I’m not a computer guy. I’m a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.
I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol
I also have four non functional bikes
I learned last week, after over 30 years of assembling my own computers, that there are (at least) two types of modular power cables for SATA drives. The way I learned this was to grab a cable that fit between my power supply, two hard drives, and a DVD burner, and turned my computer on. In the past, in my experience, if the cable had the right connectors, it would work. Apparently, there is no standardization for the power side pin-out, and some manufacturers (Corsair, at least) wired that end differently for some cables, and using the wrong cable will blow up any drive attached.
Or something like that, I dunno, I was too mad to look into it any further. Fortunately, I didn’t lose anything irreplaceable, so all it cost me is money and embarrassment.
My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place
Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning
If you water cool it you can call yourself a plumber too
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
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
I suppose they could rename Hell
Verycomputer?
Wantonly?
Huh?
Since this is linux memes, I am on day 10 of my work being unable to fix windows 11 (and I am not doing it for them) while I continue to use my Linux machines for everything because they just work.
Not a developer or power user but the tinkering and unstable mindset fades away as one gets older.
Sounds like a very similar situation to car mechanics
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
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.
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.
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.
Does mTLS work with ABS? That’s how I control access to many of my “exposed” services.
ABS is actually quite easy
Well yeah, you just depress the brake pedal
This logic can be applied to many hobbies, frankly.
i would just un-update it and only update when im ready to tweak the config
And this is my argument against auto update.
Auto update means stuff breaks when I’m not looking.
Better to have a managed update process where I sit down, do am update, verify things work.
I get business has a different risk model that drives auto update there. Tens/hundreds/thousands of machines represent a massive risk canvas, and support for things not working is already baked into IT services.
I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.
The cobbler’s lids have the worst shoes
My computer is just a bunch of duct taped config files I’ve forgotten about waiting to be invalidated by the next update
People who know what they are doing use snapshots and backups so this doesn’t happen.
