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anybody else excited for the 12th?

Not really, to be honest. Whilst I understand why it's happening, I find the fact it's happening at all really damn depressing. The fact some of the largest communities have to literally cease operation for a website riding off of the success brought by those same communities to listen (if they do, that is.) is beyond sad. Really speaks to the direction the internet as a whole is going.

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Must have commandline tools?

Ncdu is a really useful little utility that shows you what directories are using the most space on whichever drive/directory you select. Really useful little piece of software.

hdparm is another neato one that let's you test the read speeds of your drives, though it's more so something ya use once and forget exists.

Also, though Neovim is more popular, Helix deserves some recognition. It's a rust based, vim inspired text editor which removes the need to configure it, making it easier for people trying to get into terminal text editors.

Edit: Jerboa removed the first name, my bad.

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What is something many people believe but is not true?

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Financial gain? We're speaking of religion, not vanity churches. If people want to believe in something above themselves, you have no right to say otherwise just because you yourself believe against it. And the fact you believe all religion is directly tied to money really speaks numbers to how you see things you don't like.

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What's your favorite book(s) of all time?

Well, not sure if Light Novels are accepted, but Mushoku Tensei by Rifujin na Magonote is unquestionably my favourite. Whilst it's understandably critiqued for it's choice of unsavoury topics, it's the only book I've ever read that tells the story of a person genuinely learning from, and reflecting upon the mistakes they've made in the past.

Also Holes by Louis Sacher is pretty neato.

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What is something many people believe but is not true?

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Well I honestly see no reason to try and disprove religions. Some of them do have fucked traditions, yes, but trying to invalidated one's faith is just sad.

As for the Santa part, I can't really argue against that. But for my own sake I'm going to keep pretending he's real, as that's more comforting that the thought of a crackhead breaking into my house and stealing nothing but cookies.

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