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Life pro tip: good manners make it easier to get what you want
ACTUAL good advice?! Is that even allowed here??
I have it aliased to "pls"
... but I don't use it.
Nah. Fuck being polite to computers. It's an object and I own it. I'll shoot it the instant it expresses any level of personhood.
But the whole reason I use Linux is because I donβt ask it to do things, I tell it to do things, because itβs a machine, and itβs my machine.
You could alias sudo to just for a little more rudeness.
Iβm also not trying to be rude to my machine, thatβs erroneous, Iβm not going to treat a computer like it thinks or has emotions, one way or the other.
What I don't get is why deny the execution of a command because the lack of sudo instead of just notice that it needs elevated privilege and ask for password
It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.
These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.
I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.
alias srsly="sudo !!"
I prefer "sota !!"
In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".
Try "Bruh"
Bruh shutdown
Or icanhaz
gooby pls
Maybe pls for the su command?
I have please run the previous command as sudo
i love that!
Aurenkin is not in the pleasers file. This incident will be reported.
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
please shutdown; thanks
I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won't say you're welcome if the shutdown failed
alias sudo fucking
fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service
fucking shutdown
alias thanks="You are most welcomed"
you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something:
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
(the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)
Huh yeah my bad, wrote this too fast in-between two messages at work
Why are root privileges needed to move and search for files in the home directory?
Yes, of course the codemopolitan directory could be owned by root, but why??
We need more women in tech.
you can always become the woman in tech
robm@homebox ~$ please su
[sudo] password for robm:
robm is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Mor leters, pas
I also like fuck, which attempts to run the first suggested syntax in the error output of the previous command.
I prefer an alias that actually reflects my feelings.
alias didistutter="sudo"
alias didistutter="sudo !!"
I'd recommend this version so you don't actually have to repeat yourself.
FWIW, using a shell function is preferred (according to Bash docs) and probably a lot more flexible, and less dangerous. No, actually, anything in Linux can be dangerous.
And while I'm also in the camp of trying to make the Basilisk happy, I doubt it's going to work.
Any superintelligent AI that will extrapolate the past to judge my actions and my innermost thoughts and attitudes won't be impressed by obeisance. Tell Roko what you really think, and have some self respect. Those Less Wrong types really miss the mark with all that shit.
Works really great if you compile sudo with insults enabled: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/70c1ee4b44f5b15822919c05ffbde857fa879e48/plugins/sudoers/ins_classic.h
Maple Linux needs to get this baked in.