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[-] devilish666@lemmy.world 227 points 9 months ago

FYI Neofetch dev already escaped the matrix.

[-] anas@lemmy.world 83 points 9 months ago

Farming, really? A man of your talents?

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 50 points 9 months ago

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

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

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

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 — 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 9 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 7 points 9 months ago

It's a peaceful life.

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[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Bro is like thanos at the beginning of endgame.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

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 6 points 9 months ago

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 104 points 9 months ago

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

[-] MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml 138 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] exu@feditown.com 41 points 9 months ago

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

[-] jia_tan 21 points 9 months ago

Hyfetch my beloved

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] missphant 4 points 9 months ago

Even if something is finished it's a risk if no one looks after it since there's always the possibility of security vulnerabilities, software is rarely truly done.

For Arch, packages are archived online for quite a while, you could still install neofetch via sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/neofetch/neofetch-7.1.0-2-any.pkg.tar.zst currently.

Installed packages are also left in /var/cache/pacman/pkg until cleaned up manually and can be similarly installed from there. The one thing to look out for is whether the dependencies are still available and compatible since, unlike on Windows, packages don't usually bundle their dependencies. For a closer experience in that regard there's .AppImage which is a self-contained package similar to an .exe.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 33 points 9 months ago

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 14 points 9 months ago

It became a dozen slightly different clones.

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

[-] MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 60 points 9 months ago

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

[-] SW42@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

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

[-] MasterOKhan@lemmy.ca 42 points 9 months ago
[-] HappyFrog 12 points 9 months ago

Or hyfetch if you're based

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

What if I'm an acid

[-] AbnormalHumanBeing@feddit.org 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 36 points 9 months ago

I believe in fastfetch supremacy

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

Debian has fastfetch now. Neofetch is properly dead.

[-] coralof@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

fastfetch -c neofetch

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago

Didnt even know it was dead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Its still in the freeBSD repos.

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[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago
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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago

Who wouldn't want to have more rats?

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[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago
[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 months ago

Let me guess. It's neofetch but rust.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

more like fastfetch but rust, but yes.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

rust is the doom of software

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Pssst, what is neofetch and fastfetch?

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 7 points 9 months ago

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

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some distros come with it pre-installed some have to do it manually, if you’re trying make your operating system have more pizzaz then small things like this spice it up.

Fastfetch is actually quite customizable yet most people leave it on the defaults since it adopts the theme of each distro.

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 3 points 9 months ago
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[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

I looked for it on openbsd, but then realized I can just open the source and put the openbsd relevant parts in a script without all the unnecessary parts.

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