I can think of no legitimate reason. I just do it because I know how to work with ipv4. I’m just about to start learning ipv6, but since networking is but a hobby and I work long hours, the time and energy at my disposal is limited. As soon as I grasp ipv6, I guess I’ll re-enable it. Until then, I’ll just practice it in a container on my PC

I don’t know why, but I laughed quite hard at this. Try putting “…mine has a little molex snake in the middle…” in any other context. XD

On a more serious note, “yes” to everything you said. I “mounted” them to a repurposed bathroom rack. :)

Not audio, but I needed to power some fans with a 12V DC adapter

Thanks!

One could cool down system memory before power is cut to a point where it retains in-use plaintext encryption keys. One basically renders the otherwise volatile system memory temporarily nonvolatile. And if one manages to keep the temperatures low for long enough, one could swap those memory modules into one’s own computer/motherboard and print the keys. As you can imagine, the resources needed for this type of attack makes the proposition of it infeasible. Then again, if your adversary is a nation state… Fingers crossed?

Sometimes I think you young people are just making this shit up. Not that I didn’t laugh.

Quantum partner.

What rabbit hole have you lead me down… Now I can’t stop reading about BSD.

“Unfuck into workable state” is gold. Hope it’s open licensed. 🙏

Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge

Sic. Reminds me of the intro animation to Cowboy Bebop or the in game menus for Cyberpunk 2077.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-THp8-iY0Y

Haven’t checked my low level sound drivers in a long time - I’m using pipewire and wireplumber to control it all. Is ALSA still there at the bottom/as a dependency? Arch btw.

I also remember using DC++: https://dcplusplus.sourceforge.io/webhelp/index.html

Bittorrent is probably better for anonymity/privacy, though, right?

This about the IFS variable was eye opening! Thank you SO much! This is exactly what I was trying to understand, namely, how on earth the for-loop is smart enough to understand how to count when I haven’t specified a numerical interval (as I do in for instance C when I practice that). This just solved it all. Thanks! Now I also understand why my code gave me excessive outputs when I changed ls into ls -l. The IFS variable made the for-loop count every single blank space!!! :D

Reading this part of the Bash manual for the third time today, I think I finally understood it better, thanks to this part in particular:

[…]execute commands once for each word in the resultant list […]

In other words, whatever follows in is half expected to result in a list of words (items), each for which command is then executed. Beyond that, I guess I’d have to simply look at the logic behind for-expressions.

Thanks!

I was a teacher for some years and I absolutely understand your style of explanation. I don’t find it condescending at all! Thank you so much for the in depth guidance! Some of it I already knew, some of it I didn’t. Anyhow, a new perspective is always appreciated! :) God, Bash (GNU/Linux in general) is so much fun!

Penguins are birds too 🥹

Yeah it had some rough edges, which made me stop using it when I was still on Windows.