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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Ah, yeah, I don’t think there was anything in the app. I guess, they could’ve mentioned it in the changelog, which gets shown in the app by default after an update.

    But yeah, I think we’ll have to excuse a bit of a bumpy ride here. I know, it says “Mozilla” on there now, but to my knowledge, it’s still just the one core dev…










  • For a project called “Potato Peeler”, I’ll put it into a structure like this:

    ~/Projects/Tools/Potato-Peeler/potato-peeler/
    

    Tools/ is just a rough category. Other categories are, for example, Games/ and Music/, because I also do gamedev and composing occasionally.

    Then the capitalized Potato-Peeler/ folder, that’s for me to drop in all kinds of project-related files, which I don’t want to check into the repo.

    And the lower-case potato-peeler/ folder is the repo then. Seeing other people’s structures, maybe I’ll rename that folder to repo/, and if I have multiple relevant repos for the Project, then make it repo-something.

    I also have a folder like ~/Projects/Tools/zzz/ where I’ll move dormant projects. The “zzz” sorts nicely to the bottom of the list.




  • I used to have this kid as a colleague (he was 17 at the time), who had been primed by his parents to be a nationalist.

    One of the times, he was completely bewildered by my stance was when I said that even if I cared about having things in common with other humans, I feel like I have more in common with the folks just across the border than those who live several hundred kilometers away within the same border.

    You could really see the cogs in his brain churning, trying to grok how you can have things in common with team B, when you’ve been assigned to team A.



  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlSome basic questions about Linux
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    A distro is a complete installable operating system (+ a set of software repositories from which you can install updates and new software).
    Many distributions (or their flavors/spins) will come with a default desktop environment and then usually also apply some distro-appropriate theming to that desktop environment.
    If you look at screenshots of distributions, you’re likely just looking at screenshots of their themed default desktop environment.

    And a desktop environment is essentially the GUI of your OS.
    It includes software such as the panel/taskbar, the application menu, the systray, the audio system, icons, a login screen etc… It also typically comes with a set of default applications, such as a file manager, a terminal emulator, a text editor etc…
    In a sense, the desktop environment contains essentially everything that differentiates a desktop OS from a server OS (the latter is usually just a terminal, without graphical interface).



  • That is a very good question. It all started as a dainty test setup, and I guess, we had lost the routine of always scripting hardware setups, because our previous project hadn’t required it.

    Obviously, the second-best time to start doing it is now, but I’d need to properly learn one of these first to be able to lead the way on that.
    Which collides with me not really wanting to use any of the ones I’ve experienced so far (Ansible, Puppet) in my freetime. 🫠