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ook_the_librarian

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My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is “Ook” and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I’m not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only “ook”

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I just thought in hindsight, my response to you plugging freecad is funny.

It’s like you took me into your workshop with all these benches, and I just point at the openscad bench like a caveman and grunt “scad”.

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I was disappointed not to see one. That’s not a ‘no’, but I did look for one.

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In the early 200x, I was listening to an Argentinean punk rock group called Dos Minutos.

None of the song names really stick out to me (of course), but here’s a link to one.

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I got a good deal on a laptop and removed the hard drive with the preinstalled windows almost immediately. I say “almost” because I did actually set up a work space and installed software on in. It was a just-in-case system.

My laptop has been running linux-only for a while. But my wife needs my lappy for a thing. And it’s a windows-only thing. So I remove my hard drive. Put in the pre-installed one I had sitting on a shelf. And it didn’t boot. I got a windows error screen saying I had better start rounding up boot recovery material. So fuck.

Put my linux hard drive back in. BIOS can’t find a bootable drive. Fuck.

I was able to fix the problem. I kinda hate to admit that it was kinda fun to fix. (If you haven’t chrooted, you haven’t lived.) But I’m just pissed off at that whole #!

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And they write it all down and charge a reasonable price.

Ok, I’m joking, but only kinda. Those things are pretty neat to thumb through. I don’t know if the money goes to some wack-job. It’s almost certain due to the invisible hand.

inb4 woosh …bah bah-dah … bah dah pah dum

ook_the_librarian,
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I hate when the magic smokes leaks out. Never works right again.

ook_the_librarian,
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inb4 Brown v Board was wrongly decided.

I want to say one of Trump’s candidates for a judgeship hinted at that.

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Whichever one is fake could be real tomorrow.

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Honestly, just because one is nonsense, it wouldn’t mean it’s fake. I’ve read help forums.

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I feel attacked. (How many rounds deep do you want to go?)

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I believe this caused when two dogs poop “lady and the tramp” style.

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It makes you wonder what else is on the camera roll and which shitposts will unlock its secrets.

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I mostly drink water/seltzer, but I love grapefruit Jarritos.

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Have you tried Buffalo Rock ginger ale? I’m pretty sure it was a civil war era tonic. They still sell it in parts of Mississippi. It hurts to drink, but mixes well with bourbon.

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It’s certainly not a hot take. Every “which distro should I try thread” is just a discussion of the different DEs out there. I would like to hear about different package managers. I always seem happiest with apt, and I don’t know why.

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Do you honestly think they’re “completely missing the point”? Read the meme. There’s no mention of gitea. Self-hosting git is nothing to wiggle your tie over. Maybe setting up the things you are talking about are, but git?

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I said “read the meme” because that is all I was addressing. The title is just engagement-bait as far as I’m concerned. It’s either a meme or question. I’m sure others are here for the question but not the meme. And therefore, I’m being engagement-baited. Who knows, but I was clear about what I was talking about.

I just think saying “you’re completely missing the point” to a comment that is perfectly on topic is completely uncalled for.

I reason I think git is dead-simple to “self-host” is because I do it. I’m not a computer guy. I just used svn to version control some papers with fellow grad students. (it didn’t last, i was the only one that liked it.) so now i use git for some notes i archive. I’m not saying there aren’t tools to considerably upgrade the easy-of-use factor that would require some tech skills I don’t possess, but I stand by point.

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Would that make noise that would overcome the honk? That was my fear of a secondary device. (again not a gun guy.)

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It’s silencers all the way down.

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“help is an invalid command. Use --help for help.”

I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.

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I disagree that there are much better ways. When I have a question while I’m working in the terminal, it’s nice to have a searchable manual that’s in the terminal.

But I can certainly understand why modern manpages aren’t well-developed. That info is already somewhere else. And it’s good enough. It’s not like I’m paying people to write manpages.

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Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.

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man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.

If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.

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