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How can this even relate to the ideology of the first document? I am deeply saddened by these new rules.

The previous document was written in a time when only C was the language in the Kernel. Now that two different languages and eco systems exist, it makes lot of sense to not mix them up. The document with guidelines for C code was needed, because there was no uniform guide that every user used. But with Rust it is different. There exist rustfmt and practically every user is learning and writing code with it and every public documentation and library is using this tool; most of them with default values.

You don’t mix C with Rust anyway, so why do you want force every Rust programmer and code formatted like C? I don’t think this is an issue that needs to be fixed. Are you programming for the Linux Kernel? Do you do it in C and Rust? Otherwise, why do you think this is a problem?

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To be fair, consistent styling across the entire project is not meaningless. But on the other side, I don’t think this needs to be fixed here, because it is already consistent (within their language).

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8 space-long, hard tabs.

Hard disagree. 8 spaces is waste and 4 should be industry standard. Tabs should not be used for indentation, but spaces. On the other side, Tabs are configurable, so that’s actually a plus point.

80 character limit instead of 100.

Why? 80 is an old standard with limitations that do not apply today anymore. We have wider screens and higher resolutions. While it makes sense to keep this to be consistent with previous code and language defaults for C, there is no reason to enforce this for the new adopted language, which already has a standard on its own.

And yes rustfmt can be configured and when I started with Rust I changed max_width to 80, just because I was used to it with Python. But there is no benefit doing this in Rust.

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At this point, I’m convinced that Microsoft is just trolling everybody and have a blast in the office.

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This is good to know. I usually have a mixed set of applications for stable and non stable, depending on how much I trust the devs for this. If the release of Gimp 3 wouldn’t be on the corner, I probably used it too.

I’m on Linux and use Wayland (details not important if you are not familiar with it) and Gimp 3 still has a few issues regarding that. At least based on their own notes, so I will wait a few weeks (or months) longer, because I am not at a hurry at the moment. Can’t wait for this massive update and a huge step forward! Glad to hear it is already working well (I would assume that if they are close to release.)

thingsiplay,
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Ext4: It’s the most common used and most mature filesystem we have. You can use any rescue system without pitfalls, in case your system fails. Some other filesystems have edge cases or a special setup is required. I am not saying they are bad or so, just saying if you have to ask this question to a public forum, then it’s probably more safe to just use the default Ext4 system. It’s battle tested for ages.

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I was always wondering if there could be a small Linux partition for additional information of NTFS partitions, like meta data stored as a separate file (or database). And off course it would need some virtualization layer like WINE does for the file path mapping. Then it would be possible to use NTFS as system drive and for games.

Obviously this would be problematic and performance wouldn’t be great either (assuming), and it would complicate things for end user and developers too. But I was always thinking if this would be possible.

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The hunt for the next controversy goes on.

thingsiplay,
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But it was not required, so the information was clearly wrong.

thingsiplay,
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This is such a broad topic, its impossible to give an advice or place that works for everyone. What I would do is pick up a few common commands that are not destructive in their nature (no need to practice with rm command in example) and read its manual man grep and help grep --help . Then try to understand and play around with the options and dedicated test files. Search tutorials and tips for these specific commands you are learning about. Over time this should result in deeper understanding of various concepts, as as you learn about grep, you will also learn about pipes and files in general while you are researching.

Then you can move on to other commands. Maybe setup a virtual machine where you can experiment a bit more freely, but that’s probably overkill. Also look what people do in their Bash scripts, as Bash is contains the commands you can use on the terminal too.

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Yeah, I’m this type of person, learning by doing. Doing dedicated courses or tutorials was never my thing. But other people are not me, right? Here is another website that might interest you: linuxjourney.com

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Lol I wasn’t aware that nano is actually a GNU project. Checking the date on Wikipedia when it became one really threw me off today morning: 2001. Man I was living behind the moon and could not exit properly the entire time!

thingsiplay,
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My observation since the very first Dead or Alive from the 90s: People having problems with bouncing boobs in games are more nasty than those who actually enjoy them.

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It was rather obviously meant as a joke, so I’m confused about what people were mad at.

Welcome to social media in 2024.

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Trained on YouTube clips

It could have been worse. Imagine trained by Tik Tok clips.

thingsiplay,
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Money.

thingsiplay,
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a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one

Actually a perfect description of what a deepfake is.

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What do you mean its not polished? Any example to what you mean by that?

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I don’t think the person is here to discuss, otherwise would respond to any of the replies and questions. It’s just a post out of frustration. I feel like wasting my time again.

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Finally it’s official. I think it’s a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .

Edit: … oh, I didn’t realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories

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Looking at the readme edit history: github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

  1. First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
  2. Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
  3. Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.

English is not my native language, and I don’t understand what “Have taken up farming.”, but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don’t interpret such a situation, but it doesn’t look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.

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Hmm, maybe it really means it literally. I mean it would not surprise me if the person really started or taken over by farming and giving up programming. Be it having too much pressure from all sites, for writing software that many people use. Or be it financial. Who knows. I wish him best luck.

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As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)

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Firefox has a reader view mode, which I can enable by clicking an icon in the address bar. But for some reason, this icon will not appear for this website here. I even have enabled a setting in the about:config that this icon should be shown for all pages, but it will not for this site.

I used darkreader in the past. But I could not find a solution to just enable temporarily for the current page I am reading. I don’t want to enable for all pages. But you actually reminded me of another plugin I totally forgot: Tranquility Reader addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/tranquility-1/ and it does exactly what I want and works for this page too. A click will turn it into a readable text temporarily (default black on white, but changeable). So I guess this is a solved problem for me now? Thanks to you, because otherwise I would not remember and lookup again.

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