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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I have had to un-teach dumb things that people learn from Windows.

A menu item to run a GUI program as root it is indeed a rather absurd scenario. It suggests that you want to violate the admin/user barrier which is intended to be difficult to surpass except in certain circumstances.

There can be a lot of things under the hood that are necessary to run a GUI program as root depending on whether you're using X11 or Wayland or something more esoteric. It's doable though.

But instead of doing that, why not just learn how to use the command line? Every administrative task can be done via the command line, but not every administrative task has a GUI counterpart. So you're going to need to learn to use the command line sooner or later.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

and would not include it in the main repo

Tests that verify behavior at run time belong elsewhere

The test blobs belong in whatever repository they're used.

It's comically dumb to think that a repository won't include tests. So binary blobs like this absolutely do belong in the repository.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

...unless you build the executable with optimizations that remove the stack frame. Good luck debugging that sucker!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Disabling a systemd service won't prevent it from starting. For example, if another service depends on it then it will start anyway.

You have to mask the service which redirects the service files to /dev/null so that the service effectively has zero directives.

systemctl mask --now snapd

It also means that anything which depends on snapd will likely fail. That is absolutely an improvement since we obviously don't want anything that depends on snaps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Don't worry, apps are so slow that we don't risk repeating the same problem of double-clicking causing the first click to open the app and the second click to do something in the app that you didn't want to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I was running Fedora. Something like 27 or so. I needed drivers. I don't remember if it was AMD or Nvidia, but they were only available on RedHat.

So I downloaded the RedHat drivers for the GPU and forced it to install. It worked! It was great.

Then when I updated the distro to the next release... everything failed. It was dropping into grub, but no video was output. Ooof.

So I ended up enabling a terminal console and connecting to it via a serial port to debug. I had to completely uninstall that RPM and I was never happy that it was properly gone. So a few months later I ended up reinstalling the whole OS.

On the plus side, I learned a lot about grub and serial consoles. Worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

iterators are invalidated when you push/pop a vector

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Speaking as a former game cheater...

Cheaters are going to cheat. Booting into Linux isn't going to change that.

Anti-cheats just keep the filthy casuals from cheating. A broken anti-cheat on Linux would be fixed pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

those low amount of players also account for like 70% of the bug reports

Those bug reports are often real bugs that affect other platforms too.

https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-dev-finds-that-linux-users-generate-more-better-bug-reports/

Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

tastes good

Sir, let's discuss the taste of water.

My sister tells me water is tasteless. I disagree. Water definitely has a taste. I have yet to find water with a taste I like except when I am very dehydrated.

Tap water? Definitely no. Filtered water? Nope. Mineral water? Nah. Flavored water? Eugh.

Tea, though. Tea is amazing. Especially coffee tea. Coffee tea is amazing. You take coffee beans, grind them up, and pass hot water through it. It's so amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

First: Don’t take financial advice from randos on the internet

Just a conversation, man :)

I didn't even know someone could borrow against securities. Sounds like I need to have a discussion with my finance guy...

... speaking of finance guys, I should find one.

A million dollars is a number we need to have a conversation about in this country, because everyone wants to hate on millionaires.

Sure, let's talk about that.

People who hate on millionaires are making arguments a million hours too late (for many of the reasons you stated). The rage these days is to hate on billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have zero cash plus a property asset. The value of that asset will grow as well.

Well okay I did ask about buying a fancy house so I think it's a reasonable assumption.

But I want to change the argument ~~move the goalpost~~. Let's suppose I bought a fancy house and the housing market bubble finally burst... and that the house is now worth 1/3 of what I bought it for. That loss of value caused a massive heart attack and definitely caused death.

Or let's say I spent the money on hookers and blow. Might as well go out with a bang, after all.

Now all of that value truly is gone. Sucks to be my kids I guess. But at least I had a fun time, right?

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