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Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).

YouTube change things on the back end so frequently that I bet there’s always at least one bleeding-edge distro that has an outdated yt-dlp in its repository.

But if you’re on a Debian / Ubuntu / Mint, yeah, you’re gonna have a bad time without the stand-alone version.

The posts that I’ve seen so far seem to be lacking context that’s available when visiting the original on the home instance.

That is, these posts look like the first comment made by the OP in a thread below their main submission, but the main submission isn’t visible.

Very disorienting. I hope there’s a fix on the way.

Once upon a time, my computer’s hostname was 1x4x9. The case was a black tower, the first non-beige PC case I’d ever owned, so the name seemed to fit. Unfortunately, that hostname went out of use in 2010, long before I switched to Linux at home.

*Confused LMDE noises*

(The funny answer is that I’m somewhere up Mount Stupid, but if I am, it’s a bit like Everest base camp and there’s a nice fire going. I think I’ll stay here for a while.)

Either that or this thread and others like it have caused the hug of death from well meaning visitors. Whoops.

For the lazy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

It’s working for me right now. Unsure if Tobias happened to visit during (or shortly after) maintenance, or if he’s region locked.

The Mastodon thread explains it. GNU.org was being attacked by a botnet and the automated protection excluded many legitimate visitors. They’ve since dialled it back.

Edit: unnecessary word

I once heard about someone accidentally pouring tea from a teapot into a mug with instant coffee in it rather than hot water.

Your laptop has the GPU equivalent of that drink.

As someone who is firmly in the greybeard mould, I ain’t shaving my legs for this.

bind 'set completion-ignore-case on' might be your friend in Bash. It won’t help in scripts and GUIs though, so you’d still have to deal with that.

There are ways to write functions that pick the right option intelligently, but that’s asking for trouble. One day something will create a better match for your guess and then things will go wrong, e.g. your script intelligently turns downloads into Downloads but then something actually goes and creates downloads. Your script chooses the impostor because it’s a better match. Oops.

And then there’s always ln -s Downloads downloads. That might be enough to confuse that helpful thing that would otherwise create downloads. It’s already there, ready for use. And it works in custom scripts and things too. Until you move your script to a different user or machine, anyway.

I admit that of the things rm could be aliased to do, it is one of the safer ones. It’s still bad practice in my book.

This breaks the advice to never alias a standard command to do something radically different from its regular function.

Sure, go ahead and alias ls to have extra options like --color, but don’t alias rm to do nothing, or even rm -i (-i is interactive and prompts for each file).

Why? Because one day you’ll be logged into a different system that doesn’t have your cushioning alias and whoops, bye-bye files.

Now that you think about it, you thought that ls output looked weird, but that didn’t actually break anything.

As you suggest, yes, look into your OS’s trash option, but leave rm alone.

GNOME-derived systems can use gio trash fileglob (or gvfs-trash on older systems) to put things in the actual desktop trash receptacle.

KDE’s syntax sucks, but it’s kioclientX move fileglob trash:/ where X may or may not be present and is a version number of some kind.

You could set up a shell function or script that fixes that syntax and give it any name you like - as long as it doesn’t collide with a standard one. On that rare foreign system it won’t exist and everything will be fine.

This wouldn’t work.

Well, it kind of would if you did alias downloads="cd Downloads" but then you wouldn’t cd downloads you’d just type downloads on its own.

As other comments here already point out, you can do it with a symlink if you really want it. i.e. ln -s Downloads downloads, then you can cd downloads.

Nowhere near the same as making everything effectively case insensitive, but it works for the odd one that you always mistype.

There are ways to patch command completion and/or write a variant cd that does the job intelligently too, but those are harder work.

Day-late edit that no-one will see: The answer is bind "set completion-ignore-case on". It’s embarrassing how simple this is and how long it took me to find it. I may have been trying to emulate this feature in other ways for a long time.

Surely someone has used the built-in Lisp interpreter to emulate a feature exact nano.

This. Way back in the day, I had a sound card that would absolutely not work in one OS unless I’d already booted into a different one and “activated” it with the driver there.

It might have been Win9x and WinNT, but it could just as easily have been Win9x and some early-ish version of RedHat.

But anyway, it would not surprise me to learn that the same sort of thing still happens with some hardware.

Which is the fifth bit? Sticky or setuid?

And either way, with this reckoning chattr is somewhere below this picture, and SELinux is bothering the upper mantle.

Explain please.

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

MAN: command not found

Don’t shout. He’s shy.

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.