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[–] 109 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 86 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Surprisingly wanton and wonton are completely unrelated. Wanton comes from middle english wantowen, which is the prefix wan- (meaning β€˜not’) and towen (meaning β€˜educated’). So it literally means β€˜uneducated’ or β€˜undisciplined’.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.

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  • [–] 110 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (27 children)

    xkcd TV Problems

    And also

    xkcd Computer Problems

    Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You'll never regret it!

    Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.

    I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    maybe not ventoy specifically since it's full of binary blobs that are virtually unvettable

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (12 children)

    I never even thought of that - you then plug in your phone as a thumb drive? Makes sense.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    I mean I'm not sure I could actually boot off of my phone as a USB drive. That would be an interesting concept.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    Unlikely. The USB protocol requires one master and one or more slaves (or whatever less charged nomenclature you prefer). In all likelihood UEFI will blindly assume to be the master while Android and iOS require negotiation to figure out who's boss and what interface to present.
    Although given UEFI it might be possible to patch that functionality in.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    i had this feature when i installed ubports (ubuntu touch) on my phone in 2021.

    much before that in 2013 my phone's stock rom had a 'driver install' mode that presents an iso file in the system partition to the computer as a virtual cdrom, i could swap out that file with a linux iso and it would boot

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The USB protocol and UEFI aren't a problem, but Android/iOS might be. I've booted various PCs from a raspberry pi (USB-OTG), but the last time I tried to boot an iso from my android phone I couldn't get it to work. It's been a while so I can't remember exactly what the issue was.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    My guess the issue is that phones don't just show up as simple drives, they rely on MTP support

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    There's a tool, whose name I forget, which is included in Kali NetHunter to do just that. It does whatever trickery is needed to present the phone/tablet as a bootable thumb drive. It requires root and, to my dismay when I needed it, I never owned a device that was rootable to fully use NetHunter. It could do a lot of other cool stuff via USB too; phone as a Bad USB, Rubber Ducky, automated Windows login bypasses, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    It does, though with an app that exposes the iso.

    Edit: Right, i thought it was EtchDroid. I think it was DriveDroid (with a broken cert)? There's also SimpleBoot now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Just a couple days ago I needed a microsd to usb adapter. Couldn't find one, so I loaded the files to a memory with fat usb(I don't know what it's called) and usb c connections. Then connected the memory to my phone and on my phone I moved the files to the microsd card.

    Not the same but similar vibes I think.

    It's sad that several phones are removing the memory slot.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Fat USB is called USB A. The one you use for printers is USB B. Then there are mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and USB 3.0 micro-B which are all different shapes physically. And USB A 3.0 has slightly different contacts from USB A 1.0/2.0

    Anyway, that was when USB nomenclature was still simple. Don't google anything they did past version 3.0, for your own sanity. We're now down to mostly the USB C and A shapes, but USB 3.2 gen 1x1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.0.

    USB 4 simplified things a bit, but now you can get things like Gen 4 asymmetric 3:1

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that's probably because I had already spent a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Even with docker, things can get complicated. Like if you use *arr stack for your plex library, but you manually copied in some extra subtitle files, or tweaked the descriptions of some media. Now you have to find those customizations so you can migrate them to the jellyfin library

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like a very similar situation to car mechanics

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    There's the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Is Spain we say that the blacksmith uses wooden spoons.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't that mean something else?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    The saying literally translates to "in the house of a blacksmith there are wooden spoons". In Poland we say "the shoemaker walks in shoes with holes". They all just means that people who build things as their job don't have the time to build those things for themselves.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I am a computer person. My philosophy is probably a common one, if it works don’t touch it.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.

    So therapeutic some days......

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Mac and a half a dozen server homelab. Plex was a homelab test that’s now β€œprod” (family won’t let me shut it off) so it’s in the prod environment outside of my homelab

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    My Mac is supposed to be the safe box too. I keep having to talk myself down from installing Asahi.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)
    • We tried setting up hyprland with Arch
    • Used an older guide, updated and translated it to the newest standard, learning about the unique scripting
    • Get almost everything working
    • Actually loved the feel of the ui and did get used to using terminal for almost everything
    • Things started falling apart
    • Steam started fucking up, everything was going horrible.
    • joined the support discord, found problem doing good over more :)
    • Update? Oo oki!
    • Hyprland: hmm nice fully custom set up you have here, would be a shame if someone were to change all the ui script you literally just learned :)
    • :(
    • Back on KDE + Cachy OS as we didn’t want to fight with our computer anymore, it’s good, great even, but… missing the window management of Hyprland now.
    • Don’t get us wrong, we’re very happy with KDE! It’s just… that window management πŸ₯Ί
    • if only we could get that in KDE
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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I like Niri a lot. Plus the maintainer isn't an asshole.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's why sway and river exist. They're actually stable.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Haven’t heard of them before tbh, from the replies Sway not be super stable. And river?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I have my (edit: RIVER) config for over a year and it's very reliable. It never broke on me apart from the misconfigurations which were my fault.

    It also integrates well with Waybar and is compatible with other Wayland tools for wlroots.

    But keep in mind that my config is relatively minimal.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    my linux honeymoon has far gone. nowadays I just use fedora gnome and actually work on something that makes money.

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  • [+] 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    No shame in that. I love sway/i3 because it force me to keep my screen tidy, but you are right that it takes time to get a decent config file.

    Not everything has to be a poweruser wet dream and most Linux distro allows you to do 95% of the stuff you need through the GUI, so more power to you to customize your experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    That would be true if the GUI worked correctly.

    However, more often than not, some inner thing breaks, which means that the GUI just throws an error screen and tells you "good luck". So you have to search for that text in Google, and it will send you to an obscure forum where a guy said in 2014 that the solution for that problem is to run some random command in the terminal.

    For example the "app store" GUI for Kubuntu never worked for me. It always stalls at some point or another. Meanwhile, running sudo apt upgrade worked flawlessly. Both operations should be doing the exact same thing under the hood.

    Two times already, a relative that uses Manjaro but has no idea about Linux came to me for help because the "app store GUI" (which is a different one than in KDE) one day stopped working. The issue was to run some random key-relayed command.

    Years later, I found out that apparently the Manjaro maintainers let their certificates expire MORE THAN ONCE. Which has to be fixed manually by the end user apparently. And they apparently didn't think of adding a notification in the GUI telling you about this. Which is bonkers. Not everyone reads all the news articles relating to their OS.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    That would be true if the GUI worked correctly.

    The GUI works correctly for the vast majority of the time.

    And MacOS and Windows also have GUI bugs, but we are so used to using these OSes that we know the workarounds.

    The difference with Linux is that depending on your desktop environment, you will have to learn a new workflow. On Windows and MacOS, you one desktop environment and that's it.

    However, more often than not, some inner thing breaks, which means that the GUI just throws an error screen and tells you "good luck". So you have to search for that text in Google, and it will send you to an obscure forum where a guy said in 2014 that the solution for that problem is to run some random command in the terminal.

    Happens with Windows too where you get an error code and then you have to registry entries to fix a bug. Again, same kind of issues with a different workflow.

    For example the "app store" GUI for Kubuntu never worked for me. It always stalls at some point or another. Meanwhile, running sudo apt upgrade worked flawlessly. Both operations should be doing the exact same thing under the hood

    I've had lots of issues with Windows store where a software wouldn't install correctly and I had no way to install what I needed to. At least, with Linux, you have multiple way to install a software. The app store is just a GUI over the package manager.

    Two times already, a relative that uses Manjaro but has no idea about Linux came to me for help because the "app store GUI" (which is a different one than in KDE) one day stopped working. The issue was to run some random key-relayed command.

    I do the IT for work (small company, 4 employees) and the number of time I had to un-break something in Windows for no apparent reason is high. Bugs happen in any OS. Linux is no different.

    Years later, I found out that apparently the Manjaro maintainers let their certificates expire MORE THAN ONCE. Which has to be fixed manually by the end user apparently. And they apparently didn't think of adding a notification in the GUI telling you about this. Which is bonkers. Not everyone reads all the news articles relating to their OS.

    That's dumb and I agree with you, but that's not a Linux issue though, that's a Manjaro maintainers issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most issues are a maintainers issue. Rarely is the issue in Linux itself. Most of the issues are in userland.

    Yes. All OS have bugs, and yes, we are used to doing workarounds for windows too. But most of the time, that workaround is fishing for a setting in an obscure menu with a Windows7 UI. But it is still a GUI. If you read the labels of the buttons you can navigate the menus to reach the button you want to press.

    I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That's on my PC, I don't work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.

    The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn't. Of course it's going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it's incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.

    The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.

    We also know those windows workarounds because GUIs are way more discoverable than terminal commands.

    GUIs act like trees. If you don't care about the "personalization" branch of the menus, you just don't click on it.

    Terminals act like lists. You do ls /usr/bin you'll just get shown hundreds of binaries. Which are not categorized in any way. Only when you know which binary solves your issue you can read the man and get something that hopefully resembles a tree, with headings of different levels.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That's on my PC, I don't work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.

    I have edited the registry a lot when I last used Windows when I used it last a few years ago, and even had to do it for the other employees while maintaining their PC.

    The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn't. Of course it's going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it's incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.

    The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.

    And you can do the same with the GUI on Linux. However, since the GUI is mostly just a wrapper around Linux CLI cmds, it's a lot faster to fix issues from the terminal.

    Linux was used mostly by power users a few years ago, and they tend to use the CLI a lot more. Thus the knowledge they have and share is the one they know, the CLI. Hell, when I have to use Windows, I will use thr CLI unless I absolutely have to use the GUI.

    And that's the knowledge that is usually shared because regardless of which distro/desktop environment you use, the CLI is consistent across the distro.

    But Linux has come a long way and many issues can be corrected through the GUI

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