wreckedcarzz

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Tag

Ur false. I'm false. This whole system is out of false!

wreckedcarzz , vor 5 Tagen

I don't speak German (just lurk and translate from /all), but I knew immediately what this was about, and I hung my head in frustration. 😫

wreckedcarzz , vor 6 Tagen

Tru fax

wreckedcarzz , vor 12 Tagen

-$4 and include an unopened, chilled 20oz cherry pepsi. You deliver. Take it or leave it.

wreckedcarzz , vor 16 Tagen

As a disabled dude: lmfao this is great

wreckedcarzz , vor 15 Tagen

XD

wreckedcarzz , vor 16 Tagen

I used to dabble in programming as a hobby, but now I'm a disabled home-bound sysadmin and homelab enthusiast.

Oh, and a flaming gay fur.

wreckedcarzz , vor 16 Tagen

What if they want to be warm, though?

wreckedcarzz , vor 16 Tagen

I'll get the camcorder

wreckedcarzz , vor 19 Tagen

Don't you mean the oux?

wreckedcarzz , vor 19 Tagen

I'm a pathetic moron

"so there would be two of us then, eh?"

wreckedcarzz , vor 24 Tagen

Why did this make me audibly laugh

wreckedcarzz , vor 25 Tagen

Imitation is illegal... Smh why does nobody just print real money? Am I the only one seeing this loophole?!

wreckedcarzz , vor 29 Tagen

This guy (actually) fucks

wreckedcarzz , vor 29 Tagen

"You know when you run many commands in the terminal with &&? Like that but with penises."

wreckedcarzz , vor 28 Tagen

Look, some of us take our time, and so others think the process has stalled, but it will complete eventually. Just take a number and you will be summoned in the order you arrived.

And will someone hose the party favor down? And how do you even get that on the ceiling?! Joey TAKE THE HOSE OUT OF YOUR ASS!

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Yeaaaaah my ex accused me of being narcissistic, when I was spending literally all my money on them, letting them use my credit cards, paying for trips to be with them, moving across state lines to be closer to them, etc etc across many years. Basically neglecting myself, and especially my finances. I'm disabled too so I'm already running on a shoestring budget. Who needs to buy things for themselves when you can put a person on a pedestal and live through their happiness? (therapy fixed that, but fuck me it did some brutal damage)

My friends, who have met my ex both irl and interacted with them online, every single one both warned and sided with me, when things fell apart. Even going as far as arguing with me when I tried to defend my exs point of view on various topics/occasions. It's almost like being born into privilege and money can make one a terrible person when even the person who would move the world for you, can't afford every thing for you, and finally after years puts their foot down that I don't want them to do something (after allowing them to sleep around, share intimate things that I feel only should only be done with their partner(s), burden myself heavily financially, buying gifts regularly with no reason other than to show affection, moving 800+ miles just to be brushed off, being dropped like a sack of shit with 0 emotion when he left me...).

But hey, apparently he says I'm the narcissist. Projection is a bitch, y'all.

Anyway, what was I getting at? Oh, uh, yeah. If one person says you're a narcissist, fuck em. But if everyone says your a narcissist/everyone else is... might want to look into that.

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

I mean, the warnings didn't come until we were engaged, and I listened but I wasn't about to break away from a marriage because of warnings. At that point we had been together for 5y and the good outweighed the bad up until that point.

It was year 6 that he became cold, heartless, and borderline abusive (and then left me when my usefulness had ran out [e: and also the fact that I dare put my foot down for the first time in the whole relationship, too]). By that time, I was bracing for the implosion.

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat

When you refuse to pay $18 for a ticket at a shitty theater

this meme but he's at home and nude, watching the film through alternative means

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat

Coming out next fall: RvB: Politics

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat

The best NC setup, is uninstalling NC. Seriously, I spent a month getting that monstrosity to work and not bitch about configurations OUT OF THE BOX that it does NOT HAVE A UI FOR just to find out that half of the 'apps' are half-baked buggy messes and the other are out of date, half-baked buggy messes. A to-do system without repeating item availability was the last one I learned about before salting the earth of that hopeless project.

...

Actually got me pissed off, thinking about it again. Jesus.

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat

Right now I'm using a synology nas and its 1st party programs, but trying to break away to a more foss-friendly environment. Drive, Contacts, Calendar/Tasks, just work and don't require any fiddling so until a worthy opponent shows up, I'm kinda stuck.

wreckedcarzz , vor einem Monat

I've looked briefly into seafile; I'm fine, happy really, with the synology for file hosting, it's just the caldav, the photo management (I have immich but there's no easy way to move albums from syno to imm), stuff like that. And the fact that it all works together (reverse proxy, apps, web UI....) makes it illogical to move away for anything else than 'principle' or 'insufficient hardware'.

I have truenas running on a proxmox system but it appears it wants more than one drive? But I don't have matching drives for raid at the moment. That was/is something I'm looking into longer term, once I decouple the data from the services.

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

Goat: breaks into your house, shits all over your living room

You: "oh fuck it's Steve"

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

last paragraph, "at the time"

(long, super recent story/rant)

I just switched to Kubuntu for my ThinkPad (not my first choice but hardware incompatabilities) over the last few days, and it still very much is a terminal-based system. It took me ~4 days to set everything up, and nearly every step aside from "change things in the settings UI" was "in a terminal, type..."

I dipped my toes into Linux... 19 years ago? As someone who likes windows up until 10, and heard all of the 'it's so amazing' gospel from Linux users, two decades later I'm like: "it's still not ready"

Shit, I wanted to install Debian 12(.5) with KDE on this TP. It has a snapdragon X55, that I need working, and previous attempts at getting it working (year+ ago) failed. I read docs, did more research, I was ready. Made a live USB, install it in the live environment, restart, and... it hangs during boot. Research, 'use the option presented at the boot menu'. Okay. "no network" errors, that's fine, it's not a net installer. Done, restart. Hangs. Research. "use rufus, it solved my problem". Rinse, repeat, hang. Isn't Debian supposed to be super reliable? And Kubuntu booted fine, like what the hell?

Then cue the 4 days of setup. This machine is a very light use box, mostly to be a hotspot. Browser, email, password manager. Btrfs for snapshots (WHY IS THERE NO SNAPSHOT UI IN ANY DISTRO I TRIED?!). I'm far from a novice, been trying to switch for two decades. This will be easy.

deep breath

WHY IS GRUB NOT TAKING MY UPDATED SETTINGS (it's a known bug in Ubuntu since 20.04?!)? WHY CAN'T I GET HOWDY TO INSTALL? WHY AM I GETTING APT ERRORS ON A FRESH INSTALL? WHY IS BITWARDEN FAILING TO SYNC? WHAT IS THE NEW-NEW-NEW METHOD OF SETTING UP NEXTDNS? WHY CAN'T I RESIZE A PARTITION (/) LIVE? WHY DOESN'T MY HOTSPOT WORK WHEN I USE WPA3 (still broken, actually, and WPA2 isn't an acceptable solution imo)? WHY DON'T I GET ANY ERROR MESSAGES WHEN THIS HAPPENS (a recurring theme)? WHY DO I HAVE TO SIFT THROUGH 3 DIFFERENT LOGS? WHY IS SEVERAL HUGELY-POPULAR PROGRAMS NOT IN THE DEFAULT REPO (omfg - Librewolf, Telegram, Element, Signal, Discord, Bitwarden...)? WHY DO THESE ALL TAKE DIFFERENT STEPS TO INSTALL ON MY SYSTEM WHAT THE FUCK WE HAVE A SYSTEM FOR THIS SCREAMS

E: WHY DOES KDE CONNECT JUST DECIDE THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO CONNECT TODAY UNTIL I TROUBLESHOOT FOR 3 HOURS, CHANGE NOTHING, THEN WORK?

And then, the 5G modem. Why in the shit doesn't the fcc unlock tool just fucking detect, and unlock, automatically. Why. WHY. This is simple, the installer is already detecting hardware. It's right there. This could be easy. Instead I had to dig through pages of solutions that didn't work, until I landed on a page for my laptop (but seemingly a different architecture?) for Debian 13 (unstable) talking about needing to edit the installer with commands (omfg what) or the screen will just show nothing on boot, that you need to change wifi and bt stuff or they don't work, etc etc... But in this heap of "I should just revert", there was one line, the line I needed, to run this stupid fucking fcc unlock tool - and how to find the hardware address. Enter both, nothing (a 'success' message would be nice...). No further instructions in the doc. Luckily, I am persistent and went into the networkmanager anyway, tell it to connect to mobile broadband. Fill in my apn. Save. It works.

There's a ton of stuff I glossed over, but it should not take FOUR DAYS with the terminal essentially living on my screen, with my browser having a dozen tabs at any given time for troubleshooting, for someone who has done all this shit before (minus the modem) many times in the past. It's done, I'm setup, but there isn't a soul alive who would switch their generic Dell machine running windows, spend several hours a day for several days, just to get their base system running. And the second they see "open the terminal", which is still very much a necessity, they'll be running to the hills.

I have a friend asking me questions about Linux since I've been harping on this the last few days, and I'm like... it's not the easy path everyone says it is. I don't want to push them away, but fuck they use many of the same programs that aren't one-click installs, and I haven't even touched gaming, multiple sound cards, gpu drivers; they use their machine for gaming, and mine is on W10 for a reason. It would be a nightmare guiding them through the minefield I just emerged from. Not to mention games that aren't handled by steam/proton and don't have guides, old games like Midtown Madness/2, Midnight Club 2, Insane/2...

It's still not ready, not anywhere near close.

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

computer

installs iOS

Que?

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

So what's the deal with vim? I spooked up a vps recently and decided to forgo the gui options, like a real Linux server admin. I have been using nano and it seems to do all I need from a basic text editor in the terminal. I get that vim/emacs meme-bantering but actually why. It accepts texts and stores them in files. What is the actual point/difference?

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

...mostly

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

dog war flashback meme

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

At the time (a couple of years ago), I tried a Dell... Precision? laptop, but it had a different cell modem in it (I was just starting my interest in cellular computers) and my provider AT&T locked it to an utter shit plan where I could pay like $45 for 15gb of data with overage fees per month, fuuuuuck that. I was searching for one that would be bound to their 'tablet' plans, as they got unlimited data for $20 (this is a business account, not consumer). AT&T offered the TP X13 Gen 2 Intel from them, that was guaranteed tied to the unlimited plan, with 0% financing, so I jumped. It is my first TP, but an ex has an older TP and had mostly positive things to say about it. And the modem (and antenna?) gets blazing fast speeds, like 400-500Mb/s. But that's why I have the TP, it's a "business" line for my (families) business.

I tried Fedora last year but again couldn't get the X55 modem to work, which was frustrating. Information about it in the X13 is scarce since it wasn't offered with Linux officially afaik, and you either got it early and Ubu or something 'just worked' with it out of the box, or you had to compile the driver from source for some reason (I don't remember but they yanked the driver from newer releases I think). I guess at some point it was re-added but again nobody talks about this machine and it's WWAN card so I got super lucky to find that one Debian 13 info page.

While I've played with Fedora briefly when I was distros hopping to see what worked last year (and before that), and the ex had it on his TP, I don't actually know what the difference is vs Debian-based systems, since I try to stick with that as it's what I started on and know/am comfortable with. All I know is its based (?) on RHEL. Care to give me a tl;dr major differences?

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

Second big paragraph: I usually have ethernet ports that just decide to wake the system up, almost all my machines in the last 15 years do this. Disabling the ability to wake from sleep (from the ethernet port) has always resolved this. Just something to look at.

Third: yeah, and it's fine to not be ready - I'd rather it not be and everyone accept that. Problem is (and what I was alluding to) is that many don't. I've got attacked here, reddit, and elsewhere because "er mah gerd I found the perfect build guide and didn't care about the distros so I followed everything to a T and you too should have no creativity or desire for exploration so that you can be as much of a sheep as I am" and it's like... I like the hardware I selected, I like the distro and want to see it improve because of [feature], etc but god damn some people if you step out of their mental line, they lose their shit. Tell them that X doesn't work because of Y and they want to rip you to shreds for breaking their perfect bubble they've built. Spend any time in a Linux-heavy gaming community and their holy penguin can do no harm.

I dunno if my venting above comes off as it, but I want this project to succeed. It's just, every time it's been a wall of issues, every time "oh it's better now" but 'better' is 'we fixed the old issues' and doesn't touch on 'and we added some new ones, too'. That's the catch. Two steps forward, one step back - but it's progress.

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

main storage [...] was

oh no

I backed everything up

OH YEAH 🥤

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

... I've been using nova for like, 14 years. It's not complex. Now if you want a lot of options, FairEmail will overload your brain. Which I also have...

Backing up config files is actually a lifesaver.

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

I am a fan of Vista, but 95 was my gateway drug to tech. I remember when I was like, 4? And I discovered that exes were like, huge! But lnks, tiny! Why do we have all these space-hogging exes anyway? Begone! Look dad, I saved us so much drive space! Why does nothing work now?

And that's basically been my method of learning ever since. How much can you really break, before it's broken, and why? Let's find out!

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

Self-healing capabilities, and the ability to do an 'in-place upgrade' (installing win over itself without data loss) were huge too. I had to wipe + reinstall XP dozens of times throughout the years, often for some small bullshit. I was a Vista beta tester, and got a copy for my machine as soon as it went gold. I went all-in and it was actually a fantastic OS. 7 was good too, but it didn't do that much new, comparatively. It stood on the shoulders of giants.

All live Windows Longhorn (Vista).

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

Look ma, we have so much space now!

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

deletes some lock file and it works again

FBI OPEN UP

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

Well when you have to release a patch to a customer and they are quite far away...

(e: also I have my house networked with patch cables to every room via the attic, some are 100')

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

Slayer

Running riot!

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

unbutt

That's so stupid, why am I laughing

wreckedcarzz , vor 2 Monaten

If

Your brain: we will just ignore that

wreckedcarzz , vor 3 Monaten

None of the owners race cars

Now that's not true, I've been known to s- whispering, clearing throat my council has informed me that I should end this statement without any further detail.

wreckedcarzz , vor 3 Monaten

Nah, it's been running since '11 and because of a critical network vulnerability that op never patched, it's been a bitcoin slave since '15. But the paper is always nice and toasty.

wreckedcarzz , vor 5 Monaten

They are going to "ride" the dinosaur, aren't they?