Did not want to respond but this is hilarious.

To be fair, really old CLI’s, like from the time when X.org was the new stuff, this style used to be more common. That was before “GNU style” (using single dash for single-letter bundle-able options and double dash for long options) became prevalent.

But yeah, if you see -foo then you know the program is old enough that regular colonoscopy is recommended, and the original author is probably retired or “passed away at the ripe age of …”.

Good point.

Ironically … i’ve played exactly the same game in Proton on Steamdeck (I’m assuming that’s using Proton; i did not check TBH) just few weeks ago and it all worked just fine. Maybe they fixed it in the meantime or it depends…

(But yeah your point stands.)

Does your shower happen to be built on Indian burial ground?

Lot of people will tell you something like “don’t run stuff aS rOoT” but from personal security POV root is almost irrelevant. Potential attacker can do plenty of damage without root.

root only allows crossing boundaries of the current user, but for personal use, everything you care about is probably 100% accessible under your normal user account. You don’t need root to steal your photos and passwords, you don’t need root to shimmy a daemon in your ~/.profile to start every time you log in, you don’t need root to mine shitcoins, use your machine as part of botnet or whatnot.

Good advice is to vet everything you install, or choose a third party to vet it for you. In ideal world,

• choose a stable, well-maintained and up-toodate distro with a good reputation,
• limit installing software from official sources only. …and you’re probably going to be fine.

In less than ideal world, maybe add flatpak to the mix but assume that the repository is a wild west. Running AppImage apps or installing third-party .deb/.rpm/etc. packages, again, if you trust the source, you trust the source.

(But for f’s sake, don’t just run curl | bash scripts (with sudo or not) from random github repos and stuff.)

the trick is that turning is by definition moving in all directions (in a 2d plane) at once

then have them slowly realize over time that you’re not just going to bullshit around but actually find and incorporate viable alternatives into your workflow, even if some steps will be inconvenient, and have them feel that something like that is now expected of them and slowly start avoiding you or subconsciously marking you as extremist and feeling the need to defend MS in front of you on behalf of “but most people…”.

yeah, that’s the sweet spot.

because they want to see ads in their start menu, send their pictures to some MS servers and have their notepad.exe crawl and crash because of AI.

you know, all the fun stuf…

people are still allowed to voice opinions

…

now fix the shitty client on appletv

is not an opinion, it’s just being a jerk

wow, i’ve been using bash command line extensively for over 10 years and i’ve missed this gem completely. :-D

and there’s more in help fc:

fc [-e ename] [-lnr] [first] [last]
fc -s [pat=rep] [cmd]
[...]

On the other hand it does feel a lot like something that might help a lot of apolitical extroverts who sort of found their communities saturated with maga people and converted for that reason

This. I think it’s even in place to have a little bit of tolerance for the fact that they might still have their minds a little bit poisoned with all the hateful crap. It may take long time and a lot of work to clean up your mind. Doing first step should be celebrated though.

hop on a donkey, slap its ass, get lost in a forest, get eaten by a bear.

eeeazeeeee…

iirc slack did it and I’m sure github issues and gitlab too. but usually you don’t have control of the order, IIRC with slack it was in the urder you added them but once more people added same reactions then it would sort them in order most to fewest.

i was kinda thinking about one of those parts of unicode where characters can be combined … that’s common for some scripts but i vaguely recall that i saw a mention somewhere that something like that exists also for emojis (in the unicode) …

i admit I already kinda seen all of those as “evening plans”

are these double-emojis a thing? or you mean those apps that let you add multiple reactions (sadly signal does not seem to allow that, neither telegram and those are the only 2 i really use i guess)

🙋‍♂️ too

i mean, that’s a greeting, right? :D

(or “i want ice-cream too, please”)

i mean if it was something like flight reservation etc. then screenshot would be definitely in place.

this is something we do literally 2 times a week (and plan to do so until we’re able to go to the gym :D) though, and it’s pretty low stakes.

i’m not looking for something that just works in that kind of context. (and in general, actually it’s not like i’m on lemmy looking to resolve things with my pal :D)

imagine the hypocrisy: mods acting surprised about people posting about leopards eating faces, after so many years of enforcing rules that people should post about leopards eating faces.

and even older days when this was about leopards ripping off people’s faces not because they bothered them, but because they literally voted for it.

i get to be confused by colors

on second thought, i’m 45, old enough to be vaguely aware of ye olde internet culture (i was in uni back then so i saw them baby neckbeards but sadly did not have the good taste & judgment to hang out with them and decided to ruin my brain with beer and weed instead) … at this age we should start getting used to various vision issues :D 🧓

should be white on blue, but it’s showing as white on orange

my /usr/bin/redshift cronjob kicks in at 7 pm and sometimes i don’t realize and i get to be confused by colors. (probably nothing to do with the orange thing though, although i do have experience that my brain can imagine colors)

just sayin’