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xoggy

@ xoggy @programming.dev

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  • What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

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  • A friend loaned me a CD set of Mandrake which had an early version of KDE. I was floored away by something as simple as the level of customization you could do with the taskbar. And having this alien operating system running on an alien EXT3 partition format instead of FAT32 or NTFS that you didn't need to defragment. It seemed pretty fantastical.

    I loved tweaking the desktop environment on Windows by replacing explorer.exe with LiteStep and Blackbox so likewise I did this on Linux. Over time I had fun discovering Gnome2, Fluxbox, XFCE, etc. you name it. Eventually I got a desktop I really liked and felt productive on and as Windows XP approached end of life I had no intention of using Vista so I transitioned to exclusively Linux at that point.

    I did play with different distros and running servers at the time, hosted VMs back in the day you had to take whatever distro they offered. But for my desktop I basically went Mandrake, Arch (didn't know how to make everything work), Debian, Ubuntu, back to Arch.

  • why did you switch?

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  • I switched because Windows XP reached end of life and I had no interest in Vista. I was also pretty familiar with Gnome 2 and XFCE, both of which provided a very similar desktop experience to XP but way more customizable.

  • Electrician couple

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  • It's because you have to follow it up with a loud dad chuckle and wait for the groans. It helps if you have a beer belly that jiggles when you laugh.

  • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • Where on the radar dashboard can I see that exact graph?

  • We never wash our belts, although they are the first thing we touch when leaving the toilet, even before we wash our hands

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  • I have a cloth belt. I throw it in the laundry when I go to wash all the pants.

  • NSFW

    The one time GIMP had furry porn for their splash screen.

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  • I told my coworker that GIMP was named in reference to Pulp Fiction. I ought to send this to him as proof.

  • Replace 1 TB m.2 SSD with 2 TB m.2 SSD

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  • Can you clone from the nvme to the external drive then clone the external drive over to the new nvme once installed? If you have other stuff on the disk you can clone to a file but it will be a slower process:

     
        
dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/my-disk.image.gz

  • SLPT Car nearly out of gas? Drive as fast as you can so that you'll coast further if you do run out.

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  • Had a friend do this once. It got him down the ramp and to the gas station but not to the pump.

  • Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them

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  • Le torture

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  • Him being naked is completely unnecessary but enhances everything.

  • Twins born right near midnight could have different birthdays

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  • Seems easier to be like everyone else and just say it starts at 0 and just accept the first millennium is missing a year.

  • Sudo

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  • This is better than the original.

  • Testing good

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  • Asked later that week to add a feature to the code, have to rewrite it all from scratch because it's spaghetti.

  • Shit faint

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  • This is more of a NoStupidQuestions post than a shower thought.

  • Why don't candy wrappers write their own songs?

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  • And they only do wrap songs!

  • People who take baths will never experience a shower thought

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  • OP will never be an Archimedes.

  • Nicotine Plus - Graphical Client For The Soulseek Peer-To-Peer Network For Music & Files

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  • peer-to-peer, as opposed to?