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It’s a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things

Curiously, I don’t think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I’ve been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.

Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can’t be having my lowercase L’s and 1s looking similar.

On my last computer I found that the boot process was looking for things that weren’t there but that the motherboard had rudimentary functionality for like a floppy drive. It didn’t even have a connector for one.

For whatever reason, that caused a 10-30 second delay while the kernel tried to determine if there was a floppy drive connected. Pretty sure I had everything disabled via the BIOS but apparently it wasn’t disabled enough and the kernel could still see it.

That required throwing something into the system config, probably somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d, to blacklist that particular kernel module.

There was another problematic module as well; I can’t remember what that was, but I’m pretty sure it was the same fix. Got the boot time to login screen down to less than 10 seconds.

But all that said, even on this computer where the boot time is pretty quick, I usually put the computer into suspend mode to keep times down.

Even the old monolithic sites started out with a lot of tech folks as the initial population. It’s tech. Such is the way of things.

Here maybe the effect is stronger because of the similar ethos between the Fediverse and free software like Linux.

Give it time.

Gotta wait for Nigel Farage and other gammons to not be quite so much of a threat before that decision can be addressed properly.

In the meantime, things like this are the probably the best way to go about it.

And if you dare take the risk of lobbing a SIGCHLD at the parent process, most of the time, that doesn’t even do anything, and now you’ve been through the stress of signalling a perfectly healthy parent process.

I like to analogise and anthropomorphise signals, but there’s no non-depressing way to do this one. SIGCHLD is basically “clean up after your kids, even if that means tidying their corpses away”.

Often the parent can’t do that or doesn’t know how. It’s hugging them close and they’ll only leave once the parent also leaves.

These things aren’t even sentient and that stings a bit.

Magriftte

As a kid I remember jam (probably strawberry) and cheese (Cheddar or red Leicester) sandwiches being pretty awesome. For manifold reasons, peanut butter was not something made available to me back then, so that would be the closest our house ever got to that.

But unfortunately, apt moo | cowsay does something horrible to the cow in the speech bubble.

Because it’s precisely the sort of thing Elon would do.

His fans, including his ego, will call it genius.

Everyone else knows better.

Yeah, I was about to go to bed when I was writing that. “Several” or “a few” would have been better.

It’s 1375 and I’m asphyxiating somewhere in the Milky Way about 600 light years from Earth.

But let’s assume that somehow my latitude, longitude and altitude relative to Earth somehow remain the same. Now I’m spawning several feet in the air probably in sight of several villagers. If I’m lucky, they’ll think I was sent by God. If not I’m gonna have a real bad time. There’s a good chance I’ll break a bone in the fall, and that’s not going to go well at all.

But let’s assume there are trees here. Lots of them. That’s actually pretty likely. They hide my sudden appearance and mitigate bone breakages.

Now I’m on the outskirts of a village, battered and bruised and very strangely dressed. I don’t speak any language they’ll understand despite technically being from that area. Middle English is the language of the day, and I speak something that won’t evolve for at least another 200-250 years. Shakespeare is technically modern English and is hard to comprehend sometimes. Here we’re talking Chaucer and that’s pretty much opaque.

I’m literate, but not in Latin, and that’s the language of the Church. I’m numerate, but they haven’t got beyond Roman numerals yet.

I’m not even sure where the church is. I know where it is in the modern day, but that building’s no more than 200 years old. Maybe it’s on the same site. I’d head there for shelter at least.

I know the Lord’s Prayer in modern English. Chanting that quietly might spark some recognition in anyone present but then it might count as blasphemy to say it in anything other than Catholic-Church-approved Latin.

Come to think of it, I could probably blow a couple of minds by writing the alphabet they know and then the same with the extra letters that have been added since.

And then I’d be burned as a witch.

You want a website and software that does Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time? That’d be kbin / mbin.

In part because of the kbin creator’s real world struggles, it hasn’t really taken off quite as well as Lemmy has, but its successor mbin is in use in a few places. I’m currently on fedia.io which is an mbin instance, for example.

Gonna go retro with this one: Madness’ cover of Labi Siffre’s It Must Be Love

If I remember rightly, Siffre appears in Madness’ music video for the song, so it had his seal of approval too. (I mean, yeah, they wouldn’t have done a cover if he hadn’t agreed to it, but appearing in the video is a force multiplier on that.)

Doesn’t look like it to me. https://www.dafontfree.io/impact-font/ shows lowercase that’s radically different to this. Look at the y for example.

That doesn’t rule out variant glyphs or another member of a hypothetical Impact family, but I’m leaning towards no.

Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they’re words.

Suspend, most of the time. I have a two handed Vulcan nerve pinch keybind that does that for the end of the day. A desktop PC doesn’t have a lid, but that keybind is about as cathartic as closing a laptop.

This is actually different from how I have the desktop environment set to do it, which is the hybrid suspend/hibernate option. This gives me at least a couple of options without too much messing around. Quick shutdown: Use keyboard; Hybrid: Use GUI (which can be done by keyboard navigation too if absolutely necessary.)

The reason? There’s a surprising amount of state, such as open windows, browsers, etc. that need to be set back up if coming back cold from a full power off and that bothers me more than maybe it should.

By rights, I should use the hybrid option all the time as it’s technically safer, but it takes longer to power off and it actually suspends then unsuspends for a few seconds as it sets up the hibernation profile, which gives me the willies.

Also, the power grid is pretty stable here. If I was elsewhere I might be using the hybrid a lot more.

For me it’s a vowel sound, sure, but the mouth is definitely in, or moves to, the position it would be if a pronounced R, and presumably a vowel, was about to follow.

Probably more so than in the pronunciation of name of the letter R itself, in fact, which is indistinguishable from “ah”.

But perhaps more importantly, no, we generally don’t say “brr” anyway, except in exaggeration or for effect. You’re more likely to hear something like “it’s bl–dy freezing” or “my hands/feet are like ice”.

In addition to corsicanguppy’s comment, some — often important — programs actually expect the system to be secured in a particular way and will refuse to function if things don’t look right.

Now, you’d be right to expect that closing down permissions too tightly could break a system, but people have actually broken their systems by setting permissions too openly on the wrong things as well.

That said, for general, everyday use, those commands don’t need to be used much, and there might even be a way to do what they do from your chosen GUI. Even so, it nice to know they’re there and what they do for those rare occasions when they might be needed.

Ehh. Old 8-bit machines had no trouble with the veritable Gordian knots written by kids in their bedrooms back in the day, so any chip’s gonna be fine.

That’s not to say this chip wouldn’t run it better…

FTA:

Fedora’s announcement [of Fedora 42] contains plentiful references to Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy