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Cake day: July 11th, 2024
  • phantomwisetoLinux•What's on your personal server?English
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    5 months ago

    Nothing yet, I’m still trying to figure out how to get my orange pi working… not much progress yet because I am just starting and making a server is very intimidating 😅 For now I’d like to just get it working so I can access a hard drive, and if I manage that and feel very daring, then pihole, jellyfin and home assistant.

  • phantomwisetoAsklemmy•What are some things(or ways) that you use to save time or get things done efficiently? Especially things that would be useful for many and are currently less popular.English
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    5 months ago

    As a general rule :

    • Never doing stuff that will take care of itself. Since the dishes want to dry themselves, it’d be really rude to prevent them from doing so by manually wiping them.
    • Minimising the time spent in pointless effort for things that will need to be undone. So never making my bed, only folding clothes that really need folding and that I won’t use soon, etc.

    Random stuff :

    • When cooking, making food for several meals at a time.
    • Using a rice cooker (or other appliances that cook food for you and that you don’t need to watch).
    • Using several laundry bags, one for each type of laundry program or liquid, so that it’s already pre-sorted and I can see easily if there’s enough in one bag for a wash. It avoids going through everything only to find there’s not enough black clothes/white clothes/delicate clothes/towels/bedsheets/whatever for a laundry.
    • Never using laundry clips. They take too long to put and remove. Instead I use hangers and S hooks, and for the small items that can’t be hung on hooks and won’t stay on hangers like gloves and socks, I just dump them on a shelf made of metal bars (there’s folding ones you can put on a radiator).
    • After doing laundry, leaving clothes I will probably wear soon where they hang instead of folding them and putting them in their place only to have to take them out later.
    • Having a “to put in bathroom” and “to put in kitchen” basket where I put stuff I need to put back in the bathroom and kitchen, so I don’t have to walk there for every item.
    • Not putting a duvet in a cover because it’s very tiring and I really hate doing it. Instead I sandwich it between two larger bedsheets.

    On my computer :

    • Keybinding every frequent apps and actions, rofi almost everything else (apps, ssh, file browser in some cases, calculator, unit converter). Saves a lot of time, pain and aggravation by not clicking so much all the time.
    • Using ‘vim -y’ for simple text editing cause I don’t have months to spare learning regular vim, or years reconfiguring emacs’ shorcuts, just to take some notes or make an ASCII drawing. And nano’s shortcuts make my brain hurt almost as much as emacs make my hands hurt. (To be fair, I probably would save more time in the long run by just learning vim but my brain starts going “NOOOPE I’m on strike” whenever I consider doing it _")
    • I’m considering trying NixOS because I keep wasting time forgetting if I already configured something, how I did it, what settings I used, etc, and having a declarative config file instead with everything listed in it seems much more practical.
  • phantomwisetoArch Linux•As a capable but lazy user, how much would switching to Arch frustrate me?
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    5 months ago

    Well, it depends on what you want from your OS.

    If you want games to work with as little bother as possible then a gaming distro might be a better option. The only distro I tried where games JUST WORK on their own is Nobara. They have lots of patches to make games actually work. If you want to play Windows games on steam then be sure to install It’s made by the same guy that makes ProtonGE, which you should definitely install if you want to play Windows games on steam, whatever your distro (if it’s not Nobara, you can use ProtonUp-Qt to avoid having to install it manually).

    Some games just won’t run on any of the distros I tried except Nobara. I’m sure you could get them working fine on Arch or any other distro with some work… but that’s work. When it comes to gaming I don’t want to go in computer wizard mode, I just want to ride dinosaurs. (Yes I realize the irony of saying that after ditching Nobara on my gaming pc because I would rather have Arch with some games not working than Nobara with everything working)

    Other than gaming I’d say it depends if you like being forced to do things yourself.

    I’m a very lazy woman who switched from Windows 10 less than one year ago and tried several distro before ending up with Arch, and it is absolute heaven compared to Windows.

    Lots of stuff don’t don’t work on my computer, but not because Arch is broken, I just haven’t got around to configuring them (lazy + adhd) or I tried but failed because I have no clue what I am doing (four months on Arch for a grand total of eight on linux, so that’s to be expected). But I prefer it that way. When I really need a feature it forces me to learn how stuff work, and that was the point of installing Arch instead of a distro that would do everything for me. I’ve learned a dozen times more in four months on Arch than in the same time on other distros. Or in 25+ years on Windows… I’ve still got a long way to go and there are lot of stuff that I can’t get working yet (looking at you Wayland portals >_<) but I really like it and I don’t think I’ll switch (though I’m very tempted to try Nix…).

    It you do decide on Arch, please don’t listen to people who insist that you shouldn’t use the archinstall script because the only “right” way to install Arch is to do a manual install. They’re morons. The script is a great way to have a working Arch install quickly and easily, so you can actually use Arch and see if you like it. There’s a lot to be learned by doing a manual install, yes. But it’s ridiculous to ask people who really want to use Arch to keep using other distros for however long it takes them to learn enough to do a manual Arch install, when they could just use the script and do the same learning while using Arch. If you want to do a manual install go for it, but pressuring people into it is just stupid.