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Despite its microsoftian origin, I do find myself enjoying VS Code for software development. Not without some tuning, of course -- the thing that really made it usable for me is the extension that makes the editor use vi (vim) keybindings. But one thing that kept being a problem was that I still habitually type "vi <filename>" in the terminal to start editing. And now you're editing in the terminal, not in the editor.
Yesterday I learned the fix. Put something like this in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent:
if [[ "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "vscode" ]]; then
alias vi='code'
alias vim='code'
fi
It turns out that if you run "code" and the name of a file from inside the terminal of a connected session, it won't start a new session; instead, it does-the-right-thing and opens that file in a new editor tab. What's more, this even works when VS Code is operating on a remote host through SSH, which happens to be how I always use it.
Not a linux expert here at all, but it seems pretty cool.
Nurb gave me a virtual desktop i could play with at his house. its just a webpage i hit and poof i get a desktop thing ( posting from there now ). Pretty neat. Going to try to learn some stuff. At least if i break it he can fix it for me :)
Yes.
NGINX -> guac -> Dedicated linux VM on proxmox. ( well the first 2 are dedicated VMs too, but you get the point ). I used to use it when i was still in the office most of the time.
May try again to rig up a 'wake on lan' detector to auto power up sleeping VMs. Did it once before, had issues reading the packets. Wasn't important, was just a random project, gave up. Might try it again.
And since i set it up for her, it of course runs Debian. lol. ( Bookworm, i have not updated my FAI images yet to Trixie )
Sun Sep 28 2025 20:29:25 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarCool, what's it running? Something attached to Guacamole?
GNU GRUB dogma: "GRUB initializes the kernel (Linux) which in turn initializes the operating system (GNU)"
Me: "Oh yeah? I run the Linux operating system, which includes the Linux kernel."
And now I've removed GRUB and installed gummiboot. Now my kernel and initrd are in the EFI System Partition, which is where they really belong anyway.
It's a clean way of booting which I've done in the past. And it's a good dig against the "GNU/Linux" nazis.
Latest release of 9Front is out. And along with their odd sense of humor, this version is called "release".
lol
( and they still support 32bit. go figure )
In case you haven't heard ... Ubuntu 25.10 is a version you should skip.
For reasons we don't really fathom, they decided to replace the GNU Coreutils with "uutils" (a replacement written in Satan's favorite ultra-marxist programming language: Rust) even though uutils does not yet pass all of Coreutils regression tests yet -- in fact, it's not even close.
The results are about as good as you might expect: things are breaking everywhere.
Fundamental stuff like system updates, just breaking and falling down.
Both the Rust language itself and Rust programmers need to be exterminated from the earth.
its Ubuntu, they are pricks riding off the backs of others.. no news here.
In case you haven't heard ... Ubuntu 25.10 is a version you should skip.
For reasons we don't really fathom, they decided to replace the GNU Coreutils with "uutils" (a replacement written in Satan's favorite ultra-marxist programming language: Rust) even though uutils does not yet pass all of Coreutils regression tests yet -- in fact, it's not even close.
The results are about as good as you might expect: things are breaking everywhere.
Fundamental stuff like system updates, just breaking and falling down.
Both the Rust language itself and Rust programmers need to be exterminated from the earth.
2025-10-26 00:33 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Avoid Ubuntu 25.10
In case you haven't heard ... Ubuntu 25.10 is a version you should
skip.
For reasons we don't really fathom, they decided to replace the GNU
Coreutils with "uutils" (a replacement written in Satan's favorite
ultra-marxist programming language: Rust) even though uutils does not
yet pass all of Coreutils regression tests yet -- in fact, it's not
even close.
Thanks for the warning.
I don't use Ubuntu anywhere precisely because they are prone to pull crap like this, but my father is using a close Ubuntu variant.
One the reasons i hate NVIDIA, as with their embedded/IoT stuff, its the only way to get CUDA support to work. And with out it, its pointless.
I don't use Ubuntu anywhere precisely because they are prone to pull crap like this, but my father is using a close Ubuntu variant.
Dont have time to read it, but a quick glance seemed like it was ok and not the typical political mess we get these days from everywhere.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/
2025-08-20 00:32 from IGnatius T Foobar
Harumph. Maybe if Mozilla spent more of their allowance on software
development they'd be in a better position.
Yup. Sad really, but I don't think they have the budget to compete with the likes of The Google.
Yup. Sad really, but I don't think they have the budget to compete
with the likes of The Google.
They have enough budget to innovate *something* but they aren't exactly doing anything that makes them thrive.
Not so fond of Trixie.
When it came out, i tried an upgrade and it basically failed. Was a test on a laptop that i don't use anymore since im WFH long term, so no real risk. It would boot, and most was ok, but several key apps broke. ( like LibreOffice ) A reload, fixed it however. Never had that experience before with Debian unless i had a some non-standard stuff, and this was 100% stock from their repos.
Fast forward a while. Dug out my big AI server this week for a project. Had an issue with one of the apps, that updated and was acting odd. Tried to manually compile, it needed a new library. Installed that, the entire thing went south.
Now, to be fair in this case, it was an upgrade to bookworm that was missing the freaking NVIDIA drivers i needed.. How they didn't get that done before release, i donno. BUT it was in sid ( trixie at the time ). Worked fine, until now, since it was based on Sid, it was trying to pull from whatever is next and i had forgot i never changed it be 'real' trixie. Ok, fine, update the sources, run a full update. Still broke for me due to drivers, but it did 'boot'
As painful as it was, rebuilt it. After 2 hours of fighting with GPU drivers ( long story, its the NVIDIA way, due to how they do things when you want CUDA too and your GPUs are not brand new.. not just wanting 'video' ) it was working. Got 2 of my core AI apps re-installed, 3rd, not seeing GPU... "Ok, fine, ill compile" .. nope, missing a library which was pulled out of trixie that was there before as it was there when still considered Sid... Really Debian?
And, it seemed slower, while i was futzing with it. Its supposed to be faster...
Add it from bookworm, cant. too many conflicting issues. Going to be a real pain to build it manually.. soooo F-it.. back to bookworm.. it now has the drivers, libraries. everything.. ( and less of a hassle to get the drivers to work, still a hassle, but not as bad ) and the overall speed seems to be back too.
Oh, and at one point it un-black listed the nouveau drivers on me. "you will use OUR drivers, serf". Well, i guess if all you want is video, its fine, but that does not work for me.
I have heard others having all sorts of upgrade issues and basically its a reload.
Come on guys... you are better than this.
Come on guys... you are better than this.
I personally think they aren't. Quality has been sliding away since before Squeeze. In fact, that was what pushed me into Slackware, which is quite solid in this regard despite all of its other flaws. Sadly, Slackware is a de facto rolling distribution these days and there are many scenarios where that does not roll well with me, which is the reason I am mainly a BSD user these days.
Well, isnt that cool.
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/