This is awesome. Thank you

I literally confirmed a colonoscopy appointment 30 min ago and then see this on Lemmy.

What the hell?

I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.

25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.

That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.

“delete!”

At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.

… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”

This is exactly the comment I opened this thread to find. Thank you.

I appreciates that about you.

I don’t know if I’ve actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.

The cycle continues

I’m old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.

I’m also in Arkansas.

But, not a kid so I guess it’s okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.

Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

1901-01-01? Me too!

Good to meet you birthday buddy

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

… I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

Second this. Think I heard about it on lemmy, been using it ever since. Built in editing, copy to clipboard, save to file, all the stuff I need.

I don’t have kids, so yeah.

Edit: now that I scroll through the comments, I see this is a common theme.

Differs by company, of course, but the one I used to work for would wipe, reimage, and sell them to employees for $50.

Especially when vi is better

Fight me🤺

(I kid, I kid, but not entirely ;)

It’s fine.

The occasional complaint I see is not enough that I’ve considered moving and I don’t even remember what those were. But the great thing about the fediverse is that you can move if you want!

I’ll find something else to screw up and cause it to break, don’t worry.

Makes sense; people are stupid. Me included at least half of the time.

I remember a backpacking buddy talking about a tool for puncturing the (empty) fuel cans for “jet boil” camping stoves because they couldn’t be recycled without very clearly being empty.

Not sure yet, we’ve just been gawking at it and haven’t eaten it yet.

… I sense a follow up post.