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why does this kill itself immediately after starting?
Ryder Long
This is the official "What are some cool commands" subreddit. You don't need to be a cool command, it's just for fun. If you see another cool commands subreddit, redirect them here.
Noah Reyes
if arch is meant to be simple, why does it have the systemd?
David Green
Because archfags are too busy fixing their shitty system to replace systemd
Caleb Stewart
what's wrong with systemd? I don't _really_ care what my init system is as long as I can modify it easily and it's fast
Jack Russell
Because it makes things simpler.
Gavin Rivera
>Archfags can't maintain initscripts FTFY
Jonathan Moore
I have a script with no execute privileges, only -rw. If I copy it over a script with -rwx, it now has -rwx. Why aren't the original privileges saved? Isn't this a security vulnerability, where someone could copy over a known program/script with a malicious one?
Colton Mitchell
Whether they did or didn't do a good job of maintaining init scripts, systemd dramatically decreases the amount of work the maintainers have to do. This is a big reason why so many major distros adopted it, and why the attitude towards systemd haters has been "Okay, if you want something else, you get to do all the shitty drudge work of maintaining init scripts, have fun"
Jose Reed
If ntp or whatever held things up, you just had to put a & on the end of that line.
Anthony Hall
Arch is a small distro, it doesn't have many developers and adopting systemd makes life much easier for developers. The same reason why it only officially supports x86-64.
Levi Rodriguez
Are there any music players that hav good visualizers I can play in full screen other than ncmpcpp?
Jose Peterson
>tfw 2 retarded to install lime text >tfw 2 retarded to install graphics card drivers ree
Sebastian Garcia
install gentoo
Liam Russell
>asking for help in the linux shitposting thread you're in the wrong place guys
Benjamin Stewart
>gentoo The logo looks like 9gags so I wont do that
William Harris
>"dur Sup Forums is for shitposting only" Shut the fuck up, retard.
Nathaniel Johnson
>still not giving help
Logan Allen
referring to this thread in particular all you fucks ever do is shitpost
Colton Sullivan
GNU/Linux*
Tyler Howard
...
Matthew Lewis
I like to throw in a good shitpost early to see if I can get OP to delete the thread and start over. I thought that was the game.
Grayson King
Hey faggot, if you don't like this thread, feel free to fuck off.
Tyler Adams
guess thats the winfag from the last thread being hurt
Ian Morris
@61306731 >What are some cool commands seashells.io/
How do I do the cool status with Ascii picture thing in the terminal I want to be cool like you guys
Lucas Campbell
screenfetch
Parker Miller
see
Jaxson Barnes
>first day on Arch Linux
Julian Bailey
b-but I like you onii-chan
Thanks
Dumb crabposter
Ryder Ramirez
dont listen to this guy, neofetch is much cooler
Christian Watson
>neofetch That thing coded by codemonkeys? They weren't capable of parsing command line. No neofetch is not serious.
John Rodriguez
hey, don't hate on crabs
Logan Scott
Read logs.
Jonathan Rogers
I want to start to learn a bit programming and my main focus is currently some cute cli/tui programs or some ascii games and I'm not sure where to start. Would you suggest C? Python? Should I use curses? Any hints welcome.
Christopher Williams
OCaml, it's the easiest language.
Wyatt Martin
Depends on why you want to learn to program. Python if you just want the fastest time from zero to being able to write a program that does something useful/nontrivial/worthwhile C if you're doing it because you want to peek under the hood at what's actually going on under the hood
Wyatt Smith
If you want to have your program ready in a week, learn Python. If you actually want to learn programming, learn C. I'd go with python and when you start to love programming, go C.
>tfw perl is dying Why is everyone scripting with ruby, python, node, when perl is so nice! Once you know perl, you can do everything with it, it does your sed, awk, grep, curl, little cute cli/tui programs! Use perl!
Colton Baker
>because you want to peek under the hood at what's actually going on under the hood I really fucked up typing that sentence, but you get the point
Thomas Peterson
bla bla bla No concrete evidence, just I don't luike the way screenfetch is implemented
And they implement a joke named neofetch that can't parse command line. Fucking code monkeys. screenfetch is mature
Robert Lee
>t. neofetch developer thanks for this unbiased comparsion
>you can do everything with it, it does your sed, awk, grep, curl, little cute cli/tui programs! so can you with ruby, python, node.js
Aiden Hill
The only reason people use neofetch is the ebin w3mimg hack. Implemented in screenfetch, nobody would use neofetch anymore since config and temp files for a simple script pretty much sucks.
tedunangst.com/flak/files/sct.c and run cc -std=c99 -O2 -I /usr/X11R6/include -o sct sct.c -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lm -lX11 -lXrandr
It will produce a binary called sct. It asks for values from 1 000 to 10 000. The effect is the same as running software like f.lux (windows) or redshift (multiplatform). To restore just use sct without arguments.
Dominic Young
Will I fuck my system if I remove in Arch the gnome and gnome-extra package groups?
I want gdm and xfce4 to continue working after that.
Jayden Richardson
Yes. But it's not always that easy. Nowadays most developers fon't even ship a INSTALL or README file, or explain which dependencies you need. Hunting them down can be a pain in the ass.
Christopher Scott
Debian are awesome. Debian are awesome. Debian are awesome.
Jacob Brooks
What did he mean by this?
Eli Morris
>sct my nigga
Using it myself and it's urging me to learn programming in order to add a smooth transition function.
Isaac Taylor
Why does the Debian logo look like a toilet used by a girl on period?
Ethan Morgan
>learn programming in order to add a smooth transition function. I just use a combination of shell scripts and cron to achieve it really
>shell scripts bloat pretty sure it could be done in 5 lines of C pretty sure someone already did this, check shithub
Levi Adams
>not just using redshift what is wrong with you
Robert Diaz
d0 y0v 3v3n l!k3
Austin Wilson
>80MB of ram just to have your screen dimmed
Oliver Phillips
>geoglue botnet depedency
Grayson Reed
>botnet please, you're trying too hard
Aaron Nelson
So? Free software so just re-build it with geoclue support disabled.
Jason Clark
On Debian it's an optional dependency.
Ayden Diaz
It doesn't even use geoglue when you set long and lat you fucking faggot.
Christopher Carter
There's absolutely nothing to it. I use a combination of three shell scripts in total.
One for dusk, one for dawn (I've yet to figure out a more efficient way to do this so any protips would be helfpul) that run every minute of 21:xx and every minute of 04:xx to dim and brighten the screen respectively.
Plus a 3rd "switch" script that when run creates or removes an empty file /tmp/sct-switch (which disables or reenables the crontab entry) and sets the color temperature on 6500K (default) or dimmed according to the hour.
The 3rd switch runs on X startup too, in case I login in the middle of the night and I want the screen dimmed
So the command in crontab entry will only be executed IF the /tmp/sct-switch file doesn't exist.
I'm not very experienced, you could probably come up with most sophisticated but I treat it as part of learning experience and tried to keep is as retard-proof as possible.
on windows, I can connect to one wifi network and create a separate ad-hoc network and share the internet connection. how do I do that on Debian stretch gnu/linux
Kevin White
If i want to tunnel my browser through ssh do i just need to tunnel the 80 port and then tell my browser to connect to localhost:80 on SOCKS or do i need t install additional sw on the linux server?
Connor Perez
GNU/Linux
Luke Thomas
GNU/GNU Linux-libre
Kevin Sanchez
systemd/systemd systemd-libre
Carter Gonzalez
arch linus
Nathaniel Bell
xD!
Parker Perry
does mpv need youtube-dl to stream?
Dylan Hughes
yes and no
Anthony James
>yes and no explain
Jace Baker
If you have the direct url, mpv can stream it. If you give mpv just a website url, you need youtube-dl which will parse the website and find the direct stream url for mpv.
