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    [–] devilish666@lemmy.world 225 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    FYI Neofetch dev already escaped the matrix.

    [–] anas@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Farming, really? A man of your talents?

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    That's every software engineer's endgame, better to get ahead of the game now 😀

    [–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

    Not a bad time to pick up subsistence farming if you have some land.

    [–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

    You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood, Quintus.

    [–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Fun fact! The Roman emperor Diocletian abdicated the throne after he stabilised the Roman empire after the Crisis of the Third Century. He retired to his villa in what is now Croatia to grow cabbages. This was an unprecedented move β€” typically an emperor served for the rest of their life and/or were violently overthrown. However, it took only a few years for the peace that Diocletian had established to begin to crumble into civil war again; when his friends and colleagues beseeched him to return to stabilise things, he was reported to have said "If only you knew the peace and tranquility I gain from tending and growing my cabbages, you would understand the impossibility of such a request!"^[1][2]

    I sincerely wish Dylan a life of as much peace and tranquility as the MVP ex-emperor Diocletian.


    [1]: I don't remember the source of this particular translation, but the original source for this is Epitome de Caesaribus 39.6

    [2]: A different translation of the same line is "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.". I prefer this one, because it makes it sound like he was disproportionately proud of his cabbages rather than just glad to be away from the shitstorm of Roman politics. However, the one I actually used fit the sentiment of my comment better.

    n.b. I am not a Historian, just a scientist whose late best friend was a Historian, and thus I am morally obligated to use what he taught me to make shitposts.

    Edit: formatting

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

    After you've dealt with enough end users, farming is glorious. And a lot more complicated than you would think.

    [–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago

    It's a peaceful life.

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    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

    Bro is like thanos at the beginning of endgame.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    For years I have been one foot into the engineer turned goose farmer meme, with the other foot left in my normal job.

    It works alright! I don't worry about work while at home in my suburban zoo, and when I'm at work I am not dying to get the hell out of there like I remember being several years ago.

    [–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I used to write bash scripts that probably should have been Python. Now I have 6 geese and other birds.

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    [–] halvar@lemy.lol 105 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    WAIT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ONE TRUE LOVE neofetch???

    [–] MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml 138 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Got archived because it's "feature complete" and won't receive more updates, but some package managers removed it.

    There is objectively better alternatives like fastfetch.

    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 142 points 10 months ago

    What's objectively better is that the neofetch developer actually did what we all fantisize about. Maximum respect

    [–] exu@feditown.com 42 points 10 months ago

    Archived after years of inactivity, so it was somewhat predictable.

    [–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 10 months ago

    Hyfetch my beloved

    [–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    If Linux users cared about what was objectively better, we would have a single distro instead of a thousand.

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    What is objectively better is actual choice.

    [–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

    Yes, I know that, I was making a joke.

    [–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Serious question: if something is "finished" why would that spark removal. At some point a lot of complete programs will no longer be actively maintained but they are still useful and working.

    Also, is there a way to keep copies of things like this? I know how to install via apt install, and whatnot, but that relies on an internet connection and a repo. I'm used to windows where I can back up the installers on my hard drive.

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    [–] tal@lemmy.today 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    In Debian trixie:

    $ apt search neofetch
     fastfetch/stable,unstable 2.40.4+dfsg-1 amd64
      neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
    
    hyfetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Command-line Tool that Presents System Info
    
    linuxlogo/stable,unstable 6.01-0.1 amd64
      Color ANSI System Logo
    
    neowofetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo
    

    Looks like you've got alternatives.

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    [–] Sxan@piefed.zip 13 points 10 months ago

    It became a dozen slightly different clones.

    It's like everyone's favorite "hello world" application.

    [–] MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 61 points 10 months ago

    For all who may not realize, neofetch has a modern replacement: fastfetch

    [–] SW42@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Whaaaat??? So bummed to get bad news from memes

    [–] MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Or hyfetch if you're based

    [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

    What if I'm an acid

    [–] AbnormalHumanBeing@feddit.org 11 points 10 months ago

    Oh no, it's real - thankfully there seem to be alternatives, will be switching to fastfetch, I think

    [–] ftbd@feddit.org 38 points 10 months ago

    I believe in fastfetch supremacy

    [–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

    Debian has fastfetch now. Neofetch is properly dead.

    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Add to your .bashrc:

    alias neofetch=fastfetch
    

    You're welcome :)

    [–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

    .zshrc, then :)

    [–] coralof@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

    fastfetch -c neofetch

    [–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

    Didnt even know it was dead Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

    Its still in the freeBSD repos.

    [–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Who wouldn't want to have more rats?

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    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
    [–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago
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    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
    [–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Let me guess. It's neofetch but rust.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    more like fastfetch but rust, but yes.

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    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago
    [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

    Petition to rename "neofetch" to "gammelfetch", as it's no longer neo.

    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Pssst, what is neofetch and fastfetch?

    [–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Neofetch is the precursor to Fastfetch, Neofetch eventually became unmaintained which birthed Fastfetch a fork of Neofetch.

    Essentially it’s a CLI tool to quickly list out system specifications, you can change what it lists with a config file.

    Here is their GitHub - https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

    [–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    I've commonly seen it used in a terminal when people are showing off a screenshot of their custom Unix desktop theme.

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    [–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

    I replaced it with Hyfetch awhile back since that was the one that was already in the Ubuntu Noble repos.

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