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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

    Mostly stopped fucking around with stuff once I switched to fedora which seriously just works.

    But then, every couple of months, I just feel the need to try something new. So I grab my 2nd laptop and start installing some esoteric distro, configure everything, even sign in to my online accounts, just to never touch that laptop again until I want to try the next weird distro.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    Trying to get Heavy Gear 2 to work

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

    I can't just let Plasma be.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    At one point in college I decided to make myself take notes in ed for a semester for the lulz

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    How did it go? I use ed once in a while, but honestly just for fun, I wish I had time to learn it better.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    It was fun, but vim ultimately made more sense and is what I used for note taking most of the time now.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

    i self host

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    Using runit instead of systemd, everything these days is made to work with it so redoing system services to work with runit is a headache, but the boot times make it worthwhile

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

    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

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I haven't had to compile a kernel in 20 years.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    I don't have to.. I get to!

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

    I am inside neovim and I cannot quit

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    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 πŸ˜…

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I mean the part with configuring Nix in a GUI is what Snowfall is trying to do and there are a lot of GUIs for Git as well.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    It's nice that separate solutions exist but noone is going to understand what's going on, what version control is, what pinning is, and so on. And even if they did, finding separate solutions for them is a pain. An all in one solution would be the best.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

    I run gentoo. Going to be doing a manual kernel soon. Wish me luck.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    My Arch never break every time I update it, honestly it's pretty boring

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Yes. I don't fear updates anymore but then i install everything, AUR, flapjacks, several DE's and break the system. I've come to realize that I like tinkering since DOS, I've accepted it and I shall be installing arch again this weekend

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I customised my keyboard layout so now when using Corporate Laptop i always type with errors

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    EurKey

    Interesting layout. What do you like about it?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

    I do a lot of programming, which is generally easiest with the US layout (since most languages were designed using this) but I also type frequently in a couple other languages which have extra characters. For me it's easier to use than switching layouts.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    The most annoying thing is ";" vs ".". I switched them because the dot is much more useful. So now i always type twice to find out which comes first πŸ™„

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Ive spent way too much time trying to compile and install coreboot

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I'm only going to do once.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    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

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