black0ut

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

I have a Core 2 Duo laptop from 2007 running Void Linux too!

And another Core 2 Duo tower PC running Arch Linux.

Core 2 Duos still have some life left in them, and they're extremely cheap nowadays. I think I got the tower PC for 13€ second hand, and I've hosted countless things on it without problems.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Fun fact. When you open Microsoft Edge for the first time, and there's no clear button to deny it permission to access your info, Alt F4 doesn't work.

I've never seen an app ignore Alt F4 like that (I didn't know it was even possible), and it freaked me out a bit the first time.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spaces can exist in filenames. The only problem is that they have to be escaped. As the comment that you reread explained, cat hello world.txt would print the files hello and world.txt. If you wanted to print the file "hello world.txt" you'd either need to quote it (cat "hello world.txt") or escape the space (cat hello\ world.txt)

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People are really creative when it comes to potholes, huh?

I do like this way of dealing with them though. You get a laugh, it doesn't harm anyone and gets the potholes noticed.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't tried anything complicated, but it does switch languages when you do. I've only tried GPT 3.5 though, and only with prompts that "ended" in one answer (not something like asking the AI to play characters or answer in a certain way, but questions that can be answered in a single message)

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

Discord on Xorg is a mess too. It's not even the electron part, the app itself is really bad.

Not only it's inefficient, but (at least in Arch) it doesn't auto update on big versions. And instead of just warning you, it refuses to start until you manually install the new update. And god forbid if the package mantainers need a day or two to update the package, because until then you can't use it.

The funniest thing is, there's a file in the app's directory called "build_info.json" which contains the version number, and with a simple edit you can make it think it's updated, and it suddenly works without problem.

I really don't know what they're updating, but I have a version from 2021 running on my phone (it's old and the new app is really slow), and it still works fine. Even after the account handle change and several other additions to the app.

Oh, and for the Arch users: there's a discord version on the AUR called "discord-canary-electron-bin" that uses system wide electron, so it should be updated faster than discord's own bundled electron. I don't know if there's a non canary version of it, tho.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

On summer we normally hit 40+ (in some places even 45+) in Spain. I can confirm it's hellish.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't macOS based on Gnome and not the other way around?

I always thought so, but I really don't know where I got the idea from.

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the fact that you have to go to other years proves that this happens way more rarely in France than in the USA. In fact, you can see that in all of the graphs there are gun related deaths in every country.

The point is that it happens 100 times more in the USA than in any other developed country

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you can't really hot swap the kernel, because all of the system runs on it.

you'd need to stop the system (you can save its state and recover where you left), reboot to load the new kernel and let it take control.

however, there are some distros and programs that allow you to hot swap certain parts of the kernel (mainly drivers) without rebooting. Note that, even though the system doesn't reboot, most packages still need to be restarted for them to pick up the new driver.

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