[-] swab148@startrek.website 93 points 5 months ago

Okay, so here's the recap:

I woke up this morning and decided my main drive (just a 500GB SSD) was too full, at about 85%, so I decided to do something about that. I go through the usual: pacman -Sc, paccache -rk0, and pacman -Qqtd | pacman -Rns - (which I've aliased to "orphankiller" because that's too much typing for me). None of that did anything though, as I'm usually pretty up on this, and I expected it, so my next step was to find other ways of deleting unnecessary files floating around, and that meant a trip to the usually very helpful Arch wiki.

On the page "pacman Tips and Tricks", I find 1.7: Detecting More Unneeded Packages. "Perfect!" I thought, "That's exactly what I'm looking for!" I enthusiastically type in the command pacman -Qqd | pacman -Rns -, and then quickly go check how much space I just saved. Nada. Or at least not enough to move the percentage point. "Oh well, keep looking," I think and I go back to Firefox to click some more links in hopes that one of them will be the space saving ultra-script that I need. The first one I click, I get an error from my trusty browser, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was something about not being able to verify the page. "Weird, let's try another one." Nope, same thing.

Well, being that I had just deleted something, I figured I should go see what exactly it was that I did. It was a good thing I'd left the terminal window open, because after just a few scrolls I saw it: ca_certificates, which Firefox absolutely needs. "Great, I'll just reinstall." Nope! I just deleted my pacman cache, and pacman also needs those certificates to download from the Arch repo's mirrors! "Fantastic," I grumbled while I tried to think of how I could get this pesky package back on my machine.

Then it occurred to me: I've been keeping up with my btrfs snapshots (for once, lol)! I can just backup to yesterday and forget this whole mess! So I bring up Timeshift, and we're on our way back to a functioning system! Or so I thought. See, I don't have a separate /home partition, but I do have a separate @home subvolume, so when Timeshift asked me if I wanted to restore that too, I clicked the check mark. Only thing is, I don't think I actually have a separate @home subvolume, which brings us to the error in the meme. /home wouldn't mount, and that meant I was borked.

Fortunately, our story has a happy ending! I DDG'd the error on my phone, and found a post from like seven years ago, about someone who had this same set of circumstances, and the one reply was my fix: just go into /etc/fstab and delete the "subvolid" part of whatever partition that's giving you grief. Did that, reboot, and we're finally fixed! And now, forevermore, I shall check what I'm deleting before I hit the enter button!

The post-script is bittersweet though, because after all this trouble, and then the rest of the afternoon working on the original problem, I am down to... 81%. Oh well.

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I'll give the whole story if anyone wants it

[-] swab148@startrek.website 44 points 6 months ago

I ride Arch, btw

[-] swab148@startrek.website 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh my God, that's disgusting! Where?

[-] swab148@startrek.website 53 points 9 months ago

Maybe someone has a router down there

[-] swab148@startrek.website 86 points 9 months ago

But they are le tired

[-] swab148@startrek.website 108 points 10 months ago

Those little pip things on new tires, you gotta glue them on individually!

[-] swab148@startrek.website 46 points 11 months ago

So glad that didn't happen to me.

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submitted 11 months ago by swab148@startrek.website to c/gaming@beehaw.org

For backstory: My partner and I have been playing Super Mario Party so long that it's gotten boring. They asked me what I wanted for my birthday (which is coming up), and I thought something like that would be cool. If X-COM 2 had a local co-op on the Switch, I'd do that, but is there something similar?

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Gordon has gotten so big! (startrek.website)

I'm sure it's not the radiation...

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Hello, Gordon! (startrek.website)
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This is my first time posting from Boost, let's see how it goes...

[-] swab148@startrek.website 90 points 1 year ago

Hydro homies in shambles

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Basically title, every bit of online dating nowadays is either Match or Meta, and we're all about breaking corporate chains right?

So these are the thoughts I had:

  1. Matches based on simple user selection: age range, lifestyle, hobbies etc. None of that dumb algorithm stuff that makes you reset your profile every month.

  2. ActivityPub protocol so that anyone can run their own instance, but can also be blocked if anything heinous happens.

  3. E2EE for messaging (and anything else if it's possible).

  4. Someone wrote an open-source anti-CSAM script for Lemmy recently, I hope we could adapt that to our use.

  5. Just, like, everyone have a good time on this app, we're here for love lol

I am not a coder, so I would have no idea how to do this, but I wonder about the interest in such a creation. Maybe some of you out there could make something I could use to get a date (pls).

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submitted 1 year ago by swab148@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.ml

I wish I was just like them <3

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And got the hots for some soup!

I am convinced that this episode gave rise to the goo fetish we all know (and love).

Album: https://ibb.co/album/235Ykf

Assets: https://ibb.co/album/HLRccM

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Well you got caught with a killer dwarf! Well, how 'bout that? Well babies, don't you panic.

By the light of the night, it'll all seem alright! I'll get you a galactic mechanic.

Album: https://ibb.co/album/235Ykf

Assets: https://ibb.co/album/HLRccM

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A good trader always knows when to exploit the youths.

Album: https://ibb.co/album/235Ykf

Assets: https://ibb.co/album/HLRccM

[-] swab148@startrek.website 42 points 1 year ago

I am a Linux user, so I've, of course, driven all my friends away because they weren't FOSS.

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I am a servant of the secret [f a m i l y], wielder of the flame of [f r i e n d s h i p]! The [s c a r y t h u n d e r] will not avail you, flame of [m y o w n p r e d e c e s s o r s]! Go back to the [s k y]!

Do you really need a lightning monster to bring your community together? What implications does this have for us? Do we need a lightning monster?

Since y'all are so much better at the history and lore of Star Trek, I've decided to start crowdsourcing my memes! (Especially after the very embarrassing miss of Finger.) If you've got any ideas for future episodes, shoot me a message!

Album: https://ibb.co/album/235Ykf

Assets: https://ibb.co/album/HLRccM

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Ya know, it's just that your husband is a traitor and all, so I just thought, ya know....

This post is in celebration of the fact that I've finally migrated to startrek.website! And I believe that deserves something special, how about the severed heads of many beloved characters! Haha, it's my assets folder! Now you can all play paper dolls with me! This will be updated as well, so keep checking if you wanna find out what Sisko looks like without a neck! (Weirdly, I haven't made a Sisko meme yet.)

Album: https://ibb.co/album/235Ykf

Assets (again. It's good, check it out): https://ibb.co/album/HLRccM

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