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A "job safety program" is when an awful old open sores rapist inexplicably has a very comfortable sinecure where they don't seem to do much of anything except patch something like troff or sendmail three times a year
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Apr 19, 2020 16:18
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lol I don't know why I assumed he was loaded. I suppose you can post racism to a mailing list from a $30 fire tablet
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Apr 19, 2020 23:41
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spankmeister posted:I have no idea what HarfBuzz is and as such this previous page is a complete mystery to me. All I know is that HarfBuzz might be the absolute dumbest name for any software component ever, so at this point I don't even care to learn about it. "HarfBuff" sounds like it should be one of those Chinese brands on Amazon selling USB cables that fry your computer but the word is also uniquely repellent. It is a true achievement in open source naming conventions, right up there with GIMP and PornView
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May 10, 2020 14:57
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Cold on a Cob posted:harfbuzz is a loose transliteration of open type in persian but you can call it حرفباز if you prefer lol well now I feel like a goddamn rear end in a top hat
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May 11, 2020 02:44
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I don't have any issues aside from the power button disappearing from the start menu, and that there doesn't appear to be a working way to block start menu web search anymore except with a firewall. WSL 2 is great - I can do useless stuff on this PC that I used to have to SSH in to the other PC six feet away to accomplish
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Jun 10, 2020 16:33
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The power button no longer exists since updating and I can't find a toggle anywhere to get it back 
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Jun 10, 2020 16:56
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I mostly use the power button to hibernate because windows has trained me for years that it will sometimes just inexplicably fail to sleep/hibernate on its own I once had to work over RDP on a machine that didn't have the group policy to disable the start button set but did have a login banner yelling at me not to shut down the server
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Jun 10, 2020 23:50
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I had to stare at that for a while to realize that it's the back of the screen and intentional, not just the usual failure mode for linux video drivers or the usual failure mode for asus laptops
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Jul 21, 2020 14:36
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don’t jinx yourself on that mbp keyboard
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Jul 27, 2020 03:45
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spankmeister posted:Years ago I bought a Pine 64 board, and that experience cured me from ever wanting to buy another Pine product ever again. Their support is nonexistent, especially after the kickstarter was over. Shocking I know. This is an open source project. there’s nothing stopping you from reading the traces on the pcb and fixing the problem yourself with a soldering iron 
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Jul 27, 2020 17:13
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:aww slashdot no longer has article icons. how sad. They're in the top right of the header now, and kind of hard to see. It looks like they changed it from borg bill gates to "micorsoft" in black text at some point in the past ten years so that website is well and truly dead.
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Sep 28, 2020 17:13
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xtal posted:ThinkPad from 2008 you honestly will have a much better time with hardware support if you get a laptop that is a few years old
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Silver Alicorn posted:anything cool and new in the Linux world folks? they killed off the distro a large subset of people in this thread were using and recommending lol
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Dec 12, 2020 00:40
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how about gentoo binaries that contain a bundled executable for each and every conceivable combination of complier optimization flags?
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Jan 24, 2021 17:16
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I actually used enlightenment back in the day for a few months, then mandrake linux (lol) shipped a new version of KDE and I forgot about it. It's weird as hell that it still exists
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Mar 11, 2021 19:27
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Nitrousoxide posted:Posting on my favorite blogging site, somethingawful.com, that my Manjaro install has nuked itself out of nowhere. how did you manage to kill a manjaro? 
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Apr 6, 2021 18:37
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proxmox host, debian VM’s
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Apr 6, 2021 20:12
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RocketLunatic posted:if Apple open sourced the graphics for their M1s, I’d love it. not that it would serve a purpose other than to make their Macs again a superior Linux choice. maybe virtualization? isn't their poo poo actually designed by/descended from that company that refused to provide the bare minimum linux support for older intel onboard graphics?
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May 24, 2021 05:19
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gotta get raid modes 0 through 55 working first
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Aug 19, 2021 21:46
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Nomnom Cookie posted:cofounder refuses to stay in his lane, causes unnecessary drama. yup thats a linux what’s funny is that he almost certainly could’ve achieved the desired result by bribing them with t-shirts and/or a flattering writeup on their official blog
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Sep 2, 2021 15:49
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Zam Wesell posted:how big is the userbase for people who use touch on linux pretty big if you count recent chromebooks, though the vast majority of those people are never going to try to sideload a gnome desktop
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Oct 28, 2021 16:58
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I did an in-place upgrade to systemd on an arch linux box back in the day, which was far, far more work than reinstalling from scratch, so I can understand why those guys are bitter, but I blame arch linux not systemd
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good news everybody, I found an open source project with a worse name than THE GIMP https://github.com/fox0430/moe
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Feb 3, 2024 16:53
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Truga posted:every now and then someone tries to sell me on this or that thing and i'm always like "ok, but does it have a fully functional vim plugin" because 20 years of muscle memory for things many editors can't even do is horrible lol I wanna like helix editor but they altered the commands just enough to make switching back and forth between it and vim really annoying
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Feb 16, 2024 16:16
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oh no blimp issue posted:i do definitely enjoy using the jetbrains ides that looks like what this thing currently in beta is supposed to be? https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
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Feb 18, 2024 00:52
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fresh_cheese posted:we all get hosed up by the first platform we get gud at I'm going to win this game by never getting good at anything
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Feb 18, 2024 22:33
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nano with lua plugins seems like a joke but it's real
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Feb 21, 2024 16:40
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micro will be feature-complete when it offers a vim mode
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Feb 21, 2024 17:20
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reading between the lines, redhat got a legal nastygram and now they expect you to get your spice from a 3rd party repo while still paying them for support
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Mar 1, 2024 16:32
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lol going through the astronaut candidate selection process (but with more sexism) to (not) get a job repackaging debian
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Mar 18, 2024 20:58
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yeah, as a teenager I was extremely good at jerking off and smoking weed. it is right to be deeply suspicious of a south african entrepreneur who has novel ideas about quantifying the intrinsic worth of other human beings
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Mar 20, 2024 00:21
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pontiac made them change the name after they got it to stop leaking, crashing and dying constantly
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FlapYoJacks posted:ZSTD superiority. it's called zstd but xz is the one that has an std???? linux is so confusing
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Mar 29, 2024 19:54
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Private Speech posted:there's licensing issues with open source stuff sometimes, but yeah they probably just don't care enough isn't microsoft a part of the MPEG consortium or whatever it's called, the body that causes all of the codec distribution problems?
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my impression of linux filesystems is that your choices are ext4 which you should use, the one that is slightly faster than ext4 but loses data if the system crashes, slow zfs, slow reimplemented from first principles zfs, and a bunch of filesystems you should avoid
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lol reiser fs support persisted in the kernel until last year
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