Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: August 13th, 2024
  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•systemGB
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    11 days ago

    I didn’t say it wasn’t a British stereotype, only that that particular British stereotype is not one that says “innit”.

    There’s a stereotype of stereotypes that there are only two English accents: “aristocratic” and “cockney”. The film Mary Poppins may have a lot more to do with this than it ought to.

    Anyway, the Countryball’s appearance is associated with the aristocratic. “Innit” is cockney. (This is overly general to the point of being wrong, but for the sake of this argument, it’s close enough.)

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•the ultimate age verification implementation!!111!
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    14 days ago

    I see at least a couple of problems here. The main one is that it assumes that the computer only has one user. This is often true, but not always.

    Yes, I know it's a joke, but if you really must, read on...

    If this script is run by a child on a shared computer, and that child chooses not to lie, the child and all adults with access to the machine lose access to /sbin/doas. Likewise if one adult chooses to lie that they’re a child, they’ll lock themselves and everyone else out, child or not, which is an opportunity for malicious behaviour

    It also means that something else would need to be done with regard to /etc/enviroment. Even on a one user, two roles machine, that entry really ought to be under /etc/environment.d, but the more robust, multi-age, multi-user solution would need something entirely different to be implemented. /etc/profile would be the wrong place, and editing each user’s .profile (or equivalent) and then making it read-only seems like a bad plan too.

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Unix or something, I don't play Pokemon
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    14 days ago

    By comparative linguistics, “Twix” is clearly Germanic in origin, and the singular ought to be Onx.

    “Unix” is from the parallel Latinate sequence. Unfortunately, the parallel term to “Twix”, and the successor of “Unix”, ought to be Bix, which does exist, but is only found in Commonwealth English in the compound Weet(a)bix.

    Triscuits may seem to be relevant at this point, but are a part of neither sequence on account of actually being an abbreviation of “Electricity Biscuit”

    Dubious etymology is fun.

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•linux_irl
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    15 days ago

    I saw that post about Firefox. If you’d said it was browser games causing issues, I might have linked it. (Or I might have failed and not done that. What ifs are tricky.).

    If you want kind of funny, someone posted CSS Quake a while back and that browser game has WASD keybindings and Ctrl bound to movedown / crouch. And if you crouch and move forward, it closes the browser window. And there’s no way to fix that.

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•linux will save your computer
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    21 days ago

    Sorry, I never meant to imply you were stupid. Only that you didn’t seem to be of a high enough technical level - right now - to be able to solve your PC problems.

    As for (non-committal) further advice: Backups, backups, backups. And then a tool like WinDirStat to track down what’s using all your space. There are YouTube videos that show you how to use it.

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•linux will save your computer
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    21 days ago

    I believe they are exhibiting denial that YouTube could possibly be old enough to have videos uploaded 18 years ago.

    This denial is being done mostly in jest to cover the true, creeping, dripping, existential despair that so much time has passed, but at the same time to commiserate and laugh with others who are similarly affected. Drip, drip, tick, tick, tick.

    Also, the video turns 19 in a couple of months. yaaaaay

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•linux will save your computer
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    21 days ago

    Given your apparent technical level, I think you need to get your PC to someone who can work on it in person.

    If you had space and better technical skills, there are tools you could install to help you track down where all the space is in use, but I don’t feel confident that things would go well talking you through that on an Internet forum.

  • palordrolap@fedia.iotoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Why nano gets used
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    25 days ago

    Asking nano to use the modern keybinds by default is akin to insisting that Emacs run in evil mode by default. If you really must have it do that, set up a shell alias or put something in your .nanorc.

    Also, nano has syntax highlighting. No LSP though. It’s an editor, not an IDE.

    Maybe that explains the size difference I was talking about elsewhere.