I check my backup notifications by looking in my junk mail for anything labeled “Spam Quarantine Notification” because I can’t be arsed to fix the SMTP whitelist rules to allow local network relay.
I have an HP printer
No … your HP printer has you
In mother America, HP has YOU!
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
So do I, but it’s close* to 20 years old and has never had driver issues. Back then HP was one of the more supported OEMs for Linux printing.
*Edit: I pulled up the cover and it turns out it will be exactly 20 years old in 3 days.
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
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 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.
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.
Trying to get Heavy Gear 2 to work
I’m struggling to get TigerVNC to work on a machine it used to work on before I upgraded the distro and the VNC server software.
I’m struggling to get WireGuard to work when it worked fine in Windows before I switched my laptop to dual booting EndeavorOS and Kubuntu. I can’t get it to work on either. Works fine on my iPhone, too.
But neither of these is bad enough to go back to Windows.
I hit the point where I just throw on Fedora and call it a day
I also have a LFS VM I look at every few months and wonder if I want to do something with it
I can’t just let Plasma be.
I am inside neovim and I cannot quit
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.
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 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.
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.
i self host
My laptop will not allow my to login via GUI since upgrade to fedora 41/GNOME?/mutter47. Works with a New account. I have jet to fix it
I LUKS encrypted my boot partition of my last install. It would take an extra 1-1:30 secs to boot when I got the password correct on the first attempt. Much longer if I got it wrong and had to reboot to try again.
I finally did it correctly this last build, but now I am using NixOS and refuse to add anything to the config or a flake if I just need it once a week or so. So I am constantly digging through my history to find the shell I created to do a specific task.
