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Cake day: February 5th, 2025
  • jamie_oliver@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux is not your Panacea
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    5 days ago

    One thing about the thumbdrives, a LOT of features did not work for me when running live bootable, and it almost put me off. Then I made the actuall full install and a lot of the stuff that had not worked now did. Just so people understand the live bootables are very much just a demo, and doesn’t say much about compatibility really.

  • jamie_oliver@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•My (satisfying) experience moving to Linux!
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    5 days ago

    Nice I didn’t know that ^^ should probably learn at least the basic bash operators, I am just hacking together the different commands I happen to know at the moment really

    Edit: why echo instead of printf?

    This was causing a lot of issues with newlines, like when I fetched the log to view it my $ was right after the log entry so I switched it back. But it is probably useful in the future to use >> instead :)

  • jamie_oliver@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•My (satisfying) experience moving to Linux!
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    5 days ago

    It is not as cryptic as it sounded I just explained it badly.

    Log everything you do in human readable text, because realistically as a beginner going through machine generated logs is not very fun, and .bash_history will be filled with stuff that isn’t relevant always.

    It is just a bash script that logs a message with the current date to a file I can access from MacOS as well (on the shared partition) so that I can see what I did if I mess up too bad…

    Edit:

    Here it is:

    # Log argument to changelog.txt with current date and time.

function log()
{
	local changelog="/run/media/jamie/DUAL/changelog"
	local text="$(cat $changelog)" 
	if [ "$1" == "--view" ]; then
		cat $changelog
	else
		printf "$text\n$(date +%D:%H:%M): $1\n" > $changelog
	fi
}

    Each line looks like this: 03/16/25:11:49: Running dnf upgrade

    I will probably add some stuff so I can get the last 5 lines or something if I want, but at the moment this is really fine.

  • jamie_oliver@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Trump is coming for your poppers: Major producer closes amid FDA crackdown
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    11 days ago

    I’ve been sober for the past two years, but I do still have fun memories even tho staying up for days eventually became the norm and nothing I’d say I miss. But these specific memories are from early days (like, my teens) and we didn’t have money to stock up or resupply at those hours really, and we usually were running around outside as we didn’t have our own apartments, so that was the bus reference. Getting stuck out in some random suburb, no money, no way to get home, no more speed or pills, cold af outside… And some mf happens to have poppers lol.