The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Banana Hammock said:
It's the official github. Am I supposed to be worried that they uploaded a fucking virus to it or something?
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There's generally very little reason to escalate any kind of software installation that you do outside of your package manager all the way to root. The example given in the instructions even uses a user-specific directory (~/.local/bin). Virus or not, it's best to be careful. Another point of concern would be the jeetification of the installer you're downloading, but it's inapplicable in this case because it's a single file download. Here's a decade old example of what I mean, from a company I happen to enjoy ayylawging:
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty
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GNU Abyss said:
There's generally very little reason to escalate any kind of software installation that you do outside of your package manager all the way to root. The example given in the instructions even uses a user-specific directory (~/.local/bin). Virus or not, it's best to be careful. Another point of concern would be the jeetification of the installer you're downloading, but it's inapplicable in this case because it's a single file download. Here's a decade old example of what I mean, from a company I happen to enjoy ayylawging:
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Why would the leave the / on the end???

Hopefully they were at least somehow checking it with an if statement. Or a few.
 
analrapist said:
Gentoo's packages track it quite rapidly, day or two off, IIRC. But this pipx, you recommend it? I imagine it handles upgrades less retardedly than pip?
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pipx is a way to get python packages for use in CLI/scripting
It creates isolated environments per, and it allows you to avoid polluting your system python installation, but without needing a conda environment, or needing to activate it.
The caveat is that these libraries aren't really available as libraries, but rather CLI tools
It's my preferred way of installing stuff like black or mypy.

It's also useful for testing python based CLI utilities, as you can just install from the built wheel as needed.
 
Really, is:
Code: 
python3 -m venv yt-dlp
# Module venv not found.
# Fuck
sudo apt install python3-venv
python3 -m venv yt-dlp
cd yt-dlp
. ./bin/activate
pip install yt-dlp
Really so hard?
obviously you can also replace pip install yt-dlp with git clone https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp.git ; cd yt-dlp ; pip install . and there are a few other modules you might want.
 
I stand corrected. I found the installation instructions I used for yt-dlp.
Code: 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install -U yt-dlp
Apparently I was misremembering because it's been a while.

Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to change the sorting method to the one that Windows uses. I've been using (, ), and ; to make sure that important folders/files are at the very top of the page for a decade, and Linux's sorting method is fucking me over right now. Switching to ASCII didn't help much, because it still puts numbers before symbols. Maybe some autist has made a custom collation file or something?
 
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Banana Hammock said:
Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to change the sorting method to the one that Windows uses. I've been using (, ), and ; to make sure that important folders/files are at the very top of the page for a decade, and Linux's sorting method is fucking me over right now. Switching to ASCII didn't help much, because it still puts numbers before symbols. Maybe some autist has made a custom collation file or something?
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Use the damn numbers. That's why they're there. Or prepend a-z, aa-zz, whatever, man. Take acid and come up with something completely arcane. But stop trying to interfere with the sort. Work with it. It will improve sanity in the long run, I promise.
 
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DavidS877 said:
Have you tried setting LC_COLLATE to "C" or "C.utf8" and see if that's more to your liking?
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I thought I had it set to C, but apparently Nemo is ignoring that in favor of its own sorting method.
analrapist said:
Use the damn numbers. That's why they're there. Or prepend a-z, aa-zz, whatever, man. Take acid and come up with something completely arcane. But stop trying to interfere with the sort. Work with it. It will improve sanity in the long run, I promise.
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I think you're misunderstanding something. My issue isn't that I don't want to do something new going forward. My issue is that I've been doing it this way for over a decade. I have hundreds of files and folders that I've done this with, and I have no interest in spending a week doing nothing but changing them all to use this new sorting method.
 
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