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What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?
Always wear a condom. Never get married.
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What's the most expensive lesson you've learned?
Always wear a condom. Never get married.
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What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?
Dune. The Wheel of Time series on Prime.
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Missing Chrome's 'Go to URL' feature
open about:config change middlemouse.contentLoadURL from false to true.
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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Simple, I read. And with the internet I never have to worry about buying books.
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Debian Celebrates 30 years!
Been using Debian Since Potato. Never had a real reason to use any other distro.
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Shoplifting up driven by rising cost of living - Coles responding with employee body cams
In the USA shoplifting is up because most states no longer prosecute. Which is also the reason a lot of retailers have or are in the process of closing stores in big cities. Had a friend that worked at Riteaid, once a week several women would come in with trash bags and empty the makeup section. Even with them on video nothing came on it.
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Best Firefox Extensions?
ublock origin bitwarden cookie autodelete dark reader copy plain text mastodon or graze noscript sponsorblock and occasionally grammarly complete black theme
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Petition: restoration of access to Z-Library and the cessation of illegal criminal prosecution @ change.org
uh z-lib still works. I download 10 books most days. Never going to be able to read them all. Books 18426 items (16699 files, 1726 folders)
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What are some great open source games?
Crossfire https://crossfire.real-time.com/ Battle for Wesnoth https://www.wesnoth.org/ Unciv https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/ Dungeon Crawl http://crawl.develz.org Feudal Tactics https://github.com/Sesu8642/FeudalTactics
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Best practices for navigating file structure via terminal?
I tend to use walk or midnight commander. zoxide is nice as well. It also helps to have bash aliases. https://github.com/antonmedv/walk
https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide https://midnight-commander.org/ https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/linux-commands
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What are your favorite add-ons for Firefox?
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I use it on my pi400 running rpios Bookworm. Easier to install things like Okular and other apps without installing all of the overhead of KDE/Gnome. Counting the necessary kde/gnome libs I currently have 33 flatpaks installed.
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What's an industry that would cause riots if it disappeared overnight?
Not an industry, but if EBT/food stamps payments stopped there would definitely be riots. Not that aren't already.
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Linux DNS settings is a total mess
No problems here using /etc/systemd/resolved.conf for NextDNS settings. I also set the dns settings for NextDNS in Firefox.
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SHARE WITH THE CLASS: What aliases are you using?
A bit long, but here goes:
alias walk="walk --icons"
alias weather="/home/craig/.local/bin/weather.sh"
alias oh="/home/craig/.local/bin/oh.sh"
alias ports='sudo netstat -tulanp'
alias bashrc="source ~/.bashrc"
alias root='sudo -i' alias su='sudo su'
alias which='command -v'
alias search='apt search' alias file='apt-file search' alias policy='apt policy' alias show="nala show"
if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then alias update='sudo apt update' alias ainstall='sudo apt install' alias apurge='sudo apt purge -y --autoremove' alias upgrade='sudo nala upgrade' alias aremove='sudo apt autoremove -y' alias clean='sudo nala clean' alias reboot='sudo reboot' alias shutdown="sudo shutdown -P now" fi
alias jc='sudo journalctl -b' alias jca='sudo journalctl' alias jcf='sudo journalctl -f' alias jcr='sudo journalctl --list-boots' alias sc='sudo systemctl'
alias im+="sudo chattr +i" alias im-="sudo chattr -i" alias exe="sudo chmod +x"
#Add safety nets
alias rm='rm -I --preserve-root'
alias mv='mv -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias ln='ln -i'
alias chown='chown --preserve-root' alias chmod='chmod --preserve-root' alias chgrp='chgrp --preserve-root'
alias cpwd='pwd | xclip -selection clipboard'
alias cpy="xclip -selection clipboard"
alias ..='cd ..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias ....='cd ../../..'
alias back='cd $OLDPWD'
alias ff='find . -type f -name' alias fd='find . -type d -name'
alias ve='python3 -m venv ./venv' alias va='source ./venv/bin/activate'
alias ping='ping -c 5' alias pg="ping google.com -c 5"
alias rpi="sudo rpi-update" alias rpi-next="sudo BRANCH=next rpi-update" alias raspi="sudo raspi-config" alias clr="clear" alias clrh="history -c -w ~/.bash_history" alias df='df -H' alias du='du -ch' alias mk="mkdir -p" alias loading="sudo dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt"
alias ls='ls --color=auto --human-readable -al'
alias ll='ls -la'
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=auto'
alias listkb="ls -l --block-size=K" alias listmb="ls -l --block-size=M"
alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
alias diff='colordiff'
alias bc="bc -l"
alias wget="wget -c"
alias ps="ps auxf"
alias pscpu="ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3" alias pscpu10="ps auxf | sort -nr -k 3 | head -10"
alias psmem='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4' alias psmem10='ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10'
alias meminfo='free -l' alias free='free -mt'
alias top='tput smcup; top; tput rmcup'
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What are in your opinion "essential" android apps that aren't as popular/talked about?
croc syncthing bitwarden firefox protonmail
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Seeing more projects omitting installation instructions for debian/ubuntu.
I have 4 .deb packages that I have downloaded from github. Other than those I try to use apt first if there isn't a package I search for a flatpak. The only reason I have snap installed is to play with Firefox Beta. Packages: 2839 (dpkg), 45 (flatpak), 7 (snap)
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The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
the extinction of mankind
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NextDNS, plus Ublock Origin on any web browser.
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Debian Celebrates 30 years!
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Yes. The current stable release is Bookworm. debian-distro-info --all buzz rex bo hamm slink potato woody sarge etch lenny squeeze wheezy jessie stretch buster bullseye bookworm trixie forky sid