tal

tal, 1 year ago (edited 7 months ago)

There are apparently a few people here and there who still use it. I remember reading some article about a guy in the US who preferred it.

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npr.org/…/for-the-few-who-heat-homes-with-coal-it…

Every few weeks, John Ord does something unusual for most people living in 2019 — he stops by a local hardware store in rural northeastern Pennsylvania to buy coal to heat his home.

Ord’s coal-burning stove burns 24 hours a day when it’s cold. He likes the constant heat it gives off and says it’s cheaper than his other options — oil and electric.

tal, 1 year ago

Yeah, the reason for this is that sometimes Debian doesn’t enable Plymouth splash screens by default, so you just see the text stuff. It actually annoys me a bit.

I always go through and turn off all the stuff that’s covering up the diagnostic information that I want to see, myself.

tal, 1 year ago

It was probably /usr/sbin you’re thinking of rather than /usr/bin. IIRC – don’t quote me on this – Red Hat puts it in non-root user paths by default, and Debian doesn’t.