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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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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

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

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

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It’s silencers all the way down.

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Please tell me there is a youtube video out there building this.

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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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“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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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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Because one of the luxuries of conducting discourse by post is that you have time to choose words that are more suited for your specific intention. When speaking, saying “fucking” is often simply a replacement for “uhh”. At least, it is for me.

How a sentence with swearing is perceived is wildly unpredictable. For example, “science: it works bitches” was a comic and tshirt by Randall Munroe. Not for a second when he wrote that did the sexist interpretation of “ladies, start trusting science” enter his head. I’m not saying that is a lesson in not swearing. I’m just saying swears tend to have loads of meanings, and they are hard to use unambiguously. In art, ambiguity is often key though. I am against censorship.

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

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