Before the ArchLinux wiki became as good as it is, people like me used the Gentoo and LFS wikis as documentation for Linux.
There isn't quite enough time in the world for me to be able to use LFS in anger as much I would wish. We make do with source distros with source managers like Gentoo (surprise!), Funtoo and others which give the source distros users just enough helping hands of dependency management.
Real tears would be shed were for LFS to disappear.
Chips (that's not crisps for the 'Mercans). Cheese and tomato. BLT.
I've not quite got across that I'm looking for learning to improvise having the basic patterns in mind.
sapo@beehaw.org (don't know the form for linking to a user on Lemmy) has grasped what I'm trying to convey.
There's a reason that I'm not a Twitter, X or Mastodon user. I'm not that kind of person. I think they should hand out free methadone if you can prove you're an X user.
Lemmy (and Reddit) is separated into distinct communities too. You can avoid certain areas easily.
Thank-you very much for your servers.
Love from England (because it was the only working stable Lemmy instance that I could open an account on back in the day. It was only later that found out I'm the other side of the planet!).
First micro was an Acorn Atom around 1981. First home built PC in around 1988.
Used Windows from the very early days of 3.0 when (Xerox?) Gem became the less useful competitor.
Around Win 2003, XP era they started taking useful functionality out or burying it and taking the useful KB articles off the net.
About that time I wanted to look at VoIP and stumbled into VoIP@home which was hosted by CentOS and I, initially, ran in a Win 2000 VM.
Not long after MS bought Hotmail and found that Windows servers couldn't keep it going and they had to replace it with UNIX. Maybe that timeline isn't quite right.
Started transitioning away from Windows that that stage and am so glad I did. I think Win 12 will just consist of a start button and everything else will require daily subscription.
From being a Win fanboy to just wishing he'd have taken the whole thing to that Epstein island with him and left it there.
Just run yourself a query "FoI uk police with criminal convictions". FoI stands for "freedom of information".
Eg. https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclosure-2023/may-2023/serving-police-officers-criminal-convictions/
You won't be surprised to learn, from clicking a few of the results, that high ranking officers are convicted of serious crimes but are still great police officers.
Then, try the same query again with rape and sexual assault.
That's a shit load of condoms, right there.
Would the last person out of Reddit please turn off the lights.
That's an underrated comment. Thank-you.
That's rather beautifully put and extra marks for p-h-t! 😁😜
I learned low level stuff to give prices to traders before the trading interval ended. I'm serious. Our four man hedge fund was under the wing of huge French bank. Pricing in the era was painful.
Asked for a price in the era used to take minutes for derivatives; I was told much faster wasn't possible; that's a red rag to me. I had no choice but to get dirty and go low level again.
The traders were old style barrow-boys, their like disappeared maybe a year or so after. Derivatives have a load of parameters that go with the actual price, "the Greeks", and market traders easily remember sets of shopping lists and prices and quantities at the same time. They were a shoe-in before computers were actually useful on a trading floor.
I learned to program on a 6502 RISC chip in Acorn Assembler. I liked it because BASIC was shit in the era (GOTO Fcuk My Life), like it got much better .. 🤣😂 Knowing how programs work allows me to try to make it faster. These days I think know compilers are smarter than me.
Rust appeals too for the time-travel aspect. I'd like to learn to write a threaded program. I would have loved to do that when back in the day, I always regretted the way it worked, but it was way beyond me 😭 .
I wouldn't mind looking at my old original killer pricing program, I knew it could be optimised then, but I just didn't have the time or the skills to go that extra mile. I regret that bitterly. 😡
If you get time, let me know of your (t)rust travels. Bon voyage.
If it runs Windows it'll run Linux almost certainly. The cheaper you go, the more likely you'll have lower priced or older components for WiFi, Bluetooth etc which may mean that you have to dig some firmware binaries out to get the whole thing running.
If you can take a USB stick with you of a typical Rescue distribution, and can boot it up, you'll know what will and won't work easily. The bits that don't work may need some minor fiddling. As I said, there are usually walkthrough blogs etc around.
Have fun.
Probably Ruby. For some reason .. no, that's a lie .. playing with Exherbo, Gentoo and Funtoo, but mostly Exherbo, made me loathe Python. However, everyone in the data processing arena seems to use it, so I'm bound to have to change my ways eventually! For "Ruby": read "Python".
My days of needing high-speed low level languages are long gone. I learned C on Borland C++ back in 1990 to price derivatives on 386s. Loved it.
If I mess around with any language it's for fun. I intend to commit suicide, when my time is done, by the percussive head trauma that learning Haskell will cause me.
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Who said that (you have to use their custom mainline kernel)?
Fedora have an IoT distribution that fits the Raspberry Pi for example. There's workstation and a ostree versions.
Armbian I've used in preference to Raspbian or whatever they call it today. I like the cleanest distributions as much as possible.
That's all I have personal experience with, but there are others.
Meanwhile, others have suggested other boards. However, don't think that Raspbian is it (pun intended).
What a removed.
I don't but i note increasing difficulty in upgrading/keeping prior extensions to the new version of gnome.
For example, "recent files" extensions for the top bar used to number in the threes I think. With the last gnome version there was only one which wasn't the most useful of the lot. I use it because it makes it easier beginning again the following day, rather than the extra step of opening the file mangler. I'll probably go with the majority and drop it once I upgrade to Fedora 39.
Looks like gnome is becoming more useful to people in basic guise, incorporating many of the extension functions within the main GUI, and so the once popular extensions are becoming unmaintained.
Not optimal. On a subjective level from great distance, poor bloke, but the wider issue is more important.
Does that coincide with what he identified as? What were his pronouns?
In the early days, too much Metformin.