Pithy Nothingness

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike totally useless" chapter of the Book of Trifling Stuff,

I just added "\D{%I:%M} " before all the other escape (\[\...) sequences in my $PS1 in .bashrc.
The result is my prompt now looks like:
07:32 not@all:~$

Now, since I have two clocks on screen plus another on the wall, why would I do that?
Sometimes I run lengthy jobs - like backups or massive data transfers, for which I just turn the screen off and go do something else.
When I come back, I wonder... how long did that take then?

[kyonides]

Couldn't you just run some sort of benchmark script or app to do it for you? Just asking.

[Don B. Cilly]

I guess I could... but this way it's just... simple.
I do:
08:12 not@all:~$ copy 150GB of stuff to external USB disk.
and go down to chop some wood. When I come back, it will say:
08:44 not@all:~$
So I know how long it took...

I can always make a little alias to turn it on and off, but it's small and it doesn't really bother me.

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Feeling silly enough, darling?" chapter of the same Book:
an interesting (er, well...) quote by Douglas D. Zaster (Major, S.A.S., retd.) :

"I like dark themes. Thing is, Kate with a dark theme looks like camel dung in the Western Sahara in late autumn - which is definitely worse than, say. early spring.
Some changes to the basic colours are definitely advisable"

[jlittle]

I guess I could... but this way it's just... simple.

Simple is good, but I would begrudge the space.

I use zsh, and it remembers the run time in the history; -D adds the running time to history listings, for the odd occasion where I want to know.

(To get cilly, I also get the shell to write to a log every command I run, with a timestamp and running time, to .1 ms precision, so I can tell you the send/receive backup of /home on the 1st of November 2018 took 98.0090 s.)

Actually, it's not silly to recommend logging of the command line. Some people load the logged lines into a database, but a text log is nearly as good. I imagine there's high-powered shell/emulators that can do it. Sure, you can crank HISTSIZE up to a large number, but that makes using the line number to rerun commands tedious, and that's written when the shell exits, so that command that killed your system, or what you were doing when the power went off, is forgotten.

[Don B. Cilly]

From the "Mildly annoying trivialities in peripheral software" chapter of the same book.

Neofetch displays an Ubuntu logo with Kubuntu. The config file says:
# NOTE: Ubuntu has flavor variants.
# Change this to 'Lubuntu', 'Xubuntu', 'Ubuntu-GNOME' or 'Ubuntu-Budgie' to use the flavors.

No mention of Kubuntu... :·/
Still, if you tell it ascii_distro="Kubuntu"

it does display:

     `.:/ossyyyysso/:
  .:oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo:`           ------- 
-oyyyyyyyodMMyyyyyyyysyyyyo-         OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64 
-syyyyyyyyyydMMyoyyyydmMMyyyyys-       Kernel: 5.4.0-29-generic 
oyyysdMysyyyydMMMMMMMMMMMMMyyyyyyyo     Uptime: 1 hour, 58 mins 
`oyyyydMMMMysyysoooooodMMMMyyyyyyyyyo`    Packages: 2363 (dpkg) 
oyyyyyydMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMysssssyyyo    Shell: bash 5.0.16 
-yyyyyyyydMysyyyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMMMMysyyy-   Resolution: 1920x1080 
oyyyysoodMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyydMMMMysyyyo   DE: Plasma 
yyysdMMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysosyyyyyyyy   WM: KWin 
yyysdMMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy   Theme: Breeze Dark [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
oyyyyysosdyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyydMMMMysyyyo   Icons: breeze-dark [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
-yyyyyyyydMysyyyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMMMMysyyy-   Terminal: konsole 
oyyyyyydMMMysyyyyyyyyyyysdMMyoyyyoyyyo    CPU: Intel Celeron J1900 (4) @ 2.415GHz 
`oyyyydMMMysyyyoooooodMMMMyoyyyyyyyyo     GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 
oyyysyyoyyyysdMMMMMMMMMMMyyyyyyyyo      Memory: 1888MiB / 7925MiB 
-syyyyyyyyydMMMysyyydMMMysyyyys-
-oyyyyyyydMMyyyyyyysosyyyyo-                                 
  ./oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo/.
     `.:/oosyyyysso/:.`

[EDIT] What it actually displays is:



But only oshunluvr can have colours here ;·) and anyway the code bit is "ovalised" :·)

[Schwarzer Kater]

Well, surprisingly mine does mention Kubuntu. :-)

From the neofetch man pages:

[…]
--ascii_distro distro
             Which Distro's ascii art to print
[…]
NOTE: Ubuntu has flavor variants.
NOTE: Change this to Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-GNOME,
Ubuntu-Studio, Ubuntu-Mate  or Ubuntu-Budgie to use the flavors.
[…]

kater@PC-Kubuntu2004:~$ apt search neofetch
neofetch/focal,focal,now 7.0.0-1 all  [installiert]
Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo

[Don B. Cilly]

I have the same version.
neofetch/focal,focal,now 7.0.0-1 all [installed]
Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo

They must have seen me coming at the repo and made a special edition just to annoy me... :·)
... oh I see. You are talking about the man page, I was quoting the config file...
~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

[kyonides]

$ neofetch --ascii_distro Kubuntu
`.:/ossyyyysso/:. edwin@kurshesde
.yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo:` ---------------
-oyyyyyyyodMMyyyyyyyysyyyyo- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64
-syyyyyyyyyydMMyoyyyydmMMyyyyys- Host: Sensitive data
oyyysdMysyyyydMMMMMMMMMMMMMyyyyyyyo Kernel: 5.6.11-050611-generic (even if it might be sensitive data)
`oyyyydMMMMysyysoooooodMMMMyyyyyyyyyo` Uptime: 43 mins
oyyyyyydMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMysssssyyyo Packages: 2996 (dpkg)
-yyyyyyyydMysyyyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMMMMysyyy- Shell: bash 5.0.16
oyyyysoodMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyydMMMMysyyyo Resolution: Sensitive data
yyysdMMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyysosyyyyyyyy DE: Plasma
yyysdMMMMMyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy WM: KWin
oyyyyysosdyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyydMMMMysyyyo WM Theme: Breeze
-yyyyyyyydMysyyyyyyyyyyyyyysdMMMMMysyyy- Theme: Breeze Dark [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
oyyyyyydMMMysyyyyyyyyyyysdMMyoyyyoyyyo Icons: PlasmaXDark [Plasma], PlasmaXDark [GTK2/3]
`oyyyydMMMysyyyoooooodMMMMyoyyyyyyyyo Terminal: konsole
oyyysyyoyyyysdMMMMMMMMMMMyyyyyyyyo CPU: Sensitive data
-syyyyyyyyydMMMysyyydMMMysyyyys- GPU: Intel Core Processor
-oyyyyyyydMMyyyyyyysosyyyyo- Memory: Sensitive data
./oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo/.
`.:/oosyyyysso/:.`

Yeah... it still says Ubuntu...

[Don B. Cilly]

Yes. That's a little more complicated. But, as stated there, the OS is Ubuntu, Kubuntu is the "flavour"...

[chimak111]

alias myneofetch='neofetch --stdout' FTW!

[Don B. Cilly]

OK, I agree that is a win.

But, it doesn't even show Kubuntu in the logo, you almost expect Unity to jump up and bite your... ankle, at least with the blue K-logo it's somewhat reassuring ;·)
And, come on, those guys went to all that trouble with the ANSI and all... :·)

[chimak111]

The neofetch dev is pretty responsive. I guess if someone converts a KDE logo to ASCII art he may consider including it?

[Don B. Cilly]

But the KDE logo is what I posted in #6.

If you neofetch from neon - which, even though it's practically identical to Kubuntu - except for some Plasma updates, is a distribution and not a "flavour"... :



Which is the same logo.

[Don B. Cilly]

From the " Peripheral obsessions in conky-space" chapter:

The infamous Donald Brian Cilly, mainly known for clogging up nice forums with useless information, had this rather absurd fixation for "optimising" his conky every time the fancy struck him - and it did so pretty often.
Now, his main goal in doing so was to get the maximum amount of useful information in the least (reasonably) possible space.
So far, so good... but sometimes he got these wild manias...

He had a "disk space" section that looked like this:



For some unfathomable reason, the /boot/efi entry annoyed the skittles out of him.
Maybe it was because it was plainly useless.
Maybe it was the fact that it was "the wrong size" and he didn't want to go and resize it, FAT32 partitions not being resisable and all...
Maybe he was just plain bonkers.

So what he did...



Which
a) doesn't look quite right, but
b) it does get the maximum amount of useful information in the least (reasonably) possible space. (it actually saves one line)