I had an old arch install about 7 years ago that stopped booting, so I booted into ubuntu, mounted the ssd, used a chroot to fix it, forgot to unmount the ssd, proceeded to rm the mount dir as it was "temporary". It took me mere seconds to realize what I did and by then it was a lost cause. I was able to use a file recovery tool to grab my precious memes, but thankfully there wasn't much else valuable on the drive.

Worlds most roundabout rm -rf /

Its not dead simple but its also not extremely complex.

I'm currently working with some interns and there's just concepts they were never exposed to. Without decent mentoring, git can be difficult because a lot of the workflow does come with experience.

That being said everyone needs to stop acting like its an impossible task to properly do source control. There is some truth that if you don't care enough to do your source control, you don't care enough to write decent code. Its not a moral failing, just take some pride in your craft.

Show the newbies how to care and they'll care enough to want to do it right. Measure twice, cut once and all that.

I remember this too, part of the name was like "tik terry tembo"

I bought a super cheap classic and did a flash mod, battery upgrade, and bluetooth mod.

The bt mod only came after I went back to wired headphones and experienced the rage of having earbuds ripped out when the wire hooks onto things. I was a bt earbud hater for a bit but the freedom is somethin else.

It does suck a lot to load music onto it, I've tried foobar2000 and a linux option. the former is better but windows, if you switch around you need to re-sync the entire ipod, which over slow USB2 is a many hour endeavor.

The simplicity of not being distracted by a notification when you go to change a song is undefeated.

real fwds from FOSS grandma hours, huh.

DAE DMV?

Every time I hear someone complain about the DMV, USPS, etc, I assume they're being difficult to the workers. Every experience I've had with these kind of government services, I read up ahead on what I need, organize my shit, and show up prepared with a smile.

When I do that you see a wave of relief over the worker and they return the smile and respect. You can basically extrapolate the verbal abuse they deal with all day long.

With my secret method(being nice and respectful), every USPS worker I've interacted with has either been very friendly, or neutral but relieved.

Leave our brave troops alone goddamnit, be nice to them.

Instance has comparatively high and active userbase with a very high percentage of Linux users

Is this brigading?

I'm left to wonder what is more likely, a company taking advantage of a public health emergency to turn a profit, or a company manufacturing an entire public health scare to sell their product.

To be safe, I'd go with the former. Stay healthy.

Or clear cut for the "View"

I have a friend who does graphic design by trade and photography for a hobby and the stuff they work on sounds so degrading.

Your photos are probably just fine, they're uniquely you and your perspective of the world, let em rip comrade.

That's part of why I don't get being "good" at photography. There's the basic device control, which has been made incredibly automated by technology. Then there's composition, that's the artistic angle. There's formal techniques but then there's also just trying to capture what you see. That's the art in it.

I honestly think this was an issue before photography youtube. I've met many bad photographers who do events and like to say "yeah that's why people pay me to do this". Years before influencer culture for this kinda thing was big.

I have a good friend who works in the smartphone business with imaging sensors and tuning so I get all the whys and hows from the source. For a while I was using the phone from his company and I'd send bug reports straight to him. I actually passed him some of my wedding photos to see if he could do anything with them and he got really upset for me that this dunce took my money. Best part is the ISO and all the other metadata was still in the files so I could prove he fucked up and took the photos at the wrong setting.

That's why these assholes grind my gears so much, the way they're so pretentious about something that is not that hard to get right, especially with a modern DSLR and a fancy lens and a big screen that shows you what the fucking picture looks like. At one point he handed me the camera to take some pictures of my wife, that's when I noticed he had it on auto. He then rudely asked for the camera back, saying something like "aallriiight time to give it back to the pro".

I appreciate the advice on the micro-4/3rds. I looked into those briefly and backed away because having to decide on both a body and lens was too much for me. If i end up enjoying this again I do want to experiment with lenses because I love the contraption nature of them. Thanks for the advice btw, I'm saving this comment for later.

I wore a mask for the first time in a while the other day, for a dr appointment, just because they asked in the confirmation email.

I had to search for one leftover. I always hated masks because I'm incredibly sweaty and after an hour or two condensation is collecting on my mustache, but I'm gonna start looking around for masks to buy just in case.

When I was like 14, I found a finepix something or other that looked like a fancy dslr but wasn't. I had a ton of fun taking pictures till it broke.

Between then and now I haven't owned a camera and I sorta grew a disdain for photographers. Not all photographers, but the gate-keepy gear heads who say things like "oh not everyone can just take good pictures" and use their camera on auto 100% of the time. I hated it because when I did it, I found it incredibly easy and decided that these people were full of themselves and put a bad taste in my mouth for photographers.

Years later, at my wedding, I fucking HATED my photographer. Asshole made rude comments, bragged about his Tesla(with an obnoxious telsa themed custom license plate) and ran the fucking camera on auto for all our pictures. The indoor ceremony pictures were missing so much fucking data because this asshole couldn't bother to set a fucking ISO setting. He sent all the pictures as JPEGs so I couldn't even try to do something with the raw photos. He made me hate photographers even more.

Today I was looking at an old archive of pics I took as a kid and felt tremendous warmth from the memories and decided I needed to try this again. Phone cameras are so tremendously lifeless. I bought an old canon G9 from Japan and I'm really excited to ride around town and take some pictures, especially when the leaves start changing color. Yeah I might still hate photographers but now I've accepted that I can still find many professional photographers smug and still enjoy taking pictures myself.

Anytime I need to install something in windows, it just feels, uncivilized? Like every step of the way is disrespectful to the user. Windows is political, it has business priorities that effect how it's used. Linux feels like a rock, like yeah you can get mad at it when you drop it on your foot but the rock isn't interacting back the same way that windows is constantly changing and questioning your judgement.

Cries in perfectly managed window layouts and reasonable defaults.

What card do you run? I went from a 970 to a 3080ti and both drivers just automagically worked. The 970 used to have dkms issues but it randomly stopped at some point.

oh my god another xmonad user. You can get almost close with some paid tiling window managers in mac but you can't recreate the managed layouts of xmonad.

What kind of things do you install? Typically the "page long guide"s are showing every basic step to hold the users hand. If you're installing something in ubuntu, you update your repos, then install the package.

Every time I install something in windows, the endless unique install wizards, weird spyware packaging, restart requirements, etc make me want to rage quit. Not to mention the sketchy sites most Windows freeware comes from, or the windows store that will continually re-install candy crush and minecraft.

With Linux, even the CLI you learn a handful of basic concepts and live your life. To me complaining about typing "apt get install" is akin to complaining you need to learn to read to know when the bus is arriving.

I'll admit there are three extra steps with say, installing chrome. But if you say out loud what you're doing, ie "I need to add the repository so my computer knows where to get chrome" "Now that it knows where chrome is, I'll run apt get update to refresh the packages" "Now that it knows where it is, and its refreshed, let me install it with apt get install chrome".

or if you download a deb package, the ubuntu apt store will automatically open it with a double click then you click "install".

No offense to you, but there seems to be an attitude that when trying something new, you should not be expected to learn the slightest thing about it. Sure your mom or grandpa might not be able to install it, but if you're at the point where you've acknowledged the page long guide, you're certainly smart enough to try something and give it an honest try.