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  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a handy terminal command you use often?
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    2 months ago

    diff -y -W 200 file1 file2

    Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.

    I have actually aliased this command as diffy

    ctrl-r

    searching bash history

    du -sh * | sort -h

    shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list

    ls -ltr

    Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. virtualbox
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    2 months ago

    If you are going to dual boot and your computer has room for 2 drives. The way I would recommend doing it is to add a second drive for Linux, and disconnect to windows drive from the computer. Do a normal linux install. And then add the windows drive back in. Then you can set one of the drives as the default boot device and if you want to boot to the other just open the Boot options on boot.

    This keeps things totally separated and you can even remove one of the drives later if you want to single boot.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•This post
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    3 months ago

    I lived in Austin, TX and used to know a homeless guy, Walter Dwight Green 1955, back in '98 that spent winters in jail for public intoxication for the same reasons.

    Including name, in case anyone else knew him and wants to chat. He was originally from Kentucky.

    I was a teenager at the time but I tried to help him as much as I could.

    I had to leave town for a year, when I came back, I found out he froze to death in the winter I was gone.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your weirdest comfort food or habit?
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    9 months ago

    I was a poor kid living in Hawaii in the mid 90’s.

    Wendy’s in Hawaii had a salad bar. If you ordered the “dine in” salad bar, they gave you a fairly small plate and you were allowed one trip.

    If you ordered it to go, you still had the one trip restriction, but they would give you a big plastic clamshell to go container. They assumed you would put food in the bottom of the container and close it up and leave.

    Not me. I would order to go, but fill both halves of the container and eat it all at one of the tables. Usually one of the halves was mostly Chocolate pudding and cheezy crackers.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    Bad parents are a thing. Children screaming loudly in an indoor environment should be corrected.

    I don’t think your opinion is unpopular. There are lots of people who will agree with you that libraries should be absolutely silent.

    But I don’t agree. There should be space for kids to learn to love books. They might noiser that you would like, but kids who love books are a benefit to our world.

    Libraries are a community meeting place, one of the last good third spaces left. If you want perfect silence go home.

    Libraries are not your unpaid office space.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?
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    9 months ago

    Every distro with gnome.

    Make RDP work as well as it does on Windows.

    I’m talking about remoting into the Linux system.

    Everytime the system is restarted you have to physically login to the system to unlock the keyring so that your RDP password is accessible or you won’t be able to get in. Or you have to remove your keyring password all together. Why is this different than the regular user password?

    Also it’s weird that it works like VNC where you are controlling the system remotely but anyone local can see what you are doing on the screen. It is also cool to have that option but it shouldn’t be the default.