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2026-02-06 07:18:57 UTC

FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER

2026-02-06 05:52:32 UTC

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@nprofile…kg8s
This is probably an urban legend… https://everything2.com/title/7%2520hertz%2520-%2520the%2520resonant%2520frequency%2520of%2520a%2520chicken%2527s%2520skull

2026-02-06 05:49:38 UTC

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@nprofile…l8me
You sure it's not the other way around?

2026-02-06 05:48:52 UTC

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@nprofile…pkgu
Did you try Audacious?

2026-02-06 05:39:46 UTC

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@nprofile…fudt
XMPP is already like the Fediverse: there are multiple server implementations, a ton of client implementations, and servers federate.
I'm under the impression that DeltaChat and Matrix are like this too, but I'm not familiar.

2026-02-06 04:39:02 UTC

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@nprofile…k08e
Is…is that a dead short from live to earth? 🔥

2026-02-06 04:24:58 UTC

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@nprofile…6xv6
I vaguely recall being told that the melodies of Bible hymns are completely made up because the originals were never written in any sort of musical notation and are lost to history.

2026-02-06 04:18:13 UTC

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@nprofile…sftd
👑

2026-02-06 04:07:53 UTC

I do enjoy a good scanner. Keeping all my records in microscopic form on a computer where I can easily find them is so damn convenient.

2026-02-06 03:40:21 UTC

The existence of the #Nintendo Switch implies the existence of the Nintendo Hub, Nintendo Bus, Nintendo Mesh, and Nintendo Point-to-Point.
#shitpost

2026-02-06 02:51:50 UTC

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@nprofile…qt6h
I dunno. One of my senators is excellent and I'm dreading the day he retires.

2026-02-05 23:09:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
Maybe, but finding joysticks with twist (z-axis) is nearly impossible for some reason.

2026-02-05 22:21:12 UTC

At the sound of the robotic whirring noise, it will be missile o'clock.
#Descent #gaming #retrogaming #shitpost

2026-02-05 21:59:16 UTC

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@nprofile…9xhj
Ah yes, social buffering.

2026-02-05 21:49:38 UTC

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@nprofile…9xhj
Dancing would be a lot less interesting if people didn't have segmented spines.

2026-02-05 21:07:59 UTC

Damn. I must be getting old. Using the #joystick this hard is really rough on my arm.
(I swear this is *not* a euphemism for anything x-rated. 😂)
#gaming #retrogaming

2026-02-05 19:09:59 UTC

Self-OH (while playing #Descent): “Uhh. I think I might've taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque here.”
#retrogaming

2026-02-05 18:58:38 UTC

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CPU usage: 0%, occasionally spiking to 2.6%
GPU usage: 1.5%
This computer could run this game in its sleep. 😂
#retrogaming

2026-02-05 18:55:58 UTC

Me: built a cool #gaming #PC that can run anything
Also me: playing a game from literally 1994
#retrogaming

2026-02-05 18:45:41 UTC

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@nprofile…m6q2
Backward compatibility with macOS 10.4? I seriously doubt it.
More likely it's just because people don't know Installer exists.
As for “might be unsafe”, that's what macOS says when the app developer hasn't paid Apple a fee and submitted government ID to get a code signing certificate and then submitted the app itself for scanning. Homebrew bypasses this whole system.

2026-02-05 18:31:58 UTC

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@nprofile…m6q2
My employer used to distribute apps on disk images as well, but we were forced to switch to installer packages because that's now the only way to show a license agreement before installation.
It used to be that a disk image could show a license agreement when you try to mount it, and I went to a great deal of trouble to figure out how to make it do that https://github.com/argv-minus-one/dmg-license , but Apple removed that functionality a while back. https://github.com/argv-minus-one/dmg-license/issues/11

2026-02-05 18:27:46 UTC

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@nprofile…m6q2
MacOS Leopard (10.5) and newer has a built-in installer program that can install an app from a package file, same as Windows.
The disk image approach exists for historical reasons. In the days before macOS 10, you'd typically install an app by drag-and-dropping it from a CD to wherever you want to install it. MacOS 9 added a disk image system so you could do the same with apps downloaded from the Internet, and this was kept in 10.
Why anyone is using disk images now, I don't know.

2026-02-05 18:20:12 UTC

I wonder if there are any phones that implement UEFI, ACPI, etc.
Ideally a phone should be a pocket-sized PC that can #boot a generic operating system, not some weird embedded-ish thing where you have to compile a #kernel for that specific #phone model.

2026-02-05 06:01:43 UTC

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@nprofile…v820
Nah, that's ok. I can just approximate the time to. My use case doesn't need to be precise. Thanks though!

2026-02-05 05:49:58 UTC

If humans say “oh, rats!” when frustrated, under what circumstances do rats say “oh, humans”?
#shitpost

2026-02-05 05:35:35 UTC

Is there a #shell #command to sleep until a certain time?
I know of `at`, but it runs #commands in the background. I want to run commands in a detached tmux session.
#Unix #Linux

2026-02-05 04:13:28 UTC

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@nprofile…gl25
38 is only slightly faster than a Pentium-90. 😳
A PC with a Pentium-90 was a lot bigger and drew a lot more wattage, though.

2026-02-05 02:49:25 UTC

The existence of the Force implies the existence of the Mass and the Acceleration.
#StarWars #shitpost

2026-02-04 21:49:08 UTC

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@nprofile…0ca3
How do I delete someone else's post?

2026-02-04 07:52:40 UTC

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@nprofile…4zs6
🫂

2026-02-04 07:02:10 UTC

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@nprofile…kgpr
“You go through into another world” is also, oddly enough, how *ladders* are implemented in certain video games (most notably Fallout 3).

2026-02-04 07:00:04 UTC

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@nprofile…2mxs
I usually use Meld, but yeah, I've seen it crash and burn sometimes. Not sure what would be better. If anybody has any ideas, I'd like to hear them!

2026-02-04 06:07:12 UTC

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@nprofile…z0uk
It's pretty hard to play when you're used to mouselook and a wide field of view.

2026-02-04 05:23:08 UTC

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@nprofile…z0wd
Impressive!
Can't afford their products, though…

2026-02-04 04:37:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl
Maybe, but I still don't have the skill. 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-04 04:03:49 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl
Yeah, kinda wish I had a 3D printer and the skill to use it.

2026-02-04 03:58:38 UTC

I wonder if anyone makes replacement grilles for box #fans that:
1. hold an #HVAC #filter on the intake side, and
2. shroud the corners of the output side.
This would be awfully convenient for #AirPurification…
#fan #AirFilter

2026-02-03 23:26:13 UTC

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@nprofile…6uc8
And then the spirits couldn't haunt your house any more. They'd be homeless! And that's terrible.

2026-02-03 23:15:59 UTC

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@nprofile…0ca3
That's also one of the largest files in the whole repo. The actual source code is much cleaner.

2026-02-03 23:14:25 UTC

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@nprofile…0ca3
GitHub says that file is 5559 SLOC, 5794 lines raw. 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-03 22:44:10 UTC

DXX-Rebirth's SCons build script is 5559 lines of code.
A *build script*…for a fairly straightforward C++ program…is 5559 lines of code.
Why. Just why.
https://github.com/dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth/blob/51726f3c82763ced293e204494fa22376e9e787b/SConstruct
#programming

2026-02-03 21:25:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
But perhaps the Pyro stays in the air by gravity manipulation rather than thrust?
There is artificial gravity in this game. Dravis is sitting, not floating, in the Descent 1 intro cutscene. So perhaps there exists the technology to nullify gravity as well.
But even so, the ship still flies around without an energy drain. Even with gravity nullified, you still have to apply force to create acceleration.

2026-02-03 21:23:59 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
Definitely not accurate.
Most missions in Descent 2 happen on planets big enough to hold atmospheres. Several missions in Descent 1 happen on Venus and Mars.
None of these high-gravity environments cause an energy drain or hinder the Pyro-GX's flight performance.

2026-02-03 21:07:20 UTC

Big badass homing-missile robots: swarming in front of the reactor to protect it with their big badass shields.
Me: shoot the reactor with the fusion cannon, then leave the robots to question their life choices for the next 40 seconds until the reactor explodes.
😏
#Descent #retrogaming

2026-02-03 17:28:54 UTC

Pyro-GX: flies around and constantly generates enough thrust to effectively ignore gravity, without depleting its stored energy
Also Pyro-GX: rapidly loses energy by turning on a headlight
#Descent #retrogaming #gaming

2026-02-03 07:41:51 UTC

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@nprofile…4zs6
Not with that attitude!

2026-02-03 07:33:24 UTC

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@nprofile…4zs6
What if you eat a ghost? 👻

2026-02-03 07:16:57 UTC

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@nprofile…9ayj
“You can't be a spy! You're not cool enough!”

2026-02-03 07:16:00 UTC

Why's she called Betty Boop if she doesn't boop any cute animals?
#shitpost

2026-02-03 07:11:35 UTC

kind of girl who boops huge cats' noses and somehow doesn't get turned into confetti

2026-02-03 06:53:12 UTC

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Welp, my most boosted toot of all time is a #shitpost about #keyboard interrupts. 😵

2026-02-03 05:27:18 UTC

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@nprofile…5l89
What's that device that looks like a Mac Mini? Because judging from the wires coming out of it, it is very very not a Mac Mini. 😳

2026-02-02 23:51:46 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
Similar story for Doom 2.
MIDI on OPL3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQVeaDND9kk
MIDI on Roland SC-55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZcwiYmJwLo
Hand-programmed OPL3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmA9R8bt0vE

2026-02-02 23:49:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
Nah, it definitely sounds different.
MIDI on OPL3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCff7CAd_oE
MIDI on Roland SC-55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvbYv2e7oCw
What I linked previously was an arrangement someone made by hand-programming an OPL3. The game normally just plays MIDI on the OPL3, but programming the OPL3 by hand can have far better results.

2026-02-02 23:43:53 UTC

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@nprofile…dacs
It's time to program OPL3s and chew bubble gum, and Weeppiko is all out of gum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwg7ZPweG1o
#DukeNukem #DukeNukem3D #OPL3 #retrogaming #music

2026-02-02 23:35:40 UTC

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@nprofile…sru4
☠️

2026-02-02 23:32:24 UTC

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@nprofile…clrk
s/strange/glorious/

2026-02-02 23:25:42 UTC

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@nprofile…9xu8
That won't work with LED lighting…

2026-02-02 22:00:04 UTC

It's time for Worf to kick ass and drink prune juice, and he's all out of prune juice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51CTpvCKMZ8
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9

2026-02-02 21:12:13 UTC

The name “Farquaad” sounds like an insult that's just barely shy of the other f-word on the profanity scale.
“Did you see what that guy just did? What a farquaad.”
#StarWars #shitpost

2026-02-02 20:21:19 UTC

It's now safe to turn off your Pyro-GX.
#Descent #retrogaming #retrocomputing #shitpost

2026-02-02 18:07:05 UTC

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On a positive note, my spatial perception seems better now. I can actually make sense of the automap, whereas it was incomprehensible squiggles when I was a kid.
That's good because #Descent levels are maze-y af and the first game doesn't have a Guide-Bot.
#retrogaming

2026-02-02 18:02:20 UTC

I'm playing #Descent, like I did when I was a kid, and now I'm getting pins and needles in my joystick arm!
Getting old sucks. 😖
#retrogaming

2026-02-02 07:18:54 UTC

Pyro-GX: “Your shield is maxed out!”
Class 1 Driller: “Hold my beer.”
#Descent #retrogaming #shitpost
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/999/809/046/272/791/original/a11ff85d8517091d.png

2026-02-02 06:49:05 UTC

The *original* original soundtrack for #Descent 2, on an (emulated in this case) #OPL3.
This is what you'll hear if you're playing the Descent 2 demo or if you turn the CD music off.
https://youtu.be/A7_X9rH7kk0
As you can see, it slaps.
Why Parallax decided not to complete this soundtrack and hire some metal bands to record a handful of CD music tracks for this game instead, I cannot fathom. They clearly got it right the first time.
#retrogaming

2026-02-01 23:38:41 UTC

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@nprofile…h66l
Erectin' a data center! #TeamFortress2
@nprofile…fhnr

2026-02-01 18:48:42 UTC

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After some digging, I found the code change I was looking for.
It's complete crap. I decided to rewrite it properly. 😂
And yes, I'm the one who wrote the aforementioned complete crap.
#programming

2026-02-01 07:26:59 UTC

The existence of best friends implies the existence of worst friends, mean friends, median friends, and outlying friends who are more than three standard deviations from mean.
#statistics #shitpost

2026-02-01 07:26:05 UTC

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@nprofile…ulnl
Yeah, I find C's lack of proper dependency management disturbing.
In Rust/JS/Java land, you can ask your dependency manager to give you a list of transitive dependencies and their licenses. Then you can redistribute them (or, in Rust, statically link them) without hearing from anyone's lawyers.
What's happening here is this project is redistributing a bunch of libraries from MSYS2. It's probably legal, but without proper dependency management, it's hard to be completely sure.

2026-02-01 06:24:31 UTC

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@nprofile…hlze
Yeah, I'd better do that.
I'm not familiar with CMake, so I can't do anything about the GCC build failure or the fact that CMake doesn't automatically use Clang, but I can at least update the README to match the CI script.

2026-02-01 06:22:50 UTC

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@nprofile…hlze
Yeah, I'd better do that.

2026-02-01 06:19:49 UTC

Is there a program that can find every #DLL required by an #EXE, recursively, except DLLs inside C:\WINDOWS, and hardlink/symlink/copy them all into the folder that the EXE is in?
Because the way dxx-redux is doing it right now https://github.com/dxx-redux/dxx-redux/blob/57b933783bf16c178b722604114aa50f34579be7/contrib/packaging/windows/build_package.sh#L30 looks fragile af. If any of those DLLs is in a path with a space or newline in it, that script won't work right. Among other issues.
There's gotta be a better way to do this, but I have no idea what.
#programming

2026-02-01 05:58:25 UTC

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Project #maintainers: *please* make sure your #README build instructions and your #CI script agree with each other! Whenever you update one, you should be updating the other as well.
#programming

2026-02-01 05:55:52 UTC

Spent entirely too long failing to follow a project's README build instructions.
Then I noticed that it has GitHub CI so I ran those commands. *That* worked.
Why?
The CI script tells CMake to use Clang via envvars. The README instructions don't.
MSYS2 CMake defaults to GCC. The project's #CMake configuration files don't say Clang is required.
GCC somehow fails to link in a needed Windows system library, where Clang does not.
That's 3 separate epic fails all at once. 🤦‍♂️
#programming

2026-02-01 04:16:08 UTC

A #cloud formation scared the 💩 out of this poster.
https://imgur.com/mother-nature-troll-O4reT

2026-02-01 04:13:38 UTC

A baby tried to kiss a #cat.
The cat was not amused.
https://imgur.com/daughter-trying-to-kiss-cat-BuGf9

2026-02-01 02:46:07 UTC

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@nprofile…3pzd
Is the SpaceX representative aware that radiating heat into space is extremely slow? Space is the mother of all Thermos bottles.
One of the main engineering problems in designing a spacecraft is to keep its energy usage low so it doesn't cook itself.

2026-02-01 01:10:56 UTC

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@nprofile…pwfm
No, no, I don't think so, and I have no idea, respectively.
I did turn off some settings along those lines, but I guess I should dig through the settings and see if I can find any more.

2026-01-31 21:43:06 UTC

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I do see one useful pattern here:
* The log is right at the top of the source file.
* Each file has a log entry saying the file was imported from another repository.
* In the files I'm looking for, there are other log entries after that one.

2026-01-31 21:35:11 UTC

Going through some old code that was kept in CVS back in 2002.
Big oof. Including revision and log info inside source files must've seemed like a good idea at the time, but it's a total disaster if you're doing folder diffs. Every single file is different!
And I am indeed doing folder diffs, because I don't have a copy of the CVS repository this code was checked out of. Just two folders: one with the original project and one with some changes I need to extract.
Wish me luck!
#programming

2026-01-31 20:21:15 UTC

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@nprofile…2t6u
Wait, what ethical issues does synthetic meat have?
@nprofile…swax

2026-01-31 20:20:10 UTC

Client-side decorations are SO ANNOYING. 🤬
Title bars exist for a reason: that's how you move windows around. Stop removing them!

2026-01-31 03:55:51 UTC

So, there's a computer that's using a big LCD #TV (connected by #DisplayPort via #HDMI adapter) as its main #display, along with a small #LCD computer monitor as secondary (connected by #VGA).
Today I noticed that there is a delay of a frame or three before the mouse cursor moves on the TV. There is no such delay on the secondary.
Interesting. I wonder what's going on with the TV?
#InputLag

2026-01-31 02:34:20 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
I'm responsible for three servers:
* 2× Debian servers managed exclusively by me.
* 1× Oracle Linux server at a third-party hosting provider. Mostly managed by the hosting provider's employees, but I have root on it.
All three of these run systemd.
I also run systemd on my desktop and two laptops, all Debian.

2026-01-31 02:29:57 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
Ties into everything? What do you mean?

2026-01-31 02:26:46 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
Then I have several desktops and servers that somehow exist in a spherical universe in a vacuum. Curious.
I'm not sure why you seem to think that reliable parallel boot is unrealistic, but in my experience, it works fine once the dependencies are sorted out.
I did not appeal to Red Hat as an arbiter of anything. You are of course free to use Red Hat code or use something else, as you see fit.
I was not aware of Red Hat having a history of underhanded actions. Could you explain?

2026-01-31 02:14:45 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
Portability and cross-platform design? I thought we were specifically discussing Linux.
I will concede that Poettering is known for an abrasive personality, but that isn't the same thing as incompetence.

2026-01-31 02:09:57 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
I'm running systemd on multiple servers to good effect, so I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about here.
PulseAudio worked perfectly for me for 20 years. I wasn't doing music production, so I will concede that it might have been unsuitable for that, but for general desktop use and gaming it was excellent.
Especially coming from esd, aRts, and dmix, all of which added severe unpredictable latency.

2026-01-31 01:57:27 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
> It's a desktop mindset—"why would you have a dozen network devices and twice as many virtual interfaces? You're obviously using it wrong!"
> No, that's just how production can be sometimes.
What exactly is this referring to? As far as I know, networkd can handle an arbitrary number of interfaces.

2026-01-31 01:56:46 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
If you want nicer interface names, write .link files to assign those names.
Write a [Match] section that matches the network interface you want to rename (probably by MACAddress, but it's up to you), then write a [Link] section that assigns the new Name.
Note that you will need to rebuild your initramfs after making this change. Interface names are assigned during early boot.

2026-01-31 01:52:16 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
I did not use the word “chaos” in the post you're replying to.
Journald is not incompatible with there being many ways to achieve a logging-related goal. Like I said, journald can forward log messages in traditional syslog or its native text-based export format, in addition to storing logs in its binary format. That's pretty flexible and should work nicely with a variety of log aggregators.

2026-01-31 01:49:20 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
That ample toolchain support had numerous security vulnerabilities and issues with incorrect parsing. Text logs are impossible to reliably parse. That's one of the reasons journald exists: logs are structured.
Anyway, if for whatever reason you don't want to store logs locally in journald's native format, then configure journald to ForwardToSyslog. It can also ForwardToSocket if you have a log aggregator that understands the Journal Export Format (which *can* be parsed reliably).

2026-01-31 01:40:18 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
Also, I would like to remind you that I had far more boot and shutdown failures *before* systemd than I do with it. Both desktops and servers.
Those shell scripts were exactly as fragile as you somehow accuse systemd of being.

2026-01-31 01:38:29 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
Systemd was designed by and for large-scale production. It was made for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
No one is forcing you to use systemd. It's optional in Debian and there are a number of distros that don't include it at all.
Boot is nondeterministic in that it is parallel. If your boots are failing because of this, then you have undeclared ordering dependencies somewhere and need to fix that. Other modern inits also boot in parallel, so you'd have the same problem with them.

2026-01-31 01:33:00 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h @nprofile…z3lm
What exactly are optional mounts? I know of noauto, _netdev, and automount, but I haven't heard of optional mounts.
Systemd terminates processes when you tell it to or when a Requires= dependency goes down. What exactly is the problem?
Not sure which “other useful, standard behaviors” you're referring to.
I'm not sure when you got your start, but I began Linuxing when System V init was the only init, and the scripts it used were the exact opposite of simple.

2026-01-31 01:25:13 UTC

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@nprofile…5y4h
I didn't say they don't have dependencies. I said each program (except logind) does one thing.
The Unix philosophy does not prohibit programs from depending on each other.
@nprofile…z3lm

2026-01-31 00:51:32 UTC

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@nprofile…jkxk
Hmm interesting.
I was wondering how Cargo was going to distinguish scripts from regular Cargo command names.
Apparently, bash and dash will always ensure there is a / in the argv[0] of any program they run, even if they're running from $PATH and $PATH contains the current working directory.
So, Cargo can know it's being asked to run a script if there is a / in the command name.
But…what if the shell doesn't put a / in argv[0]? Are there any shells that'd do that?

2026-01-30 19:54:10 UTC

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@nprofile…djxe
That's true. Gravity was invented by Big Glass to sell more glass.

2026-01-30 19:35:10 UTC

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Also contrast multiplayer co-op in Descent, where you have unlimited lives and can therefore solve just about any problem by respawning enough times. Big badass robots are no longer scary, just annoying.
Shield-restoring energy centers seem like a reasonable compromise…

2026-01-30 19:29:29 UTC

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But like, the game is kinda weirdly hard because shield boosts are so rare. Contrast Doom, where even the literal bowels of hell are inexplicably littered with medical supplies.