I deadass got a cloudflare error after reopening this post:

Host your own cloud worthy anti DDOS solution with fail2ban /s

This would be funnier if it were emacs since that’s the one that has a metric ton of plugins for all of these

Sounds like a rockchip board like orangepi haha. It’s funny because they actually have some killer hardware, but documentation on kernel drivers and DTB boot chain is sketchy at best.

Terminal emulators are bloat, real arch users use the real teletype (tty) as intended lol

I recently realized I forgot to use reflink copy on an XFS filesystem and ran duperemove which freed ~600GB of data

The Debian 6.12 kernel trying to find modules for your fancy new hardware:

I’ve actually been bumped by lots of wasps and bees in rather funny ways, thankfully with no sting. They are more likely to be aggressive the closer you are to their hive. Otherwise the foragers usually try to avoid confrontation unless challenged.

The most insane one was definitely when I was hanging around a sunflower field where there were hundreds of bees and hornets flying around, but to them I was just another plant with no nectar, so they would just move on.

The other funny one was when I was eating an apple and like 5 bees landed on it while I was biting down on it because apparently they liked the smell and tasted the sugary apple juice on the surface. They seemed unbothered by the fact it was moving around and me not trying to push my luck begrudgingly let them have the rest of the half eaten apple lol.

That was probably inspired by the USA’s crappy national curriculum system of forcing kids to learn and use the lattice method which is 100% some sort of scam to make it look like math illiterate children are passing class and failing upwards.

I mean seriously, we’ve been using base 10 arab system for a millenia, but you’re trying to tell me the department of education came up with a better method of drawing a damn chi square matrix abomination that makes even the two millenia old roman numeral system look good in comparison.

I remember someone here made a detailed list of how lots of the early linux FOSS stuff was essentially ripoff of unix software lol. I think XFCE was originally a knockoff of CDE or something with XForms. Now it’s the de facto performance DE and the default on Kali.

Wait till you try fish or zsh loaded with all the fancy plugins lol

Honestly, it depends on the netcode implementation.

TF2 hitscan and projectiles work remarkably well even at 100+ ping.

TF2 melee hit detection functions like a dice roll above 40 lol.

Edit: realized you meant in the sense of hot swapping flavors after I typed out a whole explanation lol. Should start recommending niche distros and collect package managers like trading cards lol.

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yum = dnf, dnf is just the newer version which was rewritten several times.

apt is a weird attempt to “upgrade” apt-get with better user interface without messing with the compatibility of apt-get used by scripts and whatnot.

Both of these are dependency handling package managers which do all the magic of installing required subpackges when you want something.

rpm is the underlying system package manager which deals with the actual task of installing, removing, and generating packages in the .rpm format. It is analogous to Debian’s dpkg which uses the .deb format. It’s usually not used by the end user unless you need to play with a package directly like with a .rpm or .deb file.

Hence why some distros (or people) have their own dependency package manager, like zypper on OpenSUSE (rpm) or Aptitude on Debian (deb).

Although I think Aptitude might just be a fancy wrapper for apt lol.

Shared this before, but someone I know did a chmod on /bin which nuked all the SUID/GUID bits which borked the system lol.

Surpsingly easy enough to undo by getting a list of the correct perms from a working system, but hilarious nonetheless

No no IT Crowd is a show about sysadmins, not geeks lol. There’s a very clear difference.

Every ISP I’ve dealt with thus far has kept me on the same dynamic IP for years on end.

Only once did it actually change for me, and it was seemingly random so I assume they must have updated the lease block range.

It kind of makes sense because if some 3 letter agency asks for a historical lookup, they have less data they need to store compared to constantly rotating IPs to everyone.

Don’t worry, in a few years China will release some comparable and powerful RISC-V processors with some brand new in house fabs.

Although by that point it’ll probably have 300% tariff, so probably stick to TSMC x86 and ARM anyway lol

Dependencies:

Old ass library version from 2004

apt/dnf/pacman: package not found

library package was last available 15 years ago before it was dropped to move to the next legacy version

App package was available right up until last year until it was dropped for development inactivity

Absolutely no one has a compiled version of old ass library

Attempting to compile old ass library results in 30 other old ass package dependencies

How in the actual world was the maintainer compiling this up to last year

I miss the week where Twitter essentially allowed free speech for $15 before they shut it down after everyone immediately clowned on every single corporation and celebrity in existence.

Hey it could be worse. It could be the completely and utterly worthless MIT license.