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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.
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?"
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.
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!
I read that as a good thing. Buff acquired.
You won't believe this, but I've actually finished configuring my linux
There are things I believe. This is not one of those things.
not believing intensifies
that's the moment you're supposed to change distro.
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.
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.
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.
Once your system setup reaches perfection (it won't), you're finally free to fine-tune VIM to your exact needs.
Already done… but now I feel like I need to switch to Neovim… and now I have to research Neovim plugins and configs….
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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. 🤦♂️
*Laughs in Debian
apt hooks get in the way of your thinkering.
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.
If you are done configuring your system, you did something wrong.
Or you finally got a girlfriend.
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.
I'm actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.
That's why I create new problems constantly
me with (neo)vim
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.
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!
My kernel is 3 commits behind... gotta rebuild 😹
It never stops. Distro hopping is an addiction for me.
You should see a hanna montana asap before it gets incurable.
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.
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.
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.
When you try to explain to people that ricing isn't a means, it's the end.
A new long term release? I'll just start over and try every DE again.
I already use it efficiently to configure more stuff.
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...
I got past that phase a long time ago. I just use Fedora and Debian with mostly defaults
That yak ain't gonna shave itself
I've used gentoo in my home for 23 years now. The good news is I'm down to system rebuilds once every 18 months or so.
Considering how often I'll dig around in my old elisp files before giving up on using emacs again, I think I've actually spent more time configuring it than using it.
Oh, so you're the person in this video!
Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc / https://yewtu.be/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
I used to be him, missing deadlines to get my xmonad taskbar all spec'd out. Now only "hop" when my LTS is EOL, and i just run the default UI and use tmux for all my tiling since i tend to be mainly on remote systems anyway.
