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  • diff -y -W 200 file1 file2

    Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.

    I have actually aliased this command as diffy

    ctrl-r

    searching bash history

    du -sh * | sort -h

    shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list

    ls -ltr

    Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.


  • If you are going to dual boot and your computer has room for 2 drives. The way I would recommend doing it is to add a second drive for Linux, and disconnect to windows drive from the computer. Do a normal linux install. And then add the windows drive back in. Then you can set one of the drives as the default boot device and if you want to boot to the other just open the Boot options on boot.

    This keeps things totally separated and you can even remove one of the drives later if you want to single boot.


  • beirdobaggins@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldThis post
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    3 months ago

    I lived in Austin, TX and used to know a homeless guy, Walter Dwight Green 1955, back in '98 that spent winters in jail for public intoxication for the same reasons.

    Including name, in case anyone else knew him and wants to chat. He was originally from Kentucky.

    I was a teenager at the time but I tried to help him as much as I could.

    I had to leave town for a year, when I came back, I found out he froze to death in the winter I was gone.
















  • I was a poor kid living in Hawaii in the mid 90’s.

    Wendy’s in Hawaii had a salad bar. If you ordered the “dine in” salad bar, they gave you a fairly small plate and you were allowed one trip.

    If you ordered it to go, you still had the one trip restriction, but they would give you a big plastic clamshell to go container. They assumed you would put food in the bottom of the container and close it up and leave.

    Not me. I would order to go, but fill both halves of the container and eat it all at one of the tables. Usually one of the halves was mostly Chocolate pudding and cheezy crackers.