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Thread: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
Post: RE: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
| I'm on tilde.town. I chose it because I liked their policies and it seemed nicely sized and active. I've been satisfied enough that I've not bothered looking to any other places, but I'll admit I was ... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-11-2020, 09:33 PM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| (22-10-2020, 08:56 PM)mcol Wrote: It could be argued that enhancing the workflow, usability of your system is another form of ricing :)
I was always under the impression that ricing was purely aesth... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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23-10-2020, 06:33 AM |
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Thread: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?
Post: RE: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?
| I used to be a bit more active in a few channels, like #emacs and #lua, but now I only have a few - the nixers channel, one for some offline friends, and a few of the tilde.town internal ones. Over ti... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-09-2020, 05:50 AM |
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Thread: The end of a long story
Post: RE: The end of a long story
| I think Facebook and this forum are quite different: I like/d that one couldn't simply downvote a post and move on if they didn't agree, they had to actually articulate a reply. The smaller community ... |
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twee |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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12-08-2020, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: The end of a long story
Post: RE: The end of a long story
| I never knew about the RSS. That's pretty nice.
I like the sound of promoting a random old thread. Different communities have different rules about whether it's okay to bring up old things so I tend ... |
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twee |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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12-08-2020, 07:34 AM |
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Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
| Quote:It's quite common to link images
Are there any clients which display links to images within the document?
So if I had something like
Code:Look at my house:
=> http:link.to/an/image-of-my-... |
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twee |
The WWW
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08-08-2020, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Hobbies
Post: RE: Hobbies
| I've also been trying to get into Go. I'm still at the stage where I lose every match in embarassing ways though. |
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Off topic
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30-07-2020, 07:00 PM |
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Thread: Hobbies
Post: RE: Hobbies
| I read quite a lot, mostly classics and philosophy books, and recently I've been exploring linguistics quite a bit.
I also do music, acoustic stuff. Write songs or whatever.
Sometimes I do gardening... |
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Off topic
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26-07-2020, 06:40 PM |
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Thread: RSS feeds
Post: RE: RSS feeds
| (01-07-2020, 09:11 AM)acg Wrote: I'm still looking for alternatives
What features are you looking for? Do you like the ability to sort by feed? As mentioned by a few people, rawdog is great for rive... |
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twee |
The WWW
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01-07-2020, 09:40 AM |
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Thread: RSS feeds
Post: RE: RSS feeds
| I love feeds, I access them via email using rss2email at the back. My only problem with the program is that it doesn't do anything about feeds that only provide summaries or links; my hackish solution... |
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twee |
The WWW
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27-06-2020, 06:59 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| (06-06-2020, 10:38 AM)wolf Wrote: its enormous scripting capabilities.
That's interesting, so do you make use of bashisms in your shell scripts?
I try and avoid bash where possible, in equal parts ... |
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twee |
BSD
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76,076 |
06-06-2020, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
| I use xenodm because it's preferred for security reasons on OpenBSD. Currently my laptop isn't running BSD though, so I don't use a display manager. |
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twee |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-06-2020, 07:13 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| Yep, rc is definitely designed to be used in its home environment. I remember seeing a project to make it decent on linux, using readline or whatever, but I can't find that now. |
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twee |
BSD
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76,076 |
03-06-2020, 06:47 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| I've also been using tcsh for a while now, it does everything I want. Before that I used rc but as you say it's not great for interactive use.
I agree that interactive shells shouldn't need to be sta... |
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twee |
BSD
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02-06-2020, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| music: cmus, or gtkpod + ipod nano g2
video: ffplay
files: coreutils, occasionally dired
irc: weechat
emulator: xterm, st
system monitor: ps or top, but i don't care that much
text editor: vis, ... |
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twee |
BSD
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13-05-2020, 06:54 AM |
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Thread: Programming book recommendations.
Post: RE: Programming book recommendations.
| I like a few of the Lisp books, which aren't very Unixy but are interesting and enjoyable: Touretzky's Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation and SICP, and of course the Little Schemer is a lot o... |
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twee |
Programming On Unix
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08-05-2020, 07:34 PM |
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Thread: Fonts and colors.
Post: RE: Fonts and colors.
| When I have a display that makes smooth fonts look nice, I'm partial to Go Mono Italic or IBM Plex Italic, depending on whether I'm looking for crispness or comfiness; I generally prefer serif fonts b... |
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twee |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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08-05-2020, 07:17 PM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| It took me a long time to realise that OpenBSD was what I was looking for but I'm very glad I did. |
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08-05-2020, 05:11 AM |
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Thread: Software recommendation
Post: RE: Software recommendation
| I'm pretty sure cwm can do that too, if I understand correctly (I might not, in which case apologies).
in the cwm configuration file:
Code:gap 7 28 7 7
ignore xclock
and then in the x resources:
Co... |
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twee |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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07-05-2020, 09:07 AM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| Hi kus.
Do you want us to elaborate on what device we use the most? I use my laptop the most because it is the most convenient to move around with while still being something I can configure myself. ... |
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03-05-2020, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: A digression on echo.
Post: RE: A digression on echo.
| Reading the GNU coding standards was what convinced me to move back to OpenBSD, after having had to move back to Linux for certain software support which is no longer an issue. In particular, this par... |
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twee |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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21-04-2020, 05:22 PM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
| Just bought Joni Mitchell's Miles of Aisles. It's a great album. |
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Off topic
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16-04-2020, 05:16 PM |
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Thread: Personal websites
Post: RE: Personal websites
| distinctly.pink
It's very much a work in progress. I haven't quite worked out what I want it to be yet. |
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Off topic
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16-04-2020, 05:11 PM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| Don't forget to pipe the icing! |
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twee |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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14-04-2020, 07:33 AM |
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Thread: GUI pipes
Post: RE: GUI pipes
| All this talk of drag and drop and music has reminded me of some things: sunvox[1] and pure data[2]. Neither of them work exactly like pipes, but I think at the heart they are similar - the user creat... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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13-04-2020, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: hello again
Post: RE: hello again
| Hi! I wasn't around six years ago, so we probably haven't met. You sound interesting though, so I'm looking forward to what you have to say :)
It seems that a lot of the people here don't use tiling ... |
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13-04-2020, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: Comparing the single-file efficiency of version control systems
Post: RE: Comparing the single-file efficiency of versio...
| This reminds me a little of the "less ties" thread. The reason I use git to track small projects isn't to do with the efficiency of git, but with its ubiquity. Granted, it doesn't come into play often... |
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twee |
Programming On Unix
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04-04-2020, 05:51 AM |
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Thread: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
Post: RE: How do you tidy your home, aka `tree -L2 ~`
| Here goes, I guess:
Code:tree -L 2 -F
Code:.
├── audio/
│ ├── music/
│ └── podcasts/
├── bin -> /home/nks/lib/bin/
├── documents/
│ ├── links
│ ├──... |
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twee |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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24-03-2020, 08:25 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| (18-03-2020, 11:14 AM)neeasade Wrote: I've definitely gone the other direction, folding {git,shell,notes,irc,dev,dmenu,...} into emacs. For me the benefit is the blended experience between everythin... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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18-03-2020, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| (16-03-2020, 04:25 PM)neeasade Wrote: I moved most of my ties into emacs, so I just need a platform that can lift me into my elisp playground.
That's pretty much what I had for the last six months o... |
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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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18-03-2020, 04:33 AM |
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Thread: Less Ties With A Machine
Post: RE: Less Ties With A Machine
| (15-03-2020, 05:56 AM)venam Wrote: (14-03-2020, 09:00 PM)z3bra Wrote: I'm digging back this threadAnother one is about asking yourself why would you have to learn different behavior to do the same... |
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twee |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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16-03-2020, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Hello world
Post: RE: Hello world
| (14-03-2020, 04:59 PM)bstamour Wrote: when I was younger, it was Haskell or the highway for me.
I get you. I mostly use procedural languages but tend to write code in a more functional way.
I had a... |
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16-03-2020, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: Hello world
Post: RE: Hello world
| Hi there!
Out of interest, what made you give up on functional programming? Does the days of being a zealot mean you don't care for it at all, or you've just given up lauding it and forcing it on peo... |
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14-03-2020, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Three letter usernames
Post: RE: Three letter usernames
| Three letter usernames are definitely reminiscient of old hacker culture. I personally don't use my initials as they are quite unique, and searching for them brings up information about me (admittedly... |
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01-06-2019, 04:11 AM |
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Thread: What's your favorite book?
Post: RE: What's your favorite book?
| Ender's game was good.
Dune, I didn't read the sequels - I thought that it wasn't the best book ever by a long shot, and a lot of people hype it up a lot. I couldn't care about Paul, he seemed pretty... |
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Off topic
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08-01-2019, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
| I just checked the link for bat in op, assuming it to be some kind of battery display tool. I know that the `cat -v` thing is pretty funny now, but I honestly don't see the point in this at all. (if y... |
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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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07-01-2019, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: Good day.
Post: RE: Good day.
| Hi gaak,
actually at the moment I decided to use dwm instead. For fvwm I think I started on one of the examples, and edited bits. It's not much. Check it here if you want: http://ix.io/1xKV
it was ... |
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07-01-2019, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: Hello there
Post: RE: Hello there
| Of course, there is always OpenBSD, like you said you were interested in. Installation (excluding disk encryption) takes about half an hour (maybe an hour if you're being slow, but as I said it took m... |
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twee |
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07-01-2019, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
| I used Dvorak for around half a year. I definitely felt an improvement. But I had to give it up because I have to use a lot of computers which I can't choose a keyboard for. |
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Off topic
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22-12-2018, 09:41 AM |
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Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
| I doubt it. I think that at a pointing device would have become a thing at some point (hah), because it has applications that make it useful beyond just navigating a virtual desktop.
the route that p... |
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twee |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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04-12-2018, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
| Emacs works at least in part like this. C-x C-e will execute any lisp expression that you specify, wherever you are. also using org babel you can run code from any language, and pass the results to ot... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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01-12-2018, 07:31 AM |
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Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
| I also think a universal quake terminal type thing could be a good way of allowing access to the command lite version of a tool
assuming we are keeping gui as an interface to text commands as everyon... |
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twee |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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30-11-2018, 09:57 PM |
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Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
| I mostly use computers for processing data - reading text files (which yes i did convert from pdf, i will explain more shortly), writing articles for my site (haha funny), essays for school (philosoph... |
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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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30-11-2018, 09:55 PM |
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Thread: Good day.
Post: RE: Good day.
| i never got on with plan9 and acme. I havent used it much but I thought acme was too reminiscient of emacs without actually getting there :(
posix as a standard definitely has some issues, but i thin... |
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29-11-2018, 08:31 PM |
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Thread: Good day.
Post: RE: Good day.
| pretty sure arch doesnt come with ed either, because it "If Arch included all the crap that every user considers part of a "standard" *nix system, it wouldn't be Arch" according to one forum post.
i ... |
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29-11-2018, 04:46 AM |