D’oh, I’m a doofus — it’s search
that I was thinking of (apt-cache search
, not apt-get search
).
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Canapt-get
refresh package list?Edit: yes…yes it can. I was confused.
Sounds like you’ve only ever used desktops and/or laptops…
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What ya nerds set your thermostats to?3·13 days agoHere’s January of this year. San Francisco, so pretty moderate weather — typically don’t run heat during the day, and low 60s at night (if at all) during the winter. Large temperature gradient throughout house, typically.
South facing windows gives kitchen and living room a greenhouse effect, particularly in the winter, hence the large daily temperature swings:
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that's free that everyone should know about?2·14 days agoGood point — it is “incrementally free,” although I guess if you count tire wear and tear that’s not even true.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something that's free that everyone should know about?25·15 days agoYour local city college may or may not offer free classes (in San Francisco, you just need to show proof that you live in the city with some legal status).
Some public transportation is free for certain groups (youth and folks experiencing homelessness can get free passes here).
“First X of the month” at the zoo/a museum/whatever — lots of venues have free events.
A jog, bike ride, hike — lots of great stuff outside!
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What were you surprised to learn wasn't actually normal?10·22 days agoThe bank doesn’t own the house, they just have a significant lien against it. Maybe a potato potato situation (how are you supposed to spell that phrase 🤔), but it is an important distinction.
Landlords can get pissed if you paint the walls/change appliances/remodel/etc., but so long as the property is properly insured (and you make your loan payments on time) the bank probably isn’t going to bother you.
Landlords can — and do — place restrictions on quiet hours, guest policy, who is allowed to live there, etc. Owning is definitely different.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services?English3·1 month agoFail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I’m probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules — anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don’t use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn’t be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).
I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto pics@lemmy.world•Bird of Paradise I took at my friend's house4·1 month agoJudging by the camera angle, OP may have been today years old when they learned this as well (I learned it well into my 30s, too).
Windows is just as hard as linux, harder even with all the layers of obscurity.
With Windows, there is 1 current version of Windows (11), 1 “almost current” (10), 1 “outdated but you’ll maybe see it” (8.x) and only a few “you’ll probably only see this in obscure situations” versions. Linux has as many “parent” distros/package management systems (apt, rpm, pacman, etc.). This definitely complicates things, as each distro family does things slightly differently.
And we haven’t even touched the window manager/DE choices, of which there are a ton (as opposed to Windows). “Combinatorical explosion” maybe isn’t the right phrase, but you get the idea — Debian with i3wm is wildly different from Fedora Plasma.
This is all a good thing though, as Linux users tend to like the choice and flexibility — but it does mean that the “right way” to do something on Linux is very dependent on your particular setup, which isn’t the case with Windows.
(I have used Linux for the last 20+ years, and it’s definitely my preferred setup, and am lucky enough that I rarely use Windows for work, and never for personal use.)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand.44·1 month agoAnd many folks have headless setups — raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It’s kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.
For some (most?) of us, we don’t have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.
On linux you can"t install or uninstall anything if you are not root
That’s not true at all. You generally can’t use your distribution’s package manager to install or uninstall without elevated privileges. But you can download packages, or executables with their own installer, and unpack/install under your home directory. Or, you can compile from source, and if you
./configure
’d it properlymake install
will put it under your home.Standard Linux distributions don’t place restrictions on what you can and cannot execute; if it needs permissions for device access of course you’ll need to sort that out.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux2·2 months agoNewer macOS is not Unix certified.
It’s UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux4·2 months agoOne or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?1·2 months agoHaha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely — you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably “idiot proof,” but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?71·2 months agoIf your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO.
To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•(Gentoo)Help me reduce my boot up memory usage12·3 months agoYou can also drop cache for debugging by running something like
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches
But remember that the kernel knows best — this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).
man rot13
;)
You mentioned ham radio — definitely fun! It’s a process to get into it though, as you need to study/pass an exam, and then you need a radio. Radios range from cheap ($25 or so) in the VHF/UHF (“walkie talkie”-style) to more expensive for an HF rig ($1000 range for 100W HF). If you want to get into low power (“QRP”) it can be much cheaper. You also need a fair amount of space for a good antenna setup…
There are tons of different communication modes, some without a computer and, like you mentioned, some that use computers.
wsjtx
andfldigi
are popular programs.Good luck!