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UdeRecife

@UdeRecife@literature.cafe

I’m many things. Here’s perhaps a few worth knowing.

I’m:

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Documentary.

Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)

Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a...

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I’ve been using it for more than 20 years, but I still love when someone pulls the GNU/Linux card.

To me it feels like reading an old plaque in Latin. It reminds me of an important past that shouldn’t be forgotten.

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Maybe you’ll like it more under this new guise: I named my cat Goofyball. But since Linnaeus named the species Felis catus, you remind me that my cat’s name should ackchyually be Felis catus/Goofyball. To which I reply, very appropriately, ‘it’s MY cat’. So Goofyball it is.

Understand now the authority argument? Authority in the sense of authorial, having an author.

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Sorry if I mistake your intention. If that’s the case, it’s just me making a wrong guess.

You’re probably misreading this.

I authored THE NAME. If you prefer, I’m the name-giver, the author in this sense.

Linus is the namer and the creator of that kernel.

As creator he is by right allowed to name his creation whatever he likes. Just like me, as the cat ‘entity creator as a pet’ am allowed to name it whatever I like.

No outsiders input required. You get now what I mean by author?

Whatever your reply may be, let me thank you already for engaging. It’s nice to be pressured to explain something in simpler, more accessible terms.

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The rotary disc on phones!

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Thanks!

And no, I’m not serious. Just reminding that technology, like everything else, changes.

But I loved that project! Made me smile thinking how creative people are.

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Thanks for the necessary XKCD. First time reading that one.

Well, to be honest, I won’t be THAT guy, nor am I crazy to bring back the rotary disk.

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Not really that fancy. It’s just a marketing euphemism. The giving of a cool name to something very mundane.

You’re right, it’s just a clouded way of saying 'someone else’s computer '.

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Hello! Nice to meet you. I know and love your kind. One monitor is pretty standard, so I have a lot of friends just like you.

Yup, 3 monitors user here. I guarantee it’s not that uncommon.

(And yes, I’m still running X11)

"Combokeys" instead of hotkeys. [Feature/new command suggestion]

Title. Basically, “if a street fighter gamer and a linux tryhard had a baby” where a combination of keys is issued to run a command/script rather than a single or a simultaneous stroke of two or more. i.e left, down, left, right arrow keys, R_CTRL to run Firefox. Right, right, Up, right arrow keys, delete to power off the...

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Espanso. A text expander that also runs commands.

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Got my first smartphone in 2017. My first dumbphone in 2008. Late to both parties.

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My aside:

In every community I see this. There are always folks trying to narrow the community to some cut and dry descriptors—which for them are always obvious.

Sometimes the jab is perhaps intended as a joke. But to my reading it’s always a trope, namely the tired fallacy of taking a part as the whole.

Either way, it’s myopic. In any internet community, we’re always bound to narrowly see what’s happening. Because:

  • We can only see the posters, never the lurkers—which far exceed the former;
  • Posters, by virtue of taking the time to post, are most often than not highly opinionated;
  • Our reading is always selective. We’re either misguided by the way the comments are sorted, by our mood at the moment, by chance, or simply because we’re really bad at reading;
  • Our reading is always biased. Either by our mood, our current situation in life, our upbringing, our milieu, whatever;
  • the list goes on and on and on.

This results in a very reductive view that, although very teasing because very personal and idiosyncratic, is ultimately an exercise in futility. To those already biased, it simply supplies them with fodder to confirm what they already believed.

From afar, it’s just noise. Any view on what the community is is but a poor reflection of what the community ultimately is.

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Early 2002. I read about Linux somewhere, and I was trying a Mandrake install. I also read about control+alt+Backpage, which eagerly proceed to try.

Now I’m on tty, cursor blinking, thinking: I broke Linux.

Scared, I cleverly undid that mistake by simply… reinstalling the distro. Ignorance is NOT bliss.

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Not OP, but here’s how. You live-distro yourself to a running command prompt. You then connect to the internet, mount the partitions, finally chrooting to your computer’s storage install. Once there, you clear pacman’s lock from var and run a full update: pacman -Syyu. Wait until it finishes, exit chroot, reboot. 9 out 10 times works as expected.

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I had two issues triggering the ad blocking warning. Mind that I’m running Firefox and Ublock origin.

The first was the setting to block ads on YouTube enhancer add on.

The second was a rule I created on Ublock origin to block the notification bell.

After clearing both, no more warnings. At least for now.

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But (sound: boo) is how you celebrate a soccer goal in French.

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Is this your story?

Is this your story?

Is this your story?

If I were to tell you that the first was a joke, the second sarcasm, and the third a genuine question, how would you differentiate them?

Remember that text is lifeless. There’s nothing there except the markings on the page.

Thus, you should never fault the reader for not getting your intention. It’s on you to make that clear.

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From jail to practicing law, Minnesota attorney scores big win (www.fox9.com)

Judge gives opioid addict in his courtroom one more chance to get clean before sending her to prison. Years later, she returns to the judge’s courtroom clean, with an Ivy League law degree, to defend an innocent man who was falsely accused of murder. And she won.

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I’m guessing it’s pulled automatically from the website linked.

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