korthrun

joined 2 years ago
[–] korthrun 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The amount of software available in the package manager, without adding external repositories, exceeds that I've seen in any other distro I've used. Even with epel, I feel like others fall short.

The ability to modify the build time flags of software while still using the package manager is also huge. I hate when ffmpeg doesn't have speex support because some upstream dev figured it was a corner use case.

It's me, I'm the target demographic. I'm the one asshole who wants to build ffmpeg with speex support, clamav without milter support and rxvt WITHOUT blink support.

There are some pretty great userspace helpers too. Things to ensure your kernel is always built with the same options. Things to upgrade all your python or perl modules to the new interpreter version for you. Tools for rebuilding all the things based on a reverse dependency search.

Slotted installs are handled in a sane, approachable, and manageable way.

The filesystem layout is standards compliant.

I recall someone on /r/Gentoo saying something like "Gentoo is linux crack, when you get a handle on it, nothing compares."

When I boot my laptop into fedora/arch/mint/etc (or really any non-bsd based distro), I feel like I'm using someone else's laptop. There are a bunch of git repos under /usr/src for the software I wanted that wasn't in the package manager. I need to manage their updates separately. Someone else has decided which options are in this very short list of GUIs. I'm using whatever cron daemon they chose, not the one I want. Why is there a flat text log file under /var/db/? Why won't you just let me exist without any swap mounted? $PATH is just a fucking mess.

[–] korthrun 2 points 1 week ago

I used to use prgmr, I still do but they call themselves TornadoVPS now. Haven't had any issues.

[–] korthrun 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nightwish

Candlemass

Crypta (They'll be considered classics when enough time has passed IMO).

Pantera

Exodus

Megadeth

Fear Factory

Napalm Death

[–] korthrun 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it's still around, just in a modern iteration.

[–] korthrun 4 points 1 month ago

Shrimp and bacon with a pesto sauce instead of red sauce is one of my fav pizzas.

[–] korthrun 3 points 2 months ago

For a while now I've been using either haproxy or nginx depending on my needs. I've hit instances with both where the functionality I want is in the paid version.

[–] korthrun 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wild, I get syntax error: unexpected end of file when I run your code, so just that alone is very confusing.

When you're inside foo here, STDIN is the pipe. Once I fix this syntax error that you somehow dodge and add some extra debugging, you can get a better picture of what's going on here:

foo() {
        read -r -p "delete $name (default is no) [y/n]?  " choice
        choice="${choice:-n}"
        echo "\$choice: $choice"
}

printf "%s\n" "foo" "bar" "baz" "eggs" "spam" | while read -r name; do
        printf "Got name '%s'\n" "$name"
        echo calling foo
        foo
done
Got name 'foo'
calling foo
$choice: bar
Got name 'baz'
calling foo
$choice: eggs
Got name 'spam'
calling foo
$choice: n
[–] korthrun 5 points 2 months ago
[–] korthrun 51 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Clubbed British Captain James Cook right in his head, then stabbed him in the chest with a dagger traded from his own supply, in an attempt to stop Cook from kidnapping the islands chief.

ftfy, not sure why one would want to frame it like this twitter user did, as some sort of uprising against an established and prolific oppressor. Those people did not let it escalate to anywhere near that.

[–] korthrun 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks super fun :D

[–] korthrun 1 points 2 months ago

Neat! My Dean is a Korean mid 2000s ML. It's far from heavy but I never noticed the weight until I picked it up seconds after putting a Les Paul down.

Maybe they were using lighter woods, a hollower body or maybe basses are just better weapons ;D

[–] korthrun 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I skip the gym on days where I stand and play one for an hour or more.

Almost threw my dean across the room the first time I picked it up after playing a Les Paul.

 

In the last 15 seconds of the song I've linked to there's a guitar solo with a super cheesy early 80s tone that I love.

I'm curious what's typical for this sort of sound. I've just recently started trying to take more active/conscious control of tone so my ear for this stuff is weak. I think I hear some flanger, light to mid gain, and a lot of delay, but that's about all I got.

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