cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386
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“Have taken up farming.”
finally touching some grass
nasal congestion intensifies
Does it have to be developed further? Neofetch looks like a finished product.
It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates
Well, it does its job for now. As for the security updates… Isn’t neofetch just a little fancy tool to display data from your system that is already exposed to any process on your distribution? What attack surface does it introduce?
Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed
Security wise, I think you’re right
according to the Asahi guy, it doesn’t work correctly for ARM: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111018734178152229
I am utterly oblivious to how neofetch works, but it does seem to need updates to support newer tech.
True for all programs
Works on mine
Édit: (10)… Ah, I see the point, indeed.
Doesn’t affect me since I’m on EndeavourOS and they discontinued ARM support anyway!
On first sight yes, in reality: no.
Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.
most popular fork - hyfetch
That’s so fetch!
Stop trying to make “fetch” happen.
Why not, it’s streets ahead
It’s so fetchy!
Does it not have a Fedora package or is it just not listed on the GitHub page?
Wtf bro its an LGBTQ fork and not the same thing?
The readme states:
“This repo also serves as an updated version of the original neofetch since the upstream dylanaraps/neofetch doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (as of Oct 27, 2023, the original repo hasn’t merged a pull request for almost 2 years). If you only want to use the updated neofetch without pride flags, you can use the neofetch script from this repo. To prevent command name conflict, I call it neowofetch :)”
But its essentially an LGBTQ version and not a “maintained version of neofetch”
Well yes obviously but it does serve a purpose as a maintained fork, that’s why I included that. I expect a normal fork will be made soon because of this news.
Removed by mod
You know you can just ignore it and check alternatives, since there are a lot of forks, right?
Yes. It’s actually the best idea. I guess I’m just not strong enough to avoid arguing in that case
How are you on lemmy, of all places
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.
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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.
That’s what
cat /etc/os-releaseis for.
Fastfetch!
Probably should be rewritten in a more secure language because it fetches important system data
Pour one out for my homie
Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?
We will continue as usual. I use Arch BTW. 🤣
Is there a neoneofetch?
Neofetch reloaded. followed by neofetch revolutions.
I’m using fastfetch. Also recommended is hyfetch.
uname -ashould make a recovery as a humblebrag way to print your system info while demonstrating knowledge of a (somewhat) obscure command.Oh no, what will all the Arch users do?
Install one of many alternatives already present in the repos or AUR?
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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, thus archived at similar time.
