pelya
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But it’s on a dedicated server you have already paid for, which also hosts your own Minecraft game server with active players (mission-critical process which can never be allowed to stop).
DNS is pronounced ‘hosts’ because it was originally one big text file.

It’s these things. Notice how the thread is smaller than the shaft. You always need to drill a pilot hole, otherwise the thread won’t bite into the wood. The thread is also pretty tight, so screwing it two-three times in the same hole is enough to strip the wood in the hole, so it can be pulled out with tweezers with almost no resistance. It’s also slotted, so if you press too hard your screwdriver will slip out. And if you screw too tightly, the head will rip off, because it’s a mild steel.
Or you just hammer it in.
In Soviet Russia, all furniture was assembled by hammering wood screws. Then the assembled furniture was ripened for up to ten years in special humidity-controlled warehouses, allowing screws to expand and lock in place thanks to rusting. This required making screws from special-grade low-quality steel, and use extra-toxic glue for particle board planks so they would not rot. And still, only one in five assembled pieces of furniture did not have any rotten parts or fall into pieces when you attempted to take it home, making it even more luxurious. It is utterly impossible to repeat this level of craftsmanship in modern world.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centersEnglish
28·9 days ago“Pretend you see nothing” printed in QR code on the box.
killis a command.love,happiness, andpeaceare not commands.You can totally find
loveusing commandsudo apt install love. It’s a game engine.happinessis a Perl module insidelibdemeter-perlpackage. Let’s not install Perl modules, there lies insanity.And you can find
peacein a whole bunch of packages, it’s an icon of the peace symbol.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'll try something different next install, I swear.
21·13 days agoGnome is the most stable DE with all features included, it also has minimal amount of system options to still have all features.
XFCE misses a lot of features, such as printers. KDE has all bells and whistles but is less stable.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'll try something different next install, I swear.
2·13 days agoMy answer is
killall -9
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'll try something different next install, I swear.
1·13 days agoDolphin does mount it …somewhere. Supposedly. I expect only KDE developers know where exactly. You can get the same functionality using Gnome file manager and
giocommand, and you get your network share properly mounted in a file system, but then you won’t be using KDE.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'll try something different next install, I swear.
2·13 days agoGnome 3 abruptly removed app icons from the desktop moved taskbar to the top of the screen, and broke Alt-Tab. That’s why prople hate Gnome and love KDE, because KDE did not break these features.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'll try something different next install, I swear.
6·13 days agoDolphin shows you places that are not in your file system, such as network shares or your phone‘s media directory. Those are fake files, illusions of Satan, temptations designed to stray you from the path of God. Avoid anything that is not opened with
openand not read withreadsystem calls, for doing so is a sin before eyes of God (fopenandfreadare permitted). Mount your network shares usingsudo mount -t cifs.
That was the whole Redhat business model when they just started.
The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.
People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM.
It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using theportssystem, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package.
And you had to be careful to usegmakeinstead ofmake, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because/bin/shwas of course incompatible withbash.
You had only about 50% chance that a given package would compile. Package manager? What package manager? Just runsuand thenmake install.
And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.
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- Your corporate shackles
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They still make an acceptable FTP server for backing up your huge tarballs.
Github is more involved, you need to create a release and then attach files to it. With sf.net you jist do a FTP upload.