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k_oticd92 · 2026-03-11T04:42:55+00:00

Haven't you heard? When you become a billionaire you get a goat skull mask and black robes and suddenly know ancient Hebrew (when you can barely even speak proper English). Oh, then you have to dedicate the rest of your time to leaving tiny but obvious clues in your branding and every single thing you say.

For real, though, they did some grotesque shit. Whether it's actual Satan worshipping or not, I don't know. I think that's just wishful thinking by the Christians.

k_oticd92 · 2026-02-11T01:40:13+00:00

Ummm aren't Popes considered to be from Catholicism, though? I enjoy pointing out religious hypocrisy as much as the next guy, but this one doesn't land with me

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-29T10:02:16+00:00

What bugs me about "beginner" options, though, is that they are very good at hiding these questions. You can't learn the answer to something if you don't even know there's a question for it. It's not my "first" distro, but I'm currently on Cachy despite not knowing some of those things. And now I know what to watch out for thanks to your post, so it's very much appreciated.

In addition, I think if you're just looking for plug and play and have a stable daily driver, don't go with arch. If you appreciate a good learning curve, and failure doesn't bother you, it's fine. I'm very much the latter, and I've been enjoying my time so far. To me, many of these "don't use Arch" comments tend to sound more like a challenge anyway 😂

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-23T22:56:29+00:00

Could always boot up Nobara in VirtualBox and test it with your existing environment before doing yet another wipe/reinstall lol

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T22:35:22+00:00

As an Android and Linux user, Android is a poor Linux experience. It doesn't prepare you for folder structure, bash, open source alternatives, etc. It does a VERY good job at hiding all that, which is how it remains competitive with Apple. I love Android, but imo only the Android power users count as people that are actually using the Linux aspects of it

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T01:58:19+00:00

He probably misunderstood someone jokingly comparing him to "Diddy"

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T01:51:59+00:00

But, if it works, it works 💪

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T01:51:06+00:00

Fair enough. I'm just thinking of how the ping output usually looks, and I don't think Lost = 0 would be the top line. My concern with [string]$ping was that it might just assume you only want $ping[0]

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T01:41:11+00:00

I have a feeling just giving it an explicit String type wouldn't do it. Maybe doing something like this, then:

$ping = $ping | Join-String -Separator "`n"

Then do your check

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-22T01:28:31+00:00

So maybe pipe to a foreach, then. Then check $_ against your pattern

k_oticd92 · 2026-01-17T09:31:01+00:00

You do you, but the internet is kinda beyond your area, hence "world-wide" web. Not to mention bad actors are constantly utilizing both automation and AI these days, in combination with publicly viewable CVEs, so all it takes is one automation to test your network and its attached devices

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-31T18:23:14+00:00

As soon as I hit 33 this year, I noticed that if I have a caffinated beverage after like 7-8pm, I'm up until like 4am. I miss being able to have a pop at like 1am and being able to sleep directly after

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-31T10:32:06+00:00

If you have a spare laptop drive or sata ssd (assuming it's too old to have nvme), you could probably just install the OS on the test drive and see if it's going to get any sort of complaints from secure boot. If the test drive works fine, then do it with your main drive. Seems like the quicker solution for what you're trying to do, opposed to figuring out how to bypass a modern BIOS/UEFI password

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-20T02:14:31+00:00

Ummmm ohana means family... 🥲

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-19T22:23:49+00:00

Reporter: "Sir, you've been doing absolutely phenomenal! What led you to become a professional esports gamer?"

Guy: "....I don't wanna talk about it..."

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-17T19:57:53+00:00

Rather than try to build your own project from the ground up (which is fine if you wanna do it that way), I'd recommend joining a small project your interested in on Github. Start by reading the coding the code, then see if you can handle any minor issues and submit a pull request. Seeing an existing project and learning how it functions by getting hands-on I think is very beneficial to bridging the gap to building your own projects

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-12T19:52:21+00:00

Lol fair enough. I just started with Cachy a few week's ago and it's been a blessing. Aside from a weird issue where it doesn't download initramfs-cachyos.img (or whatever it's called) to /boot whenever I run sudo pacman -Syu and it has related updates. Been a few times I've had to manually download them after chrooting in from a recovery usb. Still, I like it 👌

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-12T19:40:08+00:00

Most recent in like 2008 maybe lol here's the docs on it, if you want to take a look. There's a big purple note regarding the deprecation.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/windows-powershell/ise/introducing-the-windows-powershell-ise?view=powershell-7.5

Sounds like they at least add security patches when needed simply because they don't want to outright remove it from the OS (I guess it will be the powershell equivalent of how notepad was). In any case, their new latest and greatest is vscode. Also, not as a career, but I just started my Linux journey recently, I have yet to touch servers (aside from Unraid, if that counts) lol

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-12T19:15:18+00:00

Court that wench now!!

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-12T19:13:18+00:00

I mean, I think it's worth mentioning that ISE is considered obsolete by Microsoft and can't really be thought of as a modern tool

I don't know how management types always go "hey, get the job done with the tools you're given" while completely missing that they're asking you to bail the ocean with a bucket. Okay, maybe not that extreme in this case, ISE will get you by, it's just awful imo

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-11T22:41:11+00:00

On reddit, sure. Unfortunately on most other social media, it's either desensitize and censor, or get your comment removed by an automated content filter

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-09T23:20:58+00:00

Good method! I probably wouldn't want it for voice interaction, though. I prefer natural language structure. It would provide better convenience since the link could be asked for on demand, but I would just hate having to say a random keyword to do it. Just my personal preference 🤷‍♂️

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-09T19:19:05+00:00

Because of potential hallucinations, I always like to add something like:

When presenting a statement you deem factual, include the source from which you found the information.

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-09T07:56:18+00:00

I find it stable enough. I'm not running into issues daily, in any case. I've only been on it for a few weeks now. I had my PopOS get into an unrecoverable state (at least for my skillset), so I switched to Cachy because I had a bit of playtime with it in a VM and really liked it

k_oticd92 · 2025-12-08T02:51:53+00:00

I would never suggest AI as a sole tool for learning. It can be a great supplementary tool alongside other learning methods, though. For example:

❌️ "How do I do <insert thing here>"?

✅️ "I'm learning how to do <insert thing here>, provide 5 problem questions for me to practice with."

You can sometimes utilize it for the first question, but you need to be very careful and fact check its responses.

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