He used to be fun… Like 25 years ago

He’s gotten a lot better

Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering if it had to do with CPU cycles.

I guess I’ll continue to use cat for short files to sdout and less for longer files, if there is no actual repercussion. It’s just such a common “don’t do this” topic I was wondering if there was a good reason not to.

I think the beer in the “wrong” glass might be an apt metaphor – it might be fancier to use a specific glass, knowing the history, appreciating the golden color of the beer, (it might also affect the head on the pour? Idk) but there is also nothing wrong with drinking it out of a normal glass.

Edit: I’ve never used view, but I have a distant memory of once using more instead of less.

I guess I still don’t understand why?

The end result is that the contents of the file ends up in the STDOUT.

For your other examples, if you use a hammer to push a screw into wood, it won’t be secure and it damages the wood. Using a board to drive a dowel through a plank might work in a pinch, but it is easier to use a hammer.

What is the bad thing that happens if you use cat for its side effect rather than to concatenate?

Why would you do “less -F <file>” when “cat <file>” is easier to type, and reminds you of cats?

Is this the same as BtrFS?

That high school was nothing like what was depicted in Grease.

I still like Ubuntu, as long as everything works, I recommend getting the LTS release.

The models seem to be getting worse at this one task?

I used to like kexp song of the day but they changed the format.

Now I like https://kutkutx.studio/category/song-of-the-day/feed

Also many good shows on WFMU, some music, some talk. https://wfmu.org/podcast

My favorites are:

• Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
• Honky Tonk Radio Girl with Becky
• Techtonic with Mark Hurst
• Bucci (warning this one is weird but in a good way

Other good ad free ones:

• Birdnote. https://feeds.simplecast.com/OB7SrYSf
• Derrière le son (French language) https://feeds.podcastics.com/podcastics/podcasts/rss/5423_17676b1841af819ae181d6abb1a2e320.rss
• Molly White’s Citation Needed (interesting but lower production value) https://www.spreaker.com/show/6019906/episodes/feed

Let me know if any of these have ads I’m pretty sure they all don’t.

I remember touch

Screen is great! My favorite though is byobu, a pretty screen

IIRC they warn people not to use recovery emails if they’re concerned about leaking information, idk why though

In that case why would it be a bad thing to change the name to something else?

OpenGeeko?

If there’s no requirement, maybe openSUSE will just formally politely refuse to change names

I agree that vim forces you to learn before you can use it, but it is possible to learn the bare minimum of vim.

I get by with a very basic understanding of insert mode and the other mode where :q! quits

There is some truth to it. If you are installing a server distro it may not come with nmcli by default. Maybe it will. But good to think about

I really enjoy byobu, especially since it has nice colors and is a mature well supported project

According to my parents I liked colors before I could talk