That’s the real linux user story.

We come for the speed, flexibility, FOSS values … but we STAY for the middle mouse paste.

What’s Germany? You mean Německo?

Fun on paper, but… then imagine people generating their theories to justify why, eg. RFK Jr lost to Musk or vice versa.

We should not be talking about why “shithead x is actually not so bad as shithead y”, we should be isolating before NASA can actually send BOTH of them to Mars where they belong.

I think vipe is underrated; it takes whatever is on its stdin, shoves it in a temp file, opens your favorite text editor (EDITOR environment variable) and waits in the background until you finish editing the file and close it. Then it outputs the edited text to its stdout.

It’s useful in all kinds of pipes, but personally I use it tons of times a day in combination with xclip, in something like this:

xclip -o -selection primary | vipe | xclip -i -selection clipboard

(I actually have a bit fancier version of this pipe wrapped in a Bash function named xvxx.)

On my setup, this takes my current text selection, opens it in vim, and lets me edit it before it sends it to the “traditional” Ctrl+C clipboard. It’s super handy for editing comments like this one.

If you often find yourself writing complex Bash pipelines involving generating some output and then running set of commands per line (perhaps in a while loop), sometimes replacing the “selection part” with vipe can be easier than coming up with right filter.

find_or_ls_or_grep_something | vipe | for while read -r foo; do some_action "$foo"; done

And if you are really confident with Bash, you can go even a step further and do:

you might find something like this useful sometimes:

find_or_ls_or_grep_something | vipe | bash

and just create a large dumb one-off script, manually curating what’s exactly done. Remember that editing large lists in vim can be made much easier by utilizing vim’s ability to invoke unix filter commands (those greps and uniqs and seds et al.) on the buffer, and /or block editing mode using Ctrl+V (that last one method goes really well with column -t).

alias lr='ls -lhrt'

FTR, <<< is a bashism. it’s a nice one, though.

I wonder if anything exists beyond the context of me writing this comment on Lemmy right now.

FAR manager (clone of Norton Commander) might be worth giving a look. Not a GUI, though, it’s TUI but responds to mouse.

On Debian, sudo apt install far2l and then run far2l.

BTW, to add ssh-agent authenticated scp connection, press F11, go to NetRocks and create connection. in the dialog you’ll need to select the protocol to scp and then auth method in “protocol options”. you can edit an existing connection by going back to the connection “directory” and using F4 on the connection. Once you connect you can copy/move files back and forth.

Along with scp it supports eg. smb, nfs and davs.

Your question, “What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?” cannot be answered without accepting an unargued premise: that the windows version has more features than the Linux version.

Nope, it simply asks (or even expresses genuine curiosity) about a subset of features on windows which might be missing in Linux version. That’s if you want to be super logical and fussy about things. If not, you could have just answered or moved the discussion in any relevant direction you would like. That was always allowed.

Ironically, you kinda did answer it, at least in part, by mentioning the AI slop bloat. Why hide your answer behind a wall of being a jerk, though? I can only speculate. Too little sleep, too many old Rationality Rules videos? :-) Thatt’s none of my business; I just hope you feel better now.

point taken. I see how it can be a good balance of pros/cons.

re: debianland, i’m not sure i understand the question so…

Certain major version of a “traditional distro”, say debian 13 provides fixed list of libraries and apps (which get updated during the lifetime but only to necessary extent). each of those can only depend on a particular version selected by debian. eg. if for libfoo, the provided version is libfoo-1.2, then anyone who depends on libfoo must depend on libfoo-1.2. (if that can’t be achieved before release then that package is simply removed.)

note that two versions of the same package can’t co-exist on the same system. (this is basically true for debianland and fedoraland; because packages share the same filesystem it would be not feasible to make it work without huge amount of added complexity and bug surface. definitely not on a distro-wide level).

honestly i’ve never used backports; I don’t know what process they use to select versions; i would assume that it’s basically on a best effort basis.

personally if i don’t find the stable version new enough, I look for vendor repo, appimage or flatpak (roughly in that order)

I’ve found it helpful to install as much as possible as flatpak, since that decouples app updates from system updates

But doesn’t it eat all disk space? And don’t flatpak apps tend to proliferate dependencies on outdated stuff? From my experience (and that’s just maybe dozen of apps that simply don’t exist in the distro) when running flatpak update i always get deprecation warnings about some platform flatpaks that some of the apps depend on. And given that everything is few hundreds of megs, sigh…

That’s why I like distros like Debian: there’s always strong pressure for apps to converge towards newer versions of libs/frameworks. Sure, it takes work to maintain but IMHO it’s worth it: once the app is in, you know it’s playing nice at least to that extent. AFAIK one of Flatpak’s core features is to lower the barrier by allowing multiple dependencies co-existing and thus removing that pressure, but that’s when the mess is inevitable.

Sorry for the rant.

That sounds really evil, esp. if you already have low expectations and it’s not like I’m going to defend ol’Bill, but…

Do we know what he used the patents for?

Acquiring patent sounds like you want to use it as a gold mine by manufacturing the product for “best” price, which is pretty heinous, especially when it’s in conflict with saving lives. But in principle it could be the opposite. One could, entirely for altruistic reasons acquire a patent from someone with the intent to make the cure more affordable.

I mean, I don’t like Bill but let’s be honest, he’s no RFK Jr.

Damn the clickbaitines of those video titles could make an old cowboy cry.

…but “don’t judge the book by the cover”, they say…

Use as $meta in my .i3/config, so … lots of things.

OT, but I feel like I keep seeing more of these “foo 1.2.3 released” announcements here on this channel.

Is it on topic, though? Shouldn’t the channel be more about Linux specific topics, rather than place for people to discuss updates of arbitrary selection of apps which just share the fact that they also run on Linux?

Edit: Technically the “I feel like” part was true but looking at the topic post … factually I’m totally wrong; it’s like 1 in 20 at most.

Cats and dogs have more in common than you think.

For example, did you know that both cats and dogs have four legs? Yeah… There’s even more similarities, I hear…

…or any inanimate objects, really.

LOL next time I wait for tram I’ll just imagine meaningless alien symbol arrive instead of it. :D

But really, I think the abstraction is kind of fascinating. The “closeness” of a route 34 to route 36 means nothing. Or the number of “34” in route 34 has nothing to do with gate 34 on an airport. So much is kind of obvious to most adult humans. (I think–and I suppose there might be interesting cases with neurodiversity.)

Now what if instead of numbers it was happy cartoon-like animal symbols like they use in day cares. Again, I can state the obvious: duck is a bird and hen is a bird, but the “duck route” and “hen route” don’t need to have anything to do with each other. And sure, duck route and duck airport terminal have nothing to do with each other as well. Again, sort of obvious, right?

Then if it’s alien symbols: sure, now I can’t do the connections like “32 vs 34” or “duck vs hen” anymore, can’t I? Well … no matter meaning in any other context, as long as I can recognize difference between two symbols I can also recognize similarity between other potential pair of symbols. Eg. if two alien symbols had a dominant vertical line then I could still have the same space for connections.

My point is that this need of separating the abstraction from concretion is inevitable, regardless of whether the symbol has a conflicting meaning used elsewhere. As long as we attach some understanding to the symbols, there are still some relations we might want to attach to them. That’s even if we did not use the same symbols elsewhere, which we do.

The next stage of the thought experiment: what if it’s not symbols but just the real things. Can I recognize a tram from another one? (Literally one physical vehicle from another?) Well it would be really hard but actually also counter-productive in the modern world, because the whole point of the abstraction in those arbitrary numbers is that they represent the route – which is also completely abstract concept. Ie. it does not have to be the same vehicle, and the same vehicle could be re-assigned to another route.

I don’t know where on this axis would the radio frequencies mentioned in OP be placed, though. Frequencies exist in range(s) so a certain frequency currently on your radio receiver being higher or lower than the target one does tell you how to twist the knob. (Yeah, I’m 45 years old so I have used analog radio, although it was like 30 years ago…) There must be at least one other axis to it.

We sort of do, sometimes, at some point, “stop” reading.

For example, I live in a city. My stop is served by about 5 different routes, but since I’m so close to center, the remaining part of the route is basically the same for 3 out of 5 of these. Most trips go to center though, the one that does not only goes once an hour, while the rest total up to maybe 25 per hour. (One of those takes significantly longer but would still get me there.)

Initially I would read the signage, but eventually I don’t think I really need to, since in 99.9% of cases I can just see a big thing arriving and hop on it. That’s because I already have the context of where I am, what is the time and what kinds of trips are likely. Also, the 3 optimal routes are served by tram and 2 trolley buses, while the one “bad” route is served by a regular-sized bus and the one “sub-optimal” route is served by a long bus. So just by looking at the shape of thing is arriving (or listening to the sound it’s making) I can already make a really good guess if it’s ok for me.

So my (kinda weak) point is in really common situations we kind of stop needing to look at (or even stop looking at) the numbers, although we would still remember them for other reasons.

“job” … I mean, I barely did anything but I’m happy to take the paycheck for my grandgrandgrand…(cell, or a weird pool of mixing liquids or whatever…)