I think it’s similar to what David Revoy constantly runs into - one of those popular styles for meat proxies to train their slop extruders on

except musl distros

• for most people, use whatever your distro ships with and installs for you
• choosing desktop environments still starts heated discussions – high end, it’s a choice between Gnome and KDE – mid-tier has Xfce, LXQt, Mate, Cinnamon, and more – limited hardware go for IceWM, JWM, FLWM, or similar – want to get your hands dirty? go for a tiling window manager
• X11 is (effectively) abandonware at this point – it’s still getting security patches, but the devs left and started Wayland 17-ish years ago
• XLibre is more political than technical – and I’ll leave it at that

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

“But”, interjected van Paasen, “You will be sitting on a pile of ruins.”

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.”

—Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

(now if AppImages would work on musl systems …)

“fingering the contract”

a few pundits have also pointed out that several of these tactics are considered standard-operating-procedure by modern middle management (like multiple, long, pointless meetings)

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

a more obscure option is exiftool – and documention

• setup an input folder and a destination folder beforehand
• copy photos from phone to input folder
• bonus: decide on separate suffix or initials for each of you

exiftool -progress -d <destination-folder>/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le "-filename<CreateDate" <input-folder>

    -progress
        verbose and shows an [x/y] progress
    -d <destination-folder>/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le
        renames to YYYY-mm-dd-HHMMSS-sfx.ext format
        and lowercases the extension
    "-filename<CreateDate"
        uses the image creation date (from EXIF metadata) for the above naming scheme

or just get completely sidetracked:

• osh / ysh – https://oils.pub/
• nushell – https://www.nushell.sh/
• BSD side – oksh, pdksh, mksh
• Plan 9 / 9front – rc, es

when you want Scheme but your boss wants Java

“CIA didn’t like that”

Project Cybersyn

the knowledge is already there and it was publicly funded – it’s the pharma companies trying to be the gatekeepers so they can double-dip (or triple-dip) when they charge you for it

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:

• home lab eradication of Hep C
• make your own hormone gels for DIY HRT

gitweb

TIL: there are people who don’t sort by “New”

start with something simple that’ll teach the basics of Linux – like LFS

depending on preferences, alternatives could include UwUntu or Nyarch

I think it’s going to depend on which Chenopodium – Wikipedia lists Chenopodium as a fairly large and diverse genus (which includes both quinoa (seeds) and lamb’s quarters (leaves))