I still remember the time I managed to unwillingly run two DE at the same time simultaneously. The screen was refreshing between gnome and kde at 50Hz. It was tripping.
These are the “I don’t have epilepsy but I sure as hell don’t want to find out right now that I have it” moments.
There’s the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.
Is Spain we say that the blacksmith uses wooden spoons.
Wouldn’t that mean something else?
The saying literally translates to “in the house of a blacksmith there are wooden spoons”. In Poland we say “the shoemaker walks in shoes with holes”. They all just means that people who build things as their job don’t have the time to build those things for themselves.
But why doesn’t the blacksmith have spoons which are bent or something. Blacksmith using wooden spoons sound to me like a technician that doesn’t use tech in his private life.
It just means he uses cheaper spoons made by someone else, not fancy metal spoons.
In America we say “never buy a mechanic’s car.”
This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.
So therapeutic some days…
That’s not how it works.
- Okay, let’s read a chapter of this book about Software Design.
- I need to take notes
- Ugh, it sucks that I have to do three steps to open them
- Let’s write a short fish script
- Actually is there a more elegant note taking app
- Research
- Setting up the most over engineered zettelkasten solution
- It’s time for bed, you have two broken note taking apps, but still an open to do to read a chapter of that book
If you think that is a true story, you are absolutely right.
I feel seen.
Me too. Interest in comuters combined with ADHD leads to interesting side quests sometimes. They might not end up being productive, but I often learn a few things along the way.
That’s continuing the tradition leve stuff right there.
Mac and a half a dozen server homelab. Plex was a homelab test that’s now “prod” (family won’t let me shut it off) so it’s in the prod environment outside of my homelab
My Mac is supposed to be the safe box too. I keep having to talk myself down from installing Asahi.
You and me both.
Haha I have an older m1 I’m about to put asahi on. Going to use it for small models
A good excuse to get another cheap box to crash and burn!
Any excuse to hoard more hardware these days
I feel this one
Fastest I ever got a kernel panic was ~50mph. There are photos.
Nice!
Not as nice as you’d think. I was in a train crash.
First time using hyprland with cachyos: wow it’s so productive, I love it!
After one month I log in after a
yayand everything is broken. I waste a full day adapting the config from 0.44 to 0.45. Wow that was worth, I love it.Another month passes, and again it’s broken to 0.50
I just gave up
Can’t they just put a discontinuation warning for a couple releases to let people adapt their config instead of suddenly having the surprise of booting to a broken wm?
Maybe try an atomic distro? It’ll still break but you can roll back and deal with it later.
it’s not really broken-broken to be unusable, just all the window management rules syntax that changed suddenly and you need to read 24 pages of documentation to guess what’s changed and adapt the config.
honestly, after dealing with this 3 times in 3 months, i am no longer interested in this wm.
It’s like if your friend rearranges your living room for pure fun when you come back tired from work. Funny prank done once in a lifetime, remove from existence the third time.
I don’t want to fault you, I just want to point out that Hyprland is in version 0.x. It’s essentially in development. Expecting software in alpha phase to be backwards compatible is a bit unrealistic :) If you enjoyed it that much, come back to it in a few years once it comes out of development phase (if ever…)
welcome to life as an AwesomeWM user. After a normal system upgrade – oh look my Lua version is incompatible with the libraries I need, guess I need to build them from scratch and tell my WM to use them
This is the greatest truth of being a computer person. Our shit is also broken, just in ways you’d never heard of.
my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.
This really is the journey, isn’t it?
Tinkering is fun when your actual goal is to tinker.
But when your goal is to get work done then the machine is just a tool, and there is nothing more frustrating than a broken tool.
my linux honeymoon has far gone.
Reminded me of:
In the spring, we climbed the rolling hills
And talked about our budding plans
And we smiled
Our faces like a mirror showing us our secret sides
But then the fights, the sharp words splintering the night
How I couldn’t be what you’d need
But oh how I could make you bleed
I’m still tinkering but insofar to keep myself from doing anything else with my computer, I got shit to do.
What do modern devs need more than ttys for if they’re just shipping ai generated code that nobody takes the time to review properly?
Guys and gals, please use Niri. It has animations, blur and wayland.
Never crashed in my one year of using it.
That’s why, as a computer nerd, I use a non modified Linux Mint.
This is precisely why I use NixOS. I have almost my entire configuration as “code” (data structures more like, but what’s the difference any way?), such that when I break something, I can just undo my commits and go back to a working version (and the OS itself retrains several snapshots, so I can always pick the previous one.
And with LLMs the bar to do things, with my nix configuration (nixcfg), has lowered to the ground. Throw in a few videos from Vimjoyer and you got a stew going.
Urge to distro hop again…rising…
I’ve hopped from HoloISO to Nobora and EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE. Landed on NixOS on all my machines now and it’s perfect. There’s a bit of a learning curve even compared to other distros but once it clicks, you wonder why you weren’t using it earlier.
Sorry to divert from the topic but
I have almost my entire configuration as “code” (data structures more like, but what’s the difference any way?)
This is the first time I’ve seen someone make this distinction.
Configuration files are specifications, not code. Code means it needs to be compiled/interpreted.
To get started: Install NixOS, grab your
/etc/nix/configuration.nix, and/etc/nix/hardware-configuration.nix(from the top of my head) and throw them in a git repo.nix-shell -p <application>if you quickly need a shell with a specific (temporary) program, like git (just for bootstrapping; add git to theconfiguration.nixif you wish to keep it.Start with that, and slowly keep adding programs, configuration. If you eventually wish to add a second computer to the one configuration (so you can start reusing configuration), do that. Keep steps small.
Here you can dig through each step I take in my nixcfg - I started with just the
configuration.nix, and share that between machines, but it turns out you’re supposed to add thehardware-conguration.nixto the repo as well, so then I started to do that (with still a sharedconfiguration.nix. Well, partially:Read nixstory.md if you want to see a quick LLM-generated history of how my repo changed over time (based on my git history).
I’ve jumped in Nix/Guix many times and always jumped back out. Sometimes you just want to edit a system file without second guessing or rebuilding the system. Same battle as initRC vs SystemD. Sometimes you just want to tinker live, because there are bigger battles elsewhere and going down a productivity sink hole of immutability is not something you can easily explain away at 3am
So it’s kinda like klipper/mainsail but for an operating system?
In the sense that klipper does everything through configuration files: yes.
Hyprland the “ironically” nazi desktop?
No, that is the ruby guy
I was wrong. I have no idea what these edgelords do, but thank you for the link.
I mean I did get them confused with DHH bc of the framework debacle, I meant that link as clarification. You were right in that I was thinking of “the ruby guy” lol
Yea, I wanted to try hyprland because of a video about omarchi, but it didn’t take long before I heard about DHH’s ideas.
And by “be productive” you mean looking at cat pictures, right?
I’ve recently moved everything over to CachyOS after a Windows 10 LTSC security update failed to install multiple times.
I’m actually really surprised by how well everything works, including my nvidia GPU, microphone, and drawing tablet. The only thing that’s not working rn is my Canon printer but that might be more of my own skill issue with using CUPS and CAPT and can be remedied by emailing myself a PDF and printing from my phone.
I was fully expecting to fuck my shit up forever.
EDIT: To be clear, Windows would occasionally crash on me and take forever to start back up. Linux is running much better.
I recently had trouble with a very old Canon printer, I acquired. After some attempts that even involved tracking down original driver files from 13 years ago, I realized I just had to install ‘gutenprint’ and then add it throuoh my KDE menu. Just works now.
Bro, it’s a printer. I call them a Schrödinger printer, both dead or alive until you try to use it… in which case it’ll likely be dead. Because it’s a printer. And they’re shit.
Just use i3.
Bullshit all of my computers work, maybe this guy just sucks.
-Average linux user
