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"Minecraft was supposed to be about simplicity."

Minecraft was supposed to be a toy project Notch wanted to mess around with. Simplicity has never been a target, since every major release, including during the in/infdev days has had major changes.

If the file does not exist, it creates an empty file. That is what most people use touch for.

Another way to touch a file:

cp /dev/null file

Test if a port is listening without telnet:

echo > /dev/tcp/address/port && echo Yes || echo No

That's not actually a file. It's just a path Bash recognizes and is the interface to socket functionality. udp works too.

I think I only have three subscriptions at the moment... Prime, Chewy, and a news commentary streaming site I like. That's pretty much it, not very expensive. Everything else is available to me by other means if I'm willing to pay one-off fees or just step outside my house. I'm okay with this.

I know BMW turn signals are a meme (with good reason...), but I've noticed the exact same behavioral trend with Lexus drivers as well. It's really just those two makes in particular.

The package format only really matters to packagers anymore I think. RHEL and SUSE are both RPM based though. The difference which matters to users is the package manager on top, which for RHEL is dnf (formerly yum) and on SUSE it's zypper. They're both competent package managers in my opinion.

Wouldn't power cycling your bulbs like that lower their longevity?

> I would not purchase a product with an underlying subscription.

Not even your phone?

> Enter your email address to continue reading

No. Thankfully reader mode can parse it at least.

I just use the Home and End keys in the terminal, which seems intuitive enough to me.

Eight's JVM still ships with Minecraft, so that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's battle-proven.

We can't tell OP what their purpose is.

Isn't that the reason ECC memory was created?

This is the most underrated comment in this thread. Purpose is essential in ensuring one's mental well-being. Without it, you hit burnout or depression quickly.

I'm not the person you replied to, but to answer your second question myself, yes, I do. I have four desktop PCs (one for each of my family members including myself), a netbook, and a custom built router in my house. All run Linux except the router, which runs a flavor of BSD. The Linux computers use AMD graphics with the open source AMDGPU driver. No Windows PCs[0], no blob drivers. Works quite well in practice.

[0]: My work laptop runs Windows 10, because they issued it, administer it, and own it. I'm required to use their software baseline for working.

I imagine if you had a million bucks you could set something like that up.

I work maybe two hours a day. They're very productive, but I cannot be productive constantly for more than that due to having to wait on other people in order to get stuff done, and, of course, the inevitable burnout which will occur if I exceed that.

How do we know yet if it's long-lasting?

Android runs on a Linux kernel.

Any plans to add a folding feature? Vim has a plugin which lets you hide the code under the definition unless you want to unfold it to see/edit it. e.g. folded:

  class ClassName(object):
    def some_method():
    def other_method():

  class Class2(ClassName):
    def more_methods():

Wine is only a syscall translation layer. It's not an implementation of Windows.

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

You mean like with Ansible?

Try accidentally moving /bin. A buddy at work did that not too long ago. There was panicking involved.

+1 for OPNsense if you're willing to deviate from Linux and get a great management web console. I've been running it at home for over a year without any hiccups.

It still lives on as KaiOS. My old flip phone runs it.

I use the Play Music app to play music stored locally on my phone's SD card since the app came with the phone. Does Youtube Music also have this functionality, or is it just for their streaming service?

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll throw in Nagios. Having had to roll and maintain an in-house solution with similar functionality before, Nagios is a huge breath of fresh air.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is also awesome. I wish we could have 8, but that's not quite in the pipeline yet. The distro is crazy stable. With the Extras, Optionals, EPEL, etc. repositories enabled you get access to almost all of the best software in the Linux ecosystem.

Ansible, particularly Red Hat Ansible Engine, is also amazing for managing all of my Red Hat servers. I couldn't imagine doing half of my job by hand, as nothing would ever really get done. With Ansible you just fire off a playbook and relax.

Desktops: OpenSUSE Leap with Plasma desktop. It just works, and the experience is pretty polished. Only issues I ever run into is having to drop to the command line occasionally for running an update. My family doesn't know much about that, so I have to fix their computers for them.

Laptop: Arch Linux - Very light, very customized, and it also just works. I have no problems with Arch.

Servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. It's stable, and since I run it at work it just makes sense to use at home as well. I know in and out how it works and what to expect from it. Only issues I ever have are typically due to a previous admin underprovisioning a machine. Otherwise it's great.

I recommend getting a brass wool tip cleaner and using it often while soldering. Also some good quality flux will really help. I recommend Amtech for the flux, and the tip cleaner I use is Hakko branded. You can find both on Amazon and elsewhere.