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Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

glibg10b,

borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install

That’s where you’re wrong :)

glibg10b,

Why do you advocate for keeping /home separate?

I personally don’t do it because the more partitions you have, the more often you need to fiddle around in GParted when one partition gets full. This is also why I use swap files instead of swap partitions

As far as I can tell, unless you distro-hop, separating /home doesn’t have any advantages. Even then, sharing one /home directory between multiple desktop environments can cause some problems

I agree with making and testing backups, though. My current strategy is to back everything up to a 4.2 TiB ZFS pool with daily snapshots on my LAN, and back up the most important data on that to the cloud

glibg10b,

Before you can fix a bootloader, you first need to learn how to install and set up a bootloader. I think most people learn that part when they try Arch

glibg10b,

You’d just be able to get around that using the API

Has a date, or ETA been announced, or rumored for the release of Lemmy 0.19?

I hope that this post doesn’t come across as impatient, or demanding – I fully understand that Lemmy is donation funded, and is created out of the benevolence of the devs. I am merely curious if any announcement has been made in regards to a specific ETA. I am certainly excited for its release, but I also completely...

glibg10b,

The frontend has nine unresolved issues that were opened after the first 0.19 release candidate was released. Then there’s the backend, which has about 15 more

glibg10b,

What does that have to do with anything?

It’s only once you visit a website that it matters whether you’re on an IPv6 network. OP isn’t visiting the website at all; they’re just typing the address and being taken to their search engine

glibg10b,

I think your misunderstanding comes from the fact that “wouldn’t work” can mean a lot of things, and you didn’t know quite what it meant

If

  1. you’re not on an IPv6 network,
  2. you enter the IPv6 address of a website into the address bar and
  3. the browser attempts to load that website (not a search engine),

then the connection will time out:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/bf4296e2-3d4e-4906-b904-5a4a74577df9.png

OP never got to step 3, which indicates a problem with the browser

glibg10b,

I hope you’re donating to the respective libreddit instance hoster, because unlike Reddit, they’re not a multibillion corporation with a steady ad income to pay for their traffic

If you’re not, then I suggest you use old.reddit.com with uBlock Origin

glibg10b,

OP did not take this picture. Their story is made up. Here’s the original: lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/3/110

glibg10b, (edited )

Looking at other users’ reports would’ve daved you a lot of time: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2250

glibg10b,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3bf09195-188c-4818-b4bf-9ba98e5fe761.png

Lol

glibg10b,

It’s a known issue

glibg10b,

It’s likely. mkdir fails to create a subdirectory such as ~/.cache/mozilla/ if ~/.cache/ doesn’t exist, unless -p is explicitly passed to mkdir

Of course, not everything is a shell script, but I imagine the directory creation functions in many languages work similarly

glibg10b,

/run/ contains such a directory

glibg10b,

This seems like a filename conflict waiting to happen. Why not just mount a tmpfs there?

glibg10b,

You: It’s a single user system
Also you: Tmpfs would have to be done for every user

And a /tmp/ symlink would have to be created for every user too, so I don’t get your point

Tmpfs is just as easy as making a symlink, but without the filename conflicts between files in ~/.config/ and /tmp/. You just need to add a line to /etc/fstab

glibg10b, (edited )

Neat, thanks for sharing

Here’s the above pseudocode in bash:


<span style="color:#323232;">find /home/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec mount none {}/.cache/ -t tmpfs -o size=16G </span><span style="color:#0086b3;">;
</span>

for doesn’t work here because it uses spaces to delimit strings, which could cause issues with filenames that contain spaces

You can also create a systemd user service, which is useful if you don’t have root access. The above mount command requires root, but the following doesn’t and is more robust than symlinking to /tmp/:


<span style="color:#323232;">ln -s $(mktemp -dp /var/tmp/) ~/.config/
</span>
glibg10b,

there’s only two genders

People speak like this often enough that it’s considered informal speech, not bad grammar

More examples:

There’s two ways this can go

There’s two ways to look at it

Here’s a few posts on this topic:

…stackexchange.com/…/is-therere-similar-to-theres…

…stackexchange.com/…/there-is-vs-there-are-when-c…

…stackexchange.com/…/here-is-are-followed-by-plur…

So she’s still an idiot, just not for this reason

glibg10b,

I was also thinking of - Free Friday, so as long as its pc related, or gaming related, its ok to post

So two meme days a week, basically

glibg10b, (edited )

For reference:


<span style="color:#323232;">::: spoiler Summary
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Details
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:::
</span>

SummaryDetails

glibg10b,

I’m feeling déjà vu reading this comment

glibg10b,

I was there when it was written

glibg10b,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/96a13685-9cdc-41c6-bf4e-0e4bd8f6e4f5.png

glibg10b,

Why did I read this right to left? I’m not even into manga

glibg10b,

Is this the list you see?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/fcab90ba-60d7-401a-85a3-e424dc55984e.png

glibg10b,

That’s an interesting way to spell relays

glibg10b,

Good luck sorting by price

glibg10b,

Technically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy

glibg10b,

It depends on how well you get by and how widely drugs are available in your area. If I’m barely making ends meet, I don’t want to give the little I have left to someone who will likely spend it on drugs

glibg10b,

Or just zap the popup away with uBlock Origin’s element zapper (the lightning bolt)

glibg10b,

Windows 11 takes your money, gives you ads, sells your information and ignores your bug reports and feature requests

KDE is free, ad-free and open to contribution

I think we have a clear winner here

glibg10b,

Selling as in advertising, I might add. Neon is free

glibg10b,

Yeah, ricing is slang for the r/unixporn kind of themeing. It comes from car culture, where RICE stands for “race-inspired cosmetic enhancement”

glibg10b,

www.protondb.com/app/1716740

glibg10b,

1 Nm/s = 1 watt. It’s a measure of power, not force

glibg10b,

The meme calls it a force

glibg10b,

She has FAS

glibg10b,

Lemmy is neither popular nor heavily advertised, so people join at a slow rate

On the other hand, the amount political discussions, Hexbear, and lack of content result in disinterested people leaving Lemmy and joining Reddit

So the user count is decreasing because Reddit refugees are leaving faster than new people are joining

glibg10b,

We might as well call Pluto a planet at this point

glibg10b,

They’re probably claiming it’s much higher than it is

youtu.be/woFIMRJr-5w

glibg10b,

though

glibg10b,

As a white South African, I’d like to not sound like one

glibg10b,

Tail-pipe emissions are not a problem anymore, thanks to obd2, cats, efi and egr

glibg10b,

I was gonna argue that rolling resistance doesn’t have a large impact on efficiency, but apparently I was wrong

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_resistance

An example of a very light high-speed passenger train is the N700 Series Shinkansen, which weighs 715 tonnes and carries 1323 passengers, resulting in a per-passenger weight of about half a tonne. This lighter weight per passenger, combined with the lower rolling resistance of steel wheels on steel rail means that an N700 Shinkansen is much more energy efficient than a typical automobile.

glibg10b,

Source?

glibg10b,

Well, here’s a source to counter your anecdote

www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/…/index.html?itemId=/…

Although lightweight EVs emit an estimated 11-13% less PM2.5 than ICEV equivalents, heavier weight EVs emit an estimated 3-8% more PM2.5 than ICEVs. In the absence of targeted policies to reduce non-exhaust emissions, consumer preferences for greater autonomy and larger vehicle size could therefore drive an increase in PM2.5 emissions in future years with the uptake of heavier EVs.

glibg10b,

It’s Termux, a terminal emulator for Android. I typed the top part, which starts qalculate (basically Wolfram|Alpha with units) and gives it the expression 98.32 kb to KB

I was expecting it to convert 98.32 kilobits to kilobytes, but it instead interpreted the ‘b’ to mean barns. The actual unit for a bit in qalculate is ‘bit’:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/10bda083-fdbc-4ca5-a897-5195055bad7c.png

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