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      For years I have been one foot into the engineer turned goose farmer meme, with the other foot left in my normal job.

      It works alright! I don’t worry about work while at home in my suburban zoo, and when I’m at work I am not dying to get the hell out of there like I remember being several years ago.

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            I only have two dogs. I’m not quite sure how many cats there are But I think including the fosters are somewhere around a dozen. Sometimes it feels like my property is just a frog and toad sanctuary.

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        Fun fact! The Roman emperor Diocletian abdicated the throne after he stabilised the Roman empire after the Crisis of the Third Century. He retired to his villa in what is now Croatia to grow cabbages. This was an unprecedented move — typically an emperor served for the rest of their life and/or were violently overthrown. However, it took only a few years for the peace that Diocletian had established to begin to crumble into civil war again; when his friends and colleagues beseeched him to return to stabilise things, he was reported to have said “If only you knew the peace and tranquility I gain from tending and growing my cabbages, you would understand the impossibility of such a request!”[1][2]

        I sincerely wish Dylan a life of as much peace and tranquility as the MVP ex-emperor Diocletian.


        [1]: I don’t remember the source of this particular translation, but the original source for this is Epitome de Caesaribus 39.6

        [2]: A different translation of the same line is “If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn’t dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.”. I prefer this one, because it makes it sound like he was disproportionately proud of his cabbages rather than just glad to be away from the shitstorm of Roman politics. However, the one I actually used fit the sentiment of my comment better.

        n.b. I am not a Historian, just a scientist whose late best friend was a Historian, and thus I am morally obligated to use what he taught me to make shitposts.

        Edit: formatting


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      • ikidd@lemmy.world
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        After you’ve dealt with enough end users, farming is glorious. And a lot more complicated than you would think.

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      Got archived because it’s “feature complete” and won’t receive more updates, but some package managers removed it.

      There is objectively better alternatives like fastfetch.

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        What’s objectively better is that the neofetch developer actually did what we all fantisize about. Maximum respect

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        Serious question: if something is “finished” why would that spark removal. At some point a lot of complete programs will no longer be actively maintained but they are still useful and working.

        Also, is there a way to keep copies of things like this? I know how to install via apt install, and whatnot, but that relies on an internet connection and a repo. I’m used to windows where I can back up the installers on my hard drive.

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          Even if something is finished it’s a risk if no one looks after it since there’s always the possibility of security vulnerabilities, software is rarely truly done.

          For Arch, packages are archived online for quite a while, you could still install neofetch via sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/neofetch/neofetch-7.1.0-2-any.pkg.tar.zst currently.

          Installed packages are also left in /var/cache/pacman/pkg until cleaned up manually and can be similarly installed from there. The one thing to look out for is whether the dependencies are still available and compatible since, unlike on Windows, packages don’t usually bundle their dependencies. For a closer experience in that regard there’s .AppImage which is a self-contained package similar to an .exe.

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      In Debian trixie:

      $ apt search neofetch
       fastfetch/stable,unstable 2.40.4+dfsg-1 amd64
        neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
      
      hyfetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
        Command-line Tool that Presents System Info
      
      linuxlogo/stable,unstable 6.01-0.1 amd64
        Color ANSI System Logo
      
      neowofetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
        Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo
      

      Looks like you’ve got alternatives.

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        Fastfetch is a good replacement, but you can still install neofetch manually

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      It became a dozen slightly different clones.

      It’s like everyone’s favorite “hello world” application.

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      Neofetch is the precursor to Fastfetch, Neofetch eventually became unmaintained which birthed Fastfetch a fork of Neofetch.

      Essentially it’s a CLI tool to quickly list out system specifications, you can change what it lists with a config file.

      Here is their GitHub - https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

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        I’ve commonly seen it used in a terminal when people are showing off a screenshot of their custom Unix desktop theme.

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          Some distros come with it pre-installed some have to do it manually, if you’re trying make your operating system have more pizzaz then small things like this spice it up.

          Fastfetch is actually quite customizable yet most people leave it on the defaults since it adopts the theme of each distro.