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But they're already back! The Steam Deck is the resurrected Steam Machine.

I was intrigued for a moment; installed the package; then got greeted with this -- I don't think I'll proceed any further:

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the 'wheels' in a journal -- the 'journal of the wheels'. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the 'Wheel Wars'. He later drafted a document that he called 'Journal of the Whills', based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became 'Whill Wars', and ultimately, of course, 'Star Wars'.

what message? This was a real product released by Sony.

A pedantic thing to say, surely, but the title really should've been: "Linux Directory Structure" -- 'Linux filesystems' (the title in the graphic) refers to a different topic entirely; the title of this post mitigates the confusion a bit, though still, 'directory structure' is the better term.

The bot says it 'saved 0%'; so at least it's honest.

Thanks indeed; but I think I'd be more impressed if it were actually true.

(but yeah, the first draft of Star Wars was called 'journal of the whills'.)

That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

'Oxford Scholarship Online' would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn't get access to books classified under sociology or history.

Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a 'physical' library.

This can't go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can't avoid Tivoization!

Skimmed over the whole article -- I wish this had been available back when I was trying to piece together the basics from the documentation. There really needs to be a 2nd part, though, with some discussion of the GVariant signatures, which the author says were 'beyond the scope of' this article -- which is true; nevertheless, understanding that syntax (and how to use it e.g. with gdbus) is an absolute requirement for using dbus properly; and as a silly amateur, I lost so much time over them.

I am afraid that the need to understand how tools work will never go out of fashion. Not everyone's horizons are limited to one-time quick & dirty solutions.

chatgpt makes it ... go, amirite?

awk predates perl as well as python by a pretty large margin (1978); it's useful, of course, for processing things in a pipeline, but as it became obsolete as a general-purpose scripting language, users have had less and less of a reason to learn its syntax in detail -- so nowadays it shows up in one-liners where it could be replaced by a tiny bit of cut.

I had worked through a good bit of the O'Reilly 'sed & awk' book -- the first programming book I got, after being enticed by shell scripting in general. Once I learned a bit of Python, & got better at vim scripting, though, I started using it less and less; today I barely remember its syntax.

Those are straightforward; it's the remaining 900 options that are confusing. I always need to look up --excludes and always get --directory wrong, somehow.

Putting the following with executable permissions inside ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/SCRIPTNAME adds a right click menu to Nautilus that serves the same purpose:

#!/bin/bash

CLIPBD=''
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "x11" ]] && CLIPBD='xsel -ib'
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "wayland" ]] && CLIPBD='wl-copy --trim-newline' && wl-copy --clear

echo -n "${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}" \
  | tee >(xargs -I {} notify-send "Path Copied:" "{}") \
  | ${CLIPBD}

The 'notify-send' bit isn't necessary; it just puts up a notification.

Mentioning only because it's a simple demonstration of a pretty easy way to extend Nautilus for all kinds of purposes; w/o messing around with the pygobject interface. (There's supposed to be an xdg standard for file manager extensions like this, but managers use their own custom folders, syntax, etc. for such extensions. I think pcmanfm adheres to the standard; Dolphin requires a .desktop file somewhere; Thunar, Caja, & Nemo work similar to Nautilus.)

Oh wow I didn't realize he repeated 'developers, developers, ...' 666 times on that event.

There's a less capable Mv3 port of uBlock Origin by the original developer, called 'uBlock Origin Lite': https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

I use Chromium only very rarely, so I don't know how effective it is, though.

I believe the original SUSE Linux started as a bunch of helper scripts for installing Slackware.

GNU-Epoch is not the UNIX-Epoch.

I was about to quote the same.

... I mean, when you're this clueless, maybe don't put out 'articles' for others to read -- it's wasting everyone's time.

I thought the title of this article was intriguing; because in the Linux community certain aspects of the desktop experience do get hyped; & there's a tendency in general to sweep various usability issues under the rug, with the unwarranted confidence that we're already "better than everyone else" in every way; though the article doesn't address any of those.

He/she runs off to online forums to bicker about which {distro, WM, DE, text editor} is best, and how all others are unfathomably inferior, fundamentally broken abominations?

Or ... oh, sorry, I thought you meant something else.

Right; a stationary Steam Machine (upgradable, etc.) would be a desktop PC running SteamOS, which should probably remain outside the purview of Valve's hardware division.

Also animate it at ~10fps, making it visibly sad when it can't retrieve the files you ask for.

Better cite Wozniak as the one who 'made' Apple; but anyway.

This one's pretty good, I think: emac from 2002

Same here; also I once sent vim, the FreeBSD Foundation, & Thunderbird $5 each.

The torrents are alive; as long as you can get the torrent links from libgen, you have access to the files. (No need to share whole archives either, you can pick & choose).

pathetic overall

Wayfire brought back the compiz self-immolating window.

Actually I wonder if they named 'wayfire' after that fire effect.

If you're using the 'Pro' or 'Education' license for Windows 10, you can look into Hyper-V, which should allow you to boot a VM from a physical disk.

Hyper-V is built-in to Windows; & you just need to enable it in system settings.

Not sure if it works with partitions, if you're dual booting the OSs from separate partitions on the same disk -- it probably doesn't; in which case you might need to migrate Mint to its dedicated disk first.

On https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap it says:

xfce4-panel and xfdesktop have been ported to Wayland assuming our compositor will be based on wlroots.

xfce4-panel + xfdesktop + labwc is all the 'xfce' I think I'd ever need; so the wayland port is more or less 'done', AFAIC.

(Thunar has been wayland native since the gtk3 port completed a long time ago.)

I thought... well... nevermind...

'should have' -- but didn't? What happened then?

You can define a bunch of aliases in any shell environment for that. Or use a history manager (a database client essentially) that groups commands you've entered so far based on frequency, return value, working dir. when they were issued etc.

Recently I became aware of 'StarLite' tablets -- the prices are pretty steep, but the specs look really good, esp. wrt the screen.

The chatbots, presumably.

Here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (including an interview with the great Alexandra Elbakyan).

Cory Doctorow recently wrote about this in some detail (incl. helpful links): https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

For reference purposes, the manpages. For a more conversational, 'guide for the perplexed'-type book, though, I'd wholeheartedly recommend Michael W. Lucas's 'Networking for sysadmins' book: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa -- this one helped me understand many of the fundamental concepts.

What does Poett.'s current employment have to do with anything, though? Guido van Rossum (Python) & Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell) work at M$; I believe the guy who started Gentoo went on to work there likewise. Same with the lead dev of GNOME. I despise M$ as much as the next man; but correlations like these reek of guilt by association.

Firefox is already compatible with v3, by the way, since version 109: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/

IIRC this issue is mentioned in the gitlab discussions (from months ago ... not sure how this became news suddenly); they're looking to patch Inter if they decide to use it as the UI font.