This story has one, but rather painful, problem: it ends unfinished after 45 chapters (221,852 words; last update Nov 15, 2012), which is quite painful....
I was never distro-hopping much. Switched from Debian only when I got a job with Red Hat, and then switched to openSUSE when I switched to SUSE. I have actually switched recently to my own semi-distro sr.ht/~mcepl/moldavite/ (basically MicroOS with sway).
I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS...
Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman starred in the Harry Potter movie series as Sirius Black, and the actor credits the role with making him a better father. But Oldman didn’t love everything about the Harry Potter series. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Oldman said his performance in the films was “mediocre.”...
Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....
Yes, of course, the sockets are the answer to everything (and BTW, d-bus uses sockets as well, e.g. /run/dbus/system_bus_socket on my current system), but the problem is no standard for the communication over these sockets (or where is the socket located). For example, X11 developed one system of communicating over their socket, but it was used just by few X11 programs, and everybody else had their other system of communication. And even if an app found some socket, there was absolutely no standard how exactly should programs communicate over it. How to send more than just plain ASCII strings? Each program had to write their own serialization/deserialization code, their own format for marshalling binary data, etc. Now there is just one standard for those protocols, and even libraries with the standard (and well tested) code for it.
Not vim necessarily, but I would really suggest thinking about a plain text editor of your choice and some of those lightweight markup languages (Markdown itself, reStructuredText, ASCIIDoc … I prefer rST, but they are mostly the same). Exactly because it allows me to concentrate on the content and ignore formatting. Besides, formatting, do you write for print or as everybody else these days for HTML? Why do you need a large word processor which is build primarily for preparing documents for print? Every serious text editor has some kind of plugins with spellcheckers, grammar checkers, dictionaries, etc.
Eh? Both pandoc and rst2epub can generate eBooks. All those lightweight markup languages are especially awesome for converting into various output formats.
I’ve been reading Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, and since nobody in my life (aside from my wife) cares, I thought I’d share something I’m pretty proud of. My first set of regular expressions, that I wrote myself to manipulate the text I’m working with....
Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems. – yakugo in regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3022 (and yes, it is http:// never https:// for this domain)
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments...
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
ZFS is not really hip. It’s pretty old. But also pretty solid. Unfortunately it’s licensed in a way that is maybe incompatible with the GPL, so no one wants to take the risk of trying to get it into Linux. So in the Linux world it is always a third-party-addon. In the BSD or Solaris world though …
Also ZFS has tendency to have HIGH (really HIGH) hardware/CPU/memory requirements.
I haven’t meant it as the criticism of ZFS. It is just so, and perhaps there were good reasons for it. Now (especially with the convergence trend) it hurts.
I’ve been a software engineer for 10 years now but want to work with Linux more in a professional setting (not to mention the number of layoffs in the the dev industry has me thinking a backup plan might be a good idea). I have been using Linux exclusively on my personal machine for about 15 years now so I’m not too worried...
It cheaper alternative it RHCE. It should be able to persuade a potential employer that when they put you next to a Linuxbox the result most likely won’t be an explosion. It did work for me and I got my first IT job with it, paradoxically with Red Hat. While being there I got also RHCE (both certificates are long expired now) and it was a way more practical and thorough. Whereas LFCS is much more wide (including LDAP and similar exotics if I remeber correctly), RHCE is much more deep.
They should keep it about something. The first film seemed like a great start to so many stories, but the second film was about none of those (and yes, I am still bitter, that nobody wrote a story of Modesty Barebone).
Coming Back Late by alchymie (www.fanfiction.net)
This story has one, but rather painful, problem: it ends unfinished after 45 chapters (221,852 words; last update Nov 15, 2012), which is quite painful....
Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts (www.businessinsider.com)
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Basically title....
[Discussion] If you were the Order of the Phoenix, how would you move Harry from Privet Drive (instead of using the Seven Potters Polyjuice plan)?
Let’s see how discussions go in this community
X11 tiling WMs
I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS...
“The Commoner Queen” by Pilargirl — review (www.fanfiction.net)
I have written some time ago this prompt about Ginny’s troubles learning to live in the high-society:...
Gary Oldman Says His Harry Potter Performance Was "Mediocre" (www.gamespot.com)
Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman starred in the Harry Potter movie series as Sirius Black, and the actor credits the role with making him a better father. But Oldman didn’t love everything about the Harry Potter series. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Oldman said his performance in the films was “mediocre.”...
What is the point of dbus? (lemmy.world)
Does anybody know why dbus exists? I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with a usecase for dbus that isn’t already covered by Unix sockets....
What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Writing program
Besides Libre Office, what other programs/solutions exist in the Linux world for writers?...
My First Regular Expressions
I’ve been reading Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, and since nobody in my life (aside from my wife) cares, I thought I’d share something I’m pretty proud of. My first set of regular expressions, that I wrote myself to manipulate the text I’m working with....
How can I migrate my existing /home/ directory to another drive?
This was I can wipe the drive it’s on and install a new OS without losing anything in /home/
Why do you use the terminal?
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments...
Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more....
Is the Linux Foundation Certified System Admin (LFCS) worth it?
I’ve been a software engineer for 10 years now but want to work with Linux more in a professional setting (not to mention the number of layoffs in the the dev industry has me thinking a backup plan might be a good idea). I have been using Linux exclusively on my personal machine for about 15 years now so I’m not too worried...
Searching for espeak alternatives
What are some good espeak alternatives with less robotic voices?
What has been your experience with Flatpak?
I’ve been involved with Linux for a long time, and Flatpak almost seems too good to be true:...
Harry Potter Director Says Fantastic Beasts Is ‘Parked’ For Now - IGN (www.ign.com)
Harry Potter Director Says Fantastic Beasts Is ‘Parked’ For Now...