lurch

@lurch@sh.itjust.works

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lurch,

total darkness isn’t so good tho.

dim indirect light from behind the screen is best IMO and that’s also enough to find that rare key, as well as your drink without knocking it over and causing havoc.

lurch,

You sure you want to use LUKS? It has a specific format that can be probed for almost like a known plain text.

lurch, (edited )

In Linux terminals, you probably could have pressed Alt+F2 or Ctrl+Alt+F2 (F2 could be other F-keys) and log in on a second terminal to recover (by reading the manual or killing it). Also, if bash already had job control back then Ctrl+Z would have suspended vi/vim to the background.

I’m writing this, so people try it and maybe remember it, if they get stuck in some program. Doesn’t have to be vi. Maybe you just launched a long dd command and don’t want to end it, but want to look something up. These hints may help then.

lurch,

I know a few people who would erase themselves like that without a second thought 🤣 😥

lurch, (edited )

The best way used to be XPRA. You can also tunnel it thru SSH, but not necessary in a trusted LAN. XPRA is like a per application display proxy that keeps an app running even if the connection is interrupted and enables reconnects as well as transfers of Xclient windows to other Xservers, i.e. you can transfer the remote window from your notebook to your workstation Xserver whithout having to restart the app.

lurch,

I put a piece of garlic from the supermarket into the soil of a flower pot on my balcony to try and deter aphids. It grew 30cm long leafes and I think it will make it thru the winter. I hope it won’t use up all the good stuff in the soil and kill the actual flowers.

lurch,

I’m not familiar with your package manager, but some have logs detailing what exactly they did in chronological order.

Help, boot doesn't work anymore

I have a laptop eith sata and a nvme drive. I installed a few operating systems and I decided on Mint for Sata. Installed it copied data from Nvme drive since I was using it as primary. I installed Nobara on nvme and it worked flawless until a few moments ago. Reboted and Mint is gone from boot options. Tried to add it but...

lurch,

It is a little program that starts an operating system. It’s very small and basic. It has to be put in a special place on the drive.

lurch,

Pretty unsafe, because it makes people prefer big letters, i.e. W

lurch,

I often switch between Wayland and X. My only concern is java does not yet support Wayland and old native libraries (e.g. 3D stuff for no longer maintained Java games) will probably break, once Java actually switches. Java and some Java games work with the xwayland compatibility layer, for now, but there are glitches sometimes. There are multiple projects porting Java stuff (e.g. Swing) to Wayland. All unofficial and incomplete.

lurch,

I think that’s only true for the programs, not for the JVM/JRE code. The JVM/JRE doesn’t support Wayland without the xwayland compatibility layer. Also, some games use “native” libs that do optimized 3D stuff. Those are special Java classes, not part of the JVM/JRE that interface with C libs, kernels, system calls and hardware directly. Some will stop working without an X window to connect to. Some are long forgotten and won’t be ported.

lurch,

I’m pretty sure dinit, s6 and runit are faster than systemd (in that order), but it probably depends a bit on your setup. It has better boottime than some others, tho

lurch,

How many did you use though? Is it also the fastest (n=1) ? 😃

lurch, (edited )

Just order a pizza and eat the warm pinapple from the top 😂

lurch, (edited )

The concept is viable. Just needs moar mirrors

lurch,

I’m in the west and i don’t. I think we like to use GDP and Inflation. Those could be better, but they are not too bad. The stock market is mostly for gambling.

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