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[Vote] Book of the Month (August 2023)
  • I vote necromancer.

    I'll have to read children of time next tho as I haven't read it yet. Currently reading through anathem.

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    Changes in how couples in the US met
  • I met my future wife in irc in 1994. In 1996 she moved from where she was to my state, and then in 2000 we got married, and have been ever since. The Internet was way different back then. I tell that to anyone using one of the current/past crop of dating apps.

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    Linux Best Practices
  • You can't do this on Linux anymore either. Unless you are on a way out of date system, you need to add the --no-preserce-root flag as well. And I think it still prompts you to make sure it is really want you want to do.

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    Superiority brings controversy
  • I mean, there is nothing stopping you from installing whatever version of the library that is required in tandem with the latest version. You could even put it somewhere other then a standard library location and start executing your binary with

    LD=/my/old/library ./myoodbinary

    and have it dynamically loaded at runtime.

    The only time this doesn't work is when it is something in the kernel that breaks the binary... But you can run an older kernel that has back ported fixed.

    I get where you are coming from with proprietary binarys that the devs have abandon. But to me that makes all the more reason not to run that software in the first place.

    Edit: also the kobo desktop Windows app runs under wine I think...

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    Superiority brings controversy
  • Define old binary. The a.out and elf format haven't changed in a very long time. If you mean something from an old system with unmet dependencies, it will run, but it will crash and warn you that some library isn't found. It will still run up until that point tho.

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    An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

    My mother introduced me to the chieftains. This is the song I always think of when I hear Sinéad O'Connor mentioned. Her voice is just so pure and cutting... What is there not to love?

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    What are the best/highest quality Video Games ever made?
  • One of the best I have ever played which falls into adventure, puzzle, RPG, strategy , and open world is probably star control 2, the urquan masters. It has an amazingly well crafted story, the music is great, and a bunch of different aspects to the game play. This still is one of my favorite games of all time

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    Linux Distro
  • Garuda is beautiful. It is arch based using the original arch repos. It uses btrfs with automated snapshots which is pretty handy. It runs awesome on my two laptops.

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    [Hyprland] Keeping it basic with Fedora
  • Hyprland is a tiling compositor for wayland, so you use hotkeys to manage windows. It is akin to i3wm (or bspwm or awesomewm, etc) but for Wayland instead of xwindows. https://hyprland.org/

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    What do you feel optimistic about?
  • The end of the world seems to be coming sooner and sooner ad that means I won't have to work for 30 more years when I retire.

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    How did you mess with school computers?
  • We had these old ass everex (I think that was the brand) 386's that had an one line 8 character display on the front that would display what drive was being accessed and what sector/track it was on. It was pretty useless, until we found the memory address that held the buffer (80h if I remember correctly. We were dumb so we wrote a TSR in turbo pascal that are random times would scroll something like "this computer is about to blow up in 5...4...3...2...1...BOOM!".

    I don't think anyone really cared as it was the secondary computer lab used by the programming club mainly, but we thought we were really bad ass.

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    What operating system do you use on your main computer?
  • Garuda linux has been my goto on my personal computer and laptop for about 3 years now, basically since it was released on my work machine i use windows unfortunatly.

    on my two little media servers, i run arch inside proxmox continers.

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