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[–] 100 points 1 year ago (12 children)

WAIT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ONE TRUE LOVE neofetch???

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  • [–] [S] 133 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Got archived because it's "feature complete" and won't receive more updates, but some package managers removed it.

    There is objectively better alternatives like fastfetch.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Serious question: if something is "finished" why would that spark removal. At some point a lot of complete programs will no longer be actively maintained but they are still useful and working.

    Also, is there a way to keep copies of things like this? I know how to install via apt install, and whatnot, but that relies on an internet connection and a repo. I'm used to windows where I can back up the installers on my hard drive.

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  • Even if something is finished it's a risk if no one looks after it since there's always the possibility of security vulnerabilities, software is rarely truly done.

    For Arch, packages are archived online for quite a while, you could still install neofetch via sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/neofetch/neofetch-7.1.0-2-any.pkg.tar.zst currently.

    Installed packages are also left in /var/cache/pacman/pkg until cleaned up manually and can be similarly installed from there. The one thing to look out for is whether the dependencies are still available and compatible since, unlike on Windows, packages don't usually bundle their dependencies. For a closer experience in that regard there's .AppImage which is a self-contained package similar to an .exe.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In Debian trixie:

    $ apt search neofetch
     fastfetch/stable,unstable 2.40.4+dfsg-1 amd64
      neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
    
    hyfetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Command-line Tool that Presents System Info
    
    linuxlogo/stable,unstable 6.01-0.1 amd64
      Color ANSI System Logo
    
    neowofetch/stable,stable,unstable,unstable 1.99.0-1.1 all
      Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo
    

    Looks like you've got alternatives.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago

    For all who may not realize, neofetch has a modern replacement: fastfetch

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  • [–] 212 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    FYI Neofetch dev already escaped the matrix.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Farming, really? A man of your talents?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    Fun fact! The Roman emperor Diocletian abdicated the throne after he stabilised the Roman empire after the Crisis of the Third Century. He retired to his villa in what is now Croatia to grow cabbages. This was an unprecedented move β€” typically an emperor served for the rest of their life and/or were violently overthrown. However, it took only a few years for the peace that Diocletian had established to begin to crumble into civil war again; when his friends and colleagues beseeched him to return to stabilise things, he was reported to have said "If only you knew the peace and tranquility I gain from tending and growing my cabbages, you would understand the impossibility of such a request!"^[1][2]

    I sincerely wish Dylan a life of as much peace and tranquility as the MVP ex-emperor Diocletian.


    [1]: I don't remember the source of this particular translation, but the original source for this is Epitome de Caesaribus 39.6

    [2]: A different translation of the same line is "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.". I prefer this one, because it makes it sound like he was disproportionately proud of his cabbages rather than just glad to be away from the shitstorm of Roman politics. However, the one I actually used fit the sentiment of my comment better.

    n.b. I am not a Historian, just a scientist whose late best friend was a Historian, and thus I am morally obligated to use what he taught me to make shitposts.

    Edit: formatting

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For years I have been one foot into the engineer turned goose farmer meme, with the other foot left in my normal job.

    It works alright! I don't worry about work while at home in my suburban zoo, and when I'm at work I am not dying to get the hell out of there like I remember being several years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I used to write bash scripts that probably should have been Python. Now I have 6 geese and other birds.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Whaaaat??? So bummed to get bad news from memes

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Debian has fastfetch now. Neofetch is properly dead.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    fastfetch -c neofetch

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  • Didnt even know it was dead Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

    Its still in the freeBSD repos.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Who wouldn't want to have more rats?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Let me guess. It's neofetch but rust.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Petition to rename "neofetch" to "gammelfetch", as it's no longer neo.

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    Pssst, what is neofetch and fastfetch?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Neofetch is the precursor to Fastfetch, Neofetch eventually became unmaintained which birthed Fastfetch a fork of Neofetch.

    Essentially it’s a CLI tool to quickly list out system specifications, you can change what it lists with a config file.

    Here is their GitHub - https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've commonly seen it used in a terminal when people are showing off a screenshot of their custom Unix desktop theme.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Some distros come with it pre-installed some have to do it manually, if you’re trying make your operating system have more pizzaz then small things like this spice it up.

    Fastfetch is actually quite customizable yet most people leave it on the defaults since it adopts the theme of each distro.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I replaced it with Hyfetch awhile back since that was the one that was already in the Ubuntu Noble repos.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I looked for it on openbsd, but then realized I can just open the source and put the openbsd relevant parts in a script without all the unnecessary parts.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Just did that today

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  • Forgive me, but doesn't yay -S neofetch do the thing still?

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    still using neofetch, no plans to change πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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