wvstolzing

As of bash 4.3, (which came out nearly 10 years ago) it’s possible to get readline to set a variable to do that: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/CHANGES?h=bash-4.3#n832

I’ve haven’t used bash in a long time, but there are many questions/answers on stackoverflow that provide hints as to implementing an indicator like that. One zsh’s ‘zle’ (line editor) it’s a matter of setting an environment variable inside a custom prompt; so the bash approach should be similar.

Oh wow I didn’t realize he repeated ‘developers, developers, …’ 666 times on that event.

No, because he has already sent the beast with wrath.
— because he knows the time is short.

In any case, let him who have understanding
reckon the kernel of the beast;
for it is a human number;
not a semver number. So don’t worry about it. \

yieeeeeeaaaaaaaahhh

This can’t go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can’t avoid Tivoization!

My Mac died, at which time I was already a commandline enthusiast, & unable to afford a new Mac.

Thanks indeed; but I think I’d be more impressed if it were actually true.

(but yeah, the first draft of Star Wars was called ‘journal of the whills’.)

I thought… well… nevermind…

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the ‘wheels’ in a journal – the ‘journal of the wheels’. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the ‘Wheel Wars’. He later drafted a document that he called ‘Journal of the Whills’, based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became ‘Whill Wars’, and ultimately, of course, ‘Star Wars’.

This was on the ‘Linux Action Show’ on Jupiter Broadcasting; Lunduke used to be a very annoying co-host before getting replaced by Matt Hartley.

Somewhere im the bowels of youtube, there’s the footage of Stallman quarreling with B. Lunduke on this very question. It was a micro-scandal some 15 yrs. ago, I think.

Yeah, I’m sure that was the intention; but the wording is off, so I wanted to take a little jibe at it.

‘should have’ – but didn’t? What happened then?

I tend to agree with this take; as a pedantic side note, though, I’m not sure that OS X was ever based on FreeBSD – they took the unix userland, sure; but from the very start (NextSTEP), the kernel was derived from the Mach kernel, which itself was a fork of the 4.3BSD kernel; and the core libraries were written from scratch, all in the interests of marketing “quick application development” capability to Next’s customers. (Actually there’s an interview with S. Jobs somewhere where he lays this out very clearly; it was the late 80s/early 90s, the heyday of object-oriented toolkits & VMs after all)

I’m sure they’ve helped themselves liberally to the FreeBSD kernel for features; though still, OS X never was ‘based on’ FreeBSD (let alone a ‘FreeBSD with a pretty coat of paint’, as people like to say).

Wayfire brought back the compiz self-immolating window.

Actually I wonder if they named ‘wayfire’ after that fire effect.

You mention ‘the settings’; though it’s ambiguous whether you looked at the desktop’s, wm’s, or panel’s settings – the relevant settings are the panel plugins’ own little settings widgets, which you can call from a right click menu on the panel plugins themselves.

It’s a bit convoluted; though that’s the so called ‘trade-off’ for Xfce’s modularity.

– because it’s not an argument; it’s a vague association of imagery with no explanatory content.

What does Poett.'s current employment have to do with anything, though? Guido van Rossum (Python) & Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell) work at M$; I believe the guy who started Gentoo went on to work there likewise. Same with the lead dev of GNOME. I despise M$ as much as the next man; but correlations like these reek of guilt by association.

snowflakeOS

Maybe it’s the soulless cynic in me speaking; but the obvious snow-theme around NixOS notwithstanding, ‘snowflake’ MIGHT NOT be the best name for a distro aimed at ‘casual users’. It’s as though they’re saying, ‘LOL! You snowflakes can’t be assed to figure out how to install nixos, but still want to reap its benefits? We got you precious snowflakes LOLOLOL’

I kinda like the redesigned chameleon in the SUSE logo; maybe they could let openSUSE borrow it?

… though I guess not, because brand identity is the holy of holies, and all that.

I was about to quote the same.

… I mean, when you’re this clueless, maybe don’t put out ‘articles’ for others to read – it’s wasting everyone’s time.

I thought the title of this article was intriguing; because in the Linux community certain aspects of the desktop experience do get hyped; & there’s a tendency in general to sweep various usability issues under the rug, with the unwarranted confidence that we’re already “better than everyone else” in every way; though the article doesn’t address any of those.