ElderWendigo

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[–] ElderWendigo 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The top half is drawn completely different (looking like a classic far side) than the lower shaded half (looking more like an old cartoon). I'm sure the difference in drawing style has something to do with the joke, but I'm not sure how.

[–] ElderWendigo 0 points 4 months ago

Start with the man pages. Running the command man followed by a space and then followed by the command you're using will almost always give you a man page of the basics of how that command works. The fstab has its own man page too. An internet search "man fstab" or whatever command you're interested in should also net many mirrors of the those man pages as well.

[–] ElderWendigo 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For me at least, it's not that you're asking questions. I answered, so obviously I'm sympathetic to confusion in this area. I'm just trying to encourage you to seek your answers in the documentation and manuals FIRST. The way your question was worded led me to believe that you had not read the manuals at all and were simply copying snippets of code and commands from some random question and answer style forum that did not teach you anything about the fundamentals of what those commands and code actually did. That's fine too, lots of people started off that way, myself included. Reading the manuals gives you the context to step back and understand how those commands work and what they're really doing. If you do, you'll be much better able to troubleshoot your own problems, you'll be able to ask better questions in forums like this, and you'll get better and more useful responses.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

With all due respect, RTFM. Mount and umount are two sides of the same operational coin. You mount the drive to use it and unmount it when you're done. fstab is just a file system table used to remember and consistently apply the options used whether you're mounting the drives manually or telling the system to do it at boot.

Deleting a line from fstab is not the same as unmounting, it is just a shortcut to tell the system how you want that drive mounted when you or the system run the mount command. Mount directories (usually the folders in /media/ or /mnt/ ) also do not get automatically deleted just because you "yanked the drive". Again, those directories are just where your system is expecting to mount the drive. When the drive is mounted they will be the root path to its contents, when the drive is unmounted they will be empty but they still exist. If your planning on mounting the drive again leave them there. If you're not planning on mounting them again, delete them.

If you're not planning on regularly mounting a particular drive, it probably shouldn't be listed in fstab and you should just run the mount command with the appropriate options (again fstab is just a table for remembering those options for the mount command).

Many desktop Linux distros are also capable of automatically mounting new removable drives in such a way that the user can access them and doesn't have to worry about touching fstab or the mount directories.

[–] ElderWendigo 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I did say fancy.

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Aren't sqilte files themselves (like most other things) just fancy text files?

[–] ElderWendigo 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any breakfast at home is almost always better than breakfast out, if you've got the time and ingredients. I can, with the right ingredients and tools and while half asleep, hungover, or still drunk, make a full breakfast for a family of four better than 90% of the breakfasts I've ever had out. Sure it took some practice, but breakfast isn't rocket science or usually particularly complex recipe wise.

The only thing I haven't been able to do better at home breakfast wise so far is making my own fresh bagels or donuts. I don't like making poached eggs either, and hollandaise sauce is a pain in the ass, but I can count on one hand the number of times I've gotten an eggs Benedict out at a restaurant that didn't make me immediately regret my choice. Same with biscuits and gravy (why do restaurants think that gravy comes out of a box and should be bright white?) , bacon (just bacon flavored bacon please), eggs (sunny side up does not mean I want the whites to be clear and runny too), etc. All things I really like, but can't tolerate having someone else fuck up and charge me for it.

[–] ElderWendigo 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What I want for Christmas.

What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock... and this thing which tells time. I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They're very good for Christmas. I don't think that a football's a very good Christmas present.

[–] ElderWendigo 5 points 4 months ago

Ah I see we actually agree. That's my bad. I'm so used to getting shouted down around here by people that didn't read very closely, I wrongly interpreted your comment. Ironic. I'm sorry.

[–] ElderWendigo 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Doesn't really seem like you understood what I said or read any of what I linked. That's still roughly 11 grams of nicotine, so still several hundred times more than it takes to kill an adult by my quick back of the envelope estimate.

[–] ElderWendigo 17 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I mean this isn’t really poison tho.

Go ahead and look into the toxicity of a single drop (30-60mg) of nicotine. Plenty of "natural plant products" that are poisons.

[–] ElderWendigo 5 points 4 months ago

That's not an AI boyfriend. That's an AI Nanny/Therapist/Caretaker. They have a live in AI nurse.

 

As seen very briefly in the movie Weekend at Bernie's II (1993), what is the yellow box like thing this lady is carrying? Camera? Maybe, but what make or model?

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