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)
just a month?
Renew as needed :)
And also
Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.
PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You’ll never regret it!
Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.
I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.
maybe not ventoy specifically since it’s full of binary blobs that are virtually unvettable
I’ve got a binary blob right here 🥵
my blob is non binary
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.
- We tried setting up hyprland with Arch
- Used an older guide, updated and translated it to the newest standard, learning about the unique scripting
- Get almost everything working
- Actually loved the feel of the ui and did get used to using terminal for almost everything
- Things started falling apart
- Steam started fucking up, everything was going horrible.
- joined the support discord, found problem doing good over more :)
- Update? Oo oki!
- Hyprland: hmm nice fully custom set up you have here, would be a shame if someone were to change all the ui script you literally just learned :)
- :(
- Back on KDE + Cachy OS as we didn’t want to fight with our computer anymore, it’s good, great even, but… missing the window management of Hyprland now.
- Don’t get us wrong, we’re very happy with KDE! It’s just… that window management 🥺
- if only we could get that in KDE
Not when tvey run debian. shit just works, nonstop all the time
…at the price of everything moving at snail’s pace
How is that a bad thing? The vulnerabilities get fixed and the distro is stable.
It’s just a personal peference honestly 🤠
I wouldn’t trust anything other than Debian on my homelab server for example, but RaspberypiOS has been getting more frustrating by the day! I wanted to install plasma-bigscreen for example, but “oh it’s too new to be in the repos! get fucked :P”
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…
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
A good excuse to get another cheap box to crash and burn!
Any excuse to hoard more hardware these days
My Mac is supposed to be the safe box too. I keep having to talk myself down from installing Asahi.
Haha I have an older m1 I’m about to put asahi on. Going to use it for small models
