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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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You can't cd or ls in a folder if you have no +x permissions on it. That is all. I wasted 3 hours of my life. (szmer.info)

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[–] [email protected] 368 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If it makes you feel any better, I decided earlier today to experiment with "castnow", a command-line program for casting to a Chromecast device.

I grabbed the url of a video off of Archive.org, used wget on a box I was ssh'd into to download the video, and then ran my "castnow" command to cast it to the Chromecast.

I got a progress bar and current/total time on the TV, but aside from that only a black screen and no audio.

I tried getting the latest version of "castnow" from the Git repo. I tried transcoding 7 different ways with FFMPEG. A bunch of things.

Finally, copied the video to my local machine and ran it in mpv.

The video itself was solid black with no audio and the Archive.org page had comments on it saying "why is there no video or audio?"

I tried a different video and it worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

Beautiful story. Feel that we've all been there. Every now and then, when the assumption is that the stupid piece of tech isn't working, and there it is, just functioning as intended :)

Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

This is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

My desktop background used to be solid black with faint grey text reading "Yes, the monitor works."