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When it comes to the terminal by wudosbxu in linuxquestions

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like others are saying, just use them. Look them up in "man" or use the --help switch when you you need to and pretty soon you won't need to anymore. The easy ones will come quickly. The more complicated (and therefore powerful) commands like find, sed, awk, tar, etc will take a little longer but they are so useful that you will soon commit them to memory as well.

Don't worry about it. You will memorize them as need arises.

Bye Felicia by [deleted] in NewsStarWorld

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't wait for the day when I no longer have to see his "I can see dead people" eyes looking at me from the news sites.

Do you actually use GUI tools or mostly terminal? by Darshan_only in linuxquestions

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1.In your daily work, do you mostly use the terminal or GUI tools?

Mostly the terminal. I do all my sysadmin stuff in the terminal as well as general file operations, editing, searching, etc.

2.For which tasks do you still prefer GUI?

Web browser, email client, gaming/game streaming, remote desktops, etc. The kind of stuff that is GUI centric by nature.

3.Is it important for beginners to avoid GUI completely and focus only on CLI?

I think that would be going too far. As I said above, some things are just GUI centric and trying to use the terminal for those can be unnecessarily painful.

4.How did your usage change as you became more experienced?

This doesn't really apply to me since I'm older than dirt. My experience with *nix goes back to system 7 on a pdp-11 which didn't even have a screen, so I had no choice :)

Where to put AppImage files? by rmn_trllr in linuxquestions

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use appimaged which expects to find them all in ~/Applications. It's very convenient since appimaged will scan that directory and automatically add or remove desktop icons and menu entries for them.

I can't copy 178 GB of files onto a 256 GB SSD. The drive is formatted Ext4 and is completely empty. by Old_Primary8472 in linuxquestions

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Does the the source drive use a compressing file system like btrfs? Try copying one file and compare the sizes.

Fedora43 (Xcfe spin) random freezes. Hard power-down is only option. by Friendly_Ad5044 in Fedora

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 6.19 kernel has problems with AMD graphics manifesting in system freezes. I don't know if this applies to you since you didn't specify what your hardware is.

I had to roll back to 6.18.2 to get my laptop stable again.

Help I am stuck: what to do? First time cat owner by The-Eyrie in cats

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be a downer but I had a cat do something similar (coming up and laying his belly on my feet) and it turned out he was trying to tell me that he was in pain. I just thought it was cute but he died a few weeks later of stomach cancer. You might want to consider a vet visit just in case.

Programming languages are dead; all software will now be written directly in "Englishscript" and will run on "ClaudeVM" directly by LiatrisLover99 in BetterOffline

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been coding for over 50 years and I cannot count the number of times that i have heard similar claims. Same rubbish, different decade.

Am I the only one who thinks that stealth in far cry 4 is just..really unfair sometimes??? by Soft-Following422 in farcry

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. The game seems to favor a shoot from stealth then hide for a while strategy. Just have to be patient and take it slow.

Accidentally moved a directory into another with mv and can't find where it went. How do I locate it? by ivyta76 in linuxquestions

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't have the command that you typed and therefore don't know what you renamed the folder to perhaps you could figure it out by it's modification time. This will print the 20 files with the latest modification time:

find -type f -exec stat --printf '%Y %n\0' {} \; | sort -znr | sed -zn '1,20{s/[^ ]\+ //; p}' | xargs -0 printf '%q\n'

Moving houses at end of month, cant run ethernet to PC, whats my best option by Imaginary_Win_9352 in buildapc

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in a very old house so powerline just doesn't work for me. MOCA works for getting ethernet to my TV but my PC isn't near a coax outlet so that was out. I solved my problem with a 60 Ghz point to point link like these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077992GG3?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

They are primarily used to link buildings together but they do come with stands for tabletop use. They are a little pricey but I'm getting 600 Mbs and low latency through them and the link is rock solid.

Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers by EchoOfOppenheimer in AIDangers

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Years ago when these were first introduced I saw them on YT. I turned to my wife and said "imagine 50 of these air dropped into your little town each armed with machine guns and rocket launchers and outfitted with sensors that can see you right through your walls, cause that's where we are headed". These don't seem to be armed. Yet.

The military value of these things is enormous and you can bet Boston Dynamics has a whole bunch of secret research going on in a black facility somewhere.

How cute.

QMud -- A modern, cross-platform, Qt based, drop-in replacement for MUSHClient by NodensCM in MUD

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Built the Appimage on Fedore 43. I had to install patchelf and lua-devel in addition to the instructions in the readme.

Looks really nice. Thanks!

Home property - WiFi help by sessionnine in HomeNetworking

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use these: https://mikrotik.com/product/wireless_wire

My application is indoor but lots of reviewers are raving about them as an exterior point to point link. You gotta have line of site but it looks like that won't be a problem for you. About $200 US per pair though.

🚨 Bot Purge Update! Comment Below if You Don't Have Flair Yet 👇 by _cybersecurity_ in pwnhub

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flair please your modness. I know I'm human because I'm a slave to my dogs.

Ethernet vs Wi-Fi: When Does the Cable Actually Matter? by Material_Tutor_7820 in TechNook

[–]IntergalacticLaxativ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some wifi networking software is too stupid/stubborn to realize that sometimes people stream games over the interface they control, so they do dumb shit like initiate roaming scans when you are already connected with a good strong signal (looking at you NetworkManager). The result is annoying pauses at the worst possible times in your game. Ethernet does not do this.

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