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Yup. My Arch+LUKS+KDE setup freezes on first boot half of the time and I can't be bothered to keep trying to fix it because it takes less than 5 minutes of my time per day and I run backups of the important stuff once or twice a week, and I'll likely distrohop within the next 12 months. Worst case scenario, I wipe the whole thing, archinstall from scratch, and restore from backup.
(well, worst case that doesn't result in physical/BIOS damage...)
Crying in GPU and USB kybd/mse/snd ported into a PVE-housed Nobara43 VM right now.
I'm not a computer guy. I'm a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.
I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.
The key is to call them all "pet projects" that are "still being worked on" and then not do anything with them for another month.
(Engineering/Tech guy here)
I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol
I also have four non functional bikes
I learned last week, after over 30 years of assembling my own computers, that there are (at least) two types of modular power cables for SATA drives. The way I learned this was to grab a cable that fit between my power supply, two hard drives, and a DVD burner, and turned my computer on. In the past, in my experience, if the cable had the right connectors, it would work. Apparently, there is no standardization for the power side pin-out, and some manufacturers (Corsair, at least) wired that end differently for some cables, and using the wrong cable will blow up any drive attached.
Or something like that, I dunno, I was too mad to look into it any further. Fortunately, I didn't lose anything irreplaceable, so all it cost me is money and embarrassment.
afaik there is no 'standard' for modular power supply cables. you have to make sure the ones you're using are for the specific psu you're using, and that can even vary between models from the same manufacturer.
I read about that a couple of years ago, I am speechless that such a thing is even allowed to exist.
My cousin is 30 years a mechanic. The only reason his car works at all is because he retired at 48 (#union).
Yes, "wantonly" is spelled correctly here. I looked at it and immediately it felt wrong so this is for any like me who's only ever heard it said.
Also, broke my Codium install today, no idea how but it won't load debug values now, woo.
Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
I suppose they could rename Hell
My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place
Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning
If you water cool it you can call yourself a plumber too
My partner would text me 'what did you do' when I had a day off and audiobookshelf stopped working. This is why I only tinker after midnight
I also wait until my partner is asleep. It still doesn't make me 100% safe from the 'what did you do' texts, because sometimes I break things that I don't think to check. Worse, sometimes I break something so bad that I stay up until 6am trying to fix it, only to cook my brain and pass out without fully repairing what went wrong.
But it's still better than doing it during the day.
Yeahβ¦ ive been meaning to get audiobookshelf setup, but it looked like a pain so itβs been sitting there untouched. That along with needing to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin, my projects pile up.
ABS is actually quite easy if you already have a library for audiobooks on Plex
Just install ABS on the same box and point it at the same folder and it will do most of the rest itself
Remote access is a bit of a pain though. I'm using tailscale for it. I wish there was a better, more universal (also free) 2fa solution out there but it just doesn't exist.
I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that's probably because I spend a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.
ABS is actually quite easy
Well yeah, you just depress the brake pedal
What? He is obviously talking about a broken piece of ABS plastic.
Does mTLS work with ABS? That's how I control access to many of my "exposed" services.
Verycomputer?
Wantonly?
Huh?
Since this is linux memes, I am on day 10 of my work being unable to fix windows 11 (and I am not doing it for them) while I continue to use my Linux machines for everything because they just work.
Wantonly
Normal word: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wantonly, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wantonly
Verycomputer
It said "Very Computer", which is a humoristic way of saying highly computer-savvy
The Very Computer part made me pluck at the hemispheres of my face to insure they hadn't gone numb
Thanks, I knew the term wantonly but didn't know it was spelled that way.
Thanks!
The computer thing, meh. Just say it.
Just because it's in a dictionary doesn't mean it's a normal word. Wantonly is a weird word. I keep reading want-only and an very confused.
Not a developer or power user but the tinkering and unstable mindset fades away as one gets older.
Sounds like a very similar situation to car mechanics
Except it doesn't hurt your back as much to fix.
Depends on if you've got a good chair.
This logic can be applied to many hobbies, frankly.
i would just un-update it and only update when im ready to tweak the config
And this is my argument against auto update.
Auto update means stuff breaks when I'm not looking.
Better to have a managed update process where I sit down, do am update, verify things work.
I get business has a different risk model that drives auto update there. Tens/hundreds/thousands of machines represent a massive risk canvas, and support for things not working is already baked into IT services.
I do (most) of my autoupdates on Sunday at 4am, that way if things break it happens on an expected schedule. My manual updates like proxmox too, once I'm awake. Game servers are daily though, since stuff can break if client/server aren't on the same version.
I had Vaultwarden push an update a couple of years ago that broke it, and I had daily autoupdates on (watchtower) so for an hour I was panicking about what happened. That's how I switched to my mostly-weekly system, with critical vulnerability updates done manually on release.
Oh, well you see with Vaultwarden what you do is just don't update it until you're forced to because the clients stop being able to talk to it. ;)
I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.
I am also hoping that I do that, but I still don't
My computer is just a bunch of duct taped config files Iβve forgotten about waiting to be invalidated by the next update
People who know what they are doing use snapshots and backups so this doesn't happen.
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