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MadhuGururajan

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  • Sudo doesnt retain settings of ~/.config

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  • The letter ~ (tilde) is relative to the current user. When you use sudo, you become root. So ~ points to /root. Whereas if you are not using sudo then ~ points to /home/yourname

  • Roast my system flake (please)

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  • I was waiting for the itch to get worse so i can scratch it off.. but you have convinced me enough to give it a go. Here's hoping i don't create an abomination!

  • Seeking to make a dynamic website right from the scratch. This is going to be my very first project. How to begin ?

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  • they don't solve them. They make it harder for you to make mistakes. Doesn't stop a capable developer from still introducing vulnerabilities.

    that html page without js and just links is MORE secure than anything with JS.

  • Roast my system flake (please)

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  • No I am in the same camp. I hate complexity. There's too many crumbs of utilities to reassemble into the entire loaf of functionality. Hence I haven't tried installing arch in a long while (I use endeavorOS as my daily) and I haven't tried running nix. The need has not arisen yet.

  • Roast my system flake (please)

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  • Includes Gnome

    LOL, LMAO even.

    (PS. since you said please. But I think it's cool. (I guess? I am too much of a grandpa to care so: That's lovely, my dear))

  • Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping

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  • sadly, most likely yes.

  • Thank you, Gemini, very cool.

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  • Nah.. assistants were able to do this before LLMs

  • Thank you, Gemini, very cool.

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  • Because that other stuff used to work before the company fired all of QA and local devs. Then the bugs after that were used to justify LLMs to replace the "shitty coders" that outsourcing to a sweatshop usually entails. At least with the sweatshops there was some argument to be made that the people working there either had no other choice, or a slim chance they actually cared about their output and made it so at least it would do the bare minimum.

    Now that corporate wants to justify their hype and investment in AI to attract the moneyed entities, they will go to any lengths to show it actually works. Even if the Emperor has no clothes on!

  • Lazerjet 4050

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  • oh that's a shame

  • Lazerjet 4050

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  • I can recommend trying to connect your old printer to a raspberry Pi and seeing if linux printer drivers can prolong the life of your printer. Worth a shot keeping these beauties out of the landfill.

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • The problem with your argument is that you are phrasing that as a problem with how the OS is not able to do what you want. But Linux is able to do whatever you ask it to. The real problem is companies.

    Most of the problems Windows users have with Linux is "Software X is not working in Linux" followed by "Alternative Software Y is too weird/quirky/broken on Linux". This used to be a problem with Gaming. With the investment of Valve into Linux, the scene there has dramatically shifted. Yet, you have cases like that of Roblox whose software is clearly capable of running on Linux but they deliberately hobble it and only support Windows. The important thing is that free software is written and maintained by people in their free time for free. So you can't expect the same level of polish as a dedicated company working on the software (Of course I can point to beautiful exceptions like Blender, VLC, etc.)

    So essentially the problem is two fold:

    1. Software/Game vendors don't want to support Linux
    2. Microsoft benefits from having it this way so they bribe their way into having Windows on retail hardware.

    Nowadays you can find laptops from manufacturers like Tuxedo or Framework, or even Dell/Lenovo where if you chose to go without windows they often discount your purchase by $100 or in some cases even $200!

    So it turns out Microsoft got greedy and is charging like 10% of hardware price as the cost of having Windows pre-installed. (Citation needed, I learnt it here on the fediverse)

    You and other people who want their stuff to just work are correct about the assessment of what needs to happen in Linux for it to catch up with Mac or Windows, but are incorrectly attributing the steep gradient set by Microsoft/Apple to inadequacy on the part of Linux.

  • Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency

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  • The incentives are for scammers.

  • Raspberry pi 5 becomes unaccessible

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  • Worthwhile to check temperatures and see if the PI is shutting off after overheating.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • use

    display: flex flex-direction: column align-items: center

    on the parent container

  • Programmers then and now

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  • Stackoverflow is for senior devs to clown on junior devs. It's the inverse of helping juniors.

  • Why care about the no-JS experience?

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  • I can't cater to everyone's needs.

    Can't wait for the law to slap you in the face someday.

  • Less than 3 years as a developer and already been laid off twice. Does it ever get better?

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  • oh nevermind.. carry on then (Tis a joke about not wanting to touch THAT mess, in case it's not clear)

  • Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

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  • I don't know the details of the MPK. So I consider it as some kind of function that maps {process PID, DLL} => Set of UID. And by UID, I AM talking about the system level user ID. Remember that this feature is a processor level feature. So it has to be transparent to the OS (well at least, to the OS Scheduler). Hence the output of this feature should be understandable to the OS kernel. Or so I hope as the implementation details are vague till now.

  • Less than 3 years as a developer and already been laid off twice. Does it ever get better?

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  • which office are you? I am missing such fresh perspectives. Everybody wants someone with 10 years experience in 5 different stacks on 5 different languages/tools.