Yes, "wantonly" is spelled correctly here. I looked at it and immediately it felt wrong so this is for any like me who's only ever heard it said.

Also, broke my Codium install today, no idea how but it won't load debug values now, woo.

Sounds like a very similar situation to car mechanics

i would just un-update it and only update when im ready to tweak the config

Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.

My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place

Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning

My partner would text me 'what did you do' when I had a day off and audiobookshelf stopped working. This is why I only tinker after midnight

If you water cool it you can call yourself a plumber too

Yeah… ive been meaning to get audiobookshelf setup, but it looked like a pain so it’s been sitting there untouched. That along with needing to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin, my projects pile up.

My computer is just a bunch of duct taped config files I’ve forgotten about waiting to be invalidated by the next update

This logic can be applied to many hobbies, frankly.

ABS is actually quite easy if you already have a library for audiobooks on Plex

Just install ABS on the same box and point it at the same folder and it will do most of the rest itself

Remote access is a bit of a pain though. I'm using tailscale for it. I wish there was a better, more universal (also free) 2fa solution out there but it just doesn't exist.

Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin

I'm not a computer guy. I'm a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.

I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.

People who know what they are doing use snapshots and backups so this doesn't happen.

I suppose they could rename Hell

Not a developer or power user but the tinkering and unstable mindset fades away as one gets older.

The cobbler's lids have the worst shoes

I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.

And this is my argument against auto update.

Auto update means stuff breaks when I'm not looking.

Better to have a managed update process where I sit down, do an update, verify things work.

I get business has a different risk model that drives auto update there. Tens/hundreds/thousands of machines represent a massive risk canvas, and support for things not working is already baked into IT services.

Verycomputer?

Wantonly?

Huh?

Since this is linux memes, I am on day 10 of my work being unable to fix windows 11 (and I am not doing it for them) while I continue to use my Linux machines for everything because they just work.

I learned last week, after over 30 years of assembling my own computers, that there are (at least) two types of modular power cables for SATA drives. The way I learned this was to grab a cable that fit between my power supply, two hard drives, and a DVD burner, and turned my computer on. In the past, in my experience, if the cable had the right connectors, it would work. Apparently, there is no standardization for the power side pin-out, and some manufacturers (Corsair, at least) wired that end differently for some cables, and using the wrong cable will blow up any drive attached.

Or something like that, I dunno, I was too mad to look into it any further. Fortunately, I didn't lose anything irreplaceable, so all it cost me is money and embarrassment.

I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol

I also have four non functional bikes

I also wait until my partner is asleep. It still doesn't make me 100% safe from the 'what did you do' texts, because sometimes I break things that I don't think to check. Worse, sometimes I break something so bad that I stay up until 6am trying to fix it, only to cook my brain and pass out without fully repairing what went wrong.

But it's still better than doing it during the day.

Does mTLS work with ABS? That's how I control access to many of my "exposed" services.

ABS is actually quite easy

Well yeah, you just depress the brake pedal

Yup. My Arch+LUKS+KDE setup freezes on first boot half of the time and I can't be bothered to keep trying to fix it because it takes less than 5 minutes of my time per day and I run backups of the important stuff once or twice a week, and I'll likely distrohop within the next 12 months. Worst case scenario, I wipe the whole thing, archinstall from scratch, and restore from backup.
(well, worst case that doesn't result in physical/BIOS damage...)

Wantonly

Normal word: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wantonly, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wantonly

Verycomputer

It said "Very Computer", which is a humoristic way of saying highly computer-savvy

I do (most) of my autoupdates on Sunday at 4am, that way if things break it happens on an expected schedule. My manual updates like proxmox too, once I'm awake. Game servers are daily though, since stuff can break if client/server aren't on the same version.

I had Vaultwarden push an update a couple of years ago that broke it, and I had daily autoupdates on (watchtower) so for an hour I was panicking about what happened. That's how I switched to my mostly-weekly system, with critical vulnerability updates done manually on release.

I am also hoping that I do that, but I still don't

I read about that a couple of years ago, I am speechless that such a thing is even allowed to exist.

Except it doesn't hurt your back as much to fix.

What? He is obviously talking about a broken piece of ABS plastic.

Crying in GPU and USB kybd/mse/snd ported into a PVE-housed Nobara43 VM right now.

Just because it's in a dictionary doesn't mean it's a normal word. Wantonly is a weird word. I keep reading want-only and an very confused.

My cousin is 30 years a mechanic. The only reason his car works at all is because he retired at 48 (#union).

Thanks, I knew the term wantonly but didn't know it was spelled that way.

Thanks!

The computer thing, meh. Just say it.

afaik there is no 'standard' for modular power supply cables. you have to make sure the ones you're using are for the specific psu you're using, and that can even vary between models from the same manufacturer.

The key is to call them all "pet projects" that are "still being worked on" and then not do anything with them for another month.

(Engineering/Tech guy here)

Depends on if you've got a good chair.

I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that's probably because I had already spent a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.

Oh, well you see with Vaultwarden what you do is just don't update it until you're forced to because the clients stop being able to talk to it. ;)

And also

Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.

N+1

I only do networking after midnight. I have pulled 4+ hrs after breaking the network more than once.

If you read it as, want-only, I could see that. But wanton-ly doesn't seem that uncommon to me.

Been there, done that

That hurts

Gentoo has the stability you seek

Yeah my cars all have problems but I know what they are so I can fix them later. I worry more about folks driving about with a failed wheel bearing and 0 brakes that they have no clue about..