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.
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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 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".
I host a lemmy instance.
Thank you for helping host a less awful internet :)
I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I'm only going to do once.
Classic
I store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
Global filesystem=host it is then
Flatpak apps should implement portals which allow a user to grant permission to a file or folder.
Some don't which sucks
I never really used Flatpaks until I got a Steam Deck and started doing a little game dev on it.
I now have an init script that I run after every SteamOS update to install paru and other libraries via pacman instead, lmao.
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.
Same, except I just use vanilla Ubuntu. It's no longer the early '00s, you don't have to tinker with configs on off the shelf hardware.
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 have an HP printer
No ... your HP printer has you
In mother America, HP has YOU!
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
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.
Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.
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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 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 self host
I just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.
Yep, it just worksβ’
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 Arch never break every time I update it, honestly it's pretty boring
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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.
π
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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I LUKS encrypted my boot partition of my last install. It would take an extra 1-1:30 secs to boot when I got the password correct on the first attempt. Much longer if I got it wrong and had to reboot to try again.
I finally did it correctly this last build, but now I am using NixOS and refuse to add anything to the config or a flake if I just need it once a week or so. So I am constantly digging through my history to find the shell I created to do a specific task.
I am inside neovim and I cannot quit
Been working with Linux every day for over a decade at my job. At home I run the most boring generic shit.
@merari42 using flatpak Steam with the library on a non-home drive.
This sucks.
slaps flatseal at steam this bad boi can access so many directories (which when they are in /media or /mnt or /run are detected as disks)
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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.
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
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I run gentoo. Going to be doing a manual kernel soon. Wish me luck.
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
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
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