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data1701d (He/Him)

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"Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?"

Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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    Are there ANY debuggers for Linux, that has a GUI

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  • No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.

    1. Search “gdb cheatsheet” and bookmark it. This looks good, but you have plenty of choices. When you find one you like, you probably almost never have to go to the internet again.
    2. Unfortunately, you can’t avoid a search engine while programming; you’re not going to get very far. All you can do is develop your search skills to avoid the slop.
    3. If you’re using a statically typed language (C, C++, Rust, etc.) already, basic GDB is comparatively simple. For these languages, not knowing GDB is a bit like an electrician not knowing how to use a multimeter; it’s a matter of necessity rather than “gatekeeping”.

    No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.

    For your sake, I must emphasize that insulting the people you want help from is not an effective tactic for obtaining help. There are certainly jerks in the broader Linux community, but effectively accusing anyone in this community unable to give you exactly what you want of being a “slur saying techbro” (unless I misunderstand you) is, no offense, an incredibly entitled view to have.

    If you wish to make valuable use of internet forums, I would request you take heed of this: www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

    Anyhow, I wish you luck in your endeavors.

  • X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson

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  • Maybe it’s just I’m a relative noob to build systems, but gosh, do I love Meson.

    The documentation’s pretty okay - not perfect, but better than cmake - and it feels like I can actually learn it by example through looking at other projects’ setups.

    I can live with using other build systems for other projects, but for personal projects, I’ll always choose Meson. I’ll always push for it if a project I’m working on needs to choose a build system.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • I feel a bit insulted that Bashir didn’t even make Lieutenant Commander in his entire life in Starfleet, considering he was very young when we last saw him.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • Interestingly, we see an okudagram in PRO that confirms prime Harry hit Lieutenant by 2384. Unfortunately, I can’t post it, as my instance is updating my image storage infrastructure right now.

  • It's a mostly multi-universal constant

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  • Actually, it could be a “great filter” situation; mostly only ensign Kims end up in situations where they end up accidentally switching multiverses. Lieutenant Kims are far less likely to end up in such a situation, thus the small sample size.

  • Now you know why they call me "Dirty Harry". I get every dirty job that comes along.

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  • In the recent IDW comics, I’m pretty sure Harry Kim tries to blow up the Tzenkethi home world while working for Starfleet Intelligence. Tom had left Miral with Harry, not knowing Harry would take the baby on such a crazy mission; Harry has an EMH in his secret hideout on the Tzenkethi homeworld to change diapers.

    Edit: He also goes by the code name Kingsnake.

  • MOAR!!!!

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  • At least in the US, they’re all on there.

    But then again, people might not want to support Paramount because of their collaboration with Gul Donal. Currently, my parents pay for it, so I used it, but they seem open to the idea of collecting physical media releases and may eventually jump ship because we mostly just watch Trek on it.

    Of course, I think the best way to do physical media is to buy used through local businesses rather than directly pay some crappy executives. Last I checked, I think I’ve seen up to LD season 4 on shelves.

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  • You could do signup through a form and just throw a QR code on a poster.

    My university Linux Users Group usually uses Crytpad (which is FOSS and seems federated, and has a flagship instance) to create forms for votes, so that might do the trick for you.

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  • Maybe ask around and request to put up posters in a local library?

    Also, see if your local university has a group already, and maybe if the age difference isn’t creepy, see if you can hang with them.

  • For the Horde!

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  • The whole time, I was thinking, "Why doesn't Pike just pull a Quark (or more correctly, make Quark pull a Pike), and marry, then almost immediately divorce her?"

  • Goodbye, and thanks for all the Space Whales

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  • “Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.”

  • Confused Space Savior Sounds

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  • The difference is it was Federation citizens doing it to rogue Federation citizens, who had actually committed a similar crime of forced relocation by making a Cardassian colony uninhabitable to Cardassians.

    That doesn’t make the situation totally right, that’s just to say it’s morally gray.

    It’s a little like calling the Alamo a genocide.

  • Wake up babe new USS Defiant just dropped

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  • Honestly, the transporter is the main reason why I think the Federation could (possible by a landslide) win a war against the Empire from Star Wars; the Empire likely doesn't have the defenses to stop a Starfleet vessel beaming photon torpedoes, neurocene gas, etcetera directly onto star destroyers. All it takes is a few ships getting past the tie fighters.

  • scx_horoscope: Astrological CPU scheduler

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  • If I had any close friends who used Linux, I would install this for April fools.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

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  • To be fair, it’s a BB gun, which are tiny metal pellets that, while possibly painful, usually aren’t super lethal and are not a useful instrument in a “good ol’ traditional” American mass shooting. They’re more often used on tin cans than flesh. A few sociopathic kids might use them to torture birds, though.

    Maybe they contribute to our dangerous gun culture by getting kids involved early, but getting an older kid a BB gun isn’t as weird or comically American as it sounds in and of itself.

  • All he wants is an official Red Ryder, phase-adjusted, two-hundred shot, range model phaser rifle!

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  • Eh. I mean Christmas Story’s kind of fun, but fair warning, it has a scene that’s rather racist to Chinese people.

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  • The main thing that personally drives me nuts about DRM is as a Linux user, many streaming services will only give you 480p or even 360p video even though you're paying for more. With that bullcrap, combined with buggy streaming services, the high seas is sometimes literally a better experience than streaming. Then the hippy moral stuff gets involved:

    Although of course, if I can buy it used on Blu-Ray at a local business (Zia and Bookmans are probably the two best places to do it in my area), I'll do that instead, and just rip the Blu-Rays; it funds places I like while still being (more) legal (than just straight up pirating).

    (Granted, I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as I don't pirate that much. I'm still on Paramount+ for now because my parents still pay for it, but we're so focused on Star Trek that my idea to just get the Blu-Rays and DVDs is tempting them to get off.)

  • Debian’s git transition plan

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  • I mean, that's true, but that doesn't mean that's why Debian's doing it.

    If they were solving just that, then they would have just pushed for something like a reproducible tarball where you can point to a commit, branch, tag, etcetera from which that tarball can be reproduced and not bother migrating their package format.

    Debian has a serious ease-of-packaging issue that I've witnessed first-hand, and I think they've made it clear that it's moreso the ease factor they're focused on that the security factor.

  • Debian’s git transition plan

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  • Not really. If xz were the issue, Debian would have just switched to a different tarball format like lz4.

    This is more about Debian packaging conventions being very archaic and requiring a lot of futzing with upstream tarballs and patches.

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  • I'm usually not big on ebooks, as I tend to read in the evening and haven't had a good e-reader for a long time, and I just don't enjoy blue light at night.

    However, I got a bunch of Star Trek comic eBooks in a Humble Bundle recently, and I need a good way to read those; I'm thinking I'll pick up one of the Kobo Colors. I've seen their limitations, and while it's enough to annoy a lot of comic readers, I'm personally fine so long as I can distinguish the division colors and think it would still be a good purchase for my use case. It might also be nice for my many Star Trek Adventures RPG PDFs; it'd be one less window on my laptop when I (occasionally) GM.