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  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•How to help a person who has bad times remembering commands when using Linux.
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    2 days ago

    Idea 1:

    Print out some of the various CLI cheat sheets and pin them to your wall by where you work on your computer.

    Maybe this one:

    Then, print a page with commands you commonly use, either with more complex syntax or that aren’t on the sheet. (Like, “ls” is on there, but “ls -s -h” is not, for example.

    Idea 2:

    Write bash scripts to automate some of your commonly used tasks. Comment them. Imagine someone else is going to have to use them, even if you’re the only one who’s ever going to look at them. Not only will this help you learn lots of commands and force you to describe what they do (which will help you retain the information), it will be there as a record of how it works that you can go back and look at months or years later, to remind yourself how to do something.

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•[completed] Working on a project and a survey about GNU/Linux security. Survey results in post.
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    3 days ago

    I was like “Which of the 6 systems I use on a daily basis do I answer these questions for?”

    • I have my gaming PC which runs Linux Mint and I mostly use for Minecraft and Stellaris.
    • I have my daily driver laptop, which duel boots between Linux Mint and QubesOS.
    • I have my file and dev server (it runs a bunch of virtual machines I use for various projects) which runs Debian and shares all my files over sshfs.
    • I have my backup server which rsyncs with the fileserver and runs Debian. The motherboard is like 12 years old, but it is pretty much just a house for a bunch of 8 TB drives.
    • I have the living room TV, which is an older Dell All In One that runs Linux Mint.
    • I have a weird frankenputer with a beefy GPU in it (better than the GPU in my gaming machine) that runs Debian and gets used for locally hosted AI experimentation. A friend gave me the GPU for Christmas and I had nothing to put it in, so I threw shit together from a bunch of the old PCs sitting in closets / garages around my house. Because I’m that guy.

    And like… when I took the survey, I answered “yes” to having a firewall, even though I don’t run one locally on any of PCs (except the laptop, when it’s booted into Qubes because duh). BUT all of these are behind an OpenWRT router that DOES run a firewall, which I’ve spent a bunch of time messing with and customizing to get it working the way I want and put in personalized rules for the various systems. Which my wife and son LOVE (“Dad, the internet’s down again!”).

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.world•Don’t let the media bury himEnglish
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    23 days ago

    JoA never killed anybody. She just went into battle. Many people also believe Saint Patrick committed genocide against the druids in Ireland, but this is an historical myth, originating from the speculation of Elizabethan era scholars. The actual historical record only supports him preaching in Ireland, not being violent (plenty of the people who listened to him were THEN violent).

    However, there are a bunch of saints who led armies (or were just soldiers) during the crusades, at least one saint who was a Viking leader who then converted and helped to (violently) Christianize the Nordic countries (Saint Olaf of Norway), and Saint Peter of Verona was an inquisitor who zealously hunted heretics in Northern Italy in the 1200s (very likely ALSO a torturer in addition to a murderer).

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.world•As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.English
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    25 days ago

    I love the Lemmy UI.

    But I’m a gen Xer.

    There’s some great analysis floating around of how different generations actually interpret UIs (and make decisions about how or whether to engage with them) very differently. So there is no “one size fits all” that will make everybody happy. Change the Lemmy UI to something like Photon and I’d be like… “this is dumb.” Making a bunch of very different options is a lot of work. If you want to do it… no one is stopping you. The Lemmy project is opensource and you could go start contributing and making pull requests today. You could go run your own instance and make it look like whatever you want and get the average redditors to join that. I run my own instance. We have a whole two users. It works exactly the way I want it to and federates with exactly who I want it to.

    Frankly, I’m not sure Lemmy needs to go out of it’s way to appeal to the average redditor in order to have a thriving, healthy community. Sure, there are some things I miss about having a giant user base to engage with, but honestly, I’ll trade them for the MUCH MUCH lower toxicity. I don’t know that “growing Lemmy” should be our focus. It’s not like we’re getting paid.

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyztoGames@sh.itjust.works•Mass Effect director says the next game won't feature any Veilguard-style aesthetic switchups: 'Mass Effect is photorealistic and will be as long as I'm running it'English
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    2 months ago

    They could actually make this work.

    • Have a recruitable Volus biotic warrior who you pick up in a nightclub and has romance dialog options.

    • They go hang out in some big room on the ship, like a cargo hold.

    • If you choose the romance options, more Volus just start showing up on your ship with no explanation. Like the next time you go in the cargo hold there’s another one, then two more, then you start seeing them in the mess hall, engineering, medbay…

    • There’s either dialogue options to ask what’s going on (and kick them off the ship) OR there’s more romance dialog options, but you can’t do both!

    • If you keep choosing romance options, they eventually all show up in your room at the same time. It turns out that when Volus take a new partner, their whole extended polycule is allowed to vote on whether or not they approve of the new person being added to your dynamic. There’s a whole scene where you and your new partner have to lobby, bargain and plead for them to include a human. Maybe whether they accept you or not has to do with other choices that you’ve made.