techno hippie

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: October 29th, 2023
  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Underappreciated `top`English
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    1 day ago

    Now if only I could hack up top to show which bedrock stratum each process running from, like paradigm did for me one christmas with (a now old version of) htop, I might consider learning how to use top.

    Htop’s hard to beat.

    Others, like btop, are too heavy, too try-hard.

    Would be nice if top were as convenient and easy. Oh wait, that’s basically htop, again.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Yet another "which distro should I choose?" PostEnglish
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    1 day ago

    XFCE’s been going the longest and strongest, unbroken.

    Though, the user can install them all, try them all, on almost any distro. GNOME, Mate, Trinity, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cosmic, Cinnamon, etc etc. And/or just window managers, Icewm, i3, fluxbox, for a fairly easy time from the start, or more fangled things like xmonad, herbstluftwm, dwm, etc. … I dont know the wayland things. Dozens to try.

    Point being, well raised here, is that the distro does not matter so much, and new users need introduced to what the freedom means, specifically in how when you select your distro, you’re not stuck with the desktop environment it first provides.

    PS, GNOME’s bad news, on multiple levels. Don’t get me started. NSFL horrors lurk.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux Distro RecommendationEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Installing Gentoo, for the first time, especially as a newbie to linux, is like the jump program in The Matrix movie.

    “Everybody fails the first time.”

    “But what if he doesn’t?”

    Even if you’re not “the one”, the attempt would sure be a great learning experience. Alas, that was specifically stipulated against in the OP’s criteria, on the first line:

    I don’t want to go on a full learning process from the start

  • Digit@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.ml•Here's an exercise in extreme masochism:English
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    5 days ago

    I’ve done the impossible/insane on the other side… manually imported a live system from usb into bedrock.

    If I then did an unbedrocking… that’s a fun double janky way to install a live ISO to “exactly” like it is on the live system.

    … I’d never do that though. If I did, I’d just re-hijack it again, back to bedrock.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate PyramidEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Took a while to contemplate how mere contradiction could be fallacious. It could be:

    • semantic strawman.
    • bare assertion fallacy.
    • argument from ignorance fallacy.
    • false dilemma.
    • appeal to emotion.
    • moving goal posts.
    • circular reasoning.
    • non sequitur. (… ghadamn! I spelled that correctly for the first time! (thnx to another lemmy user correcting me last time.))
    • bandwaggon fallacy.
    • red herring.

    But, that was a good point to raise. On face value, it is at first difficult to see how mere contradiction can be fallacious.

    (And I confess, only the first of those I came up with entirely by my self. The others were suggested by an LLM, with examples which I’ve omitted for brevity.)

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate PyramidEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You’ve introduced metagaming.

    ???

    I’m not sure you’re aware what’s happening here.

    You’ve introduced

    This is an attempt at a re-creation of someone else’s extended version. As noted in the text in the image, and in my other post here (which in hindsight (especially after seeing this comment) I think I should have included in the original post, and put my question in the title.)

    It’s an interesting thing you’ve created, but it’s not the same kind of thing.

    Like I say, I’m not sure you’re aware of what’s happening here.

    If you are, then please, by all means, if you have access to the original extended version this is a re-creation of, please share it, so we can compare where I went wrong. (I re-created it as faithfully as I could from memory, after exhausting myself on several attempts to find it again.)

    If not, and you thought this extended version is entirely created by me, then let this reply be a correction, refuting that.

    Also… re:

    metagaming

    it’s not the same kind of thing.

    I’d like to know more about your thoughts and feelings on this, as it’s not clear to me how you think this is so, and is not apparent to me how the original 2-layer-extended version I’ve copied from memory is doing this.

    To my thinking this extended version seems exactly in the same spirit of Paul Graham’s original, adding necessary extension to cover further levels by which some people seek to win arguments by worse means than mere name-calling.

    But like I say, I’d love to hear more about your perceptions of this is being in error, and it being “metagaming”, and “not the same kind of thing”. If you can, for those of us to whom that nuanced insight’s not apparent, may you please elaborate on that?