I would guess the deletion hasn’t propagated to all server instances so it’s still showing up in those instances. I imagine that posts are truly deleted but just marked as such I the database. Therefore a down vote could still be attached to the now deleted post this incrementing the counter.

The good news is karma isn’t a thing here so don’t worry about getting extra down votes.

Excuse me while I get really mad at you for not using Vim even though it doesn’t effect me in anyway.

Jokes aside, I’ve gone the route of just using an extension in VS code to give me the Vim key bindings. I can’t go back to non-modal text editors the muscle memory is too strong. I really should play around with emacs in “evil mode” at some point. Maybe I could get the best of both worlds then.

Edit: Vince -> Vim, Vince is a terrible text editor he doesn’t even understand my keystrokes when I type at him.

As is this bill is waaaay too broad. It seems the legislative body recognizes that so hopefully there will be a significantly narrower definition for what applications require age assurance. If you live in Cali call your state reps, and voice your concerns! I do like the idea of age verification via device attestation, way less invasive than uploading a pic of your ID to some chuckle-fuck 3rd party that is gonna get hacked. I would like no age verification being forced, but it looks like that is not gonna happen.

Nah your overall meme is defeatist as fuck. Your saying no matter who you vote for the trolley will run ove everyone. I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but this bullshit dichotomy doesn’t help.

We really need to stamp down on this “but both sides suck” bullshit. Yes the establishment Democrats suck, but this defeatist bullshit doesn’t help. I know it would be great to live in a country where there isn’t a two party system l. No hate towards you this subject just got me ramty as fuck.

Totally valid reason to not respond. Take care of yourself before you take care of someone else.

Hey if you didn’t have the emotional capacity for that good for you.

The place to start is searching “How to do x in Linux (or the name of the specific distro you’re using)?”. If you are trying to figure out how to do something with a specific program searching for “How to do x in {program} on Linux?”. I’ve been using Linux for years and still need to look up the syntax for commands or a reminder on how to do things. I would also focus on learning things that you actively need so you can apply what you learned immediately. I definitely agree with you that see what is actually installed can be a mess. There’s so many different installation methods that it’s nigh impossible to have a single unified interface. I would try to stick with one installation method as much as possible so most things are able to be listed in one spot.

For how to apply things it’s common to feel overwhelmed with the complexity of certain tasks. It’s important to try and break that down into smaller parts. An example of something I was recently dealing with was getting SSH access from an external network setup on a server that is running NixOS. There’s so many steps to take to get that setup, but each individual step is easy to do. I broke down the problem like this:

1. Find the server’s local IP address. Easy to pull up on the machine itself or looking at the devices connected to my router.
2. Ping that IP address from the computer I want to SSH from.
3. Enable the SSH daemon on the server.
   1. In my case this was just settings a variable to true, but in most cases it would be installing if via a package manager (varies depending on the distro), but I run Fedora so I would run sudo dnf install openssh openssh-server. I can find those package names by running dnf search ssh or “SSH server on fedora”.
   2. Ensure the SSH daemon is enabled and running by running sudo systemctl enable sshd and sudo systemctl start sshd
4. Try to SSH into the server from the computer I want to use.
5. Create some SSH keys so I can do authentication via a private key file instead of a password (much more secure, and good practice).

I can go on, but each step I feel is simple to execute and doesn’t require knowledge from any subsequent step. As for how I know what the steps are, I am following some tutorials or docs online like this, digging through man pages, and personal experience.

First always take notes of the steps you took to do something. If you were throwing shit at the wall then try and do it again using only the correct steps. I have saved my own ass by taking down notes. Include the commands (obviously), what they do, why you’re using them, the expected output, and errors you came across with their solutions.

Since you said you wanted man pages to be easier to parse, I’ll give you some advice on how to approach these, admittly, intimidating blocks of text. One skill I have learned is how to read those intimidating technical documents and actually get the information I need from them. A good practice is take a tool, a programming language, data format, etc. that you already know and look at the technical specifications. Since you already know how it works you should be able to understand the information in there, and learn how to parse out that data. RFC 2119 also gives some guidance on some of the word usage in those documents (it’s very limited), and is a nice short one to get used to reading stuff like that.

Another thing is I just try shit out to see what happens. Would probably be a good idea to do this on a machine you don’t care about reimaging, or make a backup of all the data you care about losing. I’m a very learn by doing kind of person and have learned a lot this way

Finally if you have the time and knowledge looking at source code can really give you an understanding of how a tool works. This is my absolute last resort, so don’t think you have to do this.

Edit: I wrote this assuming you’re ok with getting into the nitty gritty of Linux. Otherwise I would recommend switching to a more user friendly OS. It looks like you’re trying to set it up for gaming, this is a guess and I could be wrong. I have been using Bazzite for about 6 months now, and the only times I have issues with it is when I try to do power user stuff that isn’t gaming related (e.g. trying to install a build tool to build something from source code).

I’ve heard anecdotal evidence that the anti-malaria medication the US military uses that cause people to have recurring nightmares. If you’re taking a medicine that is supposed to effect the brain I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t effect your dreams.

Yeah it’s a mix of “fair enough” , and “are you really monitoring votes close enough to even find me?”. If I went out of my way to downvote everything then I would say the ban is 100% justified. At this point I can see the point of view, but also is it worth the effort, when I will probably block the community anyways?

I’ve been banned from a few communities cause o reflexively downvote anything that’s AI generated.

Ah that would explain why I didn’t know. I have next to no experience with Apple devices.

Well it does depend on your exact use case, but using a proper database is usually the better option for production. Now if this is just some little service you made for yourself use whatever you want.

Wait is APFS a new file system than NTFS? Guess I’m too busy on my Tiktoks and Nintendos to keep up to date

This fool doesn’t know that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. Edit: apparently I needed this /s

I like it without a total count. I’m not worried if something I say gets heavily down voted (and usually it deserves it if it does happen). Plus you don’t get try hards who only care about making that number go up, and are just posting everywhere in pursuit of that goal rather than cause they thought it was worth posting.

I think I mix them interchangeably. Much to the chagrin of my English teachers.

In that same vein I’ve seen pibling for aunt/uncle.

Can I ask what quirks/off behavior you see (genuinely asking)?