👋 I'm a Christian computer programmer and Linux enthusiast. I love Bible studies, religious debate and discussion, and Christian music. I'm currently a Lubuntu Developer and Ubuntu Community Council Member, I maintain SWORD, Xiphos, and BibleTime for Fedora Linux, and I sometimes help with the development of theWord Bible Software.
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Last Notes npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I was today years old when I learned that WIndows *may* corrupt the GUID partition table for no particular reason, rendering all Linux installations on the same drive unbootable. Thankfully, booting into a live USB and doing `sudo fdisk /dev/nvme0n1` followed by `w` fixed the issue. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt "Those who believe it's easier to ask forgiveness than permissions probably should have permissions revoked before things go too haywire." - Me, just now npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…hck6 yh, u gt m. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…phzv Yep, Kdenlive is packaged by a KDE developer. If you trust KDE, you can just the Kdenlive Snap. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…phzv If the software is an official package by the developers of the software, or if it's packaged by a well-known community member,, it should be safe (assuming the upstream developers are not malicious themselves). Look for a checkmark or star next to the publisher name. If you don't see either of those, your should proceed with caution - anyone can upload a Snap to the Snap store with no or very little supervision, so it shouldn't be treated as automatically trusted. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…8lwp @nprofile…fexj I don't remember off-hand, it's immortalized in chat logs on IRC most likely though so I could find out if needed. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I sincerely wish web browsers would not frantically grab for the status of "default browser" every time I run them. I use multiple browsers for different things, I'm happy with my default! npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…6mjr This is really cool! I'm not exactly a cryptographer, but I am curious, are you preventing a man-in-the-middle attack with your encryption mechanism, and if so, how? (Every E2EE implementation I've ever seen requires the involvement of some sort of out-of-band shared secret to secure the connection, but I'm not seeing the out-of-band secret mentioned above.) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…9vce A lawyer would probably be a good first contact. It can be very tempting to just say "you can't use my project for X, Y, or Z" and call it good enough, but those who do so *very frequently* create licenses that accidentally forbid any kind of use at all (VeraCrypt IIRC), forbid uses that you actually wanted to allow (ftpparse, before I talked the author into open-sourcing it), or forbid so many different kinds of use that the software is effectively useless (Llama, alright this one was probably crippled intentionally but you get my point). It also becomes very easy to mix in bits of other projects in a way that unintentionally violates their licenses, something I as a license auditor have seen traditional open-source projects do multiple times. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…fexj I'd just stick with Chromium. I've tried Vivaldi, it was nice, and then the sysadmin for a FOSS project I contribute to informed me that my browser was leaking info most likely from my other tabs to the project's main website and Sentry was picking it up. Don't remember the details, not sure what I misconfigured if anything, but that was one serious scare and I ended up changing all my passwords and moving back to Chrome. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…gt2w I can't seem to access that website, DNS is broken. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…827z I can't tell if I think this is awesome or tragic. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Ran into an amazing song on r/ChristianMusic on Reddit. Wanted to share it here. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…qtg4 I don't really use it for its normal intended purpose, but I do oftentimes use it for mounting virtual QEMU disk images. qemu-nbd lets me bind arbitrary disk images (qcow2, raw, and probably others) to nbd devices, where I can then partition, format, and even install Linux to them as if they were a normal drive. Then I can unmount it, detach it, and boot it in a VM. It's awesome. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I rly dnot undstnd why C is alws wrtn lik ths. It jst mks it impsbl to rd, u spnd 90pct of the tme figrng out hw to dcrypt acrnyms, abbrevs, nd partial wor npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt What all the AI music people are missing is that music isn't just pretty, enjoyable to listen to, etc. 50% of the point is the passion and (hopefully) profound realizations of the *human* who wrote it, another 45% of the point is the passion of the *human* who performed it. Only 5% is the actual music itself. Knowing that the beauty, intensity, and complexity of a musical arrangement was spit out by an algorithm sucks 95% of the "musicness" out of the music. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…u99v Well. Now I feel justified feeling slightly terrified every time I run into openssl. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Found one that I liked, under an Attribution-NonCommercial license. https://flic.kr/p/vM56Jz Thanks to Bryant Olsen for this! npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I hate to be a cheapskate, but does anyone have a good recommendation for a source of, for lack of a better term, open-source or source-available **landscape** photography? My neck of the woods has tons of good landscape photography opportunities, but I don't have any good camera to capture them. I want a landscape picture as a desktop background, and every time I see something legitimately breathtaking, it's also impossible and illegal to download. I don't have anything against people who want to sell their photos (or even just keep them, it's their photos and capturing those is extremely hard work I'm sure), but I don't have the means to buy them. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I wish GitHub would give you a notification on their website when they were having an outage. Getting `[email protected] : Permission denied (publickey).` when trying to pull a repo just about gave me a heart attack thinking someone had hacked me. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I wish GitHub would give you a notification on their website when they were having an outage. Getting `[email protected] : Permission denied (publickey).` when trying to pull a repo just about gave me a heart attack thinking someone had hacked me. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt TIL Linux lets you bind-mount individual files, not just entire directories. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…qjvw hmm... maybe you have a sha512sums file that has absolute paths inside of it, or maybe your sha512sum command works better than mine. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…qjvw Yes, because postgres is a well-behaved command that actually obeys absolute paths. sha512sum on the other hand expects the files it verifies to be in the current working directory, even if you explicitly tell it the file with the hashes is somewhere other than the current working directory. Thus if you can't access the directory your files are in, you can't `cd` to it, and thus sha512sum will never find your files. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…qjvw Trying to run `sudo -u otheruser sha512sum /path/to/directorymy/user/cant/access/but/otheruser/can/SHA512SUMS`. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt New fear unlocked: Linux commands that assume you're in some specific directory even if you pass an absolute path to them. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…9n98 Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS, which (for practical, technical, and policy-related reasons) is only able to ship Plasma 5.27.11. If you want Plasma 6, you could switch to Kubuntu 24.10, or, if you're feeling really adventurous, you could compile Qt, KDE Plasma, and the KDE apps yourself using KDE's build tooling (there's public documentation on doing the latter, I've done it before, be warned that it is NOT a walk in the park). npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…t66q @nprofile…z446 Word guess: Creation npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh You're going to be using your files, apps, etc. on Kubuntu, right? If so, just select the HDD in the "Select storage device" dropdown at the top of the screen like it looks like you've done, then select "Erase disk" in the menu at the middle, and click "Next" at the bottom right. Don't mess with the "Bootloader location" settings. This will wipe *everything* on your hard drive, then install the OS to the drive. You'll have all of the space on the drive that isn't consumed by the OS for storing your apps and files (the OS itself will only consume somewhere around 10 GB of space). npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…z6ey Neat! I've been using Xiphos as my primary bible software for a while now. I've also tried experimenting with making my own SWORD frontends but haven't gotten anything generally usable yet. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…h9qy What kind of machine was this for, some sort of mainframe terminal? I don't think DOS ever had a use for the F24 key :P npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…wyg9 That sounds legitimately horrible. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Well this is a new take on "I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh". (Ezekiel 36:26) Music is awesome, words are awesome though you may have to look up the lyrics since they're a bit hard to make out in some parts. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Hey #QubesOS using world! Don't be me and try to install a template rpm file directly using dnf! You Have Been Warned. Use qvm-template instead. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…y63h I have to do this thing, I've had quite a few VMs where the update speed was abysmal. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…klhc Like for real, avoiding awful crud even on Mastodon is not easy. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me. (Psalm 101:3) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…ddfm I mean, forgive me for stating the obvious, but is LibreOffice just totally unsuitable here? The formulas in LibreOffice are pretty similar, and if you're into macros there's LibreOffice BASIC (which also has some VBA support, though it's not complete). npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…wyg9 I thought this was a computer joke at first - the white text on a black background on the materials tag looks like a UNIX shell if you aren't paying attention :P npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…sq98 Oooh, I knew about moving the window with Super + left drag under KDE, but didn't know about Super + right drag for resize! Thanks for the tip! npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…t3sr I don't think tmux can have its control key (Ctrl+B) changed. Vim, maybe, but I use Vim on enough different machines that I can't trust them to be all configured the same. I have a hard enough time distinguishing "normal Vim" from "my workplace's super fancy configured Vim", I'm not sure changing a shortcut like that would make things any better. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Vim: Uses Ctrl+W followed by an arrow key for pane switching npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…lptk There's something sort of similar specifically for bootloader issues called boot-repair-cd. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/) It doesn't do everything though, and it has some potentially dangerous telemetry stuff in it that was designed to help people share system info with others for fixing problems, but can include sensitive info like LUKS headers. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…p7he Because some of us actually like Snap. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…rxx3 @nprofile…5krp Yes, it is free and open-source, by definition. The fact that they have a rather pushy donation model doesn't change that, and FOSS devs need to eat too. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Verison's most recent smartphone ads I've been seeing show someone burning a cherry pie, asking Google Gemini what to do with it, and being told to turn it into cherry cobbler. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…h9qy You're giving me anxiety. I have most of my files on a secondary XFS partition... npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Wow. This is one of those songs that get better almost every time I listen to it. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Wow, I just discovered pyuic from PyQt, and I'm instantly loving it. I thought making Qt apps in Python was an exercise in pure anguish until finding this. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…hyy8 I read this as "sqlite-based development" at first and was very confused XD npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…vdyk Please tell me this is a joke. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…r0kn You singlehandedly took down the whole service?! npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…zqch From what I understand, it *can* be forked or self-hosted, but many of its features like SMS support require that you have various accounts with various services so it can integrate with them, thus self-hosting or forking is a pain. I *think* Session is at least based on Signal's code, though I'm not entirely sure. @nprofile…fprp is that correct or am I inaccurate here? npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…95tk "Hi" npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (1 John 3:7-9) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…2lya You're using a VPN-like thing provided by Apple, and apparently it doesn't like your Internet connection. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt This snippet of code sums up how I feel about working with locales and keyboard layouts under Linux. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh There's probably no need for that, and it may not fix it. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh OK, if you're booted into the USB again, that's good. I'll be around for a while longer, so let's try some commands to troubleshoot. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…vrl0 @nprofile…dt6r I used to daily drive a machine with no internal hard drive at all. Installed from one USB onto another, used it as the hard drive, loved it. That was my setup for a decent amount of time, before I had the guts to install Linux on my main laptop. (That was about four and a half years ago, when I was just getting started with Linux.) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh OK, then this is probably just a case of a finicky BIOS. Can you get into the BIOS menu? (Usually you use a key like Esc or F2 while the system is first starting up to do that.) Once you're in the menu, find an option called "Boot Order" or something like that. Where does your hard drive show up in that list? npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh Yeah, some computers are finicky like that. Did you install alongside an existing OS, or did you let Mint take over the entire computer? (The latter is generally easier and less error-prone.) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…vrl0 If you're booted from a live USB, you're not actually using the space on the USB drive. The live image is read-only, and it's using your system's RAM as temporary disk space via overlayfs magic. It only will use part of your system's RAM though, so as to leave you room to do other things. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q0eh The OS on your hard drive isn't being recognized, and it's falling back to network boot (which you don't want to use, it's a very niche thing). Check your boot order in the BIOS settings and make sure that your hard drive is in the list and at or close to the top of the list. If there's a boot menu option that lets you specifically choose your hard drive to boot from, try using that. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…msv9 mmm, my answer varies depending on if you mean closest in proximity or closest as in easiest to reach. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…q3p6 Ubuntu developers exist on here and can here you :P I won't try to change your mind despite the fact that my Linux workflow lives and breathes Ubuntu, but some people actually do find it much more usable and maintainable than Fedora or Pop!_OS, so it might be handy to list the issues you have with it so people know whether they think other options are more maintainable *for them*. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…r0kn git reset HEAD~$(git rev-list --count HEAD); git add -A; git commit -m "squash"; git push -f npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…yuqa This reminds me of this meme: npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…qsp6 what distro did you try? I hate to be the "just try another distro, it'll work better" guy, but that particular error is something that shouldn't happen unless either you or your distro developer broke something very badly. Ubuntu generally "just works". npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…w7te If you're looking for a paid support option, there are companies that provide remote help and support for Linux, including my workplace, Kubuntu Focus (though they specialize in supporting Kubuntu running on their hardware, since they do lots of validation work to make sure Kubuntu works on their hardware so that there are as few rough edges as possible). If getting new hardware is an option, it might be worth looking into them. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…s7ss Plenty of people are still using it :) There are lots of abandoned channels that have devolved into spam, but many rooms are actively maintained and many of those have strong anti-spam measures in place. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @nprofile…y79k um, was there supposed to be an article link here? npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub18yv…xxyn hmm, in my experience it's very difficult to mute or hide someone based on the keyboard they use if they don't specifically say which keyboard they use. (For those who need to know mine, it's a Logitech MX Mechanical Mini with clicky blue switches.) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub18hd…kf64 I think at this point you have an AMD Radeon machine with an attached ARM-based peripheral board called a Raspberry Pi :P npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1eua…jcsu Motherboard replacement pretty much always triggers Windows to need reactivated. If you were using an OEM license, the licenses are bound to the motherboard and can't be reused, so that may be what you're seeing. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Somewhat obscure Christian song I first heard on a DVD called "God of Wonders". Thought it was worth sharing here. :) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub12f7…lkxh It probably will have to go through the change proposal process from what I understand. The process of submitting a Change is documented here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/changes_guide/ npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1y2h…ahs3 Not to my awareness, no. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1y2h…ahs3 Not sure how COSMIC's tiling works, but KDE has window tiling of sorts. Hit Meta+T, set up your layout, snap windows to it by holding Shift and then dragging your windows into position. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt At this point I'm not sure who's crazy - me, the computer, or whoever designed the websites I'm trying to parse. All I know is something has gone crazy. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1zqf…r4ty Migration, perhaps? npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub18a2…9u5x Generally I make my disks 32 GB if I don't expect to use the machine a whole lot (test machines for instance), 64 GB if they're going to be used for real work like building software, and 128 GB if they're going to be used for intensive work and I fear running out of disk space in the VM. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1dxv…y2z8 This looks neat, I assume the inability to translate paywalled pages is to protect Kagi from being sued by someone like the New York Times mistaking the translation engine for an AI scraper bot (or deciding that they don't want their articles translated for whatever nonsensical reason related to intellectual property they come up with)? npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt As a politically right-leaning person, I've intentionally said almost nothing about the results of the US presidential election because I know so many left-leaning people who I think will have their feelings hurt by me expressing my thankfulness and relief that Trump won. Yet these very same people seem to have no problem saying all manner of things about how much they hate how the election went, directing much of that hate at the people who voted and who wanted Trump to win. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1qy5…lav0 @npub1cj2…2fze <-- this guy :) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1ynm…7md3 If you mean a religion with an abundance of open-source study materials, may I interest you in Crosswire's SWORD Project? https://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt So `diff -r` cannot be limited to only recurse to a certain depth. Is there any "diff++" tool that acts similar to `diff`, but provides some more versatile options like depth recursion limits? I specifically do NOT want a visual diff tool or an interactive tool. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1tc7…5uf3 Yeah no. Android is proven to be easy to break into, there's software like Cellebrite for it. Windows is unsafe by default because the entity behind it thinks it's fine to record everything you do on your PC with Recall (which isn't fine even if Microsoft isn't snooping on the data, because it makes WAY more of my data persistent than should be persistent). ChromeOS doesn't use full disk encryption at all, it relies on ext4 file-level encryption which probably actually is decent, but it's file-level, not volume-level, which is worrisome. (I've never used macOS so I don't have much of an opinion there.) npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1gq5…yxjq Yep. And yet... all you need it a good `set -o pipefail` to shatter that expectation. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt Disturbing shell scripting fact for the day - both `true` and `echo ''` can exit non-zero. All you have to do is get in some esoteric edge case that results in a SIGPIPE being triggered. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1c0m…5s7y I knew this trick, but I hardly ever use it because I virtually always have readline support in my terminal and so I just do "up arrow + Home + type 'sudo ' + Enter'. The way you show is actually less typing though. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1wvu…qw2f ah, that makes sense. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1wvu…qw2f What desktop environment are you using? Also what exactly do you mean by "repeat visual warning"? Windows used to give me a warning at "low" and a warning at "critical" and that was it. KDE does that. GNOME does that. LXQt (when properly configured) does that. What desktop environment are you currently using? It might just have an option for this. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub18yv…xxyn when... what? I thought schmalz was chicken fat. I've heard of cultures where chicken is considered a vegetable but this is taking it a little too far... npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub19wu…nhd6 I initially read this as "I'm the right monster" and was so confused at first :P npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt wait why did [\:space\:] turn into that :P npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt echo "${BASH_REMATCH[0]%"${BASH_REMATCH[0]##*[![:space:]]}"}" npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1fcp…6qfx That looks like filesystem corruption to me. Might want to back up your data for good measure, then do an fsck. npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1470…4490 it's not remote desktop half so much as remote *app*, but so far the best experience I've had is with SSH + X forwarding (there's also waypipe if you use Wayland and need the same sort of thing). npub1kajdlnj8g3usaj46s5djntm82rrq5fxn0y4pf2y3yqulp76mancsdqdh8c Aaron Rainbolt @npub1wf4…94wn Wow. Just wow. How in the world do you even accidentally publish a cleartext password database like that to a downloadable location that prominent? That's insanity.
