Fuckin a, man.

So far, so good.

Is another of my favorite responses to “how’s it going”

Shoot me $12

Same. I bought a fixer upper and haven’t moved in yet due to the very messy renovations I’m doing slowly on evenings and weekends after my full-time job. I’m almost to the point I can move in though.

I agree with you that the gui toolkit is pretty uninteresting from the users pov, or at least mine. I do wonder if the multi-threaded transcoding pipeline changes in ffmpeg 7 will improve performance in handbrake at all. I’m not sure if Handbrake calls the ffmpeg cli or not.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged

Ugh the caps lock key is too useless for the home row!

Oh lord that escape key bit is me

Who tf thought I’d ever want to edit a spreadsheet in a chat application anyway?

Oh yeah. Back in the late 90s I played all the games ported by Loki Games. I played the native quakes, portal 1 & 2. And using regular Wine and some winetricks I played about 300 hours of Skyrim and completed Mass Effect 1,2,3.

You probably remember the libc5 to glibc swap. Bad times to DIY distros.

Hmm I have come up with a bunch of neat solutions over the years. Where to start?

One time I broke the sudoers file on a distro without a root account, thoroughly locking myself out. I used docker -v /:/chroot to get myself root access to my root filesystem where I fixed the sudoers file. Protip always use visudo

Minification is a curse. Now hear me out… I’ve wasted so much engineering time trying to figure out why various build scripts fail in docker only to find there’s a tool = $(which tool) 2>/dev/null in there eating the real error. Which is missing because someone wanted to save a 100k by not installing it the docker image base image.

My point was more that it was a very rough release even for a .0 and the distros should have waited a bit longer before shipping it as a default. All said I <3 KDE and have been using it since 0.9.6 I think

Nice! How many 9s you got on that?

Lol. My gaming PC runs Debian Bookworm and KDE.

Oh how quickly people forgot about Plasma 4. When a Debian stable is released with Plasma 6 then I’ll know it’s ready for me. I don’t rush into major KDE releases anymore.

Not without real Firefox and ublock origin I won’t!

My experience with btrfs is quite old now, but I remember being plauged with enospc errors requiring a lot of balancing to correct.

I have been running zfs for a decade or so now on a 6 disk array and the only issue I have had was the pool not being imported on boot sometimes but that seems fixed now. I recenty replaced 2 disks in that array and the whole replace / rebuild process went quite well. I felt confident there would be no uncorrectable read errors during the rebuild because the monthly scrub had recently run. Overall I’m quite impressed with zfs.

All that said I would never run a root filesystem with an out of tree kernel module. So I’m still using xfs on /