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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • The POSIX standard is more portable. If you are writing scripts for your system, you can use the full features in the main man pages. If you are writing code that you want to run on other Linux systems, maybe with reduced feature sets like a tiny embedded computer or alternates to gnu tools like alpine linux, or even other unixes like the BSDs, you will have a better time if you limit yourself to POSIX-compatible features and options – any POSIX-compatible Unix-like implementation should be able to run POSIX-compliant code.

    This is also why many shell scripts will call #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash – sh is more likely to be available on tinier systems than bash.

    If you are just writing scripts and commands for your own purposes, or you know they will only be used on full-feature distributions, it’s often simpler and more comfortable to use all of the advanced features available on your system.



  • Just bite the bullet and move to the best fit. I jumped from spotify to ytm and I lost some features that I loved, but gained others.

    Trust, though? Neither. They’re both terrible companies, but I am currently living in southeast Asia working for an American company, so it’s nice to pay $4 usd worth of local currency for a full youtube premium family membership. I know Google is spying on all the media I watch, but it’s convenient as heck to let my kid watch their YouTube channels with no ads and I get good music out of it.





  • I’ve never had an issue with y’all and “dude/dudes” in gender neutral ways. They’re the natural words I grew up with. On rare occasions, somebody doesn’t prefer “dude” and I’ll use different terms for them and around them.

    In professional settings such as work email, I tend to use the more formal gender-neutral terms like “people” and “everybody” and “they/them”, but I’m also in a region where “y’all” is accepted in formal conversation, so I often use that.