Trying to get Heavy Gear 2 to work
i self host
I can’t just let Plasma be.
At one point in college I decided to make myself take notes in ed for a semester for the lulz
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.
It was fun, but vim ultimately made more sense and is what I used for note taking most of the time now.
I customised my keyboard layout so now when using Corporate Laptop i always type with errors
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.
EurKey
Interesting layout. What do you like about it?
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.
The only rebind I use is tap <caps lock> to <esc> and hold <caps lock> to <ctrl> and that is already enough to confuse me when using setups not configured that way
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 🙄
I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.
OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.
I recognize this behavior in myself… please send help.
Good rule of thumb I’ve decided upon over the years for this:
“If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee”.
Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It’s been a good metric to follow.
Automate everything and leverage container and VMs
Why? IDK
Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?
I’m really excited about bootable containers. There is so much potential and I would love to see distros outside of Fedora and Red Hat running it.
Imagine running Arch but instead of battling your single system you instead created a Dockerfile and then built and tested new containers once and a while. You could even define tests so that a bad update would be flagged.
I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I’m only going to do once.
Classic
I haven’t had to compile a kernel in 20 years.
I don’t have to… I get to!
I host a lemmy instance.
Thank you for helping host a less awful internet :)
I host several masto instances
Not sure which is more painful
I was looking into it, but the more I learn about it the more I’m leaning towards something else - misskey, akkoma, etc. Same function, but, supposedly, fewer headaches hosting.
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
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.
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.
I have a cycle that goes like this:
- I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
- The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)
Repeat every 6 months or so. I’m never happy with my current system.
I feel this in my soul. With a side of “modern memory-safe languages are great” vs “the consistency and efficiency of shared libraries is what makes distributions great even if they’re written in C”.
I am inside neovim and I cannot quit
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
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.
Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in
.config.It’s like herding cats, it’s just awful.
