Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2023
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Not the operating system, but the display concept. Do I actually need them?
I've been thinking a bit about my computing setup, primarily, how I plan to reconfigure my desktop machine to move off of Manjaro. It has been "fine", but I've found delays and fuck ups from their end, and some "choices" they've made to just not align with my personal computing preferences.
// FWIW, I'm the type of gal that expects my computer to work the same every time I boot it. If you, computer, decide to update something that I didn't explicitly authorize in the updater? See Ya!! And Ubuntu, and now Manjaro have broken that rule. Which is often why I stick to mainline distros like Debian, or Arch + a DE and not get "out of the box" type stuff, since that's someone/group controlling the direction, and I'm perfectly capable of doing nothing thanks :)
Ah, systemd. More or less this was Linux under new management, same as the old management. For example, systemd on RedHat Enterprise 7 (2014) had a charming feature where, sometimes, it would fail to shutdown a host, and one would eventually stride to the server room and apply the Paperclip of +3 System Slaying. Such already unbent paperclips had been hung on the racks for exactly this purpose. RedHat 7 (2000) also had this feature. Folks with money might have remote management, or maybe a data centre tech would be wandering about Europe at 2 AM as one kept the Sev-1 line informed of their progress. Regardless, there was a manual reset because of a wedge at shutdown. Different clowns, same act.
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That systemd generated more than 20 log lines by default for each and every mailman cron job on RHEL7 was charming. What was the point of all that log spam? I forget how I squelched it; RedHat Linux is fairly maintenance heavy.
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The past tense means I haven't really touched Linux in a while; there is an Alpine Linux virt under vmd(8) somewhere, gently unused. And a big-endian Debian MIPS qemu thing used even less to test that code does not assume little-endian. OpenBSD gets the complexity and maintenance needs just about right.
=> Monitor your remote host network quality using smokeping on OpenBSD
If you need to more the network quality of a link, or the network availability of a remote host, I'd recommend you to take a look at Smokeping.
Same goes for strong and b.
I like that it gives you a choice between _ and *, that they mean the same thing, and that you can mix and match them, and that double means stronger. That was a good design decision that was a lot easier to remember than the other markup formats I was using before. So solutions where “_ is cite and * is em” are no good, especially when they don’t fix things like Linnaean names.
I suggest that Markdown installations that do allow fallthrough HTML should stick with em and strong as the default, since those are the most common cases and fallthrough HTML can handle the special cases, but Markdown installations on online forums that disable fallthrough HTML (i.e. where Markdown is used in lieu of bbcode or Wiki syntax), it should generate i and b instead of em and strong. It’s less wrong.
=> Announce: release of run-many=1.0.0
I just uploaded first release of "run-many" tool that is standalone implementation of colored interleaved output like "docker-compose up" or "devenv up".
I was recently reading a detailed account of Apple UNIX, a Macintosh-compatible UNIX operating system published by Apple for Macintosh computers with m68k CPUs. The account appeared to have been written in 2001, based on one screenshot of the author's PC desktop. The account concludes by recommending that operators of m68k-based Macintosh computers who wish to run UNIX on their machines find an alternative to Apple UNIX for a number of reasons. They recommend NetBSD.
=> What happened to index.gmi?
I am quite sure that Gemini server on tilde.pink user to serve directory index automatically, now I have to regenerate "index.gmi" manually. I understand that it makes server simpler which is good, but that broke by dist/ directory, which is bad. Did I miss an announcement?
. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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