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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Why would you ~~pipe~~ edit: redirect neofetch into your .bashrc?

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    so that everytime you launch a terminal, your neofetch data is displayed. Because wow, neofetch!!!

    It doesn't really make sense, since the data would be outdated anyway if piped into .bashrc that way...

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

    But .bashrc is executed, not displayed.

    Maybe they meant to say echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It won't work. It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc. You may want either echo 'neofetch' >> .bashrc or neofetch | sed -e 's:%:a:g' | sed -e "s:^\\(.*\\)$:printf '\1\\\\n':" >> .bashrc or something of that kind.

    EDIT: tested out the latter command

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Who's the true noob now? Smh

    (/s)

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    actually. i meant neofetch > bashrc, as in neofetch is better. checkmate

    /s

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc.

    This is why you have a dotfiles repository, you noob!

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That's a redirection, not a pipe.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Good catch.

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 2 points 1 year ago

    Exactly, that's bloat

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    2GB dotfile repo

    being lost without vim keybinds

    Im_in_this_picture_and_I_dont_like_it.png

    I use macOS btw

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Also looking at my dotfiles repo...

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    This post is what is giving me the idea to finally set up a dotfiles repo for the first time.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    i had i3 run with no problems on some of the worst machines I had to use. I'll fight with anyone that claims i3 is bloat.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Too smart for NixOS - LMAO! I bet this guy has a conky on his Blackbox.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Good old conky lol. Its like it was made to be a config playground, and the actual functionality was an afterthought.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Afterthought is an understatement. I didn't mind piping some of that info into an i3 status bar, but just a couple things. Who needs to watch all that distracting system stuff all the time. Using autocompletions on the command line would get that info quick enough. And whoever down voted my original comment - I'm laughing about it. Serious business right?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    Average OpenBSD user

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

    OpenBSD users:

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Neofetch and NixOS are bloat.

    Arch's X setup sucks, sx is better.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Also, 2 GB of dotfiles is bloat

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Must be pretty bad spaghetti code.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    But I can't have sx if I use Linux ;(

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I do use sx in Arch, though?

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

    It was just an attempt at a dumb stereotypical joke that Linux users don't have sex

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Almost and not always average Gentoo user

    [–] PropaGandalf 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
    • Has over 100 obscure USE flags he forgot what they do
    • Needs two days to configure his kernel and two more to compile it.
    • Uses ancient thinkpad
    • Uses lynx because firefox won't compile
    • Uses rusty old software because of "tradition"
    • Uptime ~30 years
    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Uptime ~30 years

    Too generous for Gentoo.

    "Maybe if I tweak the kernel config juuuuust a little bit today" "Is it just me or did this particular version of gcc make the kernel 0.0002% slower? I need to do some tests" "...Dunno, it just feels slower today, I guess I need to recompile the whole system"

    Uptime: 30 minutes, tops

    [–] PropaGandalf 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    True I didn't take this into account. On the other hand we have systemd soft-reboot now.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    you forgot the cooling pad it's on since the fans died like a decade ago

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I write in POSIX shell as a matter of principle.

    My "dotfiles" repo is a few Kb in size.

    I am too dumb and lazy to try Nix.

    I do like using vim keybindings in my terminal.

    Neofetch is bloat, I wrote a script that shows some essential information when the machine starts and that's it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Akchually, binary prefixes are the one and only correct prefixes for counting digital size of information (GiB instead of GB).

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    acckshually, i dont use 'Giga' or 'Mega', i just use bits, in scientific notation: 2.0*10^9

    [–] Neon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That wouldn't be 2 GB, that would be 2 Gb

    GB would be 2.0*10^9*8 bits

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    uhhh uhhh what's more bloated than windows 10 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i honestly don't know

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    nooo that has smaller icon's mabye windows 8 start screen