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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386
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“Have taken up farming.”
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Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.
finally touching some grass
nasal congestion intensifies
I don’t understand the fascination with a program that tells you what kind of system you’re using. I’m not trolling. Can someone enlighten me on its usefulness beyond “yep, that’s what my system looks like”?
Neofetch is actually a benchmarking tool used by Arch Linux users which compete to show their high scores.
I install it on servers and put it in my bash profile so it runs when I SSH in or open a new terminal tab. Mostly just as a safety thing. It’s basically a reminder to double check I’m on the correct machine/tab before I run any commands.
This is my use case as well i run neofetch on ssh connect and disconnect so I always have a visual indicator of what machine I’m in.
That seems pretty useful, actually.
It doesn’t have to be neofetch but even in my containers and docker stuff, I try to put a little message so I don’t fuck up something.
Running through a checklist is important. I learned that from a helicopter pilot at a bar but I do think it’s true in our field. It’s not life or death on a server but training yourself to go through a simple checklist (even if it’s just “make sure this is the right terminal tab”) is good advice.
It is used to “brag” your system in forums.
It’s for showing off your setup to others
It is for the situation “what even is this OS” that aren’t answered by uname -r
But since you need to know what OS this is to install this program with the package manager, it’s only useful if it was previously installed during the initial setup.
I guess its one of those program every OS should have installed. Like screen.
most popular fork - hyfetch
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Pour one out for my homie
pfetch is nice
Lol archived! https://github.com/dylanaraps/pfetch
oh wow, only 4 days ago
I think it is made by the same author, and archived at similar time.
