This literally made me switch to niri
At least for me, Linux people are never content with their system.
There’s always something new to try…
That’s the fun of Linux : you can customize your experience instead of having to put up with Microsoft or Apple.
You choose a distribution that fits your preferences.
Time to flip a coin for KDE or Hyprland edition…
Yes, “wantonly” is spelled correctly here. I looked at it and immediately it felt wrong so this is for any like me who’s only ever heard it said.
Also, broke my Codium install today, no idea how but it won’t load debug values now, woo.
Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin
Surprisingly wanton and wonton are completely unrelated. Wanton comes from middle english wantowen, which is the prefix wan- (meaning ‘not’) and towen (meaning ‘educated’). So it literally means ‘uneducated’ or ‘undisciplined’.
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
I suppose they could rename Hell
But what will Hell be known for then?
Regularly freezing over?
And by “be productive” you mean looking at cat pictures, right?
My computer is just a bunch of duct taped config files I’ve forgotten about waiting to be invalidated by the next update
My partner would text me ‘what did you do’ when I had a day off and audiobookshelf stopped working. This is why I only tinker after midnight
Yeah… ive been meaning to get audiobookshelf setup, but it looked like a pain so it’s been sitting there untouched. That along with needing to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin, my projects pile up.
I just set it up with my Docker setup. Point it at the appropriate volumes and it pretty much goes. GUI tools for Docker help. I like Dockge.
ABS is actually quite easy if you already have a library for audiobooks on Plex
Just install ABS on the same box and point it at the same folder and it will do most of the rest itself
Remote access is a bit of a pain though. I’m using tailscale for it. I wish there was a better, more universal (also free) 2fa solution out there but it just doesn’t exist.
ABS is actually quite easy
Well yeah, you just depress the brake pedal
What? He is obviously talking about a broken piece of ABS plastic.
Does mTLS work with ABS? That’s how I control access to many of my “exposed” services.
I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that’s probably because I spend a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.
I also wait until my partner is asleep. It still doesn’t make me 100% safe from the ‘what did you do’ texts, because sometimes I break things that I don’t think to check. Worse, sometimes I break something so bad that I stay up until 6am trying to fix it, only to cook my brain and pass out without fully repairing what went wrong.
But it’s still better than doing it during the day.
I only do networking after midnight. I have pulled 4+ hrs after breaking the network more than once.
This is me last Friday. Wanted SSO passkey so bad I pulled an all-nighter to make it work between 3 different machines.
I love passkey so I adamant on Pocket ID. End up hammering on it till 3AM with no success in sight, turns-out nothing is wrong with anything config-wise. I just wasn’t aware the bridge network you create didn’t enable ipv6 by default. Passed out at 5AM lol.
Now my sistet can’t complaint about so many password to manage.
End up canceling going out with friends Saturday night cuz I was already sleeping soundly at 8 PM.
I haven’t tried passkeys, I honestly probably have too many apps that don’t support it. Hell I get annoyed by apps that don’t have ldap integration. Looking at you paperless-ngx.
many apps that don’t support it.
Yeah, that is one thing making it harder. I use traefik-forward-auth/tiny Auth for that and honestly I still can’t make some apps work properly.
But at least the most used one are in place now and seems fine UX-wise (JF, vaultwarden, navidrome and frigate).
I’m doing this just because I want to stop relying on CF tunnel and just use my public ipv6, but I don’t think I’m ready security-wise.
And cf tunnel and other overlay network solution like Tailscale have a penalty on performance for me because their closest server are on the neighboring country.
I’ve recently moved everything over to CachyOS after a Windows 10 LTSC security update failed to install multiple times.
I’m actually really surprised by how well everything works, including my nvidia GPU, microphone, and drawing tablet. The only thing that’s not working rn is my Canon printer but that might be more of my own skill issue with using CUPS and CAPT and can be remedied by emailing myself a PDF and printing from my phone.
I was fully expecting to fuck my shit up forever.
I recently had trouble with a very old Canon printer, I acquired. After some attempts that even involved tracking down original driver files from 13 years ago, I realized I just had to install ‘gutenprint’ and then add it throuoh my KDE menu. Just works now.
/me ((Cries in Linux Nvidia driver upgrades.))
My rack is chained up in the garage and beaten into submission. I get an alert if something is down and an alert over a week if there’s an upgrade. I put those alerts on silent so i only see them when i pull the shade down on the phone.
Computers are better seen and not heard.
That’s why, as a computer nerd, I use a non modified Linux Mint.
Hyprland the “ironically” nazi desktop?
No, that is the ruby guy
I was wrong. I have no idea what these edgelords do, but thank you for the link.
I mean I did get them confused with DHH bc of the framework debacle, I meant that link as clarification. You were right in that I was thinking of “the ruby guy” lol
Yea, I wanted to try hyprland because of a video about omarchi, but it didn’t take long before I heard about DHH’s ideas.
I would regard myself as Quite Computer, not Very, and yet, have still managed to bugger my Linux box by messing with the bootloader.
No drive or USB ports recognised on boot. No way to boot from iso. Yay me.
I still remember the time I managed to unwillingly run two DE at the same time simultaneously. The screen was refreshing between gnome and kde at 50Hz. It was tripping.
These are the “I don’t have epilepsy but I sure as hell don’t want to find out right now that I have it” moments.
@cannedtuna <laughs in nixos>
how is this related to NixOS? Once you upgrade your hyprland version on NixOS (which you’ll have to do eventually, at least for security fixes), you have to worry about the config breaking just the same
You can rollback and take care of it later when you have time spare.
yes but the problem is having to spend time to fix it in the first place. On a more stable de/compositor like Plasma or Sway, you won’t have these problems
I mean, the top level comment refers to the title and not things breaking in general where OP complained about needing to troubleshoot right now before being able to be productive. Being able to postpone troubleshooting to when you can afford it is a massive benefit exactly for this reason where you need to get things done now or just want to do something else in the moment. For the same reason my root is on a ZFS pool with 2-way mirrored vdevs and I have (non-zfs) mirrored boot set up as well. No matter which of my drives fails I can take care of it later without any impact on my productivity or loss of data. I never used hyperland but heard of it stability issues ever so vaguely and while choosing different window manager (because that’s what it is to ppl) may have solved this specific issue at the cost of sacrificing preferences the expectation for your system to never break is absurd. Things will always break at some point and it can come from any direction. Being able to hande the breakage gracefully is the key part.
@hirihit640 depends what specifically broke OP’s config and whether the same config done declaratively with nix would have kept parity with the changes instead of breaking. I am not a hyprland user and was just being silly. Feel free to tell me what the breaking change was if you know.
Lol just upgraded to 26.05 today, surprisingly smooth! This time…
I had to fix 3 errors in Hyprland and a warning in Foot after updating to 26.05 yesterday. I think there was more, but at least it works now.
This is the greatest truth of being a computer person. Our shit is also broken, just in ways you’d never heard of.
