Goodbye, Comrade

FYI Neofetch dev already escaped the matrix.

Farming, really? A man of your talents?
- That's every software engineer's endgame, better to get ahead of the game now 😤
- Fun fact! The Roman emperor Diocletian abdicated the throne after he stabilised the Roman empire after the Crisis of the Third Century. He retired to his villa in what is now Croatia to grow cabbages. This was an unprecedented move — typically an emperor served for the rest of their life and/or were violently overthrown. However, it took only a few years for the peace that Diocletian had established to begin to crumble into civil war again; when his friends and colleagues beseeched him to return to stabilise things, he was reported to have said "If only you knew the peace and tranquility I gain from tending and growing my cabbages, you would understand the impossibility of such a request!"^[1][2]
  I sincerely wish Dylan a life of as much peace and tranquility as the MVP ex-emperor Diocletian.
  [1]: I don't remember the source of this particular translation, but the original source for this is Epitome de Caesaribus 39.6
  [2]: A different translation of the same line is "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.". I prefer this one, because it makes it sound like he was disproportionately proud of his cabbages rather than just glad to be away from the shitstorm of Roman politics. However, the one I actually used fit the sentiment of my comment better.
  n.b. I am not a Historian, just a scientist whose late best friend was a Historian, and thus I am morally obligated to use what he taught me to make shitposts.
  Edit: formatting
- You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood, Quintus.
- After you've dealt with enough end users, farming is glorious. And a lot more complicated than you would think.
- It's a peaceful life.
- RIP, Dylan.
  https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DogGotSentToAFarm
- To be honest. Being a carpenter or someone who has an orchard seems amazing to me.
Bro is like thanos at the beginning of endgame.
For years I have been one foot into the engineer turned goose farmer meme, with the other foot left in my normal job.
It works alright! I don't worry about work while at home in my suburban zoo, and when I'm at work I am not dying to get the hell out of there like I remember being several years ago.
- I used to write bash scripts that probably should have been Python. Now I have 6 geese and other birds.
pywal, too? Wtf?

Forgive me, but doesn't yay -S neofetch do the thing still?

WAIT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ONE TRUE LOVE neofetch???

Got archived because it's "feature complete" and won't receive more updates, but some package managers removed it.
There is objectively better alternatives like fastfetch.
- Archived after years of inactivity, so it was somewhat predictable.
- Hyfetch my beloved
- Serious question: if something is "finished" why would that spark removal. At some point a lot of complete programs will no longer be actively maintained but they are still useful and working.
  Also, is there a way to keep copies of things like this? I know how to install via apt install, and whatnot, but that relies on an internet connection and a repo. I'm used to windows where I can back up the installers on my hard drive.

In Debian trixie:

        $ apt search neofetch
     fastfetch/stable,unstable 2.40.4+dfsg-1 amd64
      neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
    
    hyfetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Command-line Tool that Presents System Info
    
    linuxlogo/stable,unstable 6.01-0.1 amd64
      Color ANSI System Logo
    
    neowofetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo

Looks like you've got alternatives.

Fastfetch is a good replacement, but you can still install neofetch manually

It became a dozen slightly different clones.
It's like everyone's favorite "hello world" application.

Add to your .bashrc:

    
alias neofetch=fastfetch

You're welcome :)

But they are using zsh.
- .zshrc, then :)

Debian has fastfetch now. Neofetch is properly dead.

For all who may not realize, neofetch has a modern replacement: fastfetch

I believe in fastfetch supremacy

Whaaaat??? So bummed to get bad news from memes

Check out fastfetch!
- Or hyfetch if you're based
Oh no, it's real - thankfully there seem to be alternatives, will be switching to fastfetch, I think

nix-shell -p neofetch

nix shell nixpkgs#neofetch if you're feeling experimental
- nix run --no-write-lock-file github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable#neofetch
  If you want to make sure that you run the latest version

fastfetch -c neofetch

I replaced it with Hyfetch awhile back since that was the one that was already in the Ubuntu Noble repos.

Didnt even know it was dead ¯(ツ)_/¯

Its still in the freeBSD repos.

It's still in the AUR though: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/neofetch

With or without a RAT?
- Who wouldn't want to have more rats?

Pssst, what is neofetch and fastfetch?

Neofetch is the precursor to Fastfetch, Neofetch eventually became unmaintained which birthed Fastfetch a fork of Neofetch.
Essentially it’s a CLI tool to quickly list out system specifications, you can change what it lists with a config file.
Here is their GitHub - https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
- I've commonly seen it used in a terminal when people are showing off a screenshot of their custom Unix desktop theme.

Pfetch

Crabfetch better

pkg install neofetch

still works 😀

I looked for it on openbsd, but then realized I can just open the source and put the openbsd relevant parts in a script without all the unnecessary parts.

still using neofetch, no plans to change 🤷‍♀️

🫡