It’s now quite heavily tied to China, where most mining happens because of cheap hardware and electricity.

Did you know? Typing man tool in your web browser will bring you several websites with online manpages for tool and an useless AI overview on the top!

Yup, you can find many sites that will convert text to Unicode styled fonts.

Redistributing government’s money straight to the populace? What a dastardly scheme! If only there was a name for it! Like, for example,

𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌

It’s trivial to make the battery thicker to match the camera bump. Thin phones have thin camera bumps that still stick out, it’s totally a design choice.

I would expect something worse than bubble sort. No idea whether it will even work:

void reverse(auto A, int start, int end) {
  for (int i = 0; i < (end - start) / 2; i = i + 1) {
    auto tmp = A[start + i];
    A[start + i] = A[end - i];
    A[end - i] = tmp;
  }
}

for (int j = 0; j < N; j = j + 1) {
  for (int i = 0; i < N; i = i + 1) {
    if (A[i] < A[i + 1]) {
      reverse(A, i, N);
    }
  }
}

I’ll check them out

For ages it was safe to download and open random files on Linux, because they simply would not run. Now Linux is a very desirable target for criminals, so they learned to write multiplatform viruses.

The best option would be an automatic sandbox for running random crap downloaded who knows where, and Android does that automatically, but on desktop Linux you need to either create a new user (and remove world-readable permissions from your main account files), or create a custom Docker container, or create a chroot, or launch a VM, all of which require half a day of learning new tools, and then debugging why graphics would not work.

standing uncomfortably close It’s called 𝔓𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔪𝔞 now

Only on the kernel ackshually. Most packages are GPL3 or BSD or Apache.

If you don’t plan to edit source files, Linux distribution licenses boil down to “do whatever just don’t sue us”

killall kdeconnectd ; kdeconnect-cli -l

Fixes connection problems instantly. Yeah, I’ve put that into my crontab.

xz comes standard with every Linux distribution, and it implements the same 7zip compression algorithm but with more options.

Written in hand-optimized assembly with individual implementation for every CPU on the planet, with integer division function in 10000 lines of code impelented with XOR and bit-shifting which is somehow 0.3% faster than CPU built-in division operation.

I’ve recently used Codeberg. It’s online about two hours per day.

You can append

2>&1 | logger -t my-cronjob

to any command, and it will write logs to system journal which you can view withjournalctl

Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?

Most of the proprietary VPN clients are a fork of OpenVPN or Wireguard client with rebranding and a payment button.

You can write true instead of : and it will look better, true is an actual command.

In a sane and healthy software company, they would contribute their changes back to BSD just because it makes easier to apply latest BSD changes amd security fixes.

Most companies wont. They fork, modify the BSD code for their specific hardware, sell it, and never ever update thier software.

Open-source VPN clients do not implement the most important feature - a monthly reminder to pay your bill. Well, and dumbing down the technical UI to one big green button, so even dumbest users would not have trouble with it.