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  • Ubuntu: 😮why?

    For a lot of people Ubuntu is the linux. Canonical is just good at marketing. For all it worth, Ubuntu is not the bad choice for average user who’s not into ricing and not bothered by bloat.

    Manjaro: haven’t you managed to kill it yet?

    I’ve been using Arch and Manjaro for couple years each and in my experience they both break regularly. But, for some weird reason, Arch Linux is praised, when Manjaro is shamed upon.

    Mint: ex windows guy?

    Aren’t we all?








  • I was stupid enough to use one wire and not two, or I wouldn’t be here typing this

    Well, I was smarter, but, thankfully, still here.
    I was maybe 5 years old when one day I decided for some reason that I have to know how the electricity works “first hand”. So I took an electrical plug with a wire from dad’s tool box. It had two exposed copper ends. I plugged it in the outlet and while trying to inspect the “electricity” flow I, most likely accidentaly, have completed the circuit with my hand.

    Interesting how the experience wasn’t painful it’s just muscles in your body get tense and you literally can’t drop the wire or move at all. Thank god my Dad was around and maybe 10 seconds after I got shocked he pulled the plug. I had no serious injuries: just burns, a bit of shock and a lifelong lesson.

    P.S. It was a 220V outlet too. But I’m not sure if it’s more dangerous than the US ones.


  • Zip is fine (I prefer 7z), until you want to preserve attributes like ownership and read/write/execute rights.

    Some zip programs support saving unix attributes, other - do not. So when you download a zip file from the internet - it’s always a gamble.
    Tar + gzip/bz2/xz is more Linux-friendly in that regard.

    Also, zip compresses each file separately and then collects all of them in one archive.
    Tar collects all the files first, then you compress the tarball into an archive, which is more efficient and produces smaller size.








  • 1 is also a number, a number we chose by convention to be a base unit for all numbers. You can break down every number down to this unit.

    20 is 20 1s. 1.5 is 1 and a half 1.

    If we have Pi as a unit, circumference of a circle would be radius*2 of Pi units. But everything that doesn’t involve Pi would be a fraction of Pi, e.g. a normal 1 is roughly 1/3 of Pi units, 314 is roughly 100 Pi units, etc. etc.