… is it the “UNIX-Hater’s Handbook” from 1994 with a parody of “The Scream” on the cover?

LOL nice, I’ll have to check it out. :) Thanks!

I’ve read this somewhere too! Where are you quoting it from if I may ask?

But yes I also agree 💯%. rm should always be treated with respect and care by default rather than “customizing the danger away.”

That’s certainly something you can do! I would personally follow the recommendation against aliasing rm though, either just using the trash tool’s auto complete or a different alias altogether.

Reason being as someone mentioned below: You don’t want to give yourself a false sense of security or complacency with such a dangerous command, especially if you use multiple systems.

I liken it to someone starting to handle weapons more carelessly because the one they have at home is “never loaded.” Better safe than sorry.

Lol we should have “rules of rm safety”:

• Assume rm is always sudo unless proven otherwise.
• (EDIT)Finger should be off the Enter key until you are certain you are ready to delete.
• Never point rm at something you aren’t willing to permanently destroy.
• Always be aware of your target directory, and what is recursively behind it!

OOOOOOOOOOOF!!

One trick I use, because I’m SUPER paranoid about this, is to mv things I intend to delete to /tmp, or make /tmp/trash or something.

That way, I can move it back if I have a “WHAT HAVE I DONE!?” moment, or it just deletes itself upon reboot.

I’m sure I have a lot, but comes to mind:

EDIT: Sorry this turned into a big reply haha…

• Zombie (both the original and the 2016 Bad Wolves cover) , the second it opens, just visceral; it’s the same old thing, in [2026], in our heads…
• The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring , I hate relating so hard to this as a generation, watching so many kids with promise just get smothered out surviving in a bleak “cruelest dream reality.” Oft by drugs and hopelessness.
• In the Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLachlan : My mom always cries if she hears this song because her late mom did too. Then my cousin sang it at my dad’s funeral so…Yeah, I don’t let that one play. Sorry, Sarah.
• Immortal by Marina and the Diamonds ; The entire song is beautiful and profound. “And if the earth ends in fire, and the seas are frozen in time, there’ll be just one survivor, the memory that I was yours and you were mine.” (Holy shit just typing that…)
• Pretty When I Cry by Silent Rival ; Such a beautiful song I thought was about a partner who taught the singer about true unconditional love… It’s about her late mother. It empowers me to fight to be there for those I love, and it sends a powerful message that we can be strong in our weakness.
• Dust in the Wind by Kansas ; anything about the fleetingness of life hits me hard.
• Memories by Maroon 5. I miss people…

Lots of happy songs too…Like they’re beautiful and wistful and lovely and I think I cry because I can’t imagine such peace… My wife likes these songs and I guess I kinda break imagining us getting to just unshoulder our burdens and truly live.

• Perfect by Ed Sheeran
• Just Too Good by Phil Wickham
• “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” , a popular Christian hymn from 1907, made prominent in recent history by BioShock Infinite.
• On that note, Amazing Grace really is amazing, but it doesn’t help that it’s the ‘somebody died’ song now…
• The Prayer by many artists: Celine Dion and Andre Bocelli
• Prayer by Hayley Westenra
• In My Arms by Plumb (has some sweet remixes, but man, a mother’s love is truly something…our first is on the way and I really feel it now…)
• Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen

… Okay I’m sensing a theme here. Yeah, I’m a person of faith. Thinking of a refuge in my Father where I can stop worrying, stop fearing, stop fighting. Songs about pure and unyielding love, or lullabies , crush me instead of relax me for some reason. Maybe because the contrast with our present circumstances is so harshly defined and such respite feels like it can’t be had in this life.

I’ll have to check these out. I’ll add another Sabaton here:

• Christmas Truce

It’s powerful. The “true meaning of Christmas” has been satirized and watered down to death in our time…

…But there was a time it truly could stop a war. It could get people to lay down their guns and be brothers again.

Their “superiors” forced them back into battle. If we all snubbed our masters and just stopped fighting, what could we be?

I would totally love to browse a simpler “layer” of the Internet that could be navigated with Lynx! The biggest downside would be lack of images. (Maybe Lynx can do images?)

But I could see an indie web of little blogs and human created artifacts that would be surfed kinda like logging into a MUD. :D

First off, I’m really glad to see posts from personal websites and blogs! Way to keep the indie web alive!

Sadly I got a Cloudflare error trying to open the page. But, I think on this subject, GUIs can be great tools, but they’re the most commonly designed with exploitative dark patterns and “our users are drooling simpletons” in mind.

Terminals are also super cool. It’s definitely easier to automate terminal programs than GUIs!

Also TUI? Man, opening BTOP is always a treat .

It just kinda depends on the tool for the job, right? Blender is a great example of a streamlined necessary graphical interface that asks for a terminal-like familiarity from the user. (And GUI-only folks kinda rage at it at first hehe)

Running as much as possible in terminal is definitely easier on the resources though, and I want to get a lot better at that. (As sexy as KDE is!)

Exactly. I’ve got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way…)

What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective (secondhand, and WDs RMA procedure is STRICT.) , so now I’m stuck with a half expansion I don’t know what to do with and it’s kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.

My media collection isn’t on a mirror or backed up or anything because it’s naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.

Oh that’s so COO-(FLASHBANG LIGHT AND PINGING SOUND) - why’d it have to be a white webpage lmao. X_X A sign I should be sleeping lol.

Seriously this is awesome though, thanks for sharing this! Sounds like it could be a great upgrade from the PineTime some time. That was unexpectedly exciting!

Can attest: Gadget Bridge with my PineTime is LEGIT.

Really curious if there’s an upgraded watch experience though. This AsteroidOS sounds pretty neat. I miss those “pebble” watches.

I agree with you; if they have a resource they can approach together, it’d be much easier to be on the same page.

And also yeah, people tend to resist help and advice they never asked for to begin with.

Yeah that “depending” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there lol.

Also big depending: At least try not to make it TOO obvious that’s what you’re doing. Most library people are cool, (Source: know library people) but it’s kinda obvious when we see someone racking up the hold shelf with like 30-40 DVDs and CDs a week. LMAO

Unfortunately the mega media interests do occasionally try to pressure libraries to enforce copyright violations or whatever. (Like telling you you can’t photocopy textbook pages or something)

I personally try to just archive things I own, primarily, or things that are special and important to me, but that’s also because I have maybe 4TB to work with and hardware is insane again.

But there’s a point when it starts to look like compulsory hoarding lol. It’s kinda an open secret/ gray area, and a few people being stupid will likely catch attention. (Look what happened to archive.org fending off broadsides from the publishing industry.)

In a way a lot of us end up becoming amateur librarians. When the big megaservers get hit with something nasty, or they decide to purge it all for AI datasets or something. (Idk it’s a stupid timeline anything is possible lol)

I like to think our fellow amateur archivists who started collecting such things for personal reasons will be a force for preserving meaningful artifacts of human experience.

“(smirk) Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory.”

Despite Hasbro’s best efforts with its pet lifestyle brand lol.

Man, if that isn’t the experience when visiting any niche online community around anything hahaha.

As the old saying goes: “Copper is copper!”

From my understanding looking into it somewhat seriously and asking folks, I wouldn’t recommend getting into Etsy.

Between its endorsement of Ai slop and high fees, it’s gotten to App Store levels of “If you’re not at the top, you’re at the bottom.”

I’d still recommend local, but targeting events where people into your thing would likely go.