I was around 18 when I started, so doing nonsensical things was my area of expertise at the time. That helps a bit with the feeling of time waste.

Still, it was not a complete waste, because now I can fix any such problems in minutes, and I always carry an archiso drive on me (which I used maybe once in the past 5 years to fix somebody else’s PC which wasn’t even running Arch).

I will say, without exaggerating, recovering from Windows boot issues has caused me WAY more issues over the years. It doesn’t tell you what’s actually wrong, you don’t get much in terms of tools, and so it’s much harder to fix unless you want to completely reinstall Windows (which apparently is a good idea to do regularly too…).

My ego isn’t that big…

I chose Arch (in 2011) because

1. Terminals make me look like hackerman
2. I wanted to nerd out and learn the Linux ecosystem
3. My engineer friends were Arch evangelists

I do catch myself saying “just read the manual”, but not in a hostile way I think. When you’re already in a terminal, once you get used to manuals, it’s very accessible and it’s quick to get what you need.

However, that usually requires you to know what you’re looking for quite specifically, and that is something you can only learn through experience and study.

I’m very happy with my choice and the whole “you can easily fuck up your system” thing also works in reverse - you can just as easily fix your system. I’ve made a few mistakes over the years but nothing that I couldn’t reverse. Just make sure you’re not fiddling with partitions and boot loaders during work hours…

The car accelerated to 80mph in its own? At least it’s partly responsible…

Are there no standards for minimum required sensors on a car to get a “self-driving” badge?

Every other field, especially in the automotive industry, has such strict standards… Radar should be a minimum

Yup, also ridiculous

I almost exclusively used both through Android with Chromecast, and I must say, I’ve had way more trouble with Emby than Plex.

Also on smart TVs, the Plex apps just have way fewer issues in my experience.

They would rather download and run a foreign binary from a sketchy website than open any kind of terminal

Luckily PCI pass-through using IOMMU works nicely these days, but I honestly still keep a Windows 10 partition for this…

Back then, upgrading the OS was borderline impossible without using a terminal. Is that still the case?

Luckily my friends showed me The Way of Arch back in 2011 and I never looked back

I’m very Danish and refuse to adhere to this nonsense. It’s pronounced “three twenty-five”.

I honestly still use Perl for small scripts as a Bash alternative. It is very powerful and is already installed everywhere. I just try not to use it for things others might have to work on…

I shudder at the thought of the ancient 1000+ lines Perl scripts… The seal must not be broken

I like this place. If this was in reddit, you giving even a little bit of credit to the man would leave you with -200 and probably banned.

It’s almost like the world is nuanced and not just red vs blue…

They have 95% success rate for landing boosters in a relatively new technology, saving loads in terms of trash and pollution (if that’s even a metric somebody is remotely interested in for space travel).

This is a huge leap. Probably not worth giving Musk credit for, but still.

Time for a new mission to rescue Bill!

8 missions and 8 dead pilots later: ah fuck it

Yeah, until yesterday Boost was working as usual.

Now you need to patch it. It’s pretty simple, though, takes maybe 5-10 minutes with this guide.

It has been working fine since then, as long as you are moderator (just make your own sub). But now they’re banning specific user agents from accessing the API.

~ oops, meant to reply above you

Mine stopped working yesterday, but there are fixes using the ReVanced Manager stuff

Personally I left because they increased efforts to ban 3rd party apps…

I know there are a lot of bots on reddit nowadays, but I blame the bandwagoning bs more. It has just gotten worse and worse over the past 10 years.