Linux has two different kinds of “used” memory. One is memory allocated for/by running processes that cannot be reclaimed or reallocated to another process. This memory is unavailable. The other kind is memory used for caching (ZFS, write-back cache, etc) that can be reclaimed and allocated for other things as needed. Memory that is not allocated in any way is free. Memory that is either free or allocated to cache is available.

It looks like htop only shows unavailable memory as “used”, while proxmox shows the sum of unavailable and cached memory. Proxmox “uses” 11 GB, but it’s not running out of memory because most of it is “available”.

In his newest (and worst) How Do You Do Fellow Kids moment, Mark Zuckerberg launches the Poob service, accessible exclusively through the Metaverse. What does it do? Fucked if we know.

Not on my own, I’m technically only responsible for the network and cybersecurity, but not being able to log out of an education account on a public computer is a pretty serious threat. Fortunately I’m on good terms with the dean and he’s always been receptive to my concerns.

As a university sysadmin that spent half a fucking hour yesterday trying to log someone out of a classroom computer’s MS Office software (the “sign out” button did fuck all, go figure): fuck Microsoft, fuck Office, fuck Outlook, fuck Onedrive, fuck their SSO, and their mother too. Next semester I’m sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they’ll like it.

I might be a little angry.

adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd’s command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.

It doesn’t excuse the bad naming, I’d rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it’s worth remembering.

Fuck it. *uses ulong to store a boolean*

I wish my one bad experience in 2015 had been the absolute last time Pulse failed for anyone ever. Alas, time doesn’t work that way, and Pulse remained failure-prone for years after my encounter with it.

Extremely frequently. Digital musical instruments generally don’t output production quality sounds – they output MIDI data that describes what note is being played, and an audio synthesizer device or software interprets it and generates the audio data.

Very mature. If you’re going to act like a toddler, I’ll put you in the timeout box.

For the record, your reply to my comment had no bearing on my decision, and I’ll preserve the entire comment chain in case I find myself on YPTB.

Very mature. If you’re going to act like a toddler, I’ll put you in the timeout box.

Memes are not necessarily meant to be funny. They’re meant to represent a common experience within a group. The horrid failure rate of PulseAudio just a couple years ago fits that definition perfectly, and in fact it’s why I gave up on Ubuntu 14.04 in 2015.

It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.

I think you’re confusing it with Manjaro, which has had several.

Proxmox is a great starting point. I use it in my home server and at work. It’s built on Debian, with a web interface to manage your virtual machines and containers, the virtual network (trivial unless you need advanced features), virtual disks, and installer images. There are advanced options like clustering and high availability, but you really don’t have to interact with those unless you need them.

Well that’s not true. I live in a Soviet era house that had an entire second floor built on top of it. We’ve had to drill through the brick walls to replace the natural gas pipes with pipes that run outside the walls, we’ve had to dig under the foundation when we got connected to the city’s sewer system (again, Soviet-built), and again when the main water pipe burst and threatened to wash out the foundation. If the load-bearing walls had been constructed to the same “it works” standard as the things we’ve had to fix, we wouldn’t have a house anymore.

Not even the man RMS himself uses GNU/Hurd or Guix, which is hilarious.

You should check out the tldr program. It’s a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.

Windows devs used to have fun.

timedelta marks time in days, seconds, and microseconds. It doesn’t take leap years into account because the concept of years is irrelevant to timedelta. If you need to account for leap years, you need a different API.