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Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Limpopo is definitely more backward. But Free State does have that small town redneck vibe going for it in many places. Also dont talk shit about my Brakpan. It gets that reputation because Springs people holiday there

(solved) weird escape characters when using nvim as a manpager in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I added this to my .zshrc after getting weird formatting in manpages. I do use bat as a my pager though so not too sure if it will help.

export MANROFFOPT='-c'

KM Roofing and Contracting's expert siding installer services in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow Now I really want to buy siding for my house!

Is there free shipping from Fairfax to South Eastern Europe? Otherwise why tf would you try to advertise to me?

Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use newpipe to not have to struggle with all the ads.

My goto channels that id always recommend and support via patreon/ donations:

(General stuff) Clickspring Ben Eater Sebastian Lague Steve Wallis Luetin09 JunsKitchen

(Gaming) TomatoAnus Pete Complete Rhadamant Nivarias

I absolutely hate all the screaming that some youtubers think they have to do....

If anyone has any great (calm) youtubers, especially something strategy gaming related, please drop them!!

Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Them getting a union could go either way. On the one hand I feel it would be good for them to have a support structure that ensures fair pay and working conditions. On the other hand they could also go the way of the taxi unions and basically turn into a gang.

Theres already a running joke that delivery drivers constitute the biggest biker gang in ZA

Question: is there a reason to use arch over something like kubuntu, or ubuntu? It seems like a difficult starting point in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanted to say exactly this.

I started out on Ubuntu and it was this scary thing that just worked. If something broke id run to google and see what I did wrong and blindly follow answers that added a lot of crap to my system. I was so afraid of poking anything that lay outside my /home.

Eventually I hopped around a bit and landed on Arch after a few other systems that never really seemed right.

3 years later If I break something I can actually understand why most of the time and if I cant, the Arch forums explain what I need.

Using arch made me slow down trying to fix stuff because there was less to break. And if something broke, it was something that I installed myself and thus knew about. (Apart from some really horrible python and js that refused to be purged back to the fires of hell)

All in all Id never go back to a hand- holdy system, Its my system, yes its wonky as hell sometimes, but I know whats going on there and on tge off chance something vreaks on a deadline, ive got an arch stick with all my important scripts to reinstall my system if needs be.