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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Before criticizing the GOP for this, let's not forget the kind of degenerate that Salk was: not only did he not seek profit for the polio vaccine, but he also worked on AIDS vaccine research.

So I think the GOP should be lauded for their consistency here! Surely the work of someone who wanted healthcare for all (regardless of means) and who supported efforts towards a disease which was at the time synonymous with certain "lifestyle choices" cannot be trusted.

(Big fat /s, but I really hope that's obvious.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

In some ways I think the filesystem is philosophically the exact opposite of systemd


I can boot my system with an ext4 root, with a btrfs /home...or vice versa. Or add some ZFS, or whatever. The filesystem is (with the exception of some special backup schemes) largely independent of the rest of the system, despite being of core importance.

On the other hand, I can't change my init system (i.e., systemd) without serious, serious work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't hate it now, though I did when it first came out, as it borked my system on several occasions. I'm still not a fan, but it works so eh.

One borkage was that the behavior of fstab changed, so if there was e.g. a USB drive in fstab which was not connected at startup, the system would refuse to boot without some (previously not required) flags in fstab. This is not a big deal for a personal laptop, but for my headless server, was a real pain. The systemd behavior is arguably the right one, but it broke systems in the process. Which is somewhat antithetical to, say, Linus Torvalds' approach to kernel development ("do not break user space").

It also changed the default behavior of halt


now, it changed it to the "correct" behavior, but again...it broke/adversely affected existing usage patterns, even if it was ultimately in the right.

In addition to all of this, binary logs are very un-UNIXy, and the monolithic/do-everything model feels more like Windows than *NIX.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What, the curtains?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Primus sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe both? BSD for his server, Slackware for his desktop. Or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'm guessing Baby Got Back.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's from Phoronix. This is kinda what they do. It's not worthy of the front page of the Wall Street Journal, but then, no one said it was....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Takes all types I guess.

But maybe take OP's distro recommendations with a grain of salt...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you find yourself running the same set of commands over and over, throw 'em in a shell script and keybind it! It may be obvious, but good to keep in mind.

One fun one is to pipe clipboard to qrencode


it's a simple and (nearly) universally supported way of getting a URL, etc., from a laptop/desktop to a phone.

Another great one is to take a screenshot, upload to your server, and put the URL in the paste buffer. Bonus points to put the URL in the middle click buffer and the image itself in the ctrl-v buffer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"Have a good time, all the time."


Viv Savage, keyboardist for Spinal Tap

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I just use one account.

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