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Also: Ctrl+r then type the part of the command you remember.

MAN: command not found

Don’t shout. He’s shy.

It’s the onomatopoeia associated with a stupid person trying to think with an emphasis generating -p suffix, in the manner of well → welp and no → nope, then modified further into an adjective with a further -y suffix. Der + -p + -y.

Wiktionary doesn’t currently talk about the -p snap suffix at derp, but it does at welp. While I don’t quite have the gall to edit it into derp myself, I’m convinced it’s the same thing.

(One definition of “herp” is, of course, derived in the same way, doubly emphatic due to the unnecessary aspiration on a hesitation noise. h- + er + -p. Thus was born phrases like “herp-a-derp” for someone acting with a ridiculous lack of care.)

Also: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=derp

In before OP finds a similarly curious lesbian and the next thing you know they’re married with three kids.

When I was able to work, I liked to pretend that Reddit - which was still reasonable back then - wasn’t social media to get around the rule that social media wasn’t allowed. I had intended to explain that I thought Facebook, LinkedIn and possibly Twitter were social. Since I didn’t have friends or follows on Reddit, and since I was anonymous, clearly it didn’t count.

I was never called out on it.

But I definitely thought, and still think, that there’s definitely a social element to it. I mean, what’s happening right now?

This isn’t Reddit, of course, but it amounts to the same thing. I’m responding to something written by a human who might actually read it. Conversations happen in the comments. As far as Internet goes, that’s social.

Eventually you learn to recognise the hand positions almost like they’re symbols in their own right. You can tell the difference between an apostrophe and a comma, right? And in certain typefaces they’re identical symbols other than their position.

For the same reason, you can tell the difference between an hour hand just past the 12 and an hour hand just past the 6. Then you learn what the other positions look like.

Then you can read the minute hand to whatever precision you need.

After that it’s just practise, practise, practise. Your read times will tumble and before long you’ll be completely used to it and be just as fast as with digital.

From the man manual page: man -t name-of-command | lpr -Pps

This dumps the manual page, along with relevant formatting, to the default Postscript-capable printer attached to the system.

There are ways to print all manual pages this way, but you’re gonna need a lot of paper. Bash’s manual page is getting towards 100 pages* and ffmpeg’s runs to nearly 700.

By comparing compressed sizes in /usr/share/man/man1 and the equivalent page count of those two commands, I reckon my system’s full complement of manuals would be on the order of 35- to 40,000 pages.

* Figures obtained by using man -t name-of-command | ps2pdf - outputname.pdf to create PDFs instead, then scrolling to the end. I neither have a printer nor want to actually print anything.

I usually set up a completely separate partition on a different drive for Timeshift. That way it doesn’t gradually eat away at system space on the main drive. And even if it was on there, it would have already eaten all that space in readiness, so to speak.

Also, I don’t have it backing up my home directory. I do that separately.

But that said, this post has given me the reminder to see if there are any old snapshots that could do with deleting. And there were a few. It’s now back down to roughly the same size as my main OS install again, which is about as big as it needs to be if you think about it.

They’ll each boil off into their parent universes due to Hawking radiation once their respective parent universes reach heat death, so yes, each child is still inside its parent.

But try not to think about orthogonal timelines across causal boundaries or you’ll give yourself a headache.

Hmm. You might be causally disconnected from the grandparent reality, but you’re technically still inside both child and grandchild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol

You need to include Internet in that list. A computer doesn’t necessarily have Internet, and though it’s more common, it’s not guaranteed on a smartphone either. Landlines still also exist. Even if they’re VoIP, because voice-only Internet connections for VoIP are a thing.

There are plenty of older folks in categories 1 and 4. And by older I mean old Gen X and Boomers (even a few Silents are still around) mostly. They manage to get by just fine. Things are not quite so far gone that Internet is 100% necessary, though more and more places are trying to force it to cut costs.

I’m in category #1 myself, but as this comment’s existence strongly implies, I have Internet. I’d be in #2 but I need the phone occasionally for notifications and 2FA. Also if the Internet goes out, I need to be able to call someone to fix it.

Unfortunately, school networks are often set up by people better qualified for teaching other subjects and as such they often leave things open for enterprising, morally undeveloped, children to get their metaphorical tendrils into.

This is how I ultimately ended up being banned from all computers in my school except one. It took them a while to figure out how to do that but I guess it became a priority what with all the “scary” things I was doing.

As I understand it, I was still getting the blame for things after I left.

Whoa. What distro is it that puts everything in /bin, or at least, practically nothing in /usr/bin?

I use a Debian that actually symlinks /bin to /usr/bin so that they’re one and the same (annoying some purists), but even on systems where they are (or were) used for separate purposes, I thought that each had a significant number of commands in them.

(To paraphrase man hier, /bin is for necessary tools and /usr/bin is for those that are nice to have.)

Dangit. I always forget about env. Yes, that ought to work.

I know you’re joking but:

\sl or command sl.

I’d say “check your shell documentation” but they’re both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.

There’s also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

Using a Debian is like being able to stay in bed in the morning. Heck, someone might even come by and change the sheets while you’re in REM and you’ll hardly even notice.

Everyone else is up and running about like headless chickens fighting dependency wars and system vulnerabilities and cutting themselves on that bleeding edge and you’re hugging xteddy in blissful slumber.

Speaking of which, has he been ported to Wayland?

TL;DR In Britain I’m pretty sure this wouldn’t technically be illegal even if you filled the whole place.

Depends on where you are. I’m pretty sure that in Britain, the cops would eventually turn up with a search warrant and then leave disappointed when they find only potatoes, even if you fill every inch of your property. They might come back randomly too, which you might find harassing, but they wouldn’t be able to shut you down for that.

They could get you on technicalities though if they really wanted to stop you.

For example, if you have shared walls (or floors/ceilings), and heck, maybe if you don’t, too much weight could cause a collapse and make more than just your property unsafe. There’s also the potential for excess heat or moisture affecting the structure or neighbours. There might even be a noise complaint depending on things like fans or pumps.

Then there’s the whole business angle. Your property might not be zoned for running a business, so you could be pulled up on either running a business without a licence if you don’t set yourself up that way and also for running that business out of the wrong sort of property. You’d have to start selling the potatoes to fall foul of that though. Donations-based would be a grey area, but I feel like they might try the unlicensed charity angle instead.

“Mbin” literally stands for “magazine bin” though. The use of “magazine” is a gun pun carried over from kbin. Kbin was named after the karabiner rifle, which, somewhat ironically, doesn’t use magazines, but it’s still a gun thing.

The true format-agnostic platform would be named something like “gbin” because ActivityPub calls communities/magazines “groups”. That could be a throwback to Usenet, but it’s a fairly generic term.

… although that being an anagram of “bing” might raise a few eyebrows at Microsoft legal.

You don’t have to use it for both if you don’t want to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯