A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he’d been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

pdfimages is what you want, I believe. It’s in the poppler-utils package in Debian.

That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn’t let you export the current config back then.

Going back to the most famous code comment in Unix history You are not expected to understand this.

I usually add the .sh to the scripts in my ~/bin folder. Just so when I go to edit them I know if they are a script or a binary or whatever.

I almost ordered an Orange Pi5 yesterday. I realized I still have a couple RPi4s around, and I’d just be spending money on something I really don’t need. I’m waiting for a good excuse though, the reviews looked pretty solid. What are your impressions?

Oh, that is nice. Thanks for the link. That works great, basically similar effort to just copy/pasting, but with far better results.

Thanks for the link, unfortunately I haven’t touched anything Apple in at least a decade.

I had never heard of that app! I tried it with no luck, but I’m going to keep that in my pocket for later use. Thanks.

I’m trying to get all. I mean, I’ve pretty much manually copied most of the info already, it’s just that I can’t do it all at once that is bugging me. I’ll go out to one of the islands, and there are numerous anchorages. So what I’ve been doing is copying the one or two that I know I’ll be going to, then picking a couple alternatives so I have options. It’s not the end of the world, because I’m not a complete idiot as I do have NOAA charts and can navigate with them, it’s just that website is great for specifics on the spots.

Jesus christ. They aren’t going closed source. It’s like all these people are new to Linux and don’t understand the GPL, nor the politics behind the license.

LOL. It’s not hard at all. Run “unstable”. Unstable doesn’t mean it’s going to crash, it means it gets updated. There are zero major hoops, and Debian is usually more rock solid than its offshoots, and aside from release freeze windows is at least as up to date as those you mentioned. I mean, use whatever you want, most major distributions are going to be fine, but you don’t need to pointlessly spread FUD.

That was my first thought as well. IM client that I hadn’t heard the name of in many years.

Try it. Easy enough to have both options on your machine. I poke into Wayland about every 6-12 months, then go back to X11 because I just can’t be fucked with fixing shit that works under X11 and is broken with Wayland. Plenty of people try Wayland and don’t have any issues. Eventually just about everyone will be on Wayland, if that makes a difference to you. I’ll check it again in maybe near the end of 2023.

It is also one of the useful office suites that provide a native Linux experience, but sadly, it is neither free nor open-source…

That’s a hard no from me, big shoots.

Someone has no idea how Debian works.

It’s still open source.

I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver for a couple decades. Home and work (before retirement). Unless your work has some fucked up Windows-only requirement, there is no reason Linux won’t meet your needs.

My parents always were having issues with their Windows computers. Mostly just getting viruses and me having to drive over and figure out what the hell was going on. Finally I said, here, let me install something. I put Debian on their computer. Set up 3 icons for “email”, “internet” (<- browser, but they used that term), and “writing” (<- Just libreoffice). I then set up an SSH server. After that I created a little script with an icon that said “help”. The script emailed me their current IP when clicked. Then I could just ssh in and see what the hell they did. Ended up only having to use it a couple times, and that was to clear out their printer queue. My dad passed away several years ago. My mom just mentioned a couple weeks ago that she likes to brag to her friends that she doesn’t have any computer issues when they meet up for lunch and her friends start bitching about their problems. My parents used computers at work, but super basic stuff.

I actually ended up putting Debian on my grandmother’s computer as well. She asked me to after my mom kept talking about her lack of problems. I set her’s up similar to my parents and she used it for about a decade before passing at 100 years of age a few years ago.

I swear I’m seeing so many posts about NixOS I feel like it’s being spammed.