Get a bichon. They hate going out in the snow too and will refuse to do so.

In general, if you want a dog with cat-like qualities, get a small breed dog. If you want a cat with dog-like qualities, get a large breed cat.

My biggest issue with Windows is the lack of control I have of the actual hardware I own. I don’t own my work computer to begin with nor am I entitled to have full control over it so it doesn’t matter.

I do use WSL, but mainly because I’m more familiar with Bash than Powershell and don’t have to constantly figure out how Powershell does things I already know how to do.

It’s the same reason I have no problem using my company’s OneDrive for work files when I go out of my way to avoid putting any of my personal data on the cloud. It’s their data to begin with and they don’t care so I don’t care neither.

It’s also nice because I can set up a Linux-only file server at home with things like SSHFS and the Windows computer can’t even see it since it has no SSH access doesn’t even support the network share protocol. If I had an SMB share it would show up on my work computer because it autodetects it.

parallel, easy multithreading right in the command line. This is what I wish was included in every programming language’s standard library, a dead simple parallelization function that takes a collection, an operation to be performed on the members of that collection, and optionally the max number of threads (should be the number of hardware threads available on the system by default), and just does it without needing to manually set up threads and handlers.

inotifywait, for seeing what files are being accessed/modified.

tail -F, for a live feed of a log file.

script, for recording a terminal session complete with control and formatting characters and your inputs. You can then cat the generated file to get the exact output back in your terminal.

screen, starts a terminal session that keeps running after you close the window/SSH and can be re-accessed with screen -x.

Finally, a more complex command I often find myself repeatedly hitting the up arrow to get:

find . -type f -name '*' -print0 | parallel --null 'echo {}'

Recursively lists every file in the current directory and uses parallel to perform some operation on them. The {} in the parallel string will be replaced with the path to a given file. The '*' part can be replaced with a more specific filter for the file name, like '*.txt'.

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Dramatic, pause

All liquids and gels are edible all the time, no way you can’t fit a liquid or gel of all things down your esophagus. Some just have unwanted “side effects” on your body after it’s eaten. Like mercury.

Late night infomercials with high pressure sales tactics are where the real innovation is!

Damn, 13 BILLION years. That’s a good percentage of the lifetime of the solar system. Store an archive of all our mathematics, science, engineering, and programming knowkedge on one of those and it might end up being what we’ll give the other animals that might evolve intelligence after we go extinct. We can only hope they use the knowledge better than we did.

Imagine it buffer underruns like super old CD drives

Don’t Christians think Jews are going to hell? And they’re only using Israel to bring about the end times in which their God descends and personally sends all non-Christians to hell?

How antisemitic of Israel to allow these heritics to slander Judaism.

Words have no meaning anymore.

This is the post language era.

Also, “Hamas kills trans people which is why we should let Israel kill everyone instead, including the trans people.”

Wonder if it’s cloudflare again

I prefer Ghost of Christmas Imperative.

“Stop exploiting workers you bourgeois piece of shit.”

Or for the functional programming enjoyers, Ghost of Christmas Declarative. He doesn’t tell you what to do, he just passive aggressively defines what you should be.

Someone on the other thread in this same community (this was posted twice) suggested thin clients and subscription based cloud instances. Mini PCs would be a mercy in comparison and I don’t think we’re getting that mercy.

Yeah, honestly that seems like the most likely option. You get a glorified dumb terminal that accesses a compute instance under corporate control.

How ACAB works (for nerds):

public abstract class Bastard {}

private interface DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}

private class Cop extends Bastard implements DictatorshipOfTheBourgeoisie {}

Open source devs working on literally the most important infrastructure that powers all other software development: Y’all are getting paid?

Is it possible to use LUKS with a password with a Windows NTFS partition and just have GRUB decrypt it to let Windows boot? Don’t intend to dual boot Windows ever but just curious.

Frankly I trust a password stored in my brain way more than whatever keys the TPM is storing. No way something being pushed this hard by Westoid tech corporations doesn’t have a backdoor that just unlocks everything for “approved” parties.

Pff you know how many layers of abstraction HolyC still has? Real computing enthusiasts write their OS in machine code. Not assembly, that’s an abstraction too, literally tapping out high and low electrical pulses like you’re in the Marconi room on the Titanic.