fratermus

For actual reading on linux I use fbreader. For eBook management I use calibre.

But 95% of my reading is actually on old eInk devices (kindle, nook).

You can’t succeed on youtube without engaging in some of their clickbait bullshit thumbnails and titles.

I’d agree if we stipulate that succeed == make a living off a mass casual audience . For other definitions of succeed it’s quite possible to do without dumbing down. Soft White Underbelly, Forgotten Weapons, Hydraulic Press Channel off the top of my head.

Win2000 was the last version of windows I installed on any device I owned.

will linux run on arm?

Millions of Raspberry Pi say “yes, it will”.

Pommesgabel (fries fork)

I was stationed in [the former West] Germany from 1985-1988. Upon arrival we had a week-long quickstart intro to German culture. One of the lessons taught was srsly, don’t pick up your fries with your fingers!!! I forgot about that until reading your comment. :-)

I found out how to close vim but I could never quit

I forced myself to learn vi around 1995 by making it the default editor in pine. Since I was using pine for email and newgroups it was sink or swim. The first couple of days were rough …

It doesn’t feel like it was made with the idea of being anything more than a clean product that gets the job done

I mean, “clean product that gets the job done” is fine with me. Let people theme/customize and it’s win-win IMO.

how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks?

I’ve had it fail (ie, stay on and deplete the battery) often enough over the years that I just suspend/hibernate manually before closure.

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

apt just quietly “keeps back” the package. It doesn’t fail, it doesn’t break the system, and it doesn’t trigger a rollback. It just waits for me to notice. Since I wasn’t looking at the list of upgradable packages

Depends on what quietly means. To me it means “with no indication”. Any written warning is quiet, I guess, if one is not reading it.

I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

I normally run debian but I ran LMDE for a couple years and thought it was nice.

The sexual usage is from gay bdsm subculture in the 70s that the large majority of ppl who are aware of it are only aware because of Pulp Fiction.

I had heard gimp/gimpy used to mean “limping or is otherwise gait-impaired” often enough that I assumed the Pulp Fiction character was called the Gimp because of his posture and gait. I was completely unaware of any scene/subculture meaning until reading threads like these.

Full disclosure about my own experience: I am a disabled person who has no strong emotional reaction to the term. I do limp, some days worse than others.

If the name were the problem then why doesn’t someone fork the project and change only the name? <- actual question, not trying to be a smartass

In either case they are starting from ~zero name recognition.

between 2AM and 6AM internet would start dropping packets like crazy

about 20 years ago I was remotely troubleshooting a microwave connectivity problem that occurred at a clients workplace about 10pm each night. Lasted about an hour. There was no one at work then but data transfers between their server and the mothership would fail.

One night the client went to the site at night to check an alarm and noticed there was a bobtail truck parked next to the building. The aero deflector attachment on its roof blocked line-of-sight with the tower, causing the problem. He asked the driver to nap at some other location in the parking lot and the problem went away.

I feel crazy for thinking it is correlated to do bad weather, as if that should somehow affect my indoor WiFi quality…

well, if it’s raining more people might stay indoors on their wifi, exacerbating any channel interference problems

ARM is perfect for this, but does Linux play nice with it?

to paraphrase the saying, “Millions of Raspberry Pi can’t be wrong”

When you do aliased commands, can they take arguments? Like to download a playlist with yt-dlp, could i do download-playlist [URL]?

They don’t take arguments in the sense that functions do but in bash at least they are passed on as part of the expanded string. Pasted from bash:

alias argtest='echo arg is'  
argtest foo  
arg is foo  

So yes you could alias your yt-dlp commands and invoke the alias with the URL.

If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?

I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.

That’s the one I use, too. Works fine.

I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.