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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

Gonna go retro with this one: Madness' cover of Labi Siffre's It Must Be Love

If I remember rightly, Siffre appears in Madness' music video for the song, so it had his seal of approval too. (I mean, yeah, they wouldn't have done a cover if he hadn't agreed to it, but appearing in the video is a force multiplier on that.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Doesn't look like it to me. https://www.dafontfree.io/impact-font/ shows lowercase that's radically different to this. Look at the y for example.

That doesn't rule out variant glyphs or another member of a hypothetical Impact family, but I'm leaning towards no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they're words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Suspend, most of the time. I have a two handed Vulcan nerve pinch keybind that does that for the end of the day. A desktop PC doesn't have a lid, but that keybind is about as cathartic as closing a laptop.

This is actually different from how I have the desktop environment set to do it, which is the hybrid suspend/hibernate option. This gives me at least a couple of options without too much messing around. Quick shutdown: Use keyboard; Hybrid: Use GUI (which can be done by keyboard navigation too if absolutely necessary.)

The reason? There's a surprising amount of state, such as open windows, browsers, etc. that need to be set back up if coming back cold from a full power off and that bothers me more than maybe it should.

By rights, I should use the hybrid option all the time as it's technically safer, but it takes longer to power off and it actually suspends then unsuspends for a few seconds as it sets up the hibernation profile, which gives me the willies.

Also, the power grid is pretty stable here. If I was elsewhere I might be using the hybrid a lot more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

For me it's a vowel sound, sure, but the mouth is definitely in, or moves to, the position it would be if a pronounced R, and presumably a vowel, was about to follow.

Probably more so than in the pronunciation of name of the letter R itself, in fact, which is indistinguishable from "ah".

But perhaps more importantly, no, we generally don't say "brr" anyway, except in exaggeration or for effect. You're more likely to hear something like "it's bl--dy freezing" or "my hands/feet are like ice".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In addition to corsicanguppy's comment, some — often important — programs actually expect the system to be secured in a particular way and will refuse to function if things don't look right.

Now, you'd be right to expect that closing down permissions too tightly could break a system, but people have actually broken their systems by setting permissions too openly on the wrong things as well.

That said, for general, everyday use, those commands don't need to be used much, and there might even be a way to do what they do from your chosen GUI. Even so, it nice to know they're there and what they do for those rare occasions when they might be needed.

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

FTA:

Fedora's announcement [of Fedora 42] contains plentiful references to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If you broaden your question only slightly from bamboo to bamboo and its close relatives, then it has taken over the world. It's in the grass family, and in no small part thanks to humans, it's literally everywhere.

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

Then you need concrete. And lots of it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

"Mooom, he's on my side of the car! He's touching me! Make him stop!"

"I'm not touching you! You're on my side of the car! You're touching me! Mom, it's all his fault."

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

Try preceding the hash with a backslash. Not all of the Fediverse supports all of the same parts of Markdown when viewing posts between instances, but that one ought to be reasonably standard.

# If you see this line preceded by a hash, that's because it actually starts with \#.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Based on the positions of the "bonk"s and "ow"s, I posit that the target is a sentient floating torus.

 

Edit: Welp, I'm an idiot. After posting, I stepped away and realised that the name of the config file had to be the answer.

The game is literally called colorcode. Found and installed it and lo and behold, the game's author is someone called Dirk Laebish, which explains the directory name.

Ah well. I'll leave this here for posterity


Looking through an old backup, I've found what appears to be the config file for some game or another at the path ~/.config/dirks/colorcode.conf, but searching the Internet (DDG and Google) turns up nothing for this, and searching apt, Synaptic (yes, I know they're basically the same thing) and even the online "wayback" part of Debian's package archive also gives no result.

The reason I think it's from a game is that the config file, despite its name, contains entries like GamesListMaxCnt and HighScoreHandling.

The only think I can think is that "dirks" is an acronym of some sort, which is why it's not showing up in past or present packages.

Based on the sort of games I usually try out and play, it's more likely to be a simple in-window puzzle or card game than a 3D game.

File dates seem to suggest 2021 as the last time I played / used it, whatever it was.

It would have been under some version of Linux Mint or LMDE, if the Debian commands didn't give that away.

Anyone have any idea what it might be?

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