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  Thread: Unix Horror Stories
Post: RE: Unix Horror Stories
(05-03-2026, 06:35 AM)k3ff_unixhub0r Wrote: HI VENAM! loooong time no talkz. How are u? (simon from sweden, (and #unixhub)) :D Wow, you still remember the old days. I'm doing great, no complain! Hop...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 9 23,902 05-03-2026, 08:11 AM
  Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
🫡 May the g rest in peace! The experience was fun, however it was long due for a cleanup, it was starting to gather dust and rot. As with many attempts at projects, there's usually a huge hype for a ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 49 84,082 03-02-2026, 12:50 PM
  Thread: Atomic Distros
Post: RE: Atomic Distros
There are a few different definitions floating around the past few years. There are different concepts and components that can be qualified as atomic/immutable, sometimes joined together, sometimes no...
 venam GNU/Linux 4 6,591 25-09-2025, 03:25 AM
  Thread: Unix Horror Stories
Post: RE: Unix Horror Stories
(23-07-2025, 09:52 AM)jkl Wrote: are not synchronised with the new versionsThe person who designed this forgot to put a gigantic warning after the upgrade is over. "Restart or your data is in great ...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 9 23,902 02-08-2025, 07:30 AM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
What's up doc, (24-07-2025, 07:32 PM)doctator Wrote: I run things that aren't supposed to fail. Then I make them fail on purpose just to make sure.Chaos engineering at its best!
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 32 51,978 02-08-2025, 07:28 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
(21-05-2025, 11:02 AM)oui Wrote: [cwm] My quiet space I see you've set border width as zero, and set the terminal color the same as your background. I'm curious, how do you know what's happening in ...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,756 4,154,440 21-05-2025, 11:15 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
(03-05-2025, 01:37 PM)movq Wrote: Just on the laptop, though. I want a comfortable dark scheme on my normal workstation. Looks amazing as usual. The only thing that's bugging me is the bold inverted...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,756 4,154,440 06-05-2025, 04:10 AM
  Thread: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
Post: RE: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
That particular article for me sat in between satire and seriousness, but it was still a fun read. (21-02-2025, 04:41 PM)ckester Wrote: Is the trend to rewrite so many utilities ... minimalism, or ...
 venam Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 7 9,317 22-02-2025, 08:18 AM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
(19-01-2025, 12:57 PM)tabako Wrote: I'm tabako, you can find me on tilde.club/~tabako where I've recently recovered my account, and I'm trying to learn how to make it work, I'm still fairly new to *...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 32 51,978 20-01-2025, 06:13 AM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
Hello r1w1s1, Welcome to nixers! (13-06-2024, 04:30 PM)r1w1s1 Wrote: (getting old)Aren't we all.
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 32 51,978 14-06-2024, 02:58 AM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
I'm still using Fira Code Mono, like so many others here.
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 117 263,663 21-01-2024, 05:17 AM
  Thread: Rocky's Sketchbook
Post: RE: Rocky's Sketchbook
Welcome back! (20-01-2024, 12:14 PM)rocx Wrote: feel like getting back into shitposting with visual diarrhea for the unwashed masses to suffer through.I wouldn't say no to that! Keep us posted. (...
 venam Off topic 3 12,063 20-01-2024, 12:24 PM
  Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt
That's epic! I've been waiting for your scavenger/cyber hunt for a while.
 venam Off topic 4 12,792 18-10-2023, 08:26 AM
  Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
(16-09-2023, 09:56 PM)ckester Wrote: The biggest advantage of CLIs is probably their scriptability. Then why not both, and have something like what is proposed in these two thread here and here. Scr...
 venam BSD 116 243,590 17-09-2023, 01:32 AM
  Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
(04-09-2023, 02:01 PM)80x24 Wrote: Here's the build plan:What's a "build plan", it's the first time I encounter this when it comes to fonts. Is it something specifically related to iosevka or it's a...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 117 263,663 05-09-2023, 03:49 AM
  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
(04-09-2023, 01:53 PM)80x24 Wrote: 80x24 doesn't need explaining :)Hence the question that follows: Do you use these values as your terminal and text editor setup?
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 72 146,774 05-09-2023, 01:51 AM
  Thread: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
Post: RE: XDG_CONFIG_HOME as ~/etc
It's always a good idea for a tidier home to override the XDG directories. It's easier to do with the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file or whatever is the default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but then it'll be a...
 venam Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 4 15,197 02-09-2023, 09:39 AM
  Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
I've also been on the same machine for quite a while, and it serves me well. An Acer Aspire V5-551 A8, 6GB ram. (09-08-2023, 12:59 PM)movq Wrote: 32 GB of RAM was a lot backI still think it's quite...
 venam Hardware talk 14 29,785 10-08-2023, 04:23 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
Pretty minimal! Can you share more info on the WM and what you're running?
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,756 4,154,440 03-06-2023, 11:15 AM
  Thread: industry buzzwords
Post: RE: industry buzzwords
Buzzwords are not there for you, they're there to appease marketing teams and confuse competing companies making them feel like they're not ahead of the curve. I've always wondered whether these tren...
 venam Off topic 11 21,870 15-11-2022, 05:29 AM
  Thread: Historical GUI Websites
Post: RE: Historical GUI Websites
that's a really nice find! I especially like the ads and the tutorials, they're perfect to give you a general feeling of the OS or software and how it was perceived at the time. I'd be curious of what...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 4 15,998 11-10-2022, 03:42 AM
  Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
(06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: gopassThis one: https://www.gopass.pw/ ? (06-10-2022, 12:55 PM)jkl Wrote: files are (necessarily?) named like the passwords (often = like the websites) is a red f...
 venam Security & Cryptography 63 137,987 07-10-2022, 10:52 AM
  Thread: What spoken languages do you know?
Post: RE: What spoken languages do you know?
(02-10-2022, 12:51 PM)kuba Wrote: My first post here.Hello there, welcome! That's a lot of languages.
 venam Off topic 97 188,509 02-10-2022, 01:54 PM
  Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
Hello there! Welcome to nixers. (04-09-2022, 01:15 PM)ckester Wrote: Welcome, and thanks for keeping those old laptops out of the landfill!If I remember there was a thread about the oldest hardware...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 32 51,978 04-09-2022, 02:50 PM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
This sounds like an amazing retirement plan.
 venam Off topic 6 15,634 25-08-2022, 01:56 AM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
(23-08-2022, 04:12 AM)ckester Wrote: For example, is the license or programming language an important criterion for you?The license for me is a bonus factor, as long as I can read the code and that ...
 venam BSD 115 231,398 23-08-2022, 05:11 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
(02-05-2022, 09:52 AM)pfr Wrote: Dont think this ones been done yet..? I know this one, but I'll just give a hint because I was coincidentally adding a link to their website for next week's newslett...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 140,257 02-05-2022, 10:01 AM
  Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
https://512kb.club/ [Image: https://i.imgur.com/cfdLwy0.png]
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 91 140,257 26-04-2022, 07:02 AM
  Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
(23-04-2022, 06:36 AM)josuah Wrote: A two-column layout was just added to The Gopher Times (troff-based): https://gopherproxy.net/bitreich.org/9/t...-opus4.pdf I had a blast reading this! These are ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 15 27,616 23-04-2022, 06:56 AM
  Thread: Yet another self-introduction
Post: RE: Yet another self-introduction
Welcome to nixers! That's a lot of machines, are you using them all, on a home network?
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 5 15,071 20-04-2022, 09:20 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(17-04-2022, 05:26 PM)adi Wrote: the web site for my static site generator mkws The name is really well-chosen. However, I got a tip, you're sharing the binaries in a tgz file directly but I can't f...
 venam Programming On Unix 419 839,315 18-04-2022, 02:26 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(17-04-2022, 12:28 PM)akoizumi Wrote: [2]: https://git.patchysicp.xyz/novaburst/ayu That's very nice and straight forward, it seems many persons are building their own password management tools. It ...
 venam Programming On Unix 419 839,315 17-04-2022, 01:03 PM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
(25-03-2022, 09:57 AM)VMS Wrote: I'm interested in a newsletter; didn't even know this was a thing, as I'm rather new here. Is there an atom feed available?There's an RSS feed: https://newsletter.ni...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 42 86,059 25-03-2022, 10:28 AM
  Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
After a long while, I'm announcing that we're going to be restarting the newsletter. Feel free to send contributions and propose ideas if you have any. It would also be nice to merge the concept with ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 42 86,059 25-03-2022, 05:14 AM
  Thread: Syntax help error
Post: RE: Syntax help error
You're right, the size is in pt and the help is misleading on what the actual output will look like. XX-Large It's better to use text instead of numbers, such as: Code:[size=xx-small]XX-Small[/size]...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 1 7,925 11-03-2022, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: RE: Recommended UPS?
Before installing solar panels I used any random UPS that had been thrown away. I'd modify it to remove the noise it makes when it's on power supply, connect the internal circuit to a 150amp truck bat...
 venam Hardware talk 1 9,285 08-03-2022, 12:00 PM
  Thread: Share your file-opener script
Post: RE: Share your file-opener script
There's a discussion on lobsters related to this. An interesting custom solution is this one from vermaden.
 venam Programming On Unix 5 14,402 07-03-2022, 02:47 AM
  Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
(28-02-2022, 11:48 AM)DECnet Wrote: I like to have per-session historyWhat's your process to search in the history file? Do you purge old files also? For many the histfile is a huge source of knowl...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 22 33,579 01-03-2022, 06:04 AM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
What I personally use is still a combination of mpd and client interfaces such as ncmpcpp. I like the whole architecture of having a server manage the music library and be able to interact with it fro...
 venam Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 63,824 23-02-2022, 02:45 AM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor
On that note, I also forgot I have a script for battery status that pops up at certain intervals. It's running as a systemd user timer (~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants). The timer unit Code...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 25,498 13-02-2022, 05:49 AM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: What do you use as a system monitor
Hello nixers, Here's a simple thread: What do you use as a system monitor and do you have recommendations. I normally go for htop and top but I'm looking to broaden my horizons. Be sure to mention t...
 venam Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 25,498 10-02-2022, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Alright, last two chapters of the book! # Chapter 13 This chapter is about building a file server using P9 proto. It starts by describing disk devices, devices defined as `/dev/sd*`. The driver ca...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 59,847 08-01-2022, 04:27 AM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #6: Introduction to Op...
Book club time, happy new year. # Chapter 11 A chapter about threads and channels. Threads are independent of processes and so they have their own threadID. I think we call that user-level threads ...
 venam Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 59,847 01-01-2022, 05:16 AM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living
Let's kick this off! I work in a company that specializes in remotely configuring devices. This is mainly about telecom handsets/sims and routers. We have components that plug into the network nodes ...
 venam Off topic 6 15,634 23-12-2021, 07:14 AM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: What Do You Do for a Living
Hello fellow nixers, What do you do for a living, or have done? A lot of members work in different fields, some not even in tech-related field. There's quite the diversity of fields. It's good to sha...
 venam Off topic 6 15,634 23-12-2021, 07:13 AM