lemmyreader

Appreciated your post very much. Thank you! In a society and Internet where rational thinking is extremely common, it is, at least for me, unusual to come across these kind of public posts. I can, to some extent, relate to the actual content and it does remind me of an old friend (RIP) who told me a memorable anecdote about his moments of clairvoyance. It also reminds me what I've read in several books : Children grow up and almost always parents tell them to shut up about their imaginary friends or the colors around persons they see. And that is actually not that very bad because in order to "survive" in society and to cope with all the impulses that our senses have to deal with it is useful to be able to filter some of the input. It should however imho not make the world even more rational than we need to.

You can find more modern alternatives to classic Linux command line tools in this blog post

Thanks for sharing that blog post. btw, exa has been superseeded by eza. https://eza.rocks/

Good to see OP used sudo su; passwd (Yes, I know it is frowned upon by a lot of documentation, but I don't care). I probably would find sudo passwd $USER something that would need some careful typing in all the passwords to avoid confusion.

Well, actually ... As the Internet gets older (and more filled with ads and pop up windows and cookie banners and "Do not forget to subscribe!") we'll see the day that some people will answer Linux questions from 30 years ago, especially when the OP did forget a [Solved!] in the post title :-)

Cool! :)

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UNIX(tm) is a trademark name (Think of e.g. IBM AIX, HP-UX, SunOS). Linux and BSD are Unix alike. I believe that Apple has made an effort to be entitled to call an OS of theirs UNIX, not sure whether it's Darwin or something else.

When I saw this posted I thought : "Oh no, not yet another post about Microsoft releasing DOS source code" but the article is written by none other than the founder of FreeDOS. Nice, and an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

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Indeed. "GNU's Not Unix!"

Aha! Finally a post where I will be free to say that the USA is an underdeveloped country that is in great need of help since many decades. And for posting this comment I will not attract any attention from Three Letter "Intelligence" Agencies, right ? Right ? /s

I take the easy way out https://tosdr.org (no oven btw).