Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Look man, I don’t fully understand it either, but whether it be for the meme, for irony, for long-standing fandom, whether someone has a mad crush on, or wants to be Miley Cyrus as she was, as Hannah, or as she is now, or some other reason inconceivable to those of us outside its sphere of attraction, it exists.
And at least it isn’t Omarchy.
I made the same mistaken assumption not too long ago. HML did die for a while, but it’s been resurrected. It’s a little odd as choices go, but as an Ubuntu derivative it’s probably not deserving of its “review” in the video.
Win 7’s interface was good for a number of reasons and that’s why my UI looks even more like it than the stock Cinnamon themes, which are already a deliberate rip-off.
If that makes people think me a psycho, so be it.
Huh. I guess it’s possible it’s always been a thing in my WM and I thought I set it up. I do like to fiddle with the keybinds to do funky things. And lots of things carry over between machines and reinstalls if you move your entire home directory around like I do, so it’s easy to forget what’s original and what’s not.
Now that I think about it, maybe the change I made was to add Alt-Enter as an alternative for Alt-F11 as a carry-over from DOS prompts in the old days, and Alt-F11 was already there.
Anyway, if it solves your problem, that’s all that matters!
Minecraft scales with window size. Try using your window manager’s full-screen option rather than Minecraft’s own.
I used to have to do this on an old computer because, for a while at least, I found that Minecraft’s full screen didn’t play nice with vsync, and I got screen-tearing, but windowed mode had no such problems. The problem resolved itself either due to a Minecraft upgrade or something in the graphics driver, X11 or the kernel finally got patched. Still not sure which.
When you use the WM’s full-screen, Minecraft (or at least older Minecrafts) will still think it’s in windowed mode. Newer Minecrafts seem to be wiser to the trick, but you shouldn’t have any such trouble.
Anyway, I used to bind Alt-F11 in the system keybinds (actually I still do, just in case) and used that rather than regular F11 to toggle mode.
Tangentially, I also have a keybind that moves the Cinnamon panel to the top of the screen. For a while, the trick didn’t work and I had to run Minecraft maximised. Having the panel at the bottom under the game’s UI was a distraction. At the top I could tune it out along with the window’s title bar. I found that having the panel auto-hide, which misbehaved, or just disabling it outright, were too much of an inconvenience, hence figuring out a hack that moved the panel.
That situation didn’t last long. Maybe a point revision or two of Minecraft, and that was definitely well after 1.12.
Obligatory mention that the old-school greybeard archetype still exists and I’d guess that more of those are gay than egg or hatching / hatched (UrbanDictionary is no help here, but I assume those are terms. If not, please extrapolate.)
There may also be other archetypes not predisposed to needing HRT. I’m not sure what archetype Linus himself is, for example. The distinct lack of beard means he doesn’t quite fit greybeard, and it sure looks like he’s comfortable as he is.
But it’s good to know that tech folks are now available in more stripes than the original stereotypes. It keeps the weirdy-beardies* who still live in musty wizard towers on their toes if they dare to come down.
* I look in the mirror every day. I know what I see.
In my experience, this works about 25% of the time and is cause for extreme nervousness about what will happen if it tries to call a function that isn’t actually present in the version it has been fooled into accepting.
It’s never actually formatted my entire system even when it’s gotten me a little further, perhaps to a different sort of crash, but that fear is always there.
Given the reference, it would have been a decent burn if you’d said Mint or Ubuntu.
I’m an LMDE user which is a sliver more advanced, but not by much. The song might even fit better. I can point at and name parts of the system and maybe even work with them, but most of the time someone else is looking after me.
My body order is head, shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes). I have no idea how that flags me as a Linux user.
Semantics, semantics.
If you manage to run TempleOS on the bare metal, your CPU and fans will be stuck at 100% until you turn it off or your CPU overheats.
Run it in a VM and you won’t have that problem.
You can argue that anything above Ring -3 is virtual, but “if I do this my CPU’s going to die” is a pretty reasonable dividing line between “technically” and “actually”.
Class of '99 here.
There’s at least a decade between the beginning of that list and people regularly using punch cards and tape. Maybe two.
Magnetic tapes and actually floppy floppy disks were the medium of choice in the interim.
I actually did this for a laugh a very, very long time ago. I had upgraded my 75MHz Pentium machine from 8MB to a whopping 40MB, so since I knew it would run fine with just 8, I installed a TSR RAMdisk and told Windows 3.1 to put its swap on that drive.
It worked great, but I decided I’d rather use the memory for other things.
But in more modern times, I’ve literally forced browser caches into memory-based tmpfs to take the load off system disks, which is basically the same thing. And it reduces wear on my hardware.
I was being a silly goose and pretending I was more clueless than I actually am.
(Probably not by as much as I’d like to think.)
False. It’s a shell synonym for /home/ah-ha-ha-nice-try-you-are-not-getting-my-real-homedir-name
… it’s a PITA to type out longhand, let me tell you.
I forgor the tilde and its taking a long time. wat do
There’s a little manual wheel under the LED display on really old models but with newer models it can be done digitally with the remote control.
Wait. Where am I. What year is this? This isn’t about VCRs at all!
(Apologies for the joke. I couldn’t resist.)
I didn’t say it wasn’t a British stereotype, only that that particular British stereotype is not one that says “innit”.
There’s a stereotype of stereotypes that there are only two English accents: “aristocratic” and “cockney”. The film Mary Poppins may have a lot more to do with this than it ought to.
Anyway, the Countryball’s appearance is associated with the aristocratic. “Innit” is cockney. (This is overly general to the point of being wrong, but for the sake of this argument, it’s close enough.)
The hat, moustache and monocle are not of a British stereotype that uses the word “innit”.
I see at least a couple of problems here. The main one is that it assumes that the computer only has one user. This is often true, but not always.
If this script is run by a child on a shared computer, and that child chooses not to lie, the child and all adults with access to the machine lose access to /sbin/doas. Likewise if one adult chooses to lie that they’re a child, they’ll lock themselves and everyone else out, child or not, which is an opportunity for malicious behaviour
It also means that something else would need to be done with regard to /etc/enviroment. Even on a one user, two roles machine, that entry really ought to be under /etc/environment.d, but the more robust, multi-age, multi-user solution would need something entirely different to be implemented. /etc/profile would be the wrong place, and editing each user’s .profile (or equivalent) and then making it read-only seems like a bad plan too.
What I shall take from this:
Overclock screwdriver labor. - That’s what electric screwdrivers are for, right?
Thermal paste RAM format. - Intriguing. Tell me more. Is this a new zRAM thing?
Underclock yourself. - Sound advice. Overwork leads to burnout. Take your time.
Rebooting legally bottlenecks dial-up warranty - I can’t believe this parses as a sentence and actually makes some kind of sense. I mean, if you’re self-important enough to think it’s worth asking, your ISP will almost certainly say you’re not going to be able to use the internet when you’re rebooting your modem.