Malfeasant

joined 2 years ago
[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

On Linux, 0 often works out to 12/31/1969 after local time zone conversion...

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Where does a young man get this free health care? I'm not young anymore, but for free health care I can pretend to be...

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you always expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Arch is known for upgrades breaking things, which is easy enough to fix if you know the right incantation, but no beginner is going to guess that correctly, so they post to a forum, and are met with a general condescending attitude, usually several replies that amount to "if you had read the upgrade guide, you'd know what to do." Of course when googling, you're much more likely to find the general upgrade instructions, rather than this week's specific upgrade guide with the known pitfalls and their fixes...

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You misunderstood. I meant if it were not a white person, there wouldn't be a story.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's really fun in the Phoenix area, where walk lights are barely long enough for an able-bodied person to walk across the street, I really feel for anyone with mobility issues that doesn't have a car... Not to mention how often cars just cruise through the crosswalk before stopping for a right on red... If they stop at all... When I'm driving and need to make a turn, I feel like I'm the only person that looks up and down the sidewalk and behind me for any cyclist that might have missed my signal...

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've told my boss, if something must be done via email, tell me about it through some other channel, otherwise I will ignore it like all the other spam the company sends out. Only ever clicked on one of the company's fake phishing emails once, but that was enough to train me not to look at emails.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Beats "cut it 3 times and it's still too short" as my uncle said to me too many times... Along with "you hammer like old people fuck"

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The other group takes it as a personal insult if you're having problems in linux that you don't know how to solve

Also known as Arch users.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

may not even understand what a file system is or how it works ... which abstract away from the concept of a hard-drive, a User folder, file extensions, etc.

What's funny is, filesystems, folders, file extensions are already abstractions, there is nothing inherently "right" about those particular abstractions, it's just what we've used for 40 some years... Before that, you might just have blocks on a disk, or a linear stream on a tape, and it was up to you to figure out what went where, and how to find it again. Point being, it's all just a sea of bits, regardless of how you organize them- the goal is to organize them in a way that you can forget the sea of bits.

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