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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

I saw a post on the Mastodony side of Fediverse saying "Some people tweak their Linux installs in the same way other people tend to their home gardens" and it gave me 2d6 of psychic damage because it was just true and was also about me.

I don't even hop distros, I just like fucking around with the configs and shit of the distro I'm already at. It's -- How I procrastinate. Rather than do work I play around with reorganizing my work setup.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Get into Home Assistant. A whole new world of tinkering and reconfiguring, with the added stress of real world "Why didn't that extremely complex automation controlling my porch lights work?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Job site got canceled, away from home, nothing else to do. Spent the last few hours cleaning up and "perfecting" my Home Assistant. I'm sure I'll do it again in a few days.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's never perfect!

I have a temperature sensor in box here that I haven't yet installed...hmmmmmwhere could I put it!

Actually if Shelly ever gets me the stuff I ordered IN NOVEMBER I would replace the one for the pellet stove with that...but last night I saw a Tuya Zigbee air quality monitor on Amazon for under $25 that would be even better...

Oh wait, I installed a Zigbee switch the other day but haven't added the lights it controls to my floor plan view!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I read that as a good thing. Buff acquired.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (11 children)

You won't believe this, but I've actually finished configuring my linux

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

There are things I believe. This is not one of those things.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

not believing intensifies

[–] fuzzy_feeling 12 points 8 months ago

that's the moment you're supposed to change distro.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I already finished 10 times. And I probably will be doing 10 times again.

Except you count a windows vm with gpu-passthrough then I am still on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I run my emby and jellyfin server, my desktop, printer server, plus a bunch of other shit I can’t think of right now.

If any of that shit doesn’t work, I will be annoyed. So I’m certainly not tinkering with it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (13 children)

emby and jellyfin

you need both of these things? Dont they both do exactly the same thing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope you’re on a long LTS release my friend

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I used to reconfigure things quite a lot while I was still a student. Now with a dayjob, I'm glad if I can just use my laptop to get actual things done. Having previously figured out a really good setup, is very helpful in getting things done, though.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Once your system setup reaches perfection (it won't), you're finally free to fine-tune VIM to your exact needs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Already done… but now I feel like I need to switch to Neovim… and now I have to research Neovim plugins and configs….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

god damn it! I was about to say that I'm done configuring after decades and can finally be productive, then I saw your comment. 🤦‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

apt hooks get in the way of your thinkering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Debian will slap you every time you decide to do some deep tinkering, so you develop healthy pavlovian reflexes.

It's the only way to have enough free time to organize my drawers in gridfinity boxes.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I am done configuring, I start tinkering!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you are done configuring your system, you did something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Or you finally got a girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much. After I got married and started having kids I just want a PC setup that just works when I want to do anything on it. Without needing to troubleshoot some esoteric issue because apparently my motherboard is on a different revision version that changes the WiFi card to use some shit ass MediaTek card ONLY for that revision and now I can't use WiFi or Bluetooth and I need to troubleshoot the issue for hours.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A weak mind. my linux config comes before my girlfriend!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That's why I create new problems constantly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Every time I spend four hours figuring out how to get one tiny little thing working better in vim I find another even smaller issue that I desperately need to dig in to, and thus my actual personal projects never get worked on. I should just give up and call "tweaking my vimrc" a hobby.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Problem I have, is, after I finish tinkering and settle down with my computer for some days/months, then even anything needs fixing or changing I've forgotten how I do it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Now you have got a good excuse to setup something to manage your knowledge base.

I recommend markdown:

  • frequently_encountered_issues.md
  • lots of helper scripts scripts
  • Setup guides mostly taken from their respective arch wiki pages but stripped down to only show my custom setup
  • a markdown file per os per machine
  • etc
  • Also link back to the original resources. Still copy them though. The internet is temporary.
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It never stops. Distro hopping is an addiction for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You should see a hanna montana asap before it gets incurable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

My kernel is 3 commits behind... gotta rebuild 😹

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Oh no...

This is like me with game mods (skyrim). Spent 20 hours modding it just right... spend 10 hours in character creation and more mods for that... move on to another game.

[–] nieceandtows 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've finally stopped distrohopping. I'm now on nobara (used arch before that btw), and don't feel the urge, nor have the energy to distrohop, even though I want to find out what's so great about nix. That said, I still only use my computer for movies, games, and browsing, so I guess the meme still stands.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Same. I want to try NixOS, or immutable distros, or a fully containerized system, and I've been meaning to give Gentoo a shot for years as well (I'm not suffering enough on Endeavor, btw). I even got a second drive just so I don't have to throw my current setup away, but I'm just so comfy and everything just works and it'll be so much work to actually give a new system a fair shot.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

When you try to explain to people that ricing isn't a means, it's the end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A new long term release? I'll just start over and try every DE again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's cyclical. We can figure one for a few years, then try out a new promising distro then we can figure that one for a few years...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I already use it efficiently to configure more stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got past that phase a long time ago. I just use Fedora and Debian with mostly defaults

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That yak ain't gonna shave itself

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