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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I see these MFs on a daily basis
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    2 days ago

    maybe I should try my luck with the command line.

    Today’s your lucky day! :D Here’s a really simple (and fun) way to start trying it out.

    https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/the-shell

    Such a lovely site.

    Something to remember is that even Linux’s GUI is essentially just “visual shortcuts” for shell commands. Having the terminal open doesn’t necessarily mean mucking about with the complex inner workings of your system. (But you can do that too!)

    You can do really simple low-risk things like moving files around, making new text documents, renaming stuff, and starting simple script programs, in your home directory.

    Heck, easiest way to make it less intimidating? Update your system with it.

    sudo apt update

    or

    zypper dup or so on. (Depending on distro)

    rm to remove stuff is the scary command that’s worth treating with great respect. Get in the habit now of double checking yourself before slamming enter. I usually move (mv) things I intend to delete to my /tmp/ directory so I have a chance to fix it, or else it just erases on next reboot.

    Oh, and lastly, we’ve all done it and those who say “Well I never” are lying…but try to avoid copy pasting commands you don’t recognize from the internet into your terminal! (Many forum replies are just like “try this long complicated one-liner to fix your issue!”)

    Harmful commands can be hidden in text weirdly enough. There’s examples online but it blew my mind how that was possible. So at the very least, type it out yourself, and it couldn’t hurt doing a quick lookup to see what it’s supposed to do before committing to it.

    The Linux community is often super helpful and lovely, but old posts could potentially be poisoned by bad actors and such, so keep your head up out there. :)

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What host names do you use?English
    2·
    13 days ago

    Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or…?

    Lol just had a funny thought:

    “What’s the server’s name?”

    “Max”

    T800@localhost: ping Wolfie
PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms

--- Wolfie ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms

    “Your server is pwned…”

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What host names do you use?English
    2·
    13 days ago

    Slightly unrelated but when my family was remodeling our kitchen in the home I grew up in, we pulled the oven out and found the side of the cabinet had an interesting scrawl on it that must’ve been from one of the builders:

    “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.”

    I found it so amusing wondering what the motive behind that was. So I guess your hostnames kinda reminded me of hidden beer-related tradesman graffiti. XD

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What host names do you use?English
    1·
    13 days ago

    One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

    [monke, chimp, peanut]

    monke would be [0]

    chimp would be[1]

    peanut would be [2]

    Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What host names do you use?English
    3·
    13 days ago

    "Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don’t you mean

    S̸̡̗͉̰̭̬͙̲̩̖̫͔̹̓͛̓̈́̋̈́̊̂̕͡P̶̫̱̜͌́̒̐̄̈́́͐̒̅̆̎͋́͘A̴͙̬͇̐̋̓̋̇̋̒̏̀̀͒͡W̷̡̧̙̭̫̅̐͂̿̋̔̏͗͗̔̄͌̈́͝N̷̡̨̙͉̜̲̗̽͆̊̒̽̐̏̾̇̊̋̓̎͝ ̷̛̟͗̈́Ṃ̸̛͖̤̖̐̇́́̏̐́̋Ơ̶̼̤̣̊̎̔͑̈̈́̇̊͝A̸̧̢͇̣̰̫̙̼͈͈͈͉̼͙̻͑̽̿̊̌͝Ŗ̵̜̦͇̲̜̼͕̞̮̱̝̬̯̓͒̀͛̅͐̌͡͠ͅ ̵̧̺͕̖̘̟̭̥̳̪͖̗̤̞̎̈́̔͊͝O̴͓̼̥͆̈́̓̓͗̐̆̐́̀͂̕V̵̡͎͈͈̗̞̺̭̘͓̬̻̦̙͉̿̎ͅE̷̓̃̄̿̓̒̈́̇͋̑͘ͅŖ̵̛͖̣̼̘̜̹̻̜͍͉̫͍̞̉͆́̐̍̓̊̈͜L̴̛͉̜̩̞͇͕̞̟͎̱͛̇̎̓͝ͅO̸̡̧̢̯̭̟̝̺̩͔̬̜̼͚̬̽́̇̃̌̏̎̏́́̓͒̅̓͘R̷̨̫͍̹̗̮̹̯͆͗̕ͅD̶̨̡̪̼͕͇̻̲͊͑́͋̈̈́̔̅͠S̷̥̼̘̾̽̆̿̃̈́̾͆̾̏͝͡???"

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What host names do you use?English
    3·
    13 days ago

    For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.

    So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf (“You shall not pass!” Heehee eventually he’ll have OPNSense too…)

    If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that’ll be Samwise!

    My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.

    For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It’s intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.

    So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.

    Phones and tablets I don’t really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)