Linux vtty forever! Can’t cat data into the framebuffer when your desktop is getting in the way!!

Jk I use gnome terminal for everything, or whatever default is available. It’s quite amazing that most of them handle all but the most niche terminal features these days.

When I need to install a terminal emulator for some reason I always go for urxvt… but it is pretty terrible (it’s a great vt but mouse interaction is clunky and graphics are old school) compared to pretty much everything else.

Just pop open a QOpenGLWidget and say goodbye to QML and your sanity forever!

Ya I agree with this

Also notepad++ on wine on Linux … Not my favorite but it’s there

I only wish to have requirements at all

Alternatively, if you can create a new user, you can instead clear your home folder. Usually just requires renaming ~/.config but some systems put config in other places.

Don’t be confused by cached ram, be confused by the oom killer activating while you have plenty of swap and for some reason it kills the shell you ran Firefox from.

If you want to go on a memory allocation adventure try disabling memory overcommit 🥲

Sometimes a short bit of drama is good motivation to actually read the mailing list 😁

Well one day I heard about NixOS… And that’s all it took

Hmmmmm if we can sell it to AI companies…

Bruh you still gotta publish that unsupported hypothesis

Less, then “vim -” after I realize I don’t know how to use less.

That’s the most difficult problem in hobby programming: finding a project. Most interesting things seem to complex to start.

The solution is to say f it I’m going to try. Right now I’m very slowly making progress learning Rust by writing a program to trade cryptocurrency. It took a while for me to even take my goals seriously as something I am capable of. It’s half gambling and half skills development but 100% interesting enough that I have consistently come back to it. I’ve come to terms with the fact that the only money it will make me is if I get a better job by becoming a rust developer.

The Linux side of programming only really comes into play when you want to do networking, drivers, or esoteric filesystem intensive stuff. Windows and MacOS are capable of basically the same things. The main benefit of using Linux for development is that most open source projects are built by developers for development on Linux based systems, so getting dependencies has an easy one line command someone already figured out. For your situation I suspect the most important thing is how cool it feels when you use it. There’s something about setting up an operating system the way you want that keeps me coming back for more.

If you ever need a reeally stupid way to sanitize deleted data without special privileges, just fill the disk up with some files then delete them. On Linux this is easy with cat and /dev/zero or urandom. Can’t be sure it gets everything but it’s better than doing nothing.

People are worried about losing skills to AI while all the skills have already been lost to Google and stack exchange 😅

🤣 same

To try and contribute! :P gotta start somewhere

Lol reading the source has trained me to try reading the documentation.

If it’s good, it’ll save hours or crawling through code.

has, they still work great and keep me sane

MSYS2 is my current choice for GNU/Windows

Unfortunately building it was a disaster a few years ago, I should give it another go.