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taanegl, When it comes to quirks mode, what are the do’s and don’ts?
FrostyCaveman, (edited ) DONT waste your time with quirks mode
DO find a new job
Speaking from personal experience
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Don’t install it if you want to keep your sanity. The opposite if you don’t.
TootSweet, 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
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lol 🤣🤣🤣, this one is better than my answer 🤣.
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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
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Yes, that will be the only exception I presume.
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People missing two legs
Siegfried, That people does not boot, so they don’t count
muhyb, YARRRR
Prunebutt, Can you explain network sockets to me?
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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
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Now what about network socks?
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You wear them when networking.
9point6, Is red hat a good or a bad influence on the ecosystem?
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Well, red is darker than white, so if everyone wears red hats, then global warming will most definitely rise.
21Cabbage, 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.
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Good thing floppes were dirt cheap back then.
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Because not all distros work with their respective boot floppies. I gather you finally realized that in 2013.
leaky_shower_thought, how is the x org x server related to x formerly known as twitter?
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wayland.social
laurelraven, They’re distant cousins, but they avoid each other at family reunions
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It’s his second cousin from his aunt’s sister in law side.
JackGreenEarth, 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!
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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.
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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.
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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>
Otherwise there are plenty of other options out there like Remmina
ryannathans, Nice instance
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Right back at ya
Thcdenton, 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.
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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, 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??
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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
Snapz, How many orbs do you need to use to make it show the yellow screen?
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5 to 10, depends on the shade of yellow you’d like to get.
pifox, 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
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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.
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That is what happens when none of your alphabet keys on your keyboard are working, but you still wanna communicate online.
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Emergency breaks
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What kernel parameters should I use?
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The parameters that suite your needs.
laurelraven, All of them, just to be sure
loaExMachina, Should we say GNU/Linux instead of Linux if we’re referring to the whole OS ?
cyanarchy, LiGNUx is a hill I’m entrenched and ready to die on.
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No, because Linux can work even without GNU. You just have to recompile everything against musl.
loaExMachina, The mask has fallen.
thecrotch, Is GNU really just unix in disguise?
laurelraven, Well, it stands for GNU’s Nearly UNIX, so probably
victorz, No. Otherwise where’s the limit? GNU/Linux/systemd/Xorg/i3/Firefox/kakoune?
mexicancartel, What if i call it GNU and put the limit there
victorz, What if I call it your mom
(jk I luv u)
stoicmaverick, I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Systemd/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning EMACS plugin made useful by Systemd.
deathbird, xfce: what should it stand for?
lseif, x-face. because using it makes u go X(
laurelraven, Xtra Feral Computing Elements
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X Fucks Custom Enhancements
BustinJiber, Last time I installed Kubuntu I was stopped by an seemingly undealable-with overscan issue, like 20% of the view was outside the screen and NVIDIA control panel sucked. So I had to go back to Windows after like half a week of googling and no dice, it was unacceptable. Thoughts?
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You should try ball busting
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You need to set the image in the monitor to the left or right (depending which side was being cut off).
BustinJiber, (edited ) Not an option with this TV. And it was all sides. It was easily fixable on Windows, I somehow figured it out on Raspberry PI OS and Kodi. But the Linux NVIDIA configuration had like one slider and I have no idea what is that even suppose to do. Shows how much they care.
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Please refer to the answer of the question “Why do Linux users hate Nvidia”.
BustinJiber, I’m not even Linux user and can join that crowd.
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