Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "DistroTube" channel.

  1. We want information ... INFORMATION. -- You won't get it. -- By hook or by crook, we will!
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  2.  @SwiatLinuksa  (since you're apparently not resourceful enough to try a websearch before taking things literally ... I was agreeing with you ... that's a ref to The Prisoner)
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  3. ​ @CripplingDuality says the guy who writes 'aloud' when meaning 'allowed' lmao
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  4.  @folksurvival  I mean, of course? But you can also use links as your browser ... or lynx if that's too fancy ...
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  5. There do seem to be people who are averse to learning ... GNU/Linux probably isn't for them ... but, hey, life also is probably fairly difficult with that attitude, generally.
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  6. Yes, it's called Rationality. It protects you from Islam, Judiasm, Hinduism, and all other superstition-based belief systems, as well.
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  7. I mean, it wouldn't be any easire to install Windows Update airgapped ... when you create problems for yourself, you'll have a rough time ...
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  8. I'm so disappointed that you didn't end up using Ed instead of Vi.
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  9. Yes. Especially with alcohol in it.
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  10. 6:38 E&E
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  11. As a desktop Linux user (Arch btw), I literally couldn't care less how popular the software I use is (we're like 3% of desktop OS installs and the 'year of the Linux desktop' is never going to happen). I have niche preferences and need features that most people don't care about (e.g., using Vim to edit textinputs, some assistive tech, Vimium, mult ad blockers, exts to manage hundreds of open tabs) ... I use FF for pragmatic, not ideological, reasons ... and I have faith that there's a bunch of fellow nerds who will keep FF alive no matter what happens to Mozilla ... worst case, we'll hire some people to maintain a fork ... (100% meta-aware that I'm just feeding incentives to make clickbait vids like this.)
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  12. And the lesson is: Don't pollute your system with that GUI / DE crap!
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  13.  @juipeltje  It's 100% a skill issue if you can't get it working with archinstall; it's easier than falling off a log.
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  14.  @juipeltje  There's nothing special about being able to run a script competently 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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  15.  @bologna3048  Yup! Back in the day, it broke a lot more, but biggest issue I've seen recently is when I went on holidays and needed to manually pull keys because I hadn't updated in like a month.
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  16. Wezterm is great! Would recommend. And, finally, it's given me an excuse to write a few lines of Lua.
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  17. It is truly bewildering that anyone considers an OS that doesn't have a centralised package manager (Windows, Mac) credible / usable.
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  18.  @micaelviana  Arbitrage opportunity detected...
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  19.  @stalkerscarface  All Linuxes matter ... and there's really no reason to only run one distro🤷‍♀️
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  20. So, I think the answer about open-source and government software was a bit of a miss. Given that public money pays for it, it ought to be open-sourced and posted publicly.
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  21. To be clear, just because you're doing secret stuff with it that doesn't mean that the software needs to be secret (basically Kerckhoff's Principle).
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  22. Nothing wrong with $0 software, I just don't want any freedom with it ... and I damned sure don't want anyone else to have any freedom, either.
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  23. ​ @danielpicassomunoz2752 printing lol how last century
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  24. @Tanmaydeshpande-ne9gc literally couldn't care less about Windoze snoozers
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  25. @Tanmaydeshpande-ne9gc also, even Winblows can read markdown
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  26.  @zorkman777  the good kind, too!
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  27. 7:25 E&E
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  28. If you're stuck using a Mac, I'm sorry -- it has the worst window manager in the known universe ... but at least you can `brew install gsed` and have a reasonable `sed` implementation.
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  29.  @shallex5744  You can install things to tweak it a bit ... but XQuartz is an utter disaster ... which I think isn't even maintained.
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  30.  @billeterk  The point is, they're all tweaks to work around a terrible window manager ... rather than the ability to switch to a different window manager much less a different desktop environment.
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  31.  @billeterk  The point is that you can change which one you're using in Linux, and you're stuck with the crap that Apple chose for you on Mac.
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  32. Oh, look: Dipshits talking about politics who clearly didn't actually listen to DT's long rant about how it's pointless to talk about politics.
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  33. Worst part of existence -- including Linux -- is anything that involves glibc.
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  34. Oh, do drink alcohol while using Arch; it's way more fun!
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  35. It's certainly from another time, but a lot of the fundamental ideas for Vi are there ... just in a clunkier form working within the technical limitations of that time. This makes old videos I've seen of people banging away at a Teletype make waaay more sense.
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  36. Nice!
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  37. Pretty sure that these days 'is capable of using a TTY' constitutes being a 'power user' ... all the kiddies mousing through their GUI bloatware.
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  38.  @Skelterbane69  kekw surely approximately everyone can agree: Nano isn't even a contender. Ed is better than Nano 🌶️🌶️
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  39. I mean, it's sort of nice to have people with similar political ideologies to be shitheads to one another for a change -- makes me think they're equal-opportunity losers rather than partisan losers 🤷‍♀️
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  40. Ed ftw!
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  41.  @theodorealenas3171  The ability to do a 2-second Web search, I should imagine?
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  42. ctrl+c
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  43.  @jamesevans2507  Well, you can write assembly and interface that way -- either by writing straight asm or some languages allow embedding asm.
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  44. @dawin64 And NOT wanting the bloat of glibc is at least one reason that you might want to do the syscalls directly.
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  45. Also glibc is a giant PITA if you want to do a fully-statically-linked build. Yes, if you have Musl available, great ... but if not, that's potentially another reason to go through asm directly.
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  46.  @jamesevans2507  Maybe I misunderstood earlier. But `syscall` to take x64 as an example is a CPU supported instruction that can be called directly (assuming correct reg config) from machine code. Things like `glibc` expose C wrapper functions that are afaik, asm under the covers, bridging the C calling convention (i.e., positional args) with the register-based one of the `syscall` handler.
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  47. pdf2txt is way better
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  48. ¿Porqué no los dos?
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  49. TTY don't care.
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  50. We would all be better off if nobody were involved in political organisations. What if they did a politics and nobody came?
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