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[–] radix@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why would you ~~pipe~~ edit: redirect neofetch into your .bashrc?

[–] lco@kbin.social 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so that everytime you launch a terminal, your neofetch data is displayed. Because wow, neofetch!!!

It doesn't really make sense, since the data would be outdated anyway if piped into .bashrc that way...

[–] radix@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

But .bashrc is executed, not displayed.

Maybe they meant to say echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It won't work. It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc. You may want either echo 'neofetch' >> .bashrc or neofetch | sed -e 's:%:a:g' | sed -e "s:^\\(.*\\)$:printf '\1\\\\n':" >> .bashrc or something of that kind.

EDIT: tested out the latter command

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

true!! i meant echo neofetch >> .bashrc

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who's the true noob now? Smh

(/s)

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

actually. i meant neofetch > bashrc, as in neofetch is better. checkmate

/s

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It's a dangerous command because a single > destroys your .bashrc.

This is why you have a dotfiles repository, you noob!

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a redirection, not a pipe.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Good catch.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly, that's bloat

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2GB dotfile repo

being lost without vim keybinds

Im_in_this_picture_and_I_dont_like_it.png

I use macOS btw

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also looking at my dotfiles repo...

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This post is what is giving me the idea to finally set up a dotfiles repo for the first time.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i had i3 run with no problems on some of the worst machines I had to use. I'll fight with anyone that claims i3 is bloat.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too smart for NixOS - LMAO! I bet this guy has a conky on his Blackbox.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good old conky lol. Its like it was made to be a config playground, and the actual functionality was an afterthought.

[–] mattomattic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Afterthought is an understatement. I didn't mind piping some of that info into an i3 status bar, but just a couple things. Who needs to watch all that distracting system stuff all the time. Using autocompletions on the command line would get that info quick enough. And whoever down voted my original comment - I'm laughing about it. Serious business right?

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Average OpenBSD user

OpenBSD users:

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Neofetch and NixOS are bloat.

Arch's X setup sucks, sx is better.

[–] Declamatie@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, 2 GB of dotfiles is bloat

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Must be pretty bad spaghetti code.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I can't have sx if I use Linux ;(

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do use sx in Arch, though?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 14 points 1 year ago

It was just an attempt at a dumb stereotypical joke that Linux users don't have sex

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost and not always average Gentoo user

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Has over 100 obscure USE flags he forgot what they do
  • Needs two days to configure his kernel and two more to compile it.
  • Uses ancient thinkpad
  • Uses lynx because firefox won't compile
  • Uses rusty old software because of "tradition"
  • Uptime ~30 years
[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uptime ~30 years

Too generous for Gentoo.

"Maybe if I tweak the kernel config juuuuust a little bit today" "Is it just me or did this particular version of gcc make the kernel 0.0002% slower? I need to do some tests" "...Dunno, it just feels slower today, I guess I need to recompile the whole system"

Uptime: 30 minutes, tops

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True I didn't take this into account. On the other hand we have systemd soft-reboot now.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo users don't use systemd.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bold assumption you did here...

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Most Gentoo users use OpenRC.

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

you forgot the cooling pad it's on since the fans died like a decade ago

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I write in POSIX shell as a matter of principle.

My "dotfiles" repo is a few Kb in size.

I am too dumb and lazy to try Nix.

I do like using vim keybindings in my terminal.

Neofetch is bloat, I wrote a script that shows some essential information when the machine starts and that's it.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Akchually, binary prefixes are the one and only correct prefixes for counting digital size of information (GiB instead of GB).

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

acckshually, i dont use 'Giga' or 'Mega', i just use bits, in scientific notation: 2.0*10^9

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wouldn't be 2 GB, that would be 2 Gb

GB would be 2.0*10^9*8 bits

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uhhh uhhh what's more bloated than windows 10 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i honestly don't know

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nooo that has smaller icon's mabye windows 8 start screen

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you do neofetch > .bashrc you will simply have a broken shell config. To add neofetch to the bashrc you need to use echo.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

it is actually a 200 IQ meme. your average coomfiger doesnt know that much about shell scripting, but thinks they do.

or something. i definitely didnt get it wrong myself