iriyan

joined 2 years ago
[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

There are some really old introductory unix texts of how the system is structured and why, 99% of this stuff is still true for most linux (except some weird experimental alternatives where people tried to create ms-unix ). The basic terminal commands should also be useful, and help you understand. For example open a terminal and see the command for copy (cp) or (mv) or mkdir rm rmdir and use -h for the help of the options of each (if -h doesn't work then --help does) and then extensive documentation is found by name of command after "man" for manual ex: man chmod

One of the most magical things that happens in unix is mount, where you create a directory (mount point /mnt), take a device like your usb stick volume named sdb1

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

ls -lah /mnt

say you create /tmp/disks and in it a b c d e and mount 5 disks in a through e and it appears as one subdirectory /tmp/disks

Instead of looking at a file browser and something going cling-clong and appearing as a volume, what dumb people do

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I think ntfs does some weird shit with translating names of files in different languages too, and maybe they are simlinks

Say desktop is translated to ntesctop in some language, the real file is still desktop but there is a link as ntesctop --> desktop so without changing the system it flips from one language to another. I am not sure, I haven't really spent much time on it, in recent years I did some installations at work but never got to play with it much.

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I think you need to be banned you troll, you are nothing but a time waster offering nothing but characterizations in a rational discussion

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

The difference with a small group of devs writing code and offering it free and corporate thugs treating coders like sponges to produce code is the lack of resources can be understood and forgiven. Take a project like brave-nightly (browser fork of glugle-elechrom) there are 3-5-8 new releases a day, 8-6 Pacific US time, when they go home on Fri. the next release is Monday afternoon, the "free" coders usually begin work Friday night and end Monday at dawn!

Sure, corp.XYZ sends them an offer one day and buys their work and even offers them incentives to work for them, then it all goes down hill!

It ends up being as nasty racist and ethnocentric as kernel.org.com - us state dept fed and controlled

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't take me wrong, I hate Putin just as much as I hate Biden or Trump, don't misinterpret what I say

But between hating Trump and discriminating against you because you are from Nebraska is the difference between a racist and a non-racist ...
Something the linux-duo-Fins can not separate, hence their delirium with nationalist rhetoric and lack of historical understanding.

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

gittea is also a company now, forgejo is open and free, trully free

other than codeberg disroot has been running forgejo too I wouldn't want to use anything but forgejo

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

получ

if you have a rational argument please translate it, if you have run out respect the rest of the discussion and keep it in English

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

True, between arch and gentoo wiki you can hardly find any other information that is worth your while.

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I'd rather use windows 7 than ever go back to Debian ... something with 7 being the last good version of anything ;)

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Once you learn pacman is hard to go to anything substandard and slow, so you are hooked.

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

quick, quick, explain in one sentence whether the newb should go with musl of gliMBc ... hurry ... the screen is about to turn black and the installer will be gone

[–] iriyan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

A beginner to what, to pacman, to arch, to rolling distro, to linux, to unix, to a PC, to using man-made tools ...

I made an installation to an old pc once, I though it would last a while, and since the users could barely understand what an on/off button does, they just wanted google and facebook, so it was a wm with two browsers, daughter already knew what chrome was, and in the login shell I wrote a script that each new day it booted it attempted pacman -Suy --noconfirm then once a week the cache was emptied and the logs trimmed.

That was before covid, a couple months ago I met her, she said it has been working fine every since.

So there is your dinner

PS Actually it wasn't arch it was artix with runit but that is about the same

 

My distro recently rebuilt gnutsl with leancrypto does anyone know the reasons, advantages/disadvantages of using it instead of liboqs for post-quantum cryptography

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