That would be true like 200 years ago, every guy would know some woodworking because you are a farmer and you are poor.

The executable will search for .so files not inside predefined paths like /usr/lib but inside it’s current directory. You may theoretically put . as an argument to configure, but it converts that into an absolute path, snd libtool and linker fail when encountering relative paths inside shared library dependencies.

I am using this myself in Android app, where you can write files only inside /data/data/your.app.id/

So naturally, if you want to publish a different app, your.app.id will be different, so you need to recompile all your Linux tools that you bundle inside your app.

If you are not running your Linux tools on Android, you’d probably be better off using Docker or a chroot.

--prefix=$(pwd) is resolved at compile time. If you move your compiled .so files to a different directory, they stop working.

Do you know how to build portable executables?

configure --prefix=/proc/self/pwd

It even works in .so files and libtool.

Browse Linux credits for some funky names. My favorite is Jos Vos.

Each investor will get one CD of ChatGPT training data per share as a bankruptcy settlement. Every CD need to be inserted into a single user-provided server to train the model anew, because it’s saved as a multipart archive.

What’s big, cylindrical, and has two legs on one side? 90% of the time it’s a capacitor.

killall kdeconnectd ; kdeconnect-cli -l

Fixes connection problems instantly. Yeah, I’ve put that into my crontab.

Oooh. Gnome gets a dedicated software developer. Just imagine what he could add in two years.

DESKTOP

WITH

ICONS

Written in hand-optimized assembly with individual implementation for every CPU on the planet, with integer division function in 10000 lines of code impelented with XOR and bit-shifting which is somehow 0.3% faster than CPU built-in division operation.

I’ve recently used Codeberg. It’s online about two hours per day.

You can append

2>&1 | logger -t my-cronjob

to any command, and it will write logs to system journal which you can view withjournalctl

They exist. But it’s mostly viruses. Every competent script monkey runs their bots on Linux servers, unless it’s someone’s else PC.

Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?

Most of the proprietary VPN clients are a fork of OpenVPN or Wireguard client with rebranding and a payment button.

You can write true instead of : and it will look better, true is an actual command.

In a sane and healthy software company, they would contribute their changes back to BSD just because it makes easier to apply latest BSD changes amd security fixes.

Most companies wont. They fork, modify the BSD code for their specific hardware, sell it, and never ever update thier software.

256 GB SD card already costs like a new phone.

Open-source VPN clients do not implement the most important feature - a monthly reminder to pay your bill. Well, and dumbing down the technical UI to one big green button, so even dumbest users would not have trouble with it.