Well, the .ml folks are often espousing authoritarian points of view and I fail to see how that will bring forth a more positive society. I think authoritarian societies have been problematic in the past. But that is just my opinion.

But there are a lot of societal issues that need to be improved for good though!

I remember the comic being much larger than I expected back in the day.

Technically it was a three parter: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Just that it was published in Flickr which really wasn’t good at this whole “webcomic” thing.

Well that’s just a contentless bait. I’ve never seen this, even in Reddit. True garbage for the ages. Goodbye, good sir. May you be remember’d as the shit’st troll of ever.

I’m not spewing any kind of “insane word salad” here. I’m just questioning what you are doing.

So let me reiterate.

What

What

What

I keep thinking of one of the old videos I saw.

“…I dunno, maybe we should get rid of all of the landlords!”

“But who would we then pay rent to?”

I was, like, holy shit, things are so much more complicated than I even realised, everything is based on some dumb suppositions or some shit.

…but those aren’t even words. He… he’s not even attempting to… produce words…

This is such a stupid timeline.

Macintosh Killed My Inner Child

For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist.

Literally 99% of Windows tech support is

Have you right clicked on Windows menu, selected Terminal (Admin), then entered sfc /scannow and then DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth? …ohhh shit you’re still fucked up - well, maybe you need to completely reinstall windows, well, here’s the page on how to do it.

That’s the difference with Linux. Your average user never uses terminal, and when they do, they find the tools suck.

Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to “memorise” them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (…what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

…except you don’t have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

I’ve used Process Explorer.

“What file handles are open that match <This drive letter and then some>?”
“Well there’s Dropbox now.”
“Oh. Again?”
“Dropbox, I think.”
“Again.”
“Maybe nothing???”
“OK, let’s try ejecting now.” (It fails again.) “Are you sure no file handles are using this drive?”
“I’m positive.”
“Well fuck this then.” (Unplug USB)

Now. I said I’ve used Process Explorer. I didn’t say I’ve used Process Explorer. I wish to be, one day, one of those frightening people who live and breath Process Explorer every day. There’s still a long journey to get there, I know.

Which is exactly what I do if sufficiently annoyed! Problem is, Windows is usually hella vague about which particular devices have Quick Removal™®© enabled.

Told ya, Process Explorer just told me nothing, except Dropbox maybe.

But it doesn’t change the usage scenario. I don’t care what programs are using the drive. I just need to tell them to fuck off, I need to unplug this drive at this moment.

Basically, if you, as a regular user, cannot unmount a device, you can usually just go to root shell (sudo -i), see where the thing is mounted (just use mount) and then unmount it (umount /media/blah/floop). If it says the device is still busy, as root you can remount it as read-only and then unmount it (seeking documentation left as an exericise to the reader, as I’m sitting at a Windows system now).

There’s also lsof (“list open files”) tool, which can be used to see which exact programs are using files on that device, which you can then use to kill those sneaky processes (ps, kill).

The first machine I ran Linux on was a 486DX 33MHz too. I think it had 8 MB (or some weird thing like 4 MB originally and randomly stuck 8 MB addition? I don’t remember anymore.)

Pollo Request. What Walter White was always getting on his phone.

More controlled routines helped me a lot. I’m committed to stuff like taking a photo walk and doing a language lesson every day.

Also started using more to-do tracking apps, and also using paper almanac and notebooks and a Post-It wall. If I need to do something, I’m more likely to write down somewhere, and I’m actually getting stuff underway!

Ha ha! But I’m a piefed.social user, reading this via the Interstellar app, so watch me follow the link effortlessly! (taps the link) (browser opens) what the fuck.

Yeah, Piefed has a few interop growing pains it seems

Or, rather, most compiled languages are just syntactic sugar on top of assembly, and that’s especially true with C. (Oh, you can use curly brances and stuff for blocks? That’s sure easier to read than the label mess you get with assembly.)