Been on Awesome WM since '08, but once dappled with KDE. Does it still have resource hungry processes that I have no use for (IIRC, Akonadi or daemons related to it were one of those problematic components)?

Why is AI slop never funny?

Cheers! Truly appreciated.

Agreed but that should’ve been Ts;Dr

Thanks for the links!

Any source for this?

Debian, both at work and home.

Kids, you’re doing alright.

Also, LEMP but they have to install and configure it themself.

Nowadays apt supports deleting dangling config files with apt purge "~c" so no need to have aptitude for that feature. However, aptitude why <package> is pretty handy, and if you bump into dependency problems aptitude is quite capable of suggesting valid solutions.

Disclaimer: I’ve never used aptitude’s TUI.

ls -latr

To see where’s the most recent shit cause that’s what I’m interested in.

Debian, since etch. Also, not corpo owned since birth.

The old preferred way is to run testing/unstable with apt-pin (testing repos with higher priority). This way, if a package causes breakage, it’s a quicker fix from unstable than from testing. Also, security patches come to unstable first.

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Great job! Now it’s a good time to learn a bit of Ansible so you can keep your fleet up-to-date and configured. It would also come in handy in case you get a permit to do more conversions in the future.

A long lost host (a machine that’s been offline or in a closed off network etc.) can find its master (puppetserver) when it sees the daylight again with the regularily polling puppet agent service. This is not as straightforward with ansible’s push model.

stoner couch

Stealing this one!

I get it. That’s why I included the part about “the family tech guy”. And I think some sparkle of interest must be had in order to learn about that stuff. Or any stuff, like learning Ancient Greek. One has to be able to use a web search (or write a prompt to an LLM) for “beginner install linux” or some such. If the spark isn’t there, maybe buying a new Windows/Mac is the correct way to go.

Life is a long learning experience. Installing (or asking that nerdy relative to install) a Linux distro is no biggie anymore and when picking a good all-around distro like Mint, for example, pretty much anyone who has some basic experience on computers can do it.

Became a recluse And bought a computer Set it up in the home Elusive big one On the screen Saw the Holy Ghost, I swear On the screen

Where’s the cursor? Where’s the eraser? Where’s the cursor? Where’s the eraser? G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O

What’s a computer? Eat y’self fitter What’s a computer? Eat y’self fitter

I swear, Mark E. Smith was sometimes decades ahead of his time.

Well, usually dd is not used as often as cp, so there’s a bigger chance of messing up the parameters, unless you’re careful and rtfm first.