If you checked for truths then you probably didn’t find much.

By “artificial problem” you mean the problem that they created… Right?

… Right?

I’m going to claim this one wasn’t entirely my fault and should have been coded better… But I ran it.

I ran a script that expected to run from a bin directory, cd/chdir to a input file directory, then do a sed on every file to replace windows line endings to UNIX/Linux line endings. After that it would start loading and processing them.

The problem was, if the directory it tried to change to didn’t exist, it silently continued and ran it on the current directory… You know, the bin directory… With all the compiled C binaries.

So at about 16:30 on a Friday, 30 min before we started our huge weekend builds, I nuked about 70% of the binaries by randomly replacing all bytes that looked like crlf with lf. Turns out binaries didn’t like that.

Good times.

I’ve got 30+ years of fuck ups under my belt so I know to avoid those and create brand new, innovative, fuck ups… You can’t just teach that.

Yes

You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!

… Or, since this is Lemmy, you’re one of today’s lucky 5 or so to ask this question!

It’s a Lemmy rite of passage, congrats.

If cotton is involved in any way, you know it’s some shitty shit. It’s just a rule… Proven by history.

I’m old but it entertains me to see people saying 7% is outrageous when I remember the rates in the early 1980s.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s crazy, it’s just less than half of what rates were there for awhile. One of those “back in my day we walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways” type things.

Blew my fucking mind when we got a 4% back around 2010 (year guesstimate, too lazy to look it up)

Every time Firefox groups my tabs on desktop I get pissed off and say I’m going to disable it… Then immediately forget because I was in the middle of something.

They can take the tab groups from me and give them to you, no charge.

Because fuck that tree in particular.

Tell the cows I said hi.

Yep. A few months ago the 1TB “King fast” m.2 that came in a $150 refurb tinyQ died. Replacement drive was… I want to say $160? (Locally, needed it ASAP)

I should’ve opened the case up when I got the PC and noticed the obvious knock off/garbage SSD but I can’t honestly say I’m surprised.

These are the traditional american values I support.

Postman locked all my locally saved requests away after an update unless I created an account with them. I wasn’t updating very often because every update made it shittier.

Fuck postman.

I’ve been all in on Bruno ever since.

Seem to be a fish shell thing.

I tested on my good ole trusty bash and got nothing so I went searching.

EDIT: Clarification : alt+s seems to be a fish shell thing.

Time for me to add my tiny bit of semi related, but useless, knowledge : Galena can also form in cube shapes.

The only reason I know this is because we were crawling around in some old mines in the Ozarks and back in a little offshoot I found a few small, dark cubes in the dirt so I asked some of the geologists with us. Turns out the small mines were there specifically to pull out galena.

From wikipedia :

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

Also, don’t go crawling around in mines from the 1800s, it’s likely a bad idea.

I haven’t truly needed to use windows in probably 4 years. And those few needs were specific to helping someone who was on windows figure out some windows tomfuckery. I don’t think I care anymore… I can just give them a Linux ISO and call it good now.

Good to know though. Just in case.

My secret is that I talk myself out of it before I even start : D

Checking in.

So glad I have two days off work next week… So I can do chores and home maintenance.

I still need to try this.

I downloaded and started seeding it when there was a post about it a few weeks back but haven’t had time to try it.

I assume the ISO live boots from a USB so I can poke around without installing? Surely.

I’ve got an old laptop that I kept windows on for the once every few years I had to use windows but I don’t think it’s supported anymore and I’d actually use it occasionally if I put Linux on it ;)