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LLVM was held back for a good reason, it was breaking things left and right. Even so, if you really needed it there were always AUR packages for it, or lcarlier’s mesa-git repo if you prefer prebuilt packages, so it’s not as if you were just SOL. I got my 7900XT in december, and instructions on how to get it running were already all over the forums and subreddit at the time and it was working on the same day that I got it.

I don’t know when you got your 7900XT, but it was broken on Ubuntu too for a good while, I’m not even sure that it currently works on 22.04 without using external PPAs. In the mean time, it now works with Arch out of the box.

As for the grub thing, I’m not sure how that could have been handled differently. Upstream introduced a change that created a compatibility issue, so Arch could either not update to a newer version of grub ever, or update anyway and tell its users how to handle the compatibility issue. The latter is what they did.

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Reminds me of the time I brought down a whole AIX server with the killall command back in the 1990s.

On AIX killall really means kill every single process.

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What a toxic ass message

dickriders

Oh the irony…

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I think there may also be a cultural angle here. Anglo-Saxon culture really places a much higher emphasis on “not causing offense”, whereas other cultures place a higher emphasis on speaking truthfully, even if harshly.

So Linus, who grew up in Finland, may have thought of his message as harsh but fair, whereas to native English speakers it comes across as incredibly rude.

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Not sure if this is the root cause of your boot failure, but underscores in hostnames are not allowed. A- Z, 0-9 and - are the only allowed characters.

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Yeah, but none of the system tools and applications follow Unix-like paradigms, so it’s really only Unix-like in name. Sure you can launch a bash or zsh shell, but there aren’t a lot of useful things you can do with that without installing a bunch of third party tools like brew, so the experience isn’t all that different from having to install Cygwin or WSL in Windows.

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Eh, WTF? It has normal Unix-like userland tools.

You don’t understand what I mean.

I mean that you can’t really do much with those userland tools to effectively manage and configure your system. All configuration is abstracted away in a forest of xml files (i.e. /Library/Preferences) that’s as opaque and undocumented as the Windows registry and which you’re not supposed to touch other than with the approved GUI tools.

MacOS applications never follow Unix principles either regarding file placement.

So yeah while MacOS technically still is “Unix”, it really is a giant monolithic blob of shite built on top of the skeleton of what once was a decent Unix.

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Afterstep on Red Hat 5.1

Story: I started a new job as a system engineer in December 1998, it was the heyday of Windows 9x and NT 4.0. First day on the job, the guy who was sitting across from my assigned desk was running something strange and insanely cool looking on a giant CRT monitor. I was mesmerized by the spinning window animations, the virtual desktops, the cool icons, the falling snow… I struck up a conversation with him, asked him what kind of system he was running there. He told me he was running Linux and this was the Afterstep window manager. Turns out he was the local sysadmin there as well as a Linux evangelist and someone I got along with instantly.

I had already been curious about Linux and wanted to try it, so he gave me a copy of Red Hat 5.1 to install on my home PC and I started my journey there. 25 years later I still run Linux, the expertise I developed with it has helped me immensely in my career and I’m still friends with my former coworker.

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Binaries in the former are installed by the OS/package manager, binaries in the latter are installed manually by the user, for example by compiling from source and running make install

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That’s just retconning/backronyming it.

/usr does historically stand for user. It’s where the user home directories were on old Unix versions.

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100% possible with a Windows 10 guest in kvm/libvirt.

You can connect the disk to your Linux system, and then pass through the disk’s entire block device to the VM. Windows will see the device as an actual disk, and you can perform your repairs that way. I have something like this in my domain definition to pass through my game drive to my Windows 10 VM: pastebin.com/GzuvMTWP

I can even use the manufacturer’s SSD maintenance tool from my VM.

Edit: lemmy doesn’t seem to like XML in code blocks, so used pastebin instead.

[Video] Red Hat Is About To End Xorg: Is Wayland Ready? (www.youtube.com)

Come the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat is officially dropping the Xorg package, whilst it’ll still be available in RHEL 9 until 2032 the countdown has begun, Xorg is on the way out. Are you and your software going to be ready in time....

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So little is done by others that, if Red Hat stops, Xorg is effectively done.

Source?

As far as I know the X.org foundation is an independent non-profit organization, and while Red Hat is a sponsor and they have 1 member in the board of directors (out of 8), they don’t appear to be the main contributor.

Does `cp -v` print out the file name when it starts copying it or when it's done?

So if I had a cp -v operation fail, is the last file name it printed out the last successful file copy, or is it the failed partially copied file? If you had to ensure all files are copied correctly without overwriting anything, would deleting the last filename that was printed from the destination folder delete the partially...

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Just use rsync -va

NO STOP!

The default quick check algorithm of rsync is not safe for this. It only checks filesize and modification time to determine if files are equal. After a b0rked copy, these are not to be trusted.

You should add the -c flag so that files are properly checksummed, unfortunately if you have slow storage on either end, this often negates the speed advantage of rsync.

For example, consider this example:


<span style="color:#323232;">mkdir source
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mkdir destination
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "hello" > source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">echo "world" > destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">touch -r source/file.txt destination/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rsync -avh source/ destination/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat source/file.txt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cat destination/file.txt
</span>

Contrary to what you might expect, the rsync command copies nothing and the output at the end will show:


<span style="color:#323232;">hello
</span><span style="color:#323232;">world
</span>

If you change the rsync command in the example above to rsync -c -avh source/ destination/, it will work as expected.

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I’ve found that NFS gives me the best performance and the least issues. For my use cases, single user where throughput is more important than latency, it’s indistinguishable from a local disk. It basically goes as fast as my gigabit NIC allows, which is more or less the maximum throughput of the hard disks as well.

A benefit of NFS over SMB is that you can just use Unix ownerships and permissions. I do make sure to synchronize UIDs and GIDs across my devices because I could never get idmapping to work with my NAS.

SpaceCadet,
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And affordable education

Depends on where you where born I guess? Living in Belgium, my boomer parents never got a higher education because it was not affordable for working class families with 6 or more children. My dad had to go to work in a factory at 14, which was very common at the time. Props to him though, he got a degree through evening classes when he was already married with two children and working full time.

Higher education only became common and affordable with my generation.

On the other hand, while I make more money than my parents ever did, they were able to buy a 4 bedroom house in the 1980s on a working class income, whereas I could only afford a 2 bedroom appartment in the mid 2000s, the tail-end of affordability for housing.

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These days, a part time income may not even be enough to cover books, let alone room and board… forget about tuition

This is again a more American perspective I think, which doesn’t make it invalid of course. The situation over there where students typically get loans and suffer crippling debt for years after they’ve graduated is frankly outrageous. Over here though, higher education is government regulated and highly subsidized, and while it’s not free and can still be pretty expensive, it’s possible to fit it within the budget of most families without loans, and people from families with a really low income are eligible for a grant.

So I’m going to stand by my point that in Belgium at least, education has become more accessible compared to how it was for the boomer generation. It’s visible in the statistics too: the number of people with a higher education level is still increasing every year, and younger people are much more likely to be highly educated than older people.

Sources:

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I’m really sad there isn’t a French press on here

Nor a moka pot, which is my preferred way.

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Woosh I guess

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The only downside really is RAM slot clearance when you need a beefier air cooler.

SpaceCadet,
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Differ t rights holders in different regions

Just call it greed.

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you missed their flirting because you didn’t liked them enough

More likely that you missed it because you didn’t like yourself enough to believe that they were sending out clear hints.

SpaceCadet,
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This reminds me of the time I went home with a lesbian couple after a party, and not realizing they were interested in sex with me, even after dropping hints like repeatedly telling me things like: “You know, we’ve both been with men before”, then while awkwardly watching a movie on their couch they started to undress eachother and make out, and one girl pulling me in to touch her body as the other girl moved to perform cunnilingus on her.

And all I could think was: oh wow I should probably give them some privacy now, I guess it’s time to go home.

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This is not a chrome vs firefox issue. People using an adblocker on firefox are getting blocked just the same.

See:

https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/ee8a3abd-4cb6-452e-bcfe-339c3fe33b8b.png

source (sorry for the reddit link)

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I haven’t seen it yet either, not on firefox nor on chrome. From what I hear it’s being rolled out gradually, so if you didn’t get a notice yet, it doesn’t mean that you won’t get one in the future.

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