I think it used to be the case that less could handle gzipped files transparently in Debian, but at some point that went away. Might be within the last release - might be a buster thing.
I haven't bothered trying to investigate it. Can anyone shed any light?
I imagine it will still work should the required environment variables ever change in a future version. But lesspipe >> ~/.bashrcwill save a process for every shell you start, which isn't nothing
The eval runs lesspipe every time you start the shell. Just putting the exports into .bashrc doesn't. You can make your own trade-off decision about that or just decide it doesn't matter
It looks like someone has been collecting acquisition and shutdown notices. But why?
And it's 2019, and someone is still complaining about how hard Debian is to install. Some things never change -> lwn.net/Articles/792952
Is non-free firmware support still such a problem?
Though apparently it was (eventually) a positive experience. To quote:
> Honestly, I'm stoked that a decade-old laptop that the vendor stopped caring about the second it was released has been given a new lease of life and feels like a modern machine again thanks to Debian.
@JeffSchaller with its brother in arms, “accurate investor” — bounty 150 different answers, taking the answerer exactly to the cap but not over every time
(although since bonuses don’t count against the cap it’s a rather artificial goal)
“Legendary Investor” could be rephrased as “Creator of Legends”
@JeffSchaller ah yes! And “Blind sniper” — award a 200-point bounty to a user who previously had 149 rep-cap days and whose profile didn’t indicate their “Legendary” progress
Fix-Jeff's-complaint: 7 days before the question is posted, calculate (200-rep) and assign a bounty of that amount -- hint: 50 would do -- so that the eventual answerer earns a rep-cap day
(bonus points for the time travelling, since bounties have to start 2 days after posting)
days represented 1548
rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 337 days
earned at least 200 reputation on 460 days
earned 12 reputation from suggested edits
but with smaller numbers (except perhaps the suggested edits) :-P
days represented 1461 rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 12 days earned at least 200 reputation on 19 days earned 314 reputation from suggested edits
157 suggested edits until I hit 2k! I remember those days
geocaching --> geocaching.com/help -- it's a bunch of kids and retired people using multi-million dollar satellites to find tupperware hidden in the woods
logic puzzle --> a way some people "hide" the final location of a geocache by making you solve a particular puzzle. Logic puzzle being one particular flavor. I wonder if there's a name for the category
Uh, I missed that GNU Stow had updated to 2.3.0 for almost a month. And I'm supposed to be the port maintainer for that on OpenBSD... Ah well, patch submitted anyway.
@ilkkachu Saw your comment on your deleted answer. Yeah, I sometimes write a full answer to a half-read question only to realise I'm pulling the wrong strings completely.
@FaheemMitha If it's a PCRE, it means "3 or more space characters" where "space character" means any space, tab (horizontal and vertical), newline, or carriage return (the same as [[:space:]]).