passthejoe

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by passthejoe 6mo ago
Having ZFS baked into the installer and fully supported by the project is a huge motivator for using FreeBSD. I know that Linux distros can accommodate ZFS, but it's a fair-weather situation due to licensing and most distros' pref
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by passthejoe 8mo ago
If the economy is profoundly affected by employment conditions going forward, how can housing costs not drop?
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by passthejoe 1y ago
Most static site generators offer a Bear Blog theme, including Hugo and Zola. So you can get a self-hosted site that looks and acts like a Bear Blog, but run it yourself with a free software SSG.
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by passthejoe 1y ago
The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.
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by passthejoe 2y ago
I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.
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by passthejoe 2y ago
Golang's not so secret weapon
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by passthejoe 2y ago
This has bitten me many times
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by passthejoe 2y ago
Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day. I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.
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by passthejoe 3y ago
If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able to buy a few steak dinners.
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by passthejoe 3y ago
This book was my World Wide Web as a kid
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by passthejoe 3y ago
Alma also has a live ISO.
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by passthejoe 3y ago
> Pay for RHEL or use Debian In this climate, that is a solid philosophy
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by passthejoe 3y ago
The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out
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by passthejoe 3y ago
This exactly
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by passthejoe 3y ago
My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.
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by passthejoe 4y ago
Labor unions seem to put that kidney dialysis measure on the ballot for every election, then they are outspent by more than 100-to-1 by the kidney dialysis companies on TV ads, and the measures never pass. Money wins, and the unions could s
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by passthejoe 4y ago
I'm a big Unison fan, but it can be finicky. You need the same version of Unison on both sides of the sync, and that's sometimes hard to do. However, it solves the problem of when there are changes on both sides and you want to re
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by passthejoe 4y ago
GOML
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by passthejoe 4y ago
Smart.
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by passthejoe 4y ago
A very interesting approach, language-wise: This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of programming languages, with a strong emphasis on functional programming. The course uses the languages ML, Racket, and Ruby as vehicles for
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by passthejoe 4y ago
Clarification: I know there are instructions in the Debian documentation on how to put nonfree firmware on a USB drive and to use that drive with the free installer, but it's so much easier to just use the nonfree installer if you&#x27
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by passthejoe 4y ago
This makes it easier to get started with Debian. If the project, or motivated users want to detail exactly how to run Debian without nonfree firmware, that would be great. And just as the nonfree installer was available but kept slightly hi
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by passthejoe 4y ago
Debian left a huge opening, and Ubuntu went right through it. Good for them — and us.
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by passthejoe 4y ago
https://cs3210.cc.gatech.edu/r/unix6.pdf
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by passthejoe 4y ago
I run Debian off and on, and have been doing so for years. I generally start a new computer on Fedora because the hardware only works in newer kernels, and Fedora sends new ones all the time. But after awhile, I gravitate back to Debian. I
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by passthejoe 4y ago
I think TinyCore is the same developer
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by passthejoe 4y ago
It is possible to remove things from the stock image. I haven't done it yet, but most common is to remove default Firefox and use Flatpak FF.
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by passthejoe 4y ago
I agree. Win 10 + HDD = frustration.
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by passthejoe 5y ago
I agree.
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by passthejoe 5y ago
This whole "userland and kernel" thing sounds good, but in my BSD use, the trade-off is that most desktop app packages (and ports) get a whole lot less attention and are more buggy than those in Linux. I imagine it's not a pr

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