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.
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 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 store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
I never really used Flatpaks until I got a Steam Deck and started doing a little game dev on it.
I now have an init script that I run after every SteamOS update to install paru and other libraries via pacman instead, lmao.
Flatpak apps should implement portals which allow a user to grant permission to a file or folder.
Some don’t which sucks
Global filesystem=host it is then
My first Gentoo install took 3 weeks with all the reading required to do a secure boot UEFI install with a USB based key and boot configuration to ensure W10 could dual boot without problems WAY before that was easy and reliable with Anaconda on Fedora.
Now… Fedora is only writing the USB iso and like 2 clicks. It is easier and more reliable than Windows has ever been or even floppy disk DOS ever was. GNOME is a stupid simple desktop environment too.
I have an HP printer
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.
No … your HP printer has you
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
In mother America, HP has YOU!
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 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”.
Security and convenience are on a balancing scale. More security, less convenience. More convenience, less security.
Everything in my life is less convenient but way more secure than most people’s lives.
(I am not secure against corporate/nation-state level threats at all. I am merely more secure than the average person.)
Everything has an OTP code through Aegis and I do regular encrypted backups of my Aegis vault to other devices.
Most people cannot and will not live like this. To me, it’s simple.
I just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.
Yep, it just works™
I can’t just let Plasma be.
@merari42 using flatpak Steam with the library on a non-system drive.
This sucks.
slaps flatseal at steam this bad boi can access so many directories (which when they are in /media or /mnt or /run are detected as disks)
How exactly?
it’s an app on Flatpak called Flatseal, it’s a GUI to give flatpaks permissions and such.
Yeah I know, but what do you do with it to be able to use other drives? I tried everything I could when I was using other distros before I settled on Bazzite.
Flatseal is a gui for the rights management of flatpaks you can change there what access a given application has e.g. filesystem access to directories.
Yeah, I mean I went through that to an unsuccessful result. So I was asking what values should people write in which fields.
🙅 Write a script or shell alias for important or frequent tasks
👍 Pray it’s in my ctrl-r history the next time I need itHave Alt+F bound to wrap the current command-line in a function definition
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.
Been working with Linux every day for over a decade at my job. At home I run the most boring generic shit.
