David Yaffe

@davepl1968 Is that a Saskatchewan License Plate on it?

Even real car guys won't be able to tell you what this is, but it's real. Got a guess? It's not a GTO...

I have NO idea what I'm laughing at, but boy it must have been hysterical! If it's not fun, I don't want any part of it. Life is way too short not to enjoy what you do.

@vxgiveaways @HackerStick3rs New laptop swag!

Giveaway Time - 150 Cool Stickers 30 winners 5 Stickers Each Comment below and follow @HackerStick3rs Winners chosen in 24 hours

@SteelSeries 👍

we just gave away five products on stream and here’s how to win the other 20(!) we’re giving away in this first celebration of our 25 year anniversary: -RT this post -reply to this post (can be anything) -be following us we’ll select winners throughout the next week, giving away a mix of @KontrolFreek goodies, headsets, keyboards, mice and mousepads go go go 🫡

@geerlingguy @eevblog I'll flop the other way, Fedora and Centos Stream for most things, with a side of Debian or Ubuntu when required. But like most things where there are flavours, it's personal choice. Best is subjective, it simply depends on what you want to use the distro for.

@eevblog There is no best. But I've settled on Debian and Ubuntu mostly, with a side of Fedora from time to time. Ubuntu and Fedora are still the two easiest to get working with most things IMO. Other distros are more specialized but you have to know what for before adopting them.

Linux People: There are so many distro's. Can you please let me know which one you have all rationally agreed upon as being the best Linux distribution, so us normies can just use the best one without fuss and fear of ridicule. Thanks.

@_0b1d1 PDF, please!

@GithubProjects git commit -m "fixing dumb errors."

No cheating: paste your last git commit message! 😅

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME! We’re giving away an original Wolfenstein 3D Apogee CD + a vintage Hint Manual straight from the vault. A real slice of FPS history. To enter: 🔹 Like, Follow & Repost 🔹 One winner, shipped anywhere in the world. Good luck, Blazkowicz-in-training!

@sysxplore SLS or Yggdrassil.

Do you still remember your first Linux distribution?

@ArcadianComp @nixcraft This got me in the memories, but for me it was Red Hat Linux, or Debian.

Its 1999 and I'm booting slackware 3.x, running a custom pap/chap script to dialup, starting WindowMaker after XFree86 loads, opening pine in an xterm and running spamassasin in another to filter the mail queue, then catching up on the BugTraq mailing list and starting the download for the latest Hubble pics from the STSCI mailing list. Running Netscape and XChat from yet another. Making sure our eggdrop bots still had +o chanop status on all the IRC channels we currently owned. Loading @slashdot, then @PA_Megacorp, then freshmeat (now sourceforge) to see the news, read the latest comic, and see what OpenSource software was just released/updated. Then running Agent newsreader through WINE to check alt.2600 and comp.os.linux for new posts. No LLMs, no blockchains, the Internet in the 90s felt so much more alive.

What online ritual or behavior was standard when first connecting to the internet that is now completely gone?

@simswapperamij Skinhead - It's a Beautiful Day, What a Beautiful Day. Nothing even close... open.spotify.com/album/2aeiK7Pk…

Album of the year contenders? Let’s hear em!! We’ll dig in on the patreon podcast.

@cyb3rops I quite often use `cat -An <file>` which prints non-printable characters, along with line numbers. Piping through grep allows me to search for non-printable characters, which is tricky with plain grep. When working in a mixed environment, Linux, Mac OS and Window, it's critical.

People use "grep" after "cat" as it allows for a quicker alteration of the searched keyword, enhancing their workflow. By simply pressing the arrow up, they can easily edit the last command and quickly change the search keyword, which is a lot more efficient than navigating through a complex command line.

@sysxplore Been using Linux since the early days (SLS & Yggdrssil). I learn new stuff about Linux every week.

Learning Linux? Say hi 👋

@0xTib3rius I mayo need a couple of the stickers!

People still insisting I shouldn't be using Base64 for encryption. Sigh. Next you'll be telling me this isn't the best condiment for exchanging encryption keys. 🙄

@DrSarteschi @PettitMarlon Regina is the logical choice for QR. After all, Regina means Queen! As a Regina resident, I would love to see her out in public. I'd love to pretend to be excited to meet the Queen, say something sarcastic and walk away...

@PettitMarlon Regina

Didulo has added a new title to her already long list of titles

We’re giving away 5 vintage Terminal Velocity CDs straight from the 90s, complete with classic jewel cases and manuals. To enter to win: 💙 Like 🔁 Repost ☑️ Follow Winners picked Friday + shipped worldwide!

@davepl1968 Aside from a couple of Windows programs that don't work under Wine/Proton, everything else I use my computers for works equally well under Windows or Linux.

Ah, Linux. If all we wanted to do was run system monitors and play mp3s.

@patrick_tarnaud @COSMIC_desktop @fedora @system76 It's become my DE of choice. Both @system76 & @fedora have done a great job. I think that it feels better than Gnome, even though it just hit beta.

I tried @COSMIC_desktop beta on my @fedora. Nice for a beta. Congratulations to @system76 and its dev team. And for Fedora Community. #rust #linux #desktop #fedora

@COSMIC_desktop Not a Pop!_OS user, but love how Cosmic runs on Fedora. It's become my daily driver.

"Linux users are looking forward to what the System76 dudes and dudettes are promising it will bring to a DE that’s already so cool that it’s chill." Fun times are ahead of us!