IngeniousRocks (They/She)

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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • I had configured this manually (incorrectly) in Arch a while back to have my home dir be on a separate encrypted drive.

    Turns out the main drive didn’t get the memo and still had a home folder which worked fine, I thought it was working so I promptly forgot about it. Meanwhile the encrypted drive (which had only ever been unlocked that day and never again) had maybe 10 files on it that I didn’t even know it had until I swapped the drive into a different PC.


  • Actually I do, since KDE and Gnome don’t support X11 anymore.

    Dogma was the wrong word, I’d already figured that out, which you can see from the context of the other responses that came in 12-17 hours before yours. Dog piling is dumb, stop it.

    I comfortable and stubborn, I also feel like a full idiot. Ive been using hardware that doesn’t work on Wayland for years, so when I booted up may compatible laptop and moved to set up a barebones sway install and encountered EGL errors and the display manager can’t even find my monitor I think im allowed go be a little bit bitchy about it When even after 15 years Wayland is immediately showing me it wasn’t ready for the mainstream. Sure it works when it’s already in place, but I’ve NEVER successfully rolled it out myself until yesterday.

    I want to learn, really, genuinly. The Security issues in X11 are glaring, and I’m tired of using insecure display server Software from the late 80s that expects me to be on a mainframe.

    I want to change. I could also roll X11 in my sleep. I have quite a bit of instinct to unlearn.










  • Grep can accept input from stdin as with a piped cat, but I it can also just call the file directly.

    In 99.999% obviously made up stat is obvious of situations its fine.

    The real issue is a piped cat into grep will fork the process. Why open two process threads when one would do the job?

    Edit: it was mentioned by @swicano@programming.dev but to expand a bit: piping cat into grep can also mask quite a few errors. It masks them because of how the shell handles error reporting on piped processes. IIRC, if the file is missing for example, you won’t necessarily know that because while cat will throw a not-found error, that gets piped into grep who gladly accepts the error (which was piped to stdin) as its input and greps through the error, reporting back that your content wasn’t found in the search material, not that the file was missing.








  • Depending on where in the world you are:

    There is a resale store called Buffalo Exchange with a bunch of locations who always has the best messenger bags IMO. I’ve purchased several vintage messengers from them for carrying art supplies.

    My favorite is a rigid leather satchel the size of a briefcase. Its new enough to have a laptop pocket, but old enough where the laptop would be expected to be gigantic. I use that slot for canvasses. Then it leaves the main pocket open for my mini-easel and brushes. External pockets act to replace my purse on days I carry it. All this covered with a giant leather flap which locks closed. V protec.

    Edit: fixing autocorrect mistakes