Sounds like you’ve only ever used desktops and/or laptops…
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On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root
That’s not true at all. You generally can’t use your distribution’s package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you
./configure
’d it properlymake install
will put it under your home.Standard Linux distributions don’t place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you’ll need to sort that out.
I can only remember this because I initially didn’t learn about
xargs
— so any time I need to loop over something I tend to usefor var in $(cmd)
instead ofcmd | xargs
. It’s more verbose but somewhat more flexible IMHO.So I run loops a lot on the command line, not just in shell scripts.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux2·2 months agoNewer macOS is not Unix certified.
It’s UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux4·2 months agoOne or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•iJustInventedSomethingEveryDevNeeds16·2 months agoI think
mplayer
has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believeyoutube-dl
can output to stdout.The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?1·2 months agoHaha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely — you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably “idiot proof,” but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?4·2 months agoIf your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO.
To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•(Gentoo)Help me reduce my boot up memory usage12·2 months agoYou can also drop cache for debugging by running something like
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches
But remember that the kernel knows best — this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Looking for the best solution to block ads/trackers on my entire home network.4·3 months agoI have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you’re ok with a VLAN-aware network.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?2·3 months agoAh, good point!
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?7·3 months agoDell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it’s trying to compete with the Air.
man rot13
;)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some fun or unconventional uses for an old Atom notebook with 2GB RAM?1·3 months agoI’ve been super happy with it. Knock on wood it’s been super reliable. I have a single ZFS drive, take snapshots with various retention policies, nothing fancy.
Another fun thing is to set up a reverse proxy on it as an endpoint for services on your local (home) network which can only be accessed by VPN. For example, my Jellyfin service isn’t public facing, but I didn’t want e.g. my parents to need to set up WireGuard. So instead they can point their TV to a raspberry pi on their network to access the service — even a first gen RPI can handle Jellyfin reverse proxy over WireGuard for moderate bitrates!
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?25·3 months agoI’m not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I’m mad about what I get in return.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some fun or unconventional uses for an old Atom notebook with 2GB RAM?13·3 months agoWireGuard, and an external HDD. Run at a remote location for off-site backup.
I do this with a raspberry pi 3 at the in-laws. I copied the data over locally before setting it up, and after that it’s just nightly incremental rsync, which is fine even over my slow (35Mbps) upload.
You can turn it off, at least for ext4: https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/
Although you can use case insensitive filesystems with Linux, and case sensitive filesystems with macOS. I believe the case sensitivity is a function of the specific filesystem — but yeah, practically, the root for Linux is always case sensitive, and APFS
ain’tis only if you ask it to be ( https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/guide/disk-utility/dsku19ed921c/mac ).
And over twice the GDP.
Modern bots are bad, but the old school IRC (maybe early Battle.net?) bots… I’m cool making an exception for them if you are.