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Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.

what message? This was a real product released by Sony.

Right; a stationary Steam Machine (upgradable, etc.) would be a desktop PC running SteamOS, which should probably remain outside the purview of Valve’s hardware division.

But they’re already back! The Steam Deck is the resurrected Steam Machine.

Michael W. Lucas’s “Networking for System Administrators” is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

There’s a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven’t run it in ages, though; I don’t know if it’s still functional.

Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

Putting the following with executable permissions inside ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/SCRIPTNAME adds a right click menu to Nautilus that serves the same purpose:

#!/bin/bash

CLIPBD=''
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "x11" ]] && CLIPBD='xsel -ib'
[[ "${XDG_SESSION_TYPE}" == "wayland" ]] && CLIPBD='wl-copy --trim-newline' && wl-copy --clear

echo -n "${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}" \
  | tee >(xargs -I {} notify-send "Path Copied:" "{}") \
  | ${CLIPBD}

The ‘notify-send’ bit isn’t necessary; it just puts up a notification.

Mentioning only because it’s a simple demonstration of a pretty easy way to extend Nautilus for all kinds of purposes; w/o messing around with the pygobject interface. (There’s supposed to be an xdg standard for file manager extensions like this, but managers use their own custom folders, syntax, etc. for such extensions. I think pcmanfm adheres to the standard; Dolphin requires a .desktop file somewhere; Thunar, Caja, & Nemo work similar to Nautilus.)

Dinsdale?

Where’s the ‘PtrSc’ key? On Peter’s keyboard presumably.

GNU-Epoch is not the UNIX-Epoch.

Hi; I rely on nvidia-smi mostly; but the nvidia-settings gui app also shows temperatures & wattage (though that app might be x11-only).

awk predates perl as well as python by a pretty large margin (1978); it’s useful, of course, for processing things in a pipeline, but as it became obsolete as a general-purpose scripting language, users have had less and less of a reason to learn its syntax in detail – so nowadays it shows up in one-liners where it could be replaced by a tiny bit of cut.

I had worked through a good bit of the O’Reilly ‘sed & awk’ book – the first programming book I got, after being enticed by shell scripting in general. Once I learned a bit of Python, & got better at vim scripting, though, I started using it less and less; today I barely remember its syntax.

FWIW, I’m typing this on the latest GNOME, on wayland, on nvidia proprietary drivers; and it works just fine — EXCEPT for suspend & resume, which is annoying to be sure; but on 2 screens with different refresh rates & different dpi ratios I at least don’t run into some of the weird behavior I do run into using X11.

I used to be an Xfce purist; but this particular setup is even less taxing on the GPU (GTX 970) compared to Xfce’s standard compositor (around 20W on light usage, vs. 35+W); & and the font rendering is slighly better, which is a huge factor AFAIC.

Skimmed over the whole article – I wish this had been available back when I was trying to piece together the basics from the documentation. There really needs to be a 2nd part, though, with some discussion of the GVariant signatures, which the author says were ‘beyond the scope of’ this article – which is true; nevertheless, understanding that syntax (and how to use it e.g. with gdbus) is an absolute requirement for using dbus properly; and as a silly amateur, I lost so much time over them.

As of bash 4.3, (which came out nearly 10 years ago) it’s possible to get readline to set a variable to do that: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/CHANGES?h=bash-4.3#n832

I’ve haven’t used bash in a long time, but there are many questions/answers on stackoverflow that provide hints as to implementing an indicator like that. One zsh’s ‘zle’ (line editor) it’s a matter of setting an environment variable inside a custom prompt; so the bash approach should be similar.

Oh wow I didn’t realize he repeated ‘developers, developers, …’ 666 times on that event.

No, because he has already sent the beast with wrath.
— because he knows the time is short.

In any case, let him who have understanding
reckon the kernel of the beast;
for it is a human number;
not a semver number. So don’t worry about it. \

yieeeeeeaaaaaaaahhh

This can’t go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can’t avoid Tivoization!