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 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
I have a similar Plasma 6.3 issue. I use a software KVM to control my work laptop. Now I get a pop-up notification when my controls are being captured and sent to the other computer. Yeah, I know I’m doing that, it’s deliberate. I’ve been using a software KVM for 8 years. No way to turn it off that I can find that doesn’t also turn off all pop-up notifications.
I customised my keyboard layout so now when using Corporate Laptop i always type with errors
The only rebind I use is tap <caps lock> to <esc> and hold <caps lock> to <ctrl> and that is already enough to confuse me when using setups not configured that way
The most annoying thing is “;” vs “.”. I switched them because the dot is much more useful. So now i always type twice to find out which comes first 🙄
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.
EurKey
Interesting layout. What do you like about it?
I do a lot of programming, which is generally easiest with the US layout (since most languages were designed using this) but I also type frequently in a couple other languages which have extra characters. For me it’s easier to use than switching layouts.
Mostly stopped fucking around with stuff once I switched to fedora which seriously just works.
But then, every couple of months, I just feel the need to try something new. So I grab my 2nd laptop and start installing some esoteric distro, configure everything, even sign in to my online accounts, just to never touch that laptop again until I want to try the next weird distro.
Been working with Linux every day for over a decade at my job. At home I run the most boring generic shit.
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.
No … your HP printer has you
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
In mother America, HP has YOU!
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.
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?
I’m really excited about bootable containers. There is so much potential and I would love to see distros outside of Fedora and Red Hat running it.
Imagine running Arch but instead of battling your single system you instead created a Dockerfile and then built and tested new containers once and a while. You could even define tests so that a bad update would be flagged.
I recognize this behavior in myself… please send help.
Security and convenience are on a balancing scale. More security, less convenience. More convenience, less security.
Everything in my life is less convenient but way more secure than most people’s lives.
(I am not secure against corporate/nation-state level threats at all. I am merely more secure than the average person.)
Everything has an OTP code through Aegis and I do regular encrypted backups of my Aegis vault to other devices.
Most people cannot and will not live like this. To me, it’s simple.
🙅 Write a script or shell alias for important or frequent tasks
👍 Pray it’s in my ctrl-r history the next time I need itHave Alt+F bound to wrap the current command-line in a function definition
Trying to get Heavy Gear 2 to work
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
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 can’t just let Plasma be.
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 😅
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 just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.
Yep, it just works™
