night because you can pick up stuff from thousands of miles away. When the ionosphere is higher and stronger. Especially camping out in the middle of nowhere.

TimeSquirrel,

Neofetch is only dead if y'all let it die. Same as Hexchat.

TimeSquirrel,

Libraries and APIs are a moving target. Eventually it won't run on modern systems anymore without modification.

TimeSquirrel,

Server consoles. Admins need some tunes in the data room while they're migrating DBs.

TimeSquirrel,

My question is, how can you look at whitespace in a filename and not have your eyelid twitch?

TimeSquirrel,

being autistic

Easy there, a lot of people on the spectrum built everything you're using to talk to me right now.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

By "a lot of people", I meant "a great many of them" compared to neurotypicals. Not all.

It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it's a second language.

It's easy to recognize in people like RMS, Steve Wozniak, and Torvalds if you are afflicted with it too (although technically none have been officially diagnosed). Even Elon Musk exhibits traits of it (as much as I don't want to be associated with him) I can still recognize the complete social ineptitude and obsessive behaviors that are often associated with it.

TimeSquirrel,

On Lemmy? Do they even know this place exists? Not exactly the world's most popular social media network here...

TimeSquirrel,

Or he's just a very old man, and his time is drawing closer. Especially with the Big Mac diet.

TimeSquirrel,

Did it for shits and giggles once back in 2006. I think everyone serious about learning Linux at a "pro" level should go through the process at least once, even if the system gets wiped afterward in favor of a more usable distro. Teaches you what the standardized core components are and what they do, and gives you a clear understanding of how Linux is structured. That knowledge will carry on over to other distros and will make it much, much easier to troubleshoot issues with your system if you know how the parts of that system work.

For those unaware or who never used it, it has a huge setup guide with copy/pastable commands to guide you through each step. Theres even an automated script from what I remember. They don't just give you a pile of source code and tell you "good luck".

why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

Ethernet had this figured out almost 30 years ago with auto-negotiation. Last crossover cable I ever used was in 2004 for a customer's old hub they didn't want to replace. Yes, "hub", not "switch".

TimeSquirrel,

"Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on."

That's a tear jerking quote right there. o7

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

In that case, you implement the old API or other interfaces so older things will continue working, while having the new one alongside it, and then phase the old one out when nobody is using it anymore. It's not that hard to emulate an older API with a newer subsystem. Just a shitload of function wrappers and things so that the things your program used to call now transparently use the new system while the program is unaware anything changed from its perspective.

That's what happens with the Linux kernel. Linus would go apeshit if one of the devs straight up broke a ton of user programs with a change. He's already demonstrated his commitment to not doing that in one of his mailing list rants. Because unlike GNOME, the kernel is running some pretty critical things all around the world.

GNOME seems to be treating their DE like their own little pet project that they're tinkering with alone in the basement without caring that millions are relying on it every day. Breaking a large portion of programs on a regular basis is what I do in the evenings. Not professionals.

TimeSquirrel,

There are several other states considering bans too. Here we finally have a viable way of ending the suffering we inflict on nonhuman animals and it's facing so much resistance. Pisses me off. Things like this shouldn't even be part of a discussion if it's determined to be safe through rigorous testing, they should just be straight up promoted and implemented immediately.

So many things society could massively benefit from are constantly held back by a minority group of hardheaded, self-centered, unscientific, anti-intellectual morons.

TimeSquirrel,

Excuse me? Crimea IS (or was) part of Ukraine. The fuck are you on about "second" country? This invasion has been already happening for a decade more or less.

TimeSquirrel,

🛢 = 🏴✊?

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