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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've seen "my other car is 10 motorcycles that don't run" stickers before and I felt personally attacked
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
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.
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
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
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.
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.
There's the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.
In America we say "never buy a mechanic's car."
I am a computer person. My philosophy is probably a common one, if it works donβt touch it.
I am an Arch user. My philosophy is probably just as common: if it works, I must fuck with it
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......
my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.
When I used to work at Microsoft I had an uncanny knack for making installs not work. Things that just simply worked for other people would die with errors and bluescreens. I started to think I emitted a weird bioelectric field or something. But this only happened at that company, and strangely only when I worked on the premises.
I don't know if it's been studied, but anecdotally, I've known a few such "bug attractors." As a software engineer, I am blessed that I know people that will turn my work into ashes in a matter of mere seconds - it's amazing.
If you really do have a knack for making computer software fail, a viable career in QA awaits you.
lol, as if anyone pays for QA anymore.
I tried to get on the Window Manager hype train β I know it is productive and shit and much more efficient than traditional desktops β but dropped it because it just needs to be configured endlessly and yet I still end up using the mouse when I am just laid back on my chair eating a banana. Installed KDE Plasma and stuck with it ever since. Everything doesnβt need to be text files and command line. A bit of user friendly GUI in life doesnβt hurt.
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.
Gentoo Linux user here. Sometimes when I open my laptop's lid, the hard drive disconnects
No joke, I was getting tired of the constant breaking changes in Hyprland, so when I learned about the Lua update I just said fuck it and moved to Sway.
I wanted the "Debian Stable" of Wayland WMs and figured Sway was it.
At least for me, Linux people are never content with their system.
There's always something new to try...
Might be worth doing a bit of research on the associations surrounding Hyprland https://drewdevault.com/blog/Hyprland-toxicity/
I keep spare computers around just in case I break something but still need to be productive
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.
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 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 an 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.
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
