Years ago I was on my ebike and someone drafted me all the way from OMSI to Springwater/Flavel : Just me in my work clothes trying to get home, her in her full riding kit and road bike, sticking so close I could hear her breathing. Then she rolled up alongside as I turned off to say “maybe someday you'll get a real bike."
I truly appreciate her to this day for that, because any "guilt" I had evaporated in a bright flash of her own assholism, perma-discrediting her ilk. https://mastodon.social/@jef/112520481694399405
I decided to "mix it up" and change what distro and DE were on one of my #Linux machines, and everything I installed made me angry such that I ripped it out and installed something else that made me angrier. Tried to go back to the original arch but a glitch and a fuckup with the arch installer filled me with rage anew.
Right now it has Debian + XFCE, which I think is good, and I'm gonna leave it alone for now.
What a shitty Linux day. Should have left well enough alone.
The arch installer, ugh. First time I ran it, it just glitched out and crashed. No idea why. I think it was during disk formatting/partitioning. Second time everything went smooth, except, if you just hit "return" or whatever through the installer, it will result in you skipping past the part where you install NetworkManager, and you will end up with no way to connect to wifi.
cause God fucking forbid you should by default be given a way to connect to wifi, and God fucking forbid the UI should take you into that section of the installer by default instead of skipping past it if you're not alert. I remembered it the first time (when the installer crashed) and forgot it the second time (when it succeeded)
it's a minor pain in the ass to go back and install it afterwards, you have to get in the install disk and mount your target drive and chroot to it and whatever, it's easier just to start over. And though I've been enjoying the fiddliness of Arch for a long time, I just did not have the patience for it yesterday, I was like "fuck you, Arch you just wore out your welcome. Debian, let's get back in business."
I did XFCE because some small but unfixable detail of Gnome (I won't go into it) had made me not want it for this machine. Also the machine's fairly low-RAM, so I thought it might be nice to have a low-resource-demand desktop for a change.
Of course, XFCE has its own issues... I couldn't set the touchpad to two-finger right-clicking in XFCE's mouse settings, I needed to modify a config file in /etc. And it doesn't notice and sleep when I close the lid, unless I open it and close it again.
Maybe I should just have used Mint. What makes me think I'm too cool to use Mint?
@mph "inexpensive" is always relative I guess :) Just curious.
I have a newer (well newer than that wonderful old Pentax you gave me) DSLR now, and I never use it, and I busted it out in the hopes of getting aurora photos. Did not get those but I've been feeling like I should be using the thing more since I have it. Took a couple really nice family pictures, including a good one of my mom and sister, when we went to the park for mother's day.
@mph (got this newer camera because my daughter was taking a photography class and needed something, so we both chipped in on a camera, and I have "our" camera at my disposal now)
@mph Oh man. I just watched his take on the new iPads, and it was fine, but it ended with the revelation that he's working with the Ridge Wallets people to design and flog $150 wallets whose like you can get on aliexpress for $4. What the hell, man.