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It's hacker time (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by Lisk91@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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When i tell claude to change the filenames from spelled out dates to hyphenated dates XD

[-] M33@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Bitch please: curl install.sh | bash -

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago
[-] gurty@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

Watches update run in terminal and nods sagely as if understanding it all

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

Wait until you get on the sudo apt upgrade -U -y train

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

imagine how you would feel if you alias that to update, mind blown

[-] juipeltje@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Me when i fork dwl just to add a few patches that i did not create myself, just so i can make my own package for it.

"You know, i'm something of a developer myself."

[-] alice_gosta_de_doces 2 points 12 hours ago

meanwhile using kali linux

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 12 points 18 hours ago

We all have to start somewhere. I remember when that was me.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 5 points 15 hours ago

I remember that too... Then I moved on to Linux Mint and I use a GUI for my updates

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 14 hours ago

amen to that LMDE and use the GUI here

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Broke memorizing commands vs woke clean GUI telling you where to do your clickies teehee :3

[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

sudo apt update either has little outputs (so nothing to show off), or it crashes because of library conflict

For me it was: pacstrap -K /mnt blah blah to see literally everything comesin your system getting installed , followed by arch-chroot /mnt

Oh btw, I used Arch.

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago

$ hollywood

[-] jakemehoff11@sh.itjust.works 108 points 1 day ago

Bonus points for using the mouse to copy/paste

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

What season is that still from? I can't remember if I've seen it or not but I only saw about 3 seasons.

Only way to do it. everyone knows ctrl-c angers the terminal daemons.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 day ago

CTRL+shift+[c/v], my beloved

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago

See, I prefer middle click.

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

I prefer to keep my hand away from my mouse if possible. And I'm not even a vim user!

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Same! Well, about the mouse. I am definitely a vi (and all its variants) user.

However, for transferring text between windows, the mouse is probably the best option. It's not necessarily needed for highlighting, but definitely beneficial. If you don't like ctrl+shift+v or middle click, shift+insert often works?

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 24 points 1 day ago

Such an annoying kludge to make a common operation work.

My hot take: cross-application or system-wide shortcuts like copy/paste should all be controlled with the Super/Meta key. Looking hard at you, alt-F4.

App developers, you get your pick of Shift, Ctrl, and Alt modifiers. Super/Meta is for the OS only.

[-] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Alt+F4 is for p|_|ssies. Alt+Space, X is the ergonomic way to go.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Super is for my window manager.

Which I guess is kind of where copy paste live so I'm on board, barring semantic nitpicks

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

Control commands are older than the shortcuts for cut copy paste though.

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

I got pretty used to CTRL-INS and Shift-INS for copy and paste. I don't know if those even still work though.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

yes, yes they do :)

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Personally, I think it was quite rude of all of those applications to make the standard "break" command mean "copy."

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[-] albbi@piefed.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

My man! 🤜 🤛

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[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

The true LinuxMan uses middle-mouse click to paste.

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago

Until your shit got all fucked up because you added a third party repository. And then you have to manually remove lock files and fix the pkg database and mess with .conf files and manually uninstall specific versions of dependent packages, and then manually re-enable some remote repo.

Then you actually kind of do feel like a hacker.

Until you’ve done it like 10 different times, then you are just annoyed. Still a better love story than Twilight.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago
[-] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Let's be reasonable: We were all at some point at the stage where doing anything at all in the terminal made us feel like a god.

[-] bryndos@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

It's weird to have grown up with things like bbc micro and MS-DOS and see how alien the terminal is to people who didn't.

Back then CLIs were all over, even like library catalog terminals, were CLI. TBF some still had card indexes though.

At university everyone had to ssh in to the email server from whatever tty client even on windows (nt4/nt5/98/2k/mackintosh PCs).

You definitely didn't feel like any hacker. The hacker level thing was to successfully connect via GUI mail client and actually have your emails update and sync properly - very few bothered.

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[-] normalentrance@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Start btop in another full screen terminal, and then run apt update. Then you're fully in the matrix.

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[-] bluey@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago
[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Even better the SECOND time you do it with the up arrow.

You know. Just your standard Hacker, hackin'.

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