I have 9 backups.

After that I have to resort to crime and cryogenics.

SSH keys are so nice

I’ve got mine hooked into my password manager so it’s as easy as scanning my fingerprint to use (password manager locks on sleep and after a timeout).

Yeah, I’m aiming for self sufficiency and to reduce as much as I can.

Obviously on the internet you’re not never self sufficient, but liberating my data, owning my domain, and avoiding subscriptions is good.

Then why is it a flatpak?

And it was a terrible idea, but on atomic distros it’s that or adding it to the os tree.

Linux is good, the core OS has been great for a long long time (decades). It’s just the desktop environment situation that has sucked, and, of course, gaming before proton.

If you want to play games Bazzite actually does work pretty well. I went back to Fedora though and I literally spent hours trying to fix issues with just the Steam flatpak (it was overwriting my controller mappings every open). If you’re a gamer just stick with Bazzite.

I think I’m destined to for NixOS though, as my least favourite thing about linux is doing sudo fooctl enable bloopblorp and having no clear log/information about what exact state the system is in.

Yes, I just wasn’t happy with the state of my machine. It felt like there were too many parts I didn’t understand, so I wanted to clear it all out and simplify systems.

How do you use distrobox? I don’t get it yet.

I just try not to leave the shell lol.

Not too bad.

I kind of dislike the installer though (after you complete each step you have to go back to the main page to do the next one, it’s more a nitpick on the UI flow).

Getting everything working is easy though, basically just click which disk to install and add a user profile. Click install and then click restart when done.

Overall it feels modern and normal.

If you have secure boot you might have to go do something in the bios, but there are usually guides, and windows would be the same.

I’m still on-boarding to Linux, and I was on bazzite but a bunch of settings were messed up.

I migrated from docker to podman and for some reason half my flatpaks broke. Then my podman caches were insane, so my disk was filling up. And I had so e messed up settings, like sleep wasn’t working properly and would just show a black screen on resume.

In my case I like to run most things in containers, and that includes a lot of ML shit. Since I’m on AMD nothing fucking works, so I accumulate all these huge multiple GB containers that don’t work because the whole ML/AI/GPU stack is a steaming pile.

I just deleted ~1TB of cached intermediate container images today

It prompted me to just fresh install my os, which I’m doing right now.

I want that for phone but can’t buy it here

I know a guy whose former employer used the fact that he plugged a USB into his work machine to threaten to sue him unless he gave up severance when they layer him off.

Don’t use your work machine for anything other than work, ever. Assume it logs everything, assume it will all be used against you as needed.

Assume if you write it on that machine they’ll try and claim it as their IP.

Join us, and in 10 years you can look back on all the features your game engine implements, without having started work on the game play!

I kid. Ask yourself: what do you want out of this hobby game dev, and do you enjoy it. That’s really all that’s important.

If you do want to see if you like game dev, implement Tetris. All of Tetris though. You need a menu, pause, animations, etc. When you’re done you’ll have a better idea. Tetris is great because it’s not a huge project. You don’t need to wrestle with complex graphics pipelines, game design is mostly done, but you can take it in your own direction and add your own flourishes.

Learning to program I liked making top-down zombie shooters and platformers. It was a cool moment when I figured out a nice way to have smooth character positioning on a tile based map.

I guess that’s true.

This morning my very non techy wife was complaining all the AI shit on her computer was making it slow.

I looked over and Explorer was visibly lagging clicking in to a folder, on a system with an SSD and solid specs.

I feel like I just want to check out of society lately.

Charging money to run your own actions, what the fuck?

But the sane thought goes with the new increased iOS ads, and just the general state of “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin” phase of tech. I’m so fucking tired of it.

I know this is self hosted, but man I’m ready to start living in a cave.

Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.

My docker mounts just point to the folder they live in.

I’d rather have the data stored next to the config so it’s easy to find and manage.

So a folder would be services and have a compose file, config folder, and a data folder with subdirectories per service I run. Any custom dockerfiles get a folder with their build scripts.

Create a desktop without tiling and run steam on it.

I never really resolved my issues, Ive installed bazzite for now.

I like Cosmic, it was a little janky with steam windows when I tried it, but everything else was very nice.

Liked the hot keys, tiling, theming, and a decent built in terminal.

Team garage! It’s a great scope for software I want to support.

I’ve heard good things about seaweed too.

Fuck minio.