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TootSweet, in AMA

Should I dual boot?

laurelraven,

I don’t recommend it, the more boots you use the heavier your computer will be. I’ve got mine down to half a boot and I’m working on getting it down to a quarter.

lseif,

some clearly hasnt heard of a bootless system

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

lol 🤣🤣🤣, this one is better than my answer 🤣.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Of course… what sane person doesn’t wear both boots 🤨.

makunamatata,

The ones that wear one boot inside another. Only a single boot on each foot suffices.

thecrotch,

People missing a leg

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes, that will be the only exception I presume.

DarkDarkHouse,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

People missing two legs

Siegfried,

That people does not boot, so they don’t count

muhyb,

YARRRR

Prunebutt, in AMA

Can you explain network sockets to me?

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

They’re just regular sockets that do most of the work… the net thing is just added to complicate things.

Archer,

As a network engineer I can confirm

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Now what about network socks?

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

You wear them when networking.

9point6, in AMA

Is red hat a good or a bad influence on the ecosystem?

0x4E4F, (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well, red is darker than white, so if everyone wears red hats, then global warming will most definitely rise.

21Cabbage, in AMA

Why did I have to burn multiple install CDs before finally getting one to work back in 2013?

Gimpydude,

For the same reason I had to buy a stack of floppies to install it in the 90’s

stoicmaverick,

I think you have a little bit of solder flux stuck in your gray beard on the left side… No, other left.

21Cabbage,

Weren’t floppy’s relatively rewritable? Why did you have to buy multiple instead of simply trying multiple times?

Gimpydude,

Floppies were very rewritable, but the distro wouldn’t fit on a single one.

21Cabbage,

See but I’m talking about burning an install CD for Puppy and having it just straight not work and the solution being “just burn another one” like CDs were cheap for a 13 year old.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Good thing floppes were dirt cheap back then.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Because not all distros work with their respective boot floppies. I gather you finally realized that in 2013.

leaky_shower_thought, in AMA

how is the x org x server related to x formerly known as twitter?

callyral,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

wayland.social

laurelraven,

They’re distant cousins, but they avoid each other at family reunions

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s his second cousin from his aunt’s sister in law side.

MindSkipperBro12, in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?

The left image is what I think of Linux: overly complicated with no real benefit to it.

naeap,
@naeap@sopuli.xyz avatar

Well, then you assume wrong

Linux just gives you the options. Under windows you’d be just sol

unionagainstdhmo,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

I would be very surprised if any major Lemmy instances ran on a MacOS or Windows Server

renzev,

Loving those fanboys in your replies getting absolutely triggered haha

MindSkipperBro12,

Just let them scream, son, just let them scream.

biscuitswalrus,

I have to ask, do you think the websites you use or the places you post run on Windows?

mmcintyre,

I don’t get what the benefits of windows are supposed to be. I just want to play games and ride on the information superhighway. Why would I even want a… Cortana or paperclip or whatever?

renzev, (edited )

The redpill is that there are none. You know how wndows search is absolute crap, but you can get actually decent search results with Powertoys Run? You know how instead of trolling through control pannel and Settings, you can just directly search for whatever configuration you need with god mode? You know how wndows has a package manager, but it is not even installed by default? Or how it supports hibernation (suspend-to-disk), but hides it from the power menu? Ask yourself, why add all of these useful features, and then hide them far away, while presenting the user with a painfully outdated interface bloated with crap like cpilot or crtana or whatever? The answer is that to remain relevant, Mcrosft needs to keep the computing experience painful for their users. If they make Wndows actually nice to use, people will swiftly realize that using your computer can actually be enjoyable. And that leads to trying out alternatives like BSD and Linux. And trying out alternatives leads to finding out that those alternatives are superior. Think about it. They’ve already lost in the server world. Once the remaining office workers and college students realize that mcrosft has been pissing in their mouths while telling them that it’s raining, the only userbase that will be left are “capital G” gming addicts. And that demographic is also slowly waning thanks to wine and the fact that modern vdeo gmes are slowly becoming utter trash.

mmcintyre,

No, I don’t know any of that. Some of those words are familiar, tho. Sorry, I ain’t had a Windows partition on my own personal computer since… damn I forgot what the one before 7 was called - Vista! We still had the family gaming PC, and I stayed buying games during steam and gog sales (even tho I mostly played on consoles - Nintendos and PlayStations only, lol) but I guess I haven’t actually been on it since Windows 8 and I hated it so much! But it’s gone now anyway, cannibalized for parts. Only 1 kid left at home, he’s got his own PC, and I don’t even know what version of windows he’s running. It’s hilarious, go back a few decades and I was free windows tech support for everyone, but now I don’t even know how to Windows.

And look, I’m probably just a trash monster. Like, I’m playing Just Cause 4 on my PS4 right now. And I play plenty of other trash (but also some good games) on my Garuda (it’s based on arch, btw - installed by my husband who has only ever installed windows in his life, with very minimal input from me) gaming PC. I also have the steam deck, but once my son donated parts after his latest PC upgrade, the steam deck just mostly gets picked up to do a little update every so often - but I’m about to go on a trip (and the switch has already been claimed)! To be fair to the steam deck, I mostly don’t even power on my gaming PC, as I really love my PS4 (I can’t stand the PS5 and usually only get on it to help my grandson when he’s here) and my rarely-turned-off MX Linux PC (I don’t hate the KDE of Garuda, but there’s a reason I use an XFCE-based distro as my daily driver).

I might be a gaming addict. But Microsoft hasn’t had anything to offer me since like, George W Bush was president. And even then, it was steam then gog who really had stuff to offer me on the PC. And in the console department, they ain’t ever had anything I’ve wanted, maybe my hands are too small or something but I’ve always hated the Xbox controller.

JackGreenEarth, in AMA

How do I set up a VNC server from my Manjaro machine? If anyone wants to give a real answer I’d appreciate that too!

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

The real asnwer is, you don’t. Manjaro is an Italian based distro, and we all know how much Italians work in real life, so this distro doesn’t really work either. Your best choice is to ditch Manjaro and use TempleOS for your VNC server.

unionagainstdhmo,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

If you’re on GNOME I believe there’s a remote desktop option in settings under sharing which might set it up for you

JackGreenEarth,

I can only see ssh sharing there, no remote desktop option. And I am using GNOME.

unionagainstdhmo,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

It looks like Manjaro doesn’t install the necessary components by default. Found a thread on the Manjaro forum that’s a few years old but apparently all you need to do is install a package:


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo pacman -S gnome-remote-desktop
</span>

forum.manjaro.org/t/…/24674

Otherwise there are plenty of other options out there like Remmina

ryannathans,

Nice instance

unionagainstdhmo,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

Right back at ya

callyral, in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

find an even older, less mantained alternative.

Thcdenton, in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?

I got Mechwarrior 3 working with wine. That shit was fuckin impossible on modern windows.

frezik,

A lot of DirectX titles from that time period won’t run. It’s the biggest reason Wine on Windows makes sense.

Thcdenton, in AMA

What does chmod do?

stoicmaverick,

My pet theory is that it is a weapon designed for me personally to shorten my lifespan by means of elevated blood pressure while I try and set up and maintain an instance of paperless-ngx via docker compose and a Wi-Fi document scanner.

Thcdenton,

Jesus Christ I just threw up in my mouth a little.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

It changes the mood. One o is missing from it because the main dev was Russian and really bad at spelling in English.

Thcdenton,
Petter1, in AMA

Why do some specific Nvidia grafic cards require that you use legacy BIOS to start up your linux, while it works flawlessly on macOS using EFI??

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Because Apple has money and revenue, and Linux doesn’t.

Petter1,

😮 I did not expect such accurate answers, lol

victorz,

Which cards?

stoicmaverick,

It’s easiest if I just link you to the Wikipedia article on money. Here

StrongHorseWeakNeigh, in Look at that fragmentation!

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  • KpntAutismus,

    one of the best anime i ever watched. might even start reading the manga.

    eya, in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?
    @eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    AUR my beloved

    kogasa,
    @kogasa@programming.dev avatar

    AUR can’t save you from a library needing old versions of dynamically linked libraries

    Snapz, in AMA

    How many orbs do you need to use to make it show the yellow screen?

    0x4E4F,
    @0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

    5 to 10, depends on the shade of yellow you’d like to get.

    pifox, in AMA

    What is “:(){ :|:& };:”

    stoicmaverick,

    An alias for “sudo shutdown now”

    ouRKaoS,

    An emoticon with a weird hat

    NeatNit,

    which part is the face and which part is the hat?

    victorz,

    Yep

    EuroNutellaMan,
    @EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

    A funny command that gives you free chocolate

    makunamatata,

    Try it in your terminal and come back here to tell us the results

    laurelraven,

    A text based Rorschach test. That one is clearly a mouse chasing a cat.

    0x4E4F,
    @0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That is what happens when none of your alphabet keys on your keyboard are working, but you still wanna communicate online.

    uis,
    @uis@lemmy.world avatar

    Emergency breaks

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