u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

And I thought otter was referring to the specie of their fursona.

Oh well.

“I donated money to them so I am going to use it.”

Although not much, just 20 EUR. Not sure how much the bundled Windows license costs, but surely Microsoft has other ways to earn from spyware.

I am not alone!

At first I installed Arch because I got an Arch sticker, and if I put it on my laptop that felt like the only appropriate solution.

Arch. After every update I check what broke. And then discover things I forgot to check.

I am still not sure if it’s already safe to upgrade VirtualBox and iio-sensor-proxy, but I am too lazy to just downgrade them yet again.

So I just…

IgnorePkg   = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspend
IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso # Segfault in 7.2.x, reverted to 7.1.8 - see sys-management-log.txt entry 2025-08-29

If you’re curious about the log entries:

2025-07-06:
        downgraded iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6-1 as 3.7 caused issues after suspending
        added iio-sensor-proxy to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

2025-08-29:
        downgraded virtualbox packages to 7.1.8 as 7.2.x was broken (segfault)
        installed linux-lts-headers as the downgraded virtualbox suddenly wanted that
        removed and reinstalled related packages a couple of times (virtualbox-host-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-host-dkms), as well as switching between linux-lts and linux. Hopefully that didn't create any brand new funny business.
        I want to die
        added IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso to /etc/pacman.conf

I recommend writing some documentation about your system. My Manjaro install became a total unknown mess after a while. I know I had to create some symlinks at some point to fix something, something something custom “XDG_CONFIG_HOME” dir with separate theme to un-break Cisco Packet Tracer on dark theme, edited startup script for Packet Tracer.
On one Ubuntu VM I edited a bunch of config files that I didn’t remember so it was just don’t touch it while it works.

But hey, I feel better after knowing that during high school our internet was down for weeks because something broke on main proxy server and nobody had documentation for the 2 decades old backup server, including the password, so it just ended up running in a “don’t touch it” mode, except that it also limited download speed on unknown PCs (based on MAC) to something like 32Kbps, which after 20 years meant nearly any PC so the solution was to copy MACs from basically ewaste.

Anyway… write documentation for what you do.

Hard water should wash soap off easily

That is what I am saying. Soap yes. shower gel and shampoo no.

And? We have an adjustable one, it cost €6 at Lidl.

Depends on water though. I find it impossible to fully wash off shampoo or shower gel with hard water, but bar soap will wash off easily and fully.
I don’t know what’s really going on there though.

Well, seems like the email may find you a well.

“Humanity eliminated!”

Meanwhile Gen X and New Zealand:

I am almost like him. I use “definition”.

The humble 50GB /var/cache/pacman/pkg on my 256GB drive.

I tried IPv6-only a few days ago, aside from Google and Cloudflare proxied websites, I couldn’t load anything.

Always be ready

Hmm, works in Opera but not Firefox. Meh.

Is that like, actually usable instance?

Clicking continue on content warning does nothing. Go back starts a 5 second countdown that then proceeds into negative numbers.

And before changing language you have to accept cookies and ToS. In that language. And language selection doesn’t use flags, but it’s written. And the list of languages is translated into “local” language.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, “God is crying peeing.”

Rather pentobarbital or secobarbital. As far as I know these are used for euthanasia (15g) and should be pretty nice (you fall asleep and die unconscious). However, they are apparently quite bitter.

Although… ice cream. You probably don’t eat that in one go like a glass of water, so the dose may not be high enough before you fall asleep. Secobarbital was used to treat insomnia in the past, by the way.

“Awesome UI”

Do you have an example?