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  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the weirdest place you've slept?
    7·
    25 days ago

    Top shelf of a walk in closet that was obscured from view from the door.

    Under a futon couch.

    On the roof of the house in the angled portion where 2 downward slopes come together.

    In the back of a truck in the back yard.

    In the middle of a grassy area behind our garage

    My parents used to wake me up at 4:30 in the morning to take a cold shower and then spend the next 4 hours doing religious worship. The only time I could read “Horrible secular books” like Mutiny on the Bounty, the three musketeers, and the man in the iron mask was late at night after everyone went to bed. I would stay up till 2:30-3:00am sometimes reading and I knew waking up at 4:30 was just not gonna happen.

    Yeah, I got in a bunch of trouble when I came out of my hiding spot the next morning, but sometimes it was worth it.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a handy terminal command you use often?
    9·
    3 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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    4 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.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your weirdest comfort food or habit?
    4·
    11 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.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution?
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    11 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.

  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I bought a Surface Pro 4 - Update
    10·
    1 year ago

    I have some strange power issues with my laptop that may have a similar cause.

    I put an additional drive in my work laptop so I could debian for work without nuking the system drive.

    Shutting down usually always works properly but rebooting gets stuck sometimes. It’s like it gets to the bottom of the reboot cycle and loses the ability to say “okay boot back up now”. On my laptop, it’s obvious that it is still on because of the light on the power button. I hold it down for about 12 seconds until it goes off and then I can power it back on.

    I wonder if your surface is doing a similar thing where it is still powered on but not booted. You might try hiding the power button down for about 15 seconds and then hitting it again when it’s in this state.