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Close enough, there are distro install speedrun: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7kg7i1/install_gento... Then of course, once you have the OS you can attempt the classical editor speedrun: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/8rqkzz/vim_exit_s...
This would be a really fun competition in a maddening way. If somebody put up a VM to start with, I'd bite. Or at least, if there was some kind of criteria for a starting point, putting together a bare bones distro wouldn't be too hard. I can see bootstrapping a basic editor using cat and working all the way through a TCP stack, DNS, etc. but my mind blanks at implementing TLS. Seems like it would be a requirement to…
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As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
Trying to install Logitech MX Master 2S on Ubuntu 16 and it detects the device on bluetooth but not as a mouse device. So it doesn't move, it's dead. Windows and Mac work just fine. Apparently Logitech can't be bothered to have drivers for Linux or Linux doesn't know Bluetooth well enough to handle all mice.
But the device was introduced in 2017, and you mention Ubuntu 16. Newer devices require newer drivers.
Thanks for a great read, love ideas like this if for nothing else but to keep one's nerdiness and thirst for obscure trivia alive.
>" About 15 years ago, I mused about the idea of having a "desert island machine". This is where I'd put someone in a room with a box that has a couple of hard drives and a working network connection. HD #1 is blank. HD #2 has a few scraps of a (Linux) OS on it: bootloader, kernel, C library and compiler, that sort of thing. There's a network connection of some sort, and that's about it. There are no editors and noth…
I grew up on a greek island, that stuff gets boring fast :-P
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As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
Trying to install Logitech MX Master 2S on Ubuntu 16 and it detects the device on bluetooth but not as a mouse device. So it doesn't move, it's dead. Windows and Mac work just fine. Apparently Logitech can't be bothered to have drivers for Linux or Linux doesn't know Bluetooth well enough to handle all mice.
Bored?! I'm sure that there are a gazillion more useful - and even fun - things to do
Sure, but that's always true.
> and even fun - things to do
Never:)
>" So here's the pitch: Linux speedruns. By that, I don't mean "speedrunning a game on a Linux box" (like emulation, or something). Nope. I mean speedrunning the Linux situation itself. Start with a minimal system and get yourself to the point where you can do something meaningful (like reading cat pictures on Reddit). " I'd rather do something useful or at least pleasant. I don't have an infinite amount of time and…
What on earth are you doing on HN? Close your browser and start solving world hunger!
A similar sort of exercise might be to just install Arch Linux to a working desktop or some other use case. Arch Linux puts responsibility for the install on your shoulders based on your needs and decisions. In the end, you get a VERY up-to-date installation of linux, without needless bloat, and it stays that way due to rolling updates.