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sorry for the confusion, i'll be sure to fix it for next month

I've tried out this game, and so far, I'd say that it's pretty well made. I would definitely try contributing to this in my spare time.

I've been looking into alot of discontinued Linux apps recently, and I stumbled upon GNOME Empathy, an app that connects to multiple chat platforms at once. I'm thinking of forking it, or making one from scratch.

[...] the YC data center [...]

sctb (previous HN co-moderator) mentioned a few years ago that hosting is provided by "M5 Hosting."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

https://archive.ph/3GZef

Clickable links: https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png

My friend is making a programming language called ACPL[1] that used to be written in Python, and outputs Python code, but now, he's working on a C implementation called CACPL, which is written in C and outputs C code.

[1] https://github.com/rjmsg/ACPL

if a system component like Gnome is crashing, there will be neither log records or crash dumps and you will never figure out why it crashed

On Fedora you can use ABRT (AKA Problem Reporting) to view logs and tracebacks of a component that has crashed, and report the problem via Bugzilla. Also, GNOME isn't a system component, Fedora would still work without it, but it would use a TTY terminal instead.

Not OP, but the only phone with hardware kill switches that I know of is the Librem 5.

No, I mean Reddit instances, not third-party Reddit clones, e.g. Lemmy.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782010.

For Linus, I suggest looking for some forum posts for "what if Linus gets hit by a bus?" questions. And for RMS, he states on his website[1] that working on GNU would be his long-term committment.

[1] https://stallman.org/

Remember, GNU is a collection of packages. ChromeOS still has GNU utilities built in, therefore, it is still running on GNU/Linux. Now, if Google made a GNU replacement, then the ChromiumOS kernel would have been named Chromium/Linux, or Chrome/Linux.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782287.

chezmoi actually uses git to manage the dotfiles, see https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/setup/#use-a-hosted-repo-t....

Not exactly. There are some ways to install GNU/Linux distros on Chromebooks, the Eupnea project's Depthboot script[1], for example, lets users build/run a distro by extracting the rootfs from an ISO file, and apply Chromebook-specific patches, like using ChromeOS' kernel, using keyd to make patches to support the Chromebook keyboard's action keys, and much others.

(Disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer of the Eupnea project.)

[1] https://github.com/eupnea-linux-backup/depthboot-builder

Which brand, though? I have a feeling it's one of those first-party Google Chromebooks...

You can do Search/Launcher + [action key here], for example Search/Launcher + ← triggers F1. There is also a setting on ChromeOS that makes the action keys into function keys.

I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.

2 months ago (August 2023), on a "What are you working on" thread, I stated that I was making a extensible text editor on the web. I said on the comment that my laptop was undergoing repairs, and it would be open-sourced by the end of August. The repair took much longer than expected, and had to push the deadline to the end of October 2023, as a result of me forgetting about the project.

Works for me... Maybe it just got resolved?

Thanks. I learned so much while volunteering on projects, so why not help others find volunteer projects while I'm at it?

(2022)

What do you mean by "in blade form?"

No, I'm actually serious about this. Many projects like Wii-Linux exist and it would be great to take advantage of that to repurpose a Wii into a headless server.

You don't need the year tag when the article is recent.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694154 (this one has a first-hand source).

I don't see why a developer would do this, nothing failed, so why print to stderr on `--help`? I've printed help contents with an additional `one or more arguments expected` line to stderr in my code, but I wouldn't think someone would take it this far.

This is great! You should expand this to be a full-fledged HN reader.

Sorry for the title change, HN said it was too long, original was "Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs."