Get into Home Assistant. A whole new world of tinkering and reconfiguring, with the added stress of real world "Why didn't that extremely complex automation controlling my porch lights work?"

I read that as a good thing. Buff acquired.

There are things I believe. This is not one of those things.

not believing intensifies

that's the moment you're supposed to change distro.

I already finished 10 times. And I probably will be doing 10 times again.

Except you count a windows vm with gpu-passthrough then I am still on it.

I run my emby and jellyfin server, my desktop, printer server, plus a bunch of other shit I can’t think of right now.

If any of that shit doesn’t work, I will be annoyed. So I’m certainly not tinkering with it all the time.

I hope you’re on a long LTS release my friend

Yeah, I used to reconfigure things quite a lot while I was still a student. Now with a dayjob, I'm glad if I can just use my laptop to get actual things done. Having previously figured out a really good setup, is very helpful in getting things done, though.

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Already done… but now I feel like I need to switch to Neovim… and now I have to research Neovim plugins and configs….

god damn it! I was about to say that I'm done configuring after decades and can finally be productive, then I saw your comment. 🤦‍♂️

apt hooks get in the way of your thinkering.

Or you finally got a girlfriend.

That's why I create new problems constantly

Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call "tweaking my vimrc" a hobby.

Now you have got a good excuse to setup something to manage your knowledge base.

I recommend markdown:

• frequently_encountered_issues.md
• lots of helper scripts scripts
• Setup guides mostly taken from their respective arch wiki pages but stripped down to only show my custom setup
• a markdown file per os per machine
• etc
• Also link back to the original resources. Still copy them though. The internet is temporary.

You should see a hanna montana asap before it gets incurable.

Same. I want to try NixOS, or immutable distros, or a fully containerized system, and I've been meaning to give Gentoo a shot for years as well (I'm not suffering enough on Endeavor, btw). I even got a second drive just so I don't have to throw my current setup away, but I'm just so comfy and everything just works and it'll be so much work to actually give a new system a fair shot.