Spyke

I just remembered it because it has twenty-nine minutes uptime.

What kind of scrub runs Arch with a kernel that’s been compiled twenty-nine minutes ago?

That shit needs to be updated!

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Petter1reply
lemm.ee

☺️i love my arch on my macbookpro from 2009 😂

Was difficult to understand that I have to boot via legacy bios in order for the nvidia grafic to work.. But after installing grub2 via CDrom I had i done ✅ now I can boot any iso from using grub2 and don’t have to relay on CD rom anymore 🥳 Next will be a 2013 MacBookPro (with nvidia as well), as soon as my motor buys her m3 MacBookPro

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I mean, tone does have to do with how you use a language 🗣️ and symbols to communicate, and the emojis in the middle ➡️❎⬅️ of sentences and how many there are in relation to the amount of sentences 💬 do make it kind of read like a copypasta ©️🍝

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i love having to google emojis to figure out what the fuck people are talking about. Truly a godsend for the more "challenged" of us, when it comes to understanding what people are trying say.

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burgersc12reply
mander.xyz

What if i have Arch on my Desktop and Linux Mint on my MacBook?

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Endeavour on my desktop, and Fedora Silverblue on my MacBook - good combination!

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The amount of time and effort needed to go through an Arch installation and succeeding probably is more therapeutic than paying $100 for a session of therapy. It's enough to make them finally come out after all 🤷

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Legit I brought my first thigh highs and my T430s (now quite modded) within like 2 weeks of each other.

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lemmy.ml

By turn your life around you mean bought a new Think pad and put Arch on it, right?

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Honestly I thought I was doing good for my technical knowledge by playing with Linux and it has helped but there comes a point where I hit a plateau with that and now I just end up endlessly tweaking and just wasting time on it

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mkwtreply
lemmy.world

Except even Gentoo does binaries now (more than they used to).

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lemmy.sdf.org

I’m just gonna promote the benefits of therapy. I learned to love myself. I think this meme is about hating yourself, so I think it fits. Only semi-serious, no hate intended.

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I think it is more about rage control than about loving or hating oneself. Like stopping yourself from chucking the laptop halfway across the room when it doesn't boot because you misspelled a variable in a config file.

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

Eh... I get the joke, but using Arch is about loving computing. All the other OSes have removed the human element of computing. Arch still lets you control and administer your computer, which is good fun for weirdos like me.

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elucubrareply
sopuli.xyz

Wait. Am I not allowed to mess with stuff, use the terminal, compile, and all those things in Mint!?

Call the manager. I want my money back!

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

Of course you can. But in Arch you must do a lot of things that are optional in other distros, and you install your packages explicitly, only including what you want.

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Aceticonreply
lemmy.world

Must isn't better that can - to have choice taken away from your, there's always Windows or, even better, MacOS.

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

Meh, Arch users like it. Plus not having stuff you don't want or don't use on your OS makes it snappier and easier to update and maintain.

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reddthat.com

Therapy is expensive, I'd have to make appointments, leave my home during my free time, talk about myself to someone, and probably won't help because my problems are external. No thanks.

Buying a new laptop and installing an OS is a relatively simple and inexpensive process that is actually rewarding.

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feddit.de

Therapy actually often helps with external problems too. If you tried another therapist every time you installed a distro, you might have found one that can solve your problems.

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lightnsfwreply
reddthat.com

Okay so multiply all the other problems I listed by how many therapists I have to try and no they can't solve my problems unless they're gonna buy me a house or pay off my debts or something so I can actually get ahead financially.

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jayciferreply
lemmy.world

No, a therapist will not give you money. What they could do is identify why you don’t have the money you need, then help you plan and execute the steps to accomplish your goal. If your goal is more money, I’d guess they would ask you if you are looking for a higher-paying job, then discuss what steps you can take to improve that process, with a focus on mental hurdles you may not even realize you’re putting in your way.

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lemm.ee

Unless those steps are overthrowing the rich then I think the person you are talking to is correct. This is a money problem not a psychological problem and most money problems are because of capitalism. Get a higher paying job? FFS what actually makes one job more valuable than another? It sure isn't how essential it is as plenty of high pay jobs are things like finance bros.

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jayciferreply
lemmy.world

No, the steps would probably be more along the lines of refreshing your resume, maybe setting up an appointment to have it professionally reviewed, getting a habit of applying for jobs going, stuff that materially contributes to having more money. A therapist might tell you that overthrowing the rich is a little too vague a plan to actually act on.

I specifically said higher-paying instead of a “better” job because it’s not necessarily going to be a more fun or world-improving position. But if money is what you need and the job you apply for has a higher pay rate than the one you have now it will likely lead to you having more money, regardless of the greater economic climate.

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lightnsfwreply
reddthat.com

No, the steps would probably be more along the lines of refreshing your resume, maybe setting up an appointment to have it professionally reviewed, getting a habit of applying for jobs going, stuff that materially contributes to having more money. A therapist might tell you that overthrowing the rich is a little too vague a plan to actually act on.

So the solution the therapist has is to hire a career counselor? That's not them solving anything, that's them passing the buck to someone else that will cost me even more money and time. Beside the fact that I already know how to ladder climb and am currently in a position that pays well above what most of my peers are making and is above the credentials I have on paper so I have to rely on networking for any new opportunities (which again i'm doing better than most of my network so they don't have a lot to offer at this point). There really isn't anywhere for me to go up from here without moving to a place that is even more expensive to live.

The real issue is that inflation is out of control and housing is too expensive. My best bet of ever owning a home is waiting for my parents to die and inherit theirs and that thing is shitty new construction that was slapped together as quickly and cheaply as possible and will probably be falling apart by then.

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Yes, in the hypothetical scenario where you are applying for positions but not hearing back and it has become frustrating, my theoretical therapist might suggest you get in touch with someone specialized in helping with that, and then if you continue to not do so while stressing over the state of your resume their job would be to help you take that step.

Evidently that’s not your problem, which I could not be aware of, being a stranger on the internet before your explanation of your situation. Sorry my example did not perfectly address your situation.

I don’t know how a therapist would react to your circumstances of being able to make more money but still not making enough because that is rather foreign to me, but I can tell you one thing. If you are holding down a job above your credentials, you are no longer holding down a job above your credentials, you are now holding down a job at your current level of credentials and I would recommend updating your papers to reflect that.

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lemm.ee

I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM buys 3 more Thinkpads on eBay

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lemm.ee

I can stop whenever I want. Buys a pallet of busted Thinkpad.

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lemmy.world

You should try gentoo as a therapy replacement next. It's basically the adult version of maintaining a long running Animal Crossing save.

Every morning I wake up, grab a coffee and update my system @world. Almost every day it goes without a hitch and I watch the system evaluate and resolve any incongruities that might emerge from updates by itself. Other times I might need to make a intervention in the dependencies to guide it to a resolution; but it's a small nudge in the right direction, like tweaking a miniature ship inside a bottle.

This is partially tongue in cheek but I unironically get a lot of joy out of administrating my PC: Having it completely customized and working exactly like I need it to.

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nyanreply
sh.itjust.works

Well, you do have to feed, er, update it at least every six months if you don't want to be left with an unholy mess to clean up.

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0x0reply
programming.dev

I'd advise every week, within six months a lot has changed and you may end up with messed-up inconsistencies.

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Six months is the max that's supposed to be supported. (Longest no-update period I've ever sorted out was twelve months. Possible, but time-consuming.)

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ReakDuckreply
lemmy.ml

Focus the rage at something that is fixable. Good idea actually.

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i ironically think than i can better handle stress than my other friends because of grub breaking my sister's laptop(dual boot) at the worses moments possible, i learned to force me to stay calm to search and read correctly how fix grub before she realized

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lemm.ee

Looks at M2 macbook running NixOS

Ok maybe I do need help.

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lemmy.zip

Someone was saying in a linux hate post yesterday that linux is not viable for beginners because it is not easy to install arch linux on a vm on their old macbook. Lmao

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My kid (not even a teenager) uses Linux daily. And not in a coy "he's using a chromebook" way. He's using full-blown NixOS on a laptop I set up for him. Could he have set it up? No, but he's a child. Has day to day use presented him with any difficulties whatsoever? Nope. He figured out gnome purely by instinct in a day. He goes between macos and windows and linux effortlessly, because he's a reasonably intelligent human being.

But, yes, half the time the "linux is hard" crowd seem to be basing their evaluation on things you would rarely do on a mac or windows machine. These days, install Mint, Fedora, or, hell, even Nixos or Endeavor, choose the defaults, and you will very likely have a perfectly usable, intuitive system.

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shucksreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

A real linux installation or darwin-nix? If the former, what steps did you follow? 👀

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The real thing. https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/

I wouldn't say it's something anyone can do (no graphical installer and updating is a bit manual) and it's all dependent on the Asahi folks, bless them, but it took me about 20 minutes, other than whipping up a machine-specific configuration.nix and home.nix (about 20 more minutes on either side of the installation). All of the instructions were clear, though I will warn that some of them are not well presented in that there are instructions that should be bullet points that are stuffed into paragraphs. Nothing remotely exotic though--that's all in the Asahi stuff that is wonderfully hidden from the view.

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My right index finger still has an indent from using the clit-mouse to play Starcraft on a Thinkpad 25 years ago.

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the aliens watching me for entertainment: oh no, he has installed gentoo and qubes, he is too far gone

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

T470p i5-7300hq

It was sold as a t470 i5-7300u buut the PC itself had 470p written on it and the chip I saw when swapping the thermal paste matches the i5-7300hq

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I mean, if it helps why not! I honestly really do have a lot of fun tinkering with Linux, it's one of the big draws of the OS to me.

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I don't like Windows. They leak a lot of air, they are expensive to replace, and you usually just end up covering them anyway.

I also don't like the OS much either. lol

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I feel like I need to get back into Gentoo just to add a lil spice to the horde of Arch users around here :P

Still gonna use Arch on my laptop, bytheway 😅

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magikmwreply
lemm.ee

Gonna tell me you're gonna install grass on arch (btw) next.

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smb
lemmy.ml

woman would take care for a literal horse instead of going to therapy. i don't see anything wrong there either.

just a horse is way more expensive, cannot be put aside for a week on vacations (could a notebook be put aside?) and one cannot make backups of horses or carry them with you when visiting friends. Horses are way more cute, though.

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talreply
lemmy.today

or carry them with you when visiting friends.

They might be able to carry you.

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feddit.de

I tried going to a dominatrix but that just wasn't enough punishment.

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Yes, because not many other things can be considered both a symptom and a cure.

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I am unsure, I feel like Google is watching me and selling my data to OP because I was only yesterday ogling a Thinkpad Yoga X1 precisely for this purpose.

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Get a refurb T14 for (relatively) nothing before going hardcore.

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lemmy.world

I don't think you need to be trans to have a desire for the wonderful vascular benefits of stockings.

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oh for sure, but judging by unixsocks they seem to be correlated. At this point I'm considering "interested in Linux" to be One Of The Signs™️ lol

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MetaCubedreply
lemmy.world

I don't think egg jokes are healthy for the trans community homie

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

prime directive's a psyop. Egg as a concept helped me and a lot of my friends find out who we are

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MetaCubedreply
lemmy.world

Frankly idgaf about the prime directive (edit: this is perhaps an exaggeration, I meant I wasn't necessarily referring to the prime directive) , but as an enby person, I think going around saying "doing this makes you an egg" is pretty antithetical to people not wanting to be judged for not complying with the gender roles that correspond with their assigned gender.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I'm an enby too, and the point remains! I think what gets lost in translation here is that "hey, this is kinda eggy" =/= "hey, you're an egg". At this point, I'm really starting to see this is as a willful misinterpretation by reading the former AS the latter (not saying you're doing this, but a lot of the self-hating folks who see transness as some sort of curse seem to be overrepresented in the population who react negatively to seeing anything as "eggy")

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I'm going to very sincerely disagree. You can see it as misinterpretation if you like, but I believe there's functionally no difference between the two statements you've provided and as long as the right is trying to come up with any excuse to outlaw our existence, its optically beneficial to come up with ways of educating people who may be "eggs" about being trans/enby that are informative, but are less likely to fuel a deranged groomer witchhunt. I'm glad it helped you and your friends, but given the political climate, I believe we should avoid terms that endanger us more than needed.

Continue using it, I certainly won't stop you. But I'm not going to start.

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i own four xx20 series thinkpads. One of which has debian with i3wm, the other three dont have anything installed atm. Sue me ik.

xx20 series is the best tbh. The only thing maybe arguably better is x80 series, due to the more modern processors and actual features over the xx20 series. xx40

my w520 with an i7 2720qm or whatever the fuck is it is is genuinely better than any intel mobile cpu that isn't quad core. AND it's socketed.

looking for a cheap xx40s (or p it's whichever one is better i cant remember) just for the completion, as well as an xx80 just to have one with more modern hardware, but my xx20 is everything i'll need in a laptop tbh. I would also like to get an x220 at some point.

naming legend for anybody wondering.

  • x - model type, w, t, x, etc
  • x - the device type, 4, 5, 2, etc usually screen size related
  • n - device model? Release related.
  • n - 0, just the number zero, anything that isn't a zero is e waste im pretty sure.
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i've heard, but honestly, is there anything interesting about them other than the like 2% performance uplift? And the fact that batteries are only semi-compatible between them. I suppose they might be more power efficient? I have no clue, if you have any knowledge it would be appreciated.

My w520 with 4 cores still smokes anything that isn't like 9th gen mobile in terms of multi core. Thanks intel very cool.

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sopuli.xyz

Yes. You need to won in lottery if you want to go a therapy xD

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Just a friendly reminder there are therapists that work pro bono or for discounted rates. I'm paying $60/ session without insurance and it's an investment for my mental health, future relationships and career.

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$ grep ^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=emacs -- -e doctor"
$
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Let's say I have an old ThinkPad..

Where does one start when trying Arch?

I used some Linux distros before and tinkered a little bit but I'm not too deep into Arch atm (but eager to get into it).

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I just followed the comfy arch install guide with some additions from the comments section on YouTube, and I had a working machine quickly.

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0x0
programming.dev

Incidentally:

  • which models are the best new old?
  • what are the best places to get them?

...asking for a friend.

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Old MacBook Airs make great Linux machines. EBay is a good place to look for them

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... ooohh, that's not a terrible idea actually.

I've been buying old rigs and installing Proxmox, but this would work too I guess.

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xinayderreply
infosec.pub

That's like going to a therapist and then finding out your therapist needs to go to therapy after treating you.

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lemmy.ml

Excuse me! I would never buy a thinkpad.

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or men who think they are a woman

Such men don't exist. If they consistently think they're a woman, then they are a woman. At least in terms of gender, and asking about one's gender (or pronouns) is preferred to biological/legal sex.

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