Malgas

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

So crude, when you could use a butterfly.

e.g. have a gui installer

I assume you mean a GUI for editing configuration.nix? Because the initial NixOS install is GUI-based.

Also “doctor” means teacher. The specific term for someone who practices medicine is “physician”.

It’s funny, I just switched to pulseaudio hoping it would fix some issues I’ve been having with pipewire. It did not.

Edit: I’m not on Mint, though, so best of luck.

It seems kind of disingenuous to compare enterprise support contracts for Linux to personal Windows licenses. Especially while also ignoring that you do pay for Windows, it’s just hidden in the cost of the device.

Though it is also true that Linux is gratis and Windows is not.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.

I’ve been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.

I don’t know how to troubleshoot that. I don’t even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.

Or DOS Shell.

This is much prettier, though.

Excuse me, but clearly it’s UNIX that leads to Dilophosaur consumption. We know this.

Interpreter: Wait, x is 5?

This code: Always has been.

We, the gamers, the geeks, the golems

What does ‘golem’ mean in this context?

And, to the extent that it was occult, it was typically biblical occultism. There was a big emphasis on the wisdom of Solomon in particular.

Latin also used apple as a stand-in for generic fruit, cf. malum persicum (“Persian apple”) meaning peach.

And, fun fact, the English word “pineapple” was originally synonymous with “pinecone” (i.e. the fruit of the pine tree).

That said, the bandwidth of strapping microSD cards to carrier pigeons is actually pretty high.