Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.

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Cake day: October 4th, 2023
  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Notably, this and dotfiles are popular among devs using Mac, since MacOS has nearly all settings available either via config files or the defaults system from the command line. In comparison, Windows is total ass about configuring via the command line, and even Cinnamon gives me some headache by either not reloading or straight up overwriting my settings.

    The application-level format isn’t really designed for end user consumption, but WINE uses a text representation of the Windows registry. I imagine that one could probably put that in a git registry and that there’s some way to apply that to a Windows registry. Or maybe a collectiom of .reg files, which are also text.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    5 days ago

    (10^100) + 1 − (10^100) is 1, not 0.

    A “computer algebra system” would have accomplished a similar goal, but been much slower and much more complicated

    $ maxima -q

(%i1) (10^100)+1-(10^100);

(%o1)                                  1
(%i2)

    There’s no perceptible delay on my laptop here, and I use maxima on my phone and my computers. And a CAS gives you a lot more power to do other things.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Where to go now since Linux is mainstreamEnglish
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    5 days ago

    First, the Linux kernel doesn’t support resource forks at all. They aren’t part of POSIX nor do they really fit the unix file philosophy.

    The resource fork isn’t gonna be really meaningful to essentially all Linux software, but there have been ways to access filesystems that do have resource forks. IIRC, there was some client to mount some Apple file server protocol, exposed the resource forks as a file with a different name and the data fork as just a regular file.

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/hfsplus.html

    Linux does support HFS+, which has resource forks, as the hfsplus driver, so I imagine that it provides access one way or another.

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    https://superuser.com/questions/363602/how-to-access-resource-fork-of-hfs-filesystem-on-linux

    Add /..namedfork/rsrc to the end of the file name to access the resource fork.

    Also, pretty esoteric, but NTFS, the current Windows file system, also has a resource fork, though it’s not typically used.

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    Ah, the WP article that OP, @evol@lemmy.today linked to describes it.

    The Windows NT NTFS can support forks (and so can be a file server for Mac files), the native feature providing that support is called an alternate data stream. Windows operating system features (such as the standard Summary tab in the Properties page for non-Office files) and Windows applications use them and Microsoft was developing a next-generation file system that has this sort of feature as basis.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I am cooked, chat. (Fuck Nvidia btw)English
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    27 days ago

    I have never used Arch. And it may not be worthwhile for OP. But I am pretty confident that I could get that thing working again.

    Booting into a rescue live-boot distro on USB, mount the Arch root somewhere, bind-mounting /sys, /proc, and /dev from the host onto the Arch root, and then chrooting to a bash on the Arch root and you’re basically in the child Arch environment and should be able to do package management, have DKMS work, etc.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I love choice. I hate choosing.English
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    1 month ago

    The fanboying to the point of blinders is maddening to deal with among Linux users.

    Alien who has arrived on Earth: “I’ve heard that you humans drive motor vehicles to get around. I should get a motor vehicle. Could someone tell me the best type to get?”

    Human A: “You want a Prius.”

    Human B: “No, that’s for tree-hugging, probably-homosexual hippies. You need a proper truck, a Ford.”

    Human C: “Actually, Ford trucks are trash, what you need is a Chevy truck.”