It’s not really a big deal, but I am currently writing this using a linux kernel I compiled from source, which certainly feels like an accomplishment. The Arch Wiki has made the process fairly easy to follow. I just took the stock Arch Linux configuration without changes for now.

The most important part of this is of course that I have the option to do that, to take the source code of this incredible project and build my own kernel binary.

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    I often did this for years, using -march=corei7 and -mtune=skylake or whatever was the best option for my cpu, patching with brainfuck scheduler, etc.

    Now I don’t care really 😑

    It’s always cool to tinker with kernel and config, congrats 🎉

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      As a student I wasted so much time mucking around with flags and settings in Gentoo. It definitely wasn’t pointless since I learned so much, but I didn’t need to sit there and watch it compile as much as I did.

      It was pleasing to watch though, just like defrag in Windows.

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          Defrag all night and wake up to the sound of the hard drive failing.

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            A friend of mine is a musician. About a decade or two ago I went over to his house and he said that he had to get a new fan to fix his computer. I asked him what was going on, so he turned it on and I heard that tick-tick-tick of the read head. I had to let him know it was his hard drive. He had a lot backed up, but not everything, and not the stuff he’d been working on the past couple weeks. Just a bummer. But he did set up a backup program after that.

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      ahh what a shame. I have: https://kernel.melroy.org/.

      But I also didn’t had the time to create new kernels. My PC is too slow at the moment. hahaha. Just wait… maybe I will get the latest threadripper. Instead of the first -gen i7 from 2008.