It’s often noticeable how English translated text is laid out poorly because the game assumes all text to be Japanese.

How about affect and effect?

That’s a fairly common fingerprinting technique. A lot of sites use this and similar techniques (e.g. GPU fingerprinting, font fingerprinting, etc.) See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Fingerprinting

Or try https://amiunique.org/ for a live illustration how that works.

Good thinking :)

To be clear, grub itself doesn’t mount your root partition. Grub provides the root partition device path or id to the kernel via kernel command line. Then kernel mounts the root partition early in its boot sequence with a limited set of options (typically read only).

Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem :)

Usually once the userspace starts, an init script will remount the root partition with its normal options from fstab.

(It’s a bit more complicated if initramfs is involved, but the principle is the same).

“The current quiet zeitgeist” is totally a EU thing. Whenever I played anything on NA, people are much more inclined to coordinate via voice there, so any game instantly feels much more like teamwork. You mentioned Helldivers 2, and I think that is a very good example how different it feels to play the same game as an actual team.

You also mentioned tank/healer combos in MMOs, but there is a lot more team play in many of them. Big raids in WoW require 20–40 players, where everyone needs to do not only their job, but also raid boss mechanics. Destiny 2 is also a good example.

Also, your life isn’t worthless, it costs 8 bmats.

Install one of the distributions where you have to do most of the installation steps manually, such as Gentoo or Slackware or Arch. Or Linux from Scratch of you want hardcore mode.

Learn the basics of accounting by trying to use GnuCash (or KMyMoney) for your personal finances.

Or learn a proper text editor, such as vim.

It does in Japan.

ableism?

Gentoo is better than any other distribution

It would be possible but extremely difficult and expensive to launch even a single rack, and it’s not scalable beyond maybe 1% of existing compute capacity, and the entire thing is a giant grift with the only purpose to prevent Elon Musk from losing all his money.

-z might be pointless since you’re transferring files locally.

can confirm, really really good game

https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool ?

ButtFood Finally Lets You Inject Food And Drinks Into Your Butt Without Opening The Mouth

There’s nothing inherently wrong with OpenVPN, so if you’re happy with it, just stay with it.

wow so lazy just pressed ctrl-ξ ctrl-ψ

In case you decide to look for alternatives, I would probably go with elastic/filebeat/grafana, a fairly standard log monitoring suite. Not saying it’s better or worse than Victoria Logs, which i have no experience with.

I think it depends a lot on what kind of application you’re thinking of. Here are some examples of tools that I particularly remember for having nice CLI interfaces, but they are all slightly different in terms of the number of operations/entities they support.

Single operation, a lot of different types of data: httpie

httpie is a CLI HTTP client. It allows to generate fairly complex requests, choose which diagnostic information you want to see, etc.

Examples:

$ https httpie.io/hello
$ http PUT pie.dev/put X-API-Token:123 name=John
$ http -v pie.dev/get

Several operations, a lot of parameters: Bazel

Bazel is a build system. There are only a handful of operations you typically perform (build, run, test, query), but they all follow the same pattern.

Examples:

$ bazel build //app
$ bazel --quiet build //app -c opt
$ bazel --quiet run //app -c opt -- --port=1234

Multiple entites, multiple operations: LVM

I really liked the interface of Linux Volume Manager tools. They consist of multiple commands that follow the same pattern, and use the same flags for options.

Examples:

# vgcreate -n vg_name
# vgs
# pvcreate /dev/sda
# vgextend vg_name /dev/sda
# lvcreate vg_name -n lv_name -L5G
# lvresize vg_name/lv_name -L+1G
# lvs