smiletolerantly

joined 2 years ago
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

Lost me at LLMs. My Nix config is over 20k lines long at this point, neatly split into more than a hundred modules and managing 8 physical machines and 30+ VMs. I love it.

But every time I've tried to use an LLM for nix, it has failed spectacularly.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm really glad my first (part time) job as a fresh-out-of-highschool 17 year old required me to call about 5-6 companies/people per workday. A good number of whom where existing business relations, so not a whole lot of room to fuck up.

First week was really anxiety-inducing, because I HATED making phone calls.

After that, no issue. Today, I'd 1000% rather call a doctor's office, restaurant, plumber,... Than write an email. Online forms are fine, but phone calls are just better. You can get the back and forth often needed for planning done in like 5 seconds.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 35 points 2 months ago

Read it, do not reply

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

You can, without root even! Take a look at uad-ng (universal android debloater). Comes with a community-curated list which sorts APKs into 5 tiers from "recommended to uninstall" to "yeah don't, your phone needs this to boot". Apps disabled through this do not come back after updates.

Removed 140+ apps from my Xiaomi, 120+ from my GFs Samsung S24, and 90+ from my brothers Motorola Edge something.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.

Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago

Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Oh, yeah. Wasn't actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.

Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my server provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. "Thank you for your request! We'll email you the link to your KVM access!" Gahhh.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Same. But also, I'll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah no thanks. Linting, formatting, LSP integration, Treesitter,... are just kind of essential for programming work. And the advantage of nvim/emacs/... is that you can bend them to your will and preferences.

If you just want to edit some config files, sure, use literally anything. But I need something proper for work, and if I already set all of that up, might as well use it for the config files, too.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

I'm a bit unhappy with my current job, because I only get 25 days of paid holidays (of course not including public holidays). That's 5 days below industry average, so my next job I'll look gor 35+ days.

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