USB’s 5 volts, ain’t it? Not 12. Feed it 12 and you’ll break stuff.

(At least without USB-C PD negotiation.)

– Frost

I don’t think most polytheistic gods (like the Greek ones) are omnipotent. They’re powerful, sure, but not all-powerful.

The monotheistic Christianity-type ones are kinda weird actually, compared to most religions.

Gods I hope not.

Not unless they add ACPI and EFI and all that stuff that makes running other OSes on x86 actually work.

Also, like, x86 is fine. Especially on desktops where you don’t need extreme power efficiency.

Zelda Twilight Princess may not have been exactly hated, but nobody really seems to love it. They all go gaga over Ocarina of Time instead, which just feels like a worse Twilight Princess in just about every way. Nostalgia I guess!

Also, you know, Twilight Princess has you be a wolf (in sections for part of the game, and then later you get unrestricted wolf mode (but it keeps kicking you out of it grrr!)). Huge therian feels. That’s a big part of why I love it.

– Frost

Perl has its own man pages, like commands do, but specifically for Perl stuff!

There’s also a “perldoc” command that works a lot like man, that documents the functions and things.

For this, check out perldoc -f s (the s “function”) and man perlretut (regular expressions). MagnificentSteiner here is using /e on the end of the regex to write Perl code in the replacement instead of a string (that’s mentioned in the perlre man page), and then using the sprintf function to do some formatting, which, perldoc -f sprintf.

For a general intro to Perl, man perlintro!

… Oh, uh, you may need to install the perl-doc package (or equivalent) to have any of this documentation.

– Frost

I have no idea honestly!

– Frost

It’s not weird.

Some people never date at all!

Personally I don’t even understand the entire concept of dating. Makes way more sense to just get together and Relationship Upgrade with friends you already know, trust and know you like.

– Frost

Oh yep! If you’re on Linux, sudo apt install git should sort you out if you’re on a Debian-ish distro (including Mint or Ubuntu). Fedora it’s sudo dnf install git, Arch… uhh… I don’t know a ton about Arch’s pacman.

Pretty sure that’s an American vs. British spelling difference. So yeah, it is honour, for them.

– Frost

Same as you would anything else!

git init (if you’re making a new repository)
git add somefile.kra
git commit (and then write your commit message)

uuuhh…? I got no idea how to use VS Code, I don’t use VS Code. I’m more a Kate wolf myself. (And vim, but vim is weird and clunky at first and would probably just be frustrating.)

*shoots piefed a very confused look*

Unless you meant a tutorial on git, in which case, the learngitbranching.js.org one is great.

You can always version control regular-ass documents, art files, whatever, too! You might not be able to diff them very well, but you can absolutely use git as a bunch of save states.

git is entirely local-only. You don’t need to upload anything to github at all.

That picture you included is kinda weird and misleading IMO.

First thing: Ignore the “central repository”. There is none. git works entirely locally (this confuses the hell out of people who grew up with CVS/SVN, for some reason). You CAN push and pull to other people’s computers, if you want, or your own other computer; all Github or whatever is is a “someone else’s computer” in the cloud that you can push to. But you also don’t need a remote repository at all. Most of ours don’t have one.

Seconding https://learngitbranching.js.org/. It’s quite nice.

Some stuff you should know:

• A commit is a snapshot of everything in the project (that was added to git at the time).
• A branch is basically just a movable tag pointing to the latest commit, with which you can get to previous commits by walking the chain backwards; when you make a new commit, you move the branch to point to it.
• You can make alternate timelines by going back to a previous commit (without moving your branch pointer), making a new branch pointer (and switching to it), and editing/committing/etc. That’s why they’re called branches.
• There’s an undo history for where your branch has been, git reflog. Can save your butt if a rebase or whatever goes sideways and you get screwed up.
• All your history is in the .git folder in your project folder. Everything. If you back that up you’ve got the whole history of the project.

– Frost

I’d honestly trust an ancient decrepit system over a modern one, these days.

– Frost

We just made our KDE look like Mac. It’s way more Maclike than Gnome, and actually pretty great!

Oh great. We have 3.4.3 in testing, so uh, next stable will probably have it.

Counterpoint: Choice is good. Let’s not try to impose some Single Standard™ on everything, thanks.

Just like programs not written in Rust are okay, good, and important to exist.

Just like non-systemd init systems are good.

And having multiple options for DEs.

Choice is why a lot of us are even here.

– Frost

You can actually dual boot just fine on a single drive. We used to TRIPLE boot Mac/Linux/Windows!

It was way more of a hassle back in the non-EFI days where you could only have one bootloader per disk. These days they don’t clobber each other.

– Frost

I mean, they’re not THAT complicated. Don’t be dissuaded from learning if you wanna learn! But more complicated than a spreadsheet for sure… at least for basic stuff. Advanced stuff, maybe not so much, just different.

Eh? There’s plenty of non-“AI”-powered OCR, isn’t there? Like, that’s been a thing since long before “AI” slop generators.

(Like, mayyyybe there’s some kind of machine learning component, but even IF there is, surely you don’t have to run it through a slop generator to get a transcription?)