The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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There's two kinds of people - those that never lost any data due to hardware/software failure and those that do backups religiously.
Fun fact: remotely you can also use rsync without invoking SSH. On lower end machines that helps and the encryption in such a scenario is superflous to begin with if you own every machine anyways. Even my lowly dual core kaby lake and ancient AMD Jaguar can saturate a 1 gbit connection where both are directly wired to each other.
I was playing around with a small planck-style ortho keyboard the other day and those don't have a numrow, which is kind of a bummer if you use ratpoison, as in the default hotkey layout, you select the windows that way and reaching a number via layer just to switch windows is awkward to say the least. (I'm not sure if Planck is a meme or not [I tend towards meme] but it's fun to play around with qmk) I ended up constructing a window selection menu via dmenu I can activate via hotkey that gives me a letter from the left side of the keyboard and a list of the window names (e.g. "s Firefox") so I can type s to select Firefox. Selection then focuses the window via ratpoison, using the numbering scheme "internally" towards ratpoison. So there's a range of letter translation into numbers and back and you also gotta take into account with this that these numbers don't have to be consecutive, so there can be window 0, window 4, and window 5, so there is that little extra difficulty. GPT 4 wrote this for me in POSIX compliant sh without a hitch and it isn't even really spagetti code. People who say this is useless are either ignorant or dishonest. Sure I can write this myself, but not in 10 seconds.
It would've been easier to add new hotkeys using the letters to ratpoison but meh, I wanted that snazzy dmenu.
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And not falling on your arse is better than finding yourself with your backside in the dirt, but that doesn't change the fact that you're there at that moment.
You should have read just one post above yours.
Contributing to FOSS projects is painful. You can spend an entire year refining your PR to their autistic standards and they will then decide to deny it because they realized the entire idea was not a good fit for their project and you should just make a fork and use that instead.
It's also insanely painful and slow to adapt to their specific coding practices. It wouldn't be more feature complete because more devs would work on it.
Edit: case in point https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/8004#issuecomment-1807071728
Also, I think you just didn't really search at all. It took me 10 seconds to find
calibre - E-book management
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
calibre-ebook.com
All these are FOSS and you can easily run with docker.
Check out these places:
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Do any of those examples have a reading client for BOTH android, PC, and other platforms that don't go "ok so download the ebook to storage then open them in a different app unconnected to our project, and if you want your reading progress synced then fuck off"?You should have read just one post above yours.
Contributing to FOSS projects is painful. You can spend an entire year refining your PR to their autistic standards and they will then decide to deny it because they realized the entire idea was not a good fit for their project and you should just make a fork and use that instead.
It's also insanely painful and slow to adapt to their specific coding practices. It wouldn't be more feature complete because more devs would work on it.
Edit: case in point https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/8004#issuecomment-1807071728
Also, I think you just didn't really search at all. It took me 10 seconds to find
calibre - E-book management
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
All these are FOSS and you can easily run with docker.
Check out these places:
Yes, or they can be installed as PWAs from your phone because they are properly coded for mobile, or have connected apps with reading progress syncing. Try putting a bit of effort and actually click and try them out before sperging that there's nothing useful
It's literally free, all you have to do is try each of them out and see which one is best for you
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The year of Microsoft Linux on the desktop is coming:
Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux" (archive)
Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux" (archive)
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But it's still only for internal use, no?
I keep hoping maybe some day they'll make Neo-Xenix. Semi-obscure Microsoft lore, but they were a huge UNIX-vendor back in the day.
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I miss Solaris. It's the only OS (yes I know it isn't Linux) where I actually understood the init system. IMO systemd ruled and I could do the one job I had (controlling a couple racks of modems) in it by just editing a couple text files.
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The older I get, the more I'm tempted into giving Emacs the old college try again. I mildly regret not giving Emacs a fair shake when I was first getting into Linux in my high school years. At the end of the day, GNU Nano and eventually Vim, were just easier to learn at the time whenever something went horribly wrong while distro hopping and I was stuck behind a text console instead of a graphical environment.
Tons of shit draws me to the editor (Org Mode, limitless extensibility, near-infinite customising, etc) but I always hit a fucking wall whenever I'm trying Emacs: how much of a fucking ball ache it is to acclimatise to Emacs' irksome keyboard arrangement. It's not even like I can motivate myself to "git gud" like in a vidya gaem because there ain't no pretty colours or masochistic boss rush ahead of me. It's just... a fucking text editor.
Tons of shit draws me to the editor (Org Mode, limitless extensibility, near-infinite customising, etc) but I always hit a fucking wall whenever I'm trying Emacs: how much of a fucking ball ache it is to acclimatise to Emacs' irksome keyboard arrangement. It's not even like I can motivate myself to "git gud" like in a vidya gaem because there ain't no pretty colours or masochistic boss rush ahead of me. It's just... a fucking text editor.
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You can do it from the terminal!
1. Create a small text file call "speedy.sh" with the contents:
"ping cia.gov
ping fbi.gov
sh speedy.sh"
2. type "sh speedy.sh"
3. That's it! Wait for a specialist to show up for FREE to answer your questions!
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when I eventually get a desktop Linux setup, it'll probably be running Tumbleweed. That or something else that's as comfortable as that and can save my ass from fuckups just as much
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I was also thinking of NixOS, Debian or Fedora as well, Nix caught my eye cause of the rollback stuff, which is one of the things that saved my ass using Tumbleweed lol
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Comfortable is not a word I would use to describe NixOS.
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They missed the much more genius name uwuntu
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Call me a retard but I have never really even understood what emacs is? Is it a text editor? Is it a mini compiler? I've played around with it on various live distros but in over a decade of using Linux myself I have never come into a scenario where I needed to use/learn what it is.
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A notepad for retards who want to use FSF approved application. I tried it for few minutes but I don't see any use of it in my professional or daily life.
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It's the ultimate example of Zawinski's law.
Alternatively, it's an operating system with a mediocre text editor built in.