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by pidsley
Thu May 27, 2021 11:41 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: /dev/null
Replies: 1569
Views: 857570

Re: /dev/null

More news about the Freenode kerfuffle: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/ ... acked.html

Gentoo has also now moved to libera.chat.
by pidsley
Mon May 24, 2021 11:22 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: /dev/null
Replies: 1569
Views: 857570

Re: /dev/null

I have read some of the crap about the "hostile takeover" and I still have no clue.

Arch is moving from Freenode to libera.chat.

https://archlinux.org/news/move-of-offi ... iberachat/
by pidsley
Mon Jan 04, 2021 2:26 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Something to celebrate? Do it here!
Replies: 46
Views: 54844

Re: Something to celebrate? Do it here!

^^ Of course you know that if those shoes were on clearance, they are probably discontinued and whatever they replaced them with won't fit you. If they had more than one pair, I'd buy another now while you still can. Not really a celebration, more like an event I guess. I euthanized my last cat righ...
by pidsley
Fri Dec 25, 2020 12:49 am
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: What's your uname?
Replies: 264
Views: 502287

Re: What's your uname?

CRUX 3.6 is out, so I built a new (LTS) kernel.

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OS: CRUX 3.6
Uptime: 0d 0h 20m
Shell: /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit
Disk: 5.0G / 14G
Mem: 42Mi / 3.7Gi
Kernel: Linux 4.19.163-fativycat x86_64
CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
by pidsley
Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:54 am
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: What's your uname?
Replies: 264
Views: 502287

Re: What's your uname?

Bullseye is getting ready for its first milestone in January, so I thought I should probably upgrade this box to Buster.

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Linux toybox 4.19.0-12-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) x86_64 GNU/Linux
by pidsley
Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:32 am
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: /dev/null
Replies: 1569
Views: 857570

Re: /dev/null

At this point, as an old retired guy staying home during the pandemic, I need to check the calendar before I know if it's the weekend. I do have an appointment at the veterinarian with my 18-year-old feral cat tomorrow, so that should be interesting (I have to sedate him just to get him in a carrier...
by pidsley
Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: EDC, gadgets and gear stuff
Replies: 158
Views: 330936

Re: EDC, gadgets and gear stuff

Remember when Polar heart rate monitors (with the strap that goes across your chest) were the latest fitness thing? Fitness people love gadgets. And why do running shoe manufacturers have to come out with a new model (and discontinue the old) so often? Just about the time I find a shoe that works we...
by pidsley
Sat Sep 19, 2020 5:52 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: show us your iron
Replies: 315
Views: 794719

Re: show us your iron

I can understand two monitors, but eight? You can't look at more than two at a time, and the rest would seem like just noise to me. But I have a smallish 4x3 monitor and don't even see the need for a bigger wider monitor. I just run everything full screen and switch screens when I want to see someth...
by pidsley
Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:30 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: show us your iron
Replies: 315
Views: 794719

Re: show us your iron

Question -- I see the two-monitor setup, and I get that, but there is someone on the Arch forum trying to set up a single machine with 8 monitors. What kind of setup needs 8 monitors?
by pidsley
Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:17 pm
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: Wish a spin...
Replies: 59
Views: 26445

Re: Wish a spin...

catfood wrote:I was gonna ask for help designing a liveusb(or cd) BBQ rescue disk.
https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/
https://grml.org/
by pidsley
Thu Aug 06, 2020 2:09 am
Forum: CONFIGS & XRESOURCES (/home/bbq/.config)
Topic: neofetch LinuxBBQ
Replies: 10
Views: 17487

Re: neofetch LinuxBBQ

(good to know it's Pidsley's scrip for env-info now, so know who to ask further) NO NO NO NO -- While env-info was originally my script, I closed my github repo long ago and no longer maintain the script for anything but my own use. I never offered to suport this script. If you look at the code, yo...
by pidsley
Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:37 pm
Forum: CONFIGS & XRESOURCES (/home/bbq/.config)
Topic: neofetch LinuxBBQ
Replies: 10
Views: 17487

Re: neofetch LinuxBBQ

Can't help with the colors, but what do you get when you try this in a terminal? cat /etc/os-release Most utilities use /etc/os-release to determine the running distro. From what I can tell in the incredibly complex neofetch code, it uses this and then does some fancy crap to make what it thinks is ...
by pidsley
Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:11 pm
Forum: SUPPORT (/usr/share/doc)
Topic: Fn+ function shortcuts 2wm (solved)
Replies: 20
Views: 31261

Re: Fn+ function shortcuts 2wm

I think stretch is oldstable until July 2022. I am not planning to upgrade my boxes until next year. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS But yes, if I was doing a dist-upgrade today I'd go to buster. And you're right that with every new Debian version systemd gets more intrusive and harder to remove. I don'...
by pidsley
Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:03 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
Replies: 478
Views: 308374

Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

Not as cool as Gekko (I am still trying to get into some ebooks I have on the early utilitarian philosophers, but they are slow going for me) I just finished this:

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A strange but very interesting man I knew nothing about.
by pidsley
Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:46 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: TV series
Replies: 860
Views: 622392

Re: TV series

Do a startpage.com search for "24 torture" and you will see what I mean.
by pidsley
Fri Jun 26, 2020 1:14 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: TV series
Replies: 860
Views: 622392

Re: TV series

^ Opinions vary widely. If you enjoy Kiefer Sutherland being a constant pissed-off badass and lots of scenes of torture, you will like it. Personally, I hated it and could not watch more than a few episodes. But I am not a series expert and hate most network TV.
by pidsley
Fri Jun 19, 2020 12:57 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Distros of interest
Replies: 332
Views: 729310

Re: Distros of interest

I can always count on you guys to test KDE and remind me again why I don't use it... At this point my hands are so used to my ratpoison keybinds I don't think I could use anything else. I still have evilwm on a few test machines and I always have to think when I start one up and face the blank X scr...
by pidsley
Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:18 pm
Forum: SUPPORT (/usr/share/doc)
Topic: Upgrading kernel on accident, lol. (solved)
Replies: 8
Views: 6992

Re: Upgrading kernel on accident, lol.

I am not currently running a BBQ spin, but for Debian stable, the most recent previous kernel is still available to boot in the grub "Advanced Options" submenu. If this is not the case for your spin, check your /boot directory -- the old kernel may still be there. If it is, you should be a...
by pidsley
Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:37 pm
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: What's your uname?
Replies: 264
Views: 502287

Re: What's your uname?

OK I lied. It only takes 2-1/2 minutes to build htop on the Celeron, not 15. But it takes 78 minutes to build a kernel (the i5 box does it in seven minutes). I am really surprised I never cooked this thing running Gentoo and my kernel experiments on it. It runs flat out for hours and never complains...
by pidsley
Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:22 pm
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: What's your uname?
Replies: 264
Views: 502287

Re: What's your uname?

It has absolutely nothing extra installed or running on it right now. Well, maybe tmux counts, but that's not really extra for me on a console system. When you build everything from source on a box this slow you ask yourself "do I really need this?" every time you install something. If hto...