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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| My new travel typewriter. Nothing special.
[Image: https://cdn.tuxproject.de/share/nixers/g...writer.png] |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,756 |
4,158,365 |
03-01-2026, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?
| I was given a perfectly functional Acer Travelmate by someone who requires Windows for his everyday work. I added it to my "daily driver" collection, I use it as a sophisticated typewriter while trave... |
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jkl |
Hardware talk
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29,851 |
01-01-2026, 05:36 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| That's a lovely dwm setup. How did you do the bar? |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,756 |
4,158,365 |
22-12-2025, 01:44 AM |
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Thread: Ken Thompson tells a story
Post: Ken Thompson tells a story
| 2024 interview, posted this October, quite a few interesting thoughts about Open Source in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVHkL0IWk4 |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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0 |
2,021 |
26-10-2025, 11:22 PM |
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Thread: Git updater shell script
Post: RE: Git updater shell script
| Added submodule sync'ing in the "an update happened" if/else branch. It is skipped when there are no submodules, as far as I can see in my tests. |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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16,384 |
08-10-2025, 07:27 PM |
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Thread: Atomic Distros
Post: RE: Atomic Distros
| venam:
Quote:I've seen a lot of people enjoy NixOS and the Nix package manager.
I've always wanted to try Guix, for a similar reason. Yes, QubesOS needs a beefy machine. |
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jkl |
GNU/Linux
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6,631 |
25-09-2025, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: Atomic Distros
Post: RE: Atomic Distros
| I do not think that an operating system that has immutable components is a good idea, as it limits freedom. If you want immutable system areas, use macOS. |
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jkl |
GNU/Linux
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6,631 |
22-09-2025, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Unix Horror Stories
Post: RE: Unix Horror Stories
| I would probably need a gigantic red warning "restart NOW or you WILL regret losing your databases". |
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jkl |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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23,935 |
03-08-2025, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| I already like you: "no Kubernetes" seems to be a rare skill these days. |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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28-07-2025, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: Unix Horror Stories
Post: RE: Unix Horror Stories
| (13-02-2017, 03:26 AM)venam Wrote: I'm also really interested in tips to avoid making cretinous mistakes.
When a system upgrade is carried out under illumos, a new boot environment is automatically ... |
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jkl |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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23,935 |
23-07-2025, 09:52 AM |
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Thread: Harvey OS
Post: RE: Harvey OS
| Harvey has been retired, it seems. That's actually sad. |
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jkl |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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22,052 |
23-07-2025, 09:50 AM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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52,057 |
11-05-2025, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
Post: RE: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
| What's wrong with Rust, except that its compiler needs too much RAM and dynamic linking needs notable more work? After all, the resulting binaries are native, just like C binaries are.
Don't get me w... |
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jkl |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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01-04-2025, 08:31 PM |
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Thread: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
Post: RE: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
| Honestly, the existence of Conan is the only thing that makes C++ development almost bearable these days. |
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jkl |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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01-04-2025, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I wrote my own replacement for Pocket/Instapaper (not self-hosted), Wallabag (PHP, tends to break i18n), Espial (does not work on OpenBSD) and/or Shiori (not-too-great user interface) - basically, a w... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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840,390 |
17-03-2025, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
Post: RE: UNIX maximalism and minimalism
| Most software can be compiled locally, and I usually recommend my users to build my tools themselves instead of just fetching a precompiled binary. Some of it depends on the runtime: I have been doing... |
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jkl |
Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related
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22-02-2025, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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52,057 |
21-01-2025, 11:53 AM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| No, FreeBSD is not even remotely the same thing as Ubuntu. |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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17-01-2025, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: What distribution would you fork?
Post: RE: What distribution would you fork?
| freem: Sounds like you want to make Debian Void. |
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jkl |
GNU/Linux
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09-01-2025, 10:12 PM |
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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| nq looks lovely, thank you. |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-01-2025, 11:32 AM |
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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| Since the developer of my previously favourite macOS mail client now thinks it's kind of stupid that he decided against a subscription model back then, I used the past weekend to familiarise myself wi... |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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35,419 |
30-12-2024, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| It probably does, why wouldn't it? |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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840,390 |
11-11-2024, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| You know what sucks with static blog generators?
The fact that you can't have comments without JavaScript.
Or ... wait, you can. I have described how. (You'll need PHP, yq and a shell.) |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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840,390 |
28-10-2024, 07:22 PM |
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Thread: The Origins of Emacs, uncovered.
Post: The Origins of Emacs, uncovered.
| Interesting read:
https://onlisp.co.uk/On-the-Origin-of-Em...-1976.html |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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23-07-2024, 09:54 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Please be VERY frightened! |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21-06-2024, 09:38 PM |
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Thread: Old vi
Post: RE: Old vi
| Try sam without the GUI. It's basically ed on steroids - WITH Rob Pike's regex implementation. Granted, unlike vi(s/m), you'll need to print (with or without line numbers) your stuff more often than n... |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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21-06-2024, 09:38 PM |
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Thread: Old vi
Post: RE: Old vi
| Wouldn't it make more sense to try sam instead? |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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20-06-2024, 10:04 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Now he fixed the typo and my comment looks weird. Boo! |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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18-06-2024, 07:09 PM |
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Thread: Self-introduction
Post: RE: Self-introduction
| Welcome to nixers, r1w1s1! Do you mean BDSM servers? :D
(No, we are not all! Right? RIGHT?) |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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16-06-2024, 05:05 PM |
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Thread: Old vi
Post: RE: Old vi
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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16-06-2024, 05:04 PM |
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Thread: Old vi
Post: Old vi
| I investigated when the flash option was added to vi. It was when System V entered the VAX. 1983.
Result: a new Vim patch…
https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/14778 |
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jkl |
Old school stuff
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15-05-2024, 07:08 PM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| The "BSD rant" in the newest newsletter was mostly commented as "sounds more like a pro-BSD blog entry" on Lobsters and I agree. :) |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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26-04-2024, 07:15 PM |
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Thread: Filesystem choice
Post: RE: Filesystem choice
| XFS is an amazing file system. ZFS is not a desktop file system. |
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jkl |
GNU/Linux
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26-04-2024, 07:13 PM |
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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| It works surprisingly well, I admit. :) |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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20-01-2024, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: Try and review tools.
Post: RE: Try and review tools.
| I am currently evaluating paperless-ngx so the stuff I need for my income tax return is in a place where I find it without grepping old e-mails and banking reports.
Once you find a working combinatio... |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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35,419 |
09-01-2024, 08:14 AM |
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Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
| Thank you for this, neeasade. |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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09-11-2023, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: A Curated Newsletter
Post: RE: A Curated Newsletter
| The current newsletter suggests to use a text editor for writing stuff on the web. Yes, but why not both?
https://ghosttext.fregante.com/
Works even with Acme! |
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jkl |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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86,316 |
27-10-2023, 08:21 AM |
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Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt
| The website is much more readable when used in Emacs. I hope it will remain to be supported. |
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jkl |
Off topic
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19-10-2023, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I’m working on my second GNU Emacs package, an “open the whisky under the cursor on Whiskybase.com” function. Turns out that thing-at-point is a both handy and very confusing function.
edit: I'm pret... |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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840,390 |
06-10-2023, 08:43 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Ah, it's already out? Good to know! |
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jkl |
Programming On Unix
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840,390 |
29-09-2023, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| AppleTalk's auto-configuration features mostly live on in Bonjour, (GUI) scripting is preferably done with the Automator and Apple's own AppleScript (that resembles Smalltalk): https://en.wikipedia.or... |
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jkl |
BSD
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244,065 |
18-09-2023, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| I know that this might sound heretic, especially on Nixers, but the best possible way to do actual work in a non-emergency situation is not the CLI. This is not related to the inadequacy of the surrou... |
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jkl |
BSD
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244,065 |
13-09-2023, 06:18 PM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| Graphically? Do you need more pictures? |
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jkl |
BSD
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244,065 |
13-09-2023, 11:35 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| Ah. Why do you use boring software? ;-) |
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jkl |
BSD
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116 |
244,065 |
09-09-2023, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| Current state: Input for sans-serif, Hack for monospace, Garamond for serif. |
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jkl |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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264,172 |
04-09-2023, 02:49 PM |
