backup config files
Are you SURE that is the first command new users type? I remember adding neofetch to my .bashrc (infact, I might don’t again)
Watches update run in terminal and nods sagely as if understanding it all
When i tell claude to change the filenames from spelled out dates to hyphenated dates XD
Bonus points for using the mouse to copy/paste
Only way to do it. everyone knows ctrl-c angers the terminal daemons.
CTRL+shift+[c/v], my beloved
See, I prefer middle click.
I prefer to keep my hand away from my mouse if possible. And I’m not even a vim user!
Same! Well, about the mouse. I am definitely a
vi(and all its variants) user.However, for transferring text between windows, the mouse is probably the best option. It’s not necessarily needed for highlighting, but definitely beneficial. If you don’t like ctrl+shift+v or middle click, shift+insert often works?
Such an annoying kludge to make a common operation work.
My hot take: cross-application or system-wide shortcuts like copy/paste should all be controlled with the Super/Meta key. Looking hard at you,
alt-F4.App developers, you get your pick of Shift, Ctrl, and Alt modifiers. Super/Meta is for the OS only.
Alt+F4 is for p|_|ssies. Alt+Space, X is the ergonomic way to go.
The word you’re looking for is “pussies”.
Super is for my window manager.
Which I guess is kind of where copy paste live so I’m on board, barring semantic nitpicks
Control commands are older than the shortcuts for cut copy paste though.
I got pretty used to CTRL-INS and Shift-INS for copy and paste. I don’t know if those even still work though.
yes, yes they do :)
Personally, I think it was quite rude of all of those applications to make the standard “break” command mean “copy.”
I guess I’m so used to it at this point that I just add the shift automatically and don’t really consider it annoying
Such an annoying kludge to make a common operation work.
That describes nearly everything in software, doesn’t it😅
Shift+ins
My man! 🤜 🤛
One of the things I always setup is a pbpaste & pbcopy function to mirror Marcos’s. I know that’s not what the meme is about but
pbpaste > /tmp/filename.jsonis too handy
The true LinuxMan uses middle-mouse click to paste.
A truetrue LinuxUser uses the alternative clipboard instead.
The what now?
You know Ctrl+z/x/c right? Now check shift+insert, shift+delete, Ctrl+insert.
Uhh interesting!
What season is that still from? I can’t remember if I’ve seen it or not but I only saw about 3 seasons.
Bitch please: curl install.sh | bash -
We all have to start somewhere. I remember when that was me.
I remember that too… Then I moved on to Linux Mint and I use a GUI for my updates
amen to that LMDE and use the GUI here
Broke memorizing commands vs woke clean GUI telling you where to do your clickies teehee :3
Until your shit got all fucked up because you added a third party repository. And then you have to manually remove lock files and fix the pkg database and mess with .conf files and manually uninstall specific versions of dependent packages, and then manually re-enable some remote repo.
Then you actually kind of do feel like a hacker.
Until you’ve done it like 10 different times, then you are just annoyed. Still a better love story than Twilight.
You copy paste the command.
$ sudo apt update -bash: sudo: command not found $Your distro doesn’t set up/install
sudoby default, so your first task is installingsudo, then understanding /etc/sudoers syntax and understanding why the command to atomically replace /etc/sudoers isvisudoand why on a multiuser system there’s value to atomic replacement. In the meantime, you probably learn aboutsuand maybe, if your distro has disabled them, how to enable switching to the kernel virtual consoles on tty1 through tty7 so that in the meantime, you can do things as root while staying logged in. Also, you’re going to learn about environment variables, so as to set EDITOR, and where your shell config files live, what a login shell is, and in what shells ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile, and ~/.bashrc run. Also, you first try running visudo as a regular user, but your distro placesvisudoin /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin, so you can’t figure out why it’s not installed and are going to learn about the FHS and mlocate andupdatedbso that you can find /usr/sbin/visudo anddpkg -Sso that you can figure out which package it’s in and confirm that it’s actually installed and learn about PATH.*newbie tries to comprehend*
*head explodes*
shit got all fucked up because you added a third party repository
Dependency hell is always, always, self-inflicted.
aptis only SLSA1 or 2 anyway, so there’s a lot more wiggle room.This fucking idiot here changed their debian branch to sid then wondered why the software store didnt work. Luckly I always backup config files. I mean, it’s not that complicated to change some lines back, but still.
Also it’s a vbox vm so I could always restore a snapshot. And it exists to tweak so it was meant to be.
an hacker?
Yes. It’s french
In Quebec they call hackers “dame blanche agaçante”
An 'acker
Source?
Duck duck go images???
Oh, I wasn’t sure if that character was from some media.
Have you not seen the 1996 masterpiece, Mars Attacks?
Oh. Nope, though I now see how it may have put Pierce Brosnan on the radar…
Trolling is a art.
an art?
🩹
:)
Let’s be reasonable: We were all at some point at the stage where doing anything at all in the terminal made us feel like a god.
It’s weird to have grown up with things like bbc micro and MS-DOS and see how alien the terminal is to people who didn’t.
Back then CLIs were all over, even like library catalog terminals, were CLI. TBF some still had card indexes though.
At university everyone had to ssh in to the email server from whatever tty client even on windows (nt4/nt5/98/2k/mackintosh PCs).
You definitely didn’t feel like any hacker. The hacker level thing was to successfully connect via GUI mail client and actually have your emails update and sync properly - very few bothered.
Do you mean telnet?
Very possibly.
I vaguely remember using putty on port 22 which i thought was ssh, but maybe it was telnet. we were leaving the 90s by then, so I think ssh was around. Might also have been different protocol on the uni LAN vs WAN connections.
The libraries I remember might have been direct terminals to local server. Few catalogs were available even on the uni-wide LAN. No big deal really since you’re going to have to go there to find the book anyway.
The catalog room was an acceptable place to have a chat or lament the size of the reading list.
Don’t forget using cmatrix as a sudo-screensaver
We were all at some point at the stage where doing anything at all in the terminal made us feel like a god.
Some of us were at the point where GUIs weren’t a thing and the terminal was the only option.
Msdos on my family’s Commodore taught me my foundation of computer literacy. Then Q-Crack and editing the Duke Nukem 3D config file and sharing it with a friend so we could play over the modem together expanded my understanding and confidence. Linux paired with google searches/forums just seemed like a natural progression to me.
Fair enough, I guess my overall point was more that we’ve all at some point taken that first step of doing something that now feels mundane, but at the time felt like we were doing something very advanced.
LOL, I was at my sons track meet. Opened my laptop to play a game. Decrypted NixOS, and was waiting for it to splarg pre-ui the kids in the tent said… ARE YOU HACKING!!!
Me when i fork dwl just to add a few patches that i did not create myself, just so i can make my own package for it.
“You know, i’m something of a developer myself.”
yay -Syu
Wait until you get on the
sudo apt upgrade -U -ytrain$ hollywoodimagine how you would feel if you alias that to update, mind blown
