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Trying to get Heavy Gear 2 to work
I can't just let Plasma be.
At one point in college I decided to make myself take notes in ed for a semester for the lulz
How did it go? I use ed once in a while, but honestly just for fun, I wish I had time to learn it better.
It was fun, but vim ultimately made more sense and is what I used for note taking most of the time now.
I customised my keyboard layout so now when using Corporate Laptop i always type with errors
I can't live without the EurKey layout! Even had to get approval to add it to our systems at one megacorp I worked for.
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The only rebind I use is tap to and hold to and that is already enough to confuse me when using setups not configured that way
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I haven't had to compile a kernel in 20 years.
I don't have to.. I get to!
I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.
OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.
I recognize this behavior in myself... please send help.
Good rule of thumb I've decided upon over the years for this:
"If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee".
Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It's been a good metric to follow.
Automate everything and leverage container and VMs
Why? IDK
Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?
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I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I'm only going to do once.
Classic
Using runit instead of systemd, everything these days is made to work with it so redoing system services to work with runit is a headache, but the boot times make it worthwhile
I host a lemmy instance.
Thank you for helping host a less awful internet :)
I host several masto instances
Not sure which is more painful
I was looking into it, but the more I learn about it the more I'm leaning towards something else - misskey, akkoma, etc. Same function, but, supposedly, fewer headaches hosting.
I ran out of fucks almost a decade ago, so I use basic-bitch Kubuntu and barely bother to customize it at all. (I turned on dark mode and picked a wallpaper, but that's about it.)
My self-induced pain point is that I get mildly annoyed about snaps once in a while, but not enough to be worth switching distros.
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I am inside neovim and I cannot quit
I have a cycle that goes like this:
- I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
- The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)
Repeat every 6 months or so. I'm never happy with my current system.
I feel this in my soul. With a side of "modern memory-safe languages are great" vs "the consistency and efficiency of shared libraries is what makes distributions great even if they're written in C".
My laptop will not allow my to login via GUI since upgrade to fedora 41/GNOME?/mutter47. Works with a New account. I have jet to fix it
Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.
It's like herding cats, it's just awful.
I don't have a million "fancy" cloud features and the latest software support but I don't care. I'm happy and my computer does everything i want.
The only pain point i have is that KDE plasma 6.3 removed the option to toggle off the audio icon from programs that are playing audio. So stupid, why would i need to see constantly whats playing audio. I know what's playing audio because I told it to play audio
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Only 5 hours? That's quite fast! It took me years to configure my NixOS system. It's not even complete yet. It would be great if there were a GUI that took care of the entire thing, could lock dependencies (no, not flakes), add it to version control with signed commits and secrets, and the configuration could be shared across devices. That's all possible with manual labor but having that out of the box for GUI users would be amazing.
Anyway, I feel this post too much π
I mean the part with configuring Nix in a GUI is what Snowfall is trying to do and there are a lot of GUIs for Git as well.
It's nice that separate solutions exist but noone is going to understand what's going on, what version control is, what pinning is, and so on. And even if they did, finding separate solutions for them is a pain. An all in one solution would be the best.
I store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
Global filesystem=host it is then
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My Arch never break every time I update it, honestly it's pretty boring
Yes. I don't fear updates anymore but then i install everything, AUR, flapjacks, several DE's and break the system. I've come to realize that I like tinkering since DOS, I've accepted it and I shall be installing arch again this weekend
I run gentoo. Going to be doing a manual kernel soon. Wish me luck.
I have an HP printer
So do I, but it's close* to 20 years old and has never had driver issues. Back then HP was one of the more supported OEMs for Linux printing.
*Edit: I pulled up the cover and it turns out it will be exactly 20 years old in 3 days.
I hit the point where I just throw on Fedora and call it a day
I also have a LFS VM I look at every few months and wonder if I want to do something with it
My first Gentoo install took 3 weeks with all the reading required to do a secure boot UEFI install with a USB based key and boot configuration to ensure W10 could dual boot without problems WAY before that was easy and reliable with Anaconda on Fedora.
Now... Fedora is only writing the USB iso and like 2 clicks. It is easier and more reliable than Windows has ever been or even floppy disk DOS ever was. GNOME is a stupid simple desktop environment too.
I check my backup notifications by looking in my junk mail for anything labeled "Spam Quarantine Notification" because I can't be arsed to fix the SMTP whitelist rules to allow local network relay.
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Write a script or shell alias for important or frequent tasks
π Pray it's in my ctrl-r history the next time I need it
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