Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

I’m gonna comment and say that’s the point.

You start out with bare minimum and install what you need. As you go you generally have an idea of what is and isn’t on your system. It’s not as annoying as Gentoo with all source compiling, not as anal as nix.

If something breaks, you go to ArchLinux.org and 95% of the time it’s mentioned on the front page so you follow the instructions and move on. It’s a very transparent distro, little drama to follow unlike Ubuntu/canonical or fedora/redhat.

It used to be harder to install and which gave some street cred, but they simplified it a bit which is nice.

The Stans give an unbalanced look at arch. I use arch because I want the latest packages, I don’t want to segment my packages between my repos and tarballs when there’s a game stopping missing feature on a package pinned to a 2yo version. I don’t want to learn a whole scripting language to carefully craft my OS like nix either. I want a current OS that’s easy to fix and easy to install packages so I can go back to what I was doing.

I really didn’t want to go the medicine route years back. Like OP Im a guy who always kept it long. I decided to give the basic regimen a try and went with a keeps like service because dermatologists are by far the worst doctors I’ve had to work with.

And although it thinned, the thinning totally stalled, to a point where it’s a little noticable but on a good day isn’t at all.

I haven’t cut my hair in years and despite it being annoying to take care of sometimes, I get to look in the mirror and see the version of myself that I like to see which makes the little bit of medication worth it imo.

I always hated the “just shave it and own it, bro” attitude because damn my hair is part of my identity, I love having it. I’ll put some effort into keeping it.

I’ve done a few wiki posts and issues. I’m not a bad programmer but my ADHD makes the scaffolding around OSS contribution a lot harder than the actual programming aspect. So I’ve been sorta nervous to jump in.

I believe it. Once big work horses were more available, people stopped tearing down the moose on-location and just dragged it home. In more modern times, they’ll use a 4x4. This particular area was extremely rutted so they couldn’t get anything wheeled back there, and where do you even find a Clydesdale rental service this day and age?

I had some moose that was given to me by my friend who was present at his friends moose hunt. They had to break the animal down at the location and make multiple meat sack trips to the game warden for tagging. The warden said they hadn’t seen someone do it like that for a century.

I had an old arch install about 7 years ago that stopped booting, so I booted into ubuntu, mounted the ssd, used a chroot to fix it, forgot to unmount the ssd, proceeded to rm the mount dir as it was “temporary”. It took me mere seconds to realize what I did and by then it was a lost cause. I was able to use a file recovery tool to grab my precious memes, but thankfully there wasn’t much else valuable on the drive.

Worlds most roundabout rm -rf /

Its not dead simple but its also not extremely complex.

I’m currently working with some interns and there’s just concepts they were never exposed to. Without decent mentoring, git can be difficult because a lot of the workflow does come with experience.

That being said everyone needs to stop acting like its an impossible task to properly do source control. There is some truth that if you don’t care enough to do your source control, you don’t care enough to write decent code. Its not a moral failing, just take some pride in your craft.

Show the newbies how to care and they’ll care enough to want to do it right. Measure twice, cut once and all that.

I remember this too, part of the name was like “tik terry tembo”

DAE DMV?

Every time I hear someone complain about the DMV, USPS, etc, I assume they’re being difficult to the workers. Every experience I’ve had with these kind of government services, I read up ahead on what I need, organize my shit, and show up prepared with a smile.

When I do that you see a wave of relief over the worker and they return the smile and respect. You can basically extrapolate the verbal abuse they deal with all day long.

With my secret method(being nice and respectful), every USPS worker I’ve interacted with has either been very friendly, or neutral but relieved.

Leave our brave troops alone goddamnit, be nice to them.

I bought a kasa power strip for individual switching thinking TPlink kept around the no account local API.

They fuckin trashed it and I need an account to use a goddamn power strip. I’m going to have to rip this apart and see if I can reprogram it or something.

Oh don’t worry, their kids will take their place.

I’m undeniably pro-gulag so thanks for letting me know this source is for me!

I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.

I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.

It’s absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.

Yes, vim is a command line program.

If you look up “Cli file manager”, there’s a bunch that you can check out and try.

Tree, grep, and find are usually my three go-tos. Tree to get a general view of a ton of nested files/folders, then if I know a name I’ll use find . -name "filename", if I know a bit of contents, i’ll use `grep -re “content string” to find files containing that.

I recommend reading the man pages because you can often chain together these in fairly powerful ways.

Love my manual transmission. Toss er in 4th, hold slight pressure on the gas, cruise at the speed limit without any interference. If you let off you even slow down instead of coast.

Damn had to call both my senators. I always hate calling because I have no doubt that it wont do anything.

I watched a lot of youtube before I dove in. There’s a LOT more content on watch repair now after covid so it should be easy. Pay specific attention to how the seasoned watchmakers use their tools. You should never have to force anything in a watch. Go as slow as possible and really savor each movement.

If you don’t have a camera with good macro abilities, grab some of those cheap clip on macro lenses for your phone.

Take a pictures at every step until you don’t need them anymore. I specifically was interested in 2-3 movements but you start to see the commonality between them if you’re just working on a simple hour/minute/second/calendar watch without extra complications.

I really suggest buying one of those little plastic trays with a clear dome on top that have dividers. With that, I divide the parts and screws by the aspect of the movement. ie I’ll use one compartment for the automatic winder components, a compartment for the stem and winding mechanism, one for the main drive, and another for the date complication. I repair a lot of misc things so I have a decent memory for where parts/screws go. If you dont, take pictures of the screw next to the hole you took it from so you can compare scale. Screws inside watches are usually at most 2-3 sizes, if not all the same but its good practice to ensure you put the right screw in the right hole.

Also check out the forum watchrepairtalk. Its an international group of old men who love to help out. It has a completely different atmosphere to watchuseek and is an endless fountain of knowledge.

God the sovteks. I also like soviet watches and two of my interests are directly fucked from the war.

I mostly play acoustic stuff now, I have an alright manouche style guitar that I play more than most of my guitars now.

I struggle with frontend too, it was a super basic jinja templates with html and a plotly js applet that I just fed data to. Its ugly but functional.

I Started to re-write the server in Go, I have like 90% feature parity with postgres instead of mongo, but I need to figure out vue when I have a chance to make something a little nicer. I have an old obsolete ipad with a bunch of touch deadzones I’d like to load up in kiosk mode for a nicer data display.

I really liked the ESP32 ecosystem. I figured out the ESP-idf and really liked the build system and freeRTOS. The examples given are really exhaustive and super useful. I basically did format strings into static HTML headers to send the data to the server since it only has like 3-4 readings.

Interfacing with any common hobbyist sensor is mostly a matter of finding a basic C driver and adapting it for the ESP build system.

Do you ever have odd volume behavior? For example, I’ll turn it on one day with the clean volume around 2, it will be loud. Then another day I’ll turn it on, settings unchanged, and it will be half volume and I’ll have to bring it up to 3 or 4, which normally is enough to shake the drywall, just to get a normal level.

I have so many old tubes, I’ve considered turning them into Christmas ornaments by soldering a hook onto the feet. They’re too cool looking to toss but are no good in the amp.

Life is also a lot better with an attenuator between the power out and the speaker.