Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space
oh hi! i do computers, and sometimes draw stuff~ i like lo-fi things and cute aesthetics!
i also probably like you
(also, tagged #abdl ahead, soooo 🔞)
Joined Nov 2017
Crinklewott 💕
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<sobbing> I just wanted a birb look-at system
@bx oh yeah! tar files are basically just a bunch of files catted together with a separator between them, after all~ if you're curious, try tarring a bunch of text files together without compression and look at what the resulting tar looks like! ^^
they also have the concept of unix permissions, uids, and gids, which is why they are still very often used on linuxes for stuff
you would probably have a pretty hard time restoring a filesystem backup from a zip file
@bx in the version of gentoo i had, the stage 3 tarball (the one that contains the precompiled base system) was packed in a .tar.bz2 file, and you extract it to the root of your filesystem with that command
the most important one was the "p"reserve permissions flag since you don't want to extract that archive all as your current user with default permissions
it looks like the options have changed since i did this though!
@bx ahah, yeah! it looks like that's used to set the record size to a certain number of blocks?
@bx ahah, it's nothing wild
x - extractv - verbosej - bzip2p - preserve permissionsf - (the thing after this needs to be the filename)
i've replaced j with a for the most part since that means "automatically detect the compression", but on older things, z for gzip is also handy
when i want to create something, i just replace x with c and i'm done
the only thing i don't used that baseline for is tar tv which lets you see the contents of a tar file (after f still)
@bx hee, the sorcery flows through you!
i legit ended up memorizing tar xvjpf from the gentoo handbook once, and have just mentally made modifications to that information since
@cinnamon !! that's rad!
@lyncia oh! this!
and the entire time i'm just blowing bubbles that deal 0 damage until someone beats me up
@cinnamon the mental whiplash between those two sentences, wowww
@SomeEgrets@meow.social oh yeah, yikes :s
maybe other kinds of online could feel less...time-vampirey than sns?
because like, i see you around pretty often! but i also don't think i've seen you talk about games or other more instant social stuffs much!
or are those kind of miserable for you too..?
hellsite splintering like it has been is really causing a lot of this style of social to just be generally more stressful and less accessible, and that really super-sucks when it's your only one :T
outer wilds, extreme endgame spoilers, puzzle appreciation
@karma gosh, i remember that i would specifically try to jam my ship into the hole in the roof of that building in order to not get sucked up into the sky while i waited
it was legit the last thing on my ship log, and the fact that it didn't feel frustrating to find because of the context of the rest of the game is some absolutely next-level design
@XerShadowTail @ticky oh, me too! i like how clean you can make things with it~
i thought i would try out the default pixel launcher for a bit recently, but gosh, i pretty much instantly missed the tabbed app drawer and the ability to hide things i don't actually use
plus, scrolling through an endless list of apps felt pretty bad after i had spent years never needing to scroll to find things at all
i didn't last long before switching back ahah
@SomeEgrets@meow.social hopefully you can find something that can make you feel happier! because that sounds awful
(is there anything else that's social that you think you'd enjoy doing that isn't completely unfeasible..?)
@SomeEgrets@meow.social :(
anyway, the entire code for this is here if you're curious what that looks like in practice! (or if you want to modify it to do your own thing~)
tl;dr if you are unfamiliar, but you can basically css style parts of the browser that aren't modifiable with extensions or themes!
it's locked behind an about:config option though (toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets)
i think it's like that because they don't really guarantee that the things you css aren't going to change between updates, though i feel like styling body in certain urls is pretty safe
@SirTapTap oh yeah, and for a lot of things, testing a bad answer would take more time than just finding a good one
so like, this is still suuuuper limited as far as usefulness goes
@SirTapTap i think trusting its output would be a mistake, but it also doesn't seem bad for learning about the existence of concepts to look more into yourself~
i saw someone using it to explore how to do things in programming languages they weren't familiar with yet, so they could read the documentation about the things it suggested and mess around with the new information they had
doing that apparently got them up to speed pretty quickly, which i thought was a pretty cool idea!
oh hi! i do computers, and sometimes draw stuff~ i like lo-fi things and cute aesthetics!
i also probably like you
(also, tagged #abdl ahead, soooo 🔞)
Joined Nov 2017
