See I would marry the Stenographer, kill the steganographer and fuck the stegosaurus.

Fuck marry kill:

Stenographer, Steganographer, Stegosaurus.

Holy Word 97 Batman!

They’re not dissimilar in design from the tiny houses designed by Jay Shafer which were technically campers, built on car hauler trailers towable by pickup.

You said it when you posted on Lemmy.

Everyone here is deeply damaged. If you say you like pancakes on this platform, someone’s going to jump to the conclusion that you want to genocide the people of Belgium for having invented the waffle, because if you like pancakes you must hate waffles.

Why you got to be a breakfast nazi like that, lowspeedchase?

I have a house built in the 50’s that does indeed dwarf those…whatever the fuck they are. It was built as a 2 bed 1 bath, a wall has been knocked through to make one of the bedrooms into part of the main room…It’s maybe 700 square feet? The issues are, it’s badly laid out and it’s full of my ancestors’ shit. Also it’s badly oriented in a bad location.

I would be fine if the building was smaller, if it was designed by someone who’s head isn’t full of lead. If I do go about building my own home, it’s going to be smaller than this one. And the bedroom will have one dresser in it, not four. And I’ll have one living room with one couch in it, not two. And I won’t bother with a 6-place dining room table.

I legitimately don’t know how to administer a Windows system anymore.

I associate this commercial with another commercial for either IcyHot or Blue Star ointment.

I’m a little drunk, let that be explanation/excuse here:

When I was very young, like 3 or 4, in the early 90’s, I remember seeing commecials for what I now understand are fake fingernails. It was a commercial that showed a woman grabbing her–to a 4 year old–normal woman’s long fingernail, and casually prying it back so that it popped off and hinged back with a sticky yellow goo under it. What the commercial was selling was an acrylic nail that attached to your real nail without messy adhesives, what 4 year old me saw was a woman casually tearing her body apart. To this day I chew my nails to the quick so nothing can get under them, and I’m damn near 40.

This gave me the same “why the FUCK did you pull on it like that?” feeling as that commercial.

Arch has good documentation. Read it and you’ll be ok.

You want to try that again with some sentience this time?

The GUI app stores are much better than any helper script I could write.

apt-search and dnf-search both exist. I have used both. I prefer a GUI for that because they’ll provide things like screenshots, no CLI tool does, neither to TUI tools like Aptitude.

I do both. If I know exactly what I want to install, I’ll install it from the terminal because it’s often more direct. If I go “I need an app that does thing, what’s available?”

So the joke is, you’ve got something you want to install, be it a Python module, Java library, steam game, desktop application, whatever. You want it installed, figuring out which package manager has it and remembering the exact command syntax starts getting to be a pain, so just use this script to try installing it from a variety of sources.

You would evoke it by running ./install.sh package and it will replace all instances of $1 with the string “package” at runtime. The ampersand at the end of each line will run that line as a separate background process rather than in the foreground process, so effectively this will attempt to install “package” or whatever you put in as an argument from a half dozen sources simultaneously in parallel.

These include the old and new Python package managers, the old and new Red Hat package managers, debian/Ubuntu’s APT with and without sudo, cloning a git repo and building from source, and the icing on the cake is curling directly into bash.

Don’t curl directly into bash. You’ll catch genital rabies.

Remember that this is an XKCD comic, it’s a joke. The alt-text says “The failures usually don’t hurt anything and if it installs multiple versions it increases the chance one of them is right. (the ‘yes’ command and ‘2>/dev/null’ are recommended additions.)” “Yes” is a bash command that will spam ‘y’ in the terminal, the point of it is to answer yes to any questions an automated system asks, and 2>/dev/null will stop it from displaying errors. These add an even deeper level of Yolo-ing.

That’s a unique coat.

Badger badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom! badger badger badger badger AH! Snake! Snake! Snake! Ooooh, it’s a snake!

Gnome is trying to do their whole “Macintosh with a concussion” thing, there’s a handful of tiling window managers that are difficult to describe, but…kinda yeah. Most of us also use QWERTY keyboards that date to the 19th century.

systemd would be a fantastic OS if only it had an init system.

Linux has a wide selection of GUIs. For those comfortable with Windows I would recommend either Mint’s Cinnamon or KDE.