Linux so advanced, it may as well be magic.

2. To be honest, I have never really fucked up anything too bad. I guess that one time i removed all my configs and didn't have a back up? ( I thought i had a backup. )

3. Nope.

4. No.

5. I use ZSH, does that count as different than bash?

6. Not at all. I find it really useful, actually.

7. Old Lenovo laptop, don't know what the model was.

8. Yes.

9. Difficult question, but Librewolf, I guess?

10. I can't really think of any, to be honest. All of the bigger "problems" I have had just boil down to user error/cluelessness, which i cant blame linux itself for.

11. Governing. Let people do what they want and like. I personally like a bare-bones system and could never touch something like Fedora or Mint, but that's no reason for me to tell people they Should Not Use It. Oh, and Canonical. Lets kill Canonical.

12. Yes. After distro hopping for a while (Arch, NixOS, Debian, etc. ) I decided to actually go through with gentoo, and i never looked back. I am very content with it. The amount of space it takes up ( my current system only takes up 30GB of my 1T drive! ), and the ability to never install anything you don't need via USE flags is possibly the best thing ever.

13. Very close, but Xenia wins.

14. Bottles. They added a "helper" called eagle which looked suspicious, and after looking at their website, it's very obvious that its all garbage AI writing. This is the most recent example, I frequently drop and abandon software on the drop of a hat if they do something i don't like.

15. Seeing as how the "stock" version of my distro would just be a TTY, days of yak shaving. Weeks even.

I made a thing in the last few days and suddenly rembered I have the perfect place to post it.

It's yet another system info fetching utility, except it allows for much more flexible layout options, rather than just line-by-line printouts with a logo on the left.

Here's what it can do:

Here's the repo on codeberg:

For those who are unaware, there's been ads for a/i chat/bots going around on Tumblr. Specifically for "shapes.inc".

Obviously this is immediately worrying as chat/bots prey on low mental wellbeing, loneliness and someone's desire to interact, to then make them dependant and use their services more.

However, the ads themselves have stopped being quiet about that aspect. Here's one of the most worrying ads (aside the one that legitimately encourages users to make chat/bots of their friends' OCs without their consent, while also trying to claim that its "ethically sourced" - not telling us WHAT'S even sourced here - and therefore "guilt free".)

This is disgusting, plain and simple.

Not only is it directly preying on loneliness outright - it's encouraging a user to make a bot out of someone real without their consent. Not even a friend, no - a MUTUAL. It's encouraging parasocial dependency - just LOOK at what the "OP" is saying here: "RESPOND" "DID YOU DIE?" "PLEASE" "I MISS YOU".

It's not just encouraging parasocial behaviours nor just dependency overall, but encouraging users to breach the others' privacy just so they can pretend they're speaking to them.

Ads like this should not be allowed anywhere. Tumblr needs to get rid of it outright before someone gets hurt.

ublock orgin removes sponsored tumblr posts, this works on desktop and on mobile

Send me the hostname of one of your Linux (or bsd) devices and I'll rate them.

Why the -II? Because my former laptop was called PARPAING. It was an Acer Travelmate 7730. It's a 17" (but the bezels make it bigger in the end) and weighs 3.5kg.

Both are absolutely massive and very heavy. Me likies big laptops.

You just ain't doin it right

Because it's more convenient than what you are doing. I'm sure you have enough storage space for rofi. And if you don't, then maybe don't use flatpaks because they're bigger.

And if you really don't want that, for moral reasons or what the fuck ever, then go write a script that takes in the regular program name, checks the desktop files, and launches the program with that name. Maybe write a second script for bash completion while you're at it.

But also it really sounds like you're just not the target audience for a flatpak. If you don't like it, why do you use it? Are you on some atomic distro where it's your only choice? But what fucking atomic distro doesn't come with an app launcher?

You're just using them in a way they weren't intended to be used.