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The key to customization is not going out of bounds. If you customize, do it the way it was intended to be customized, not by finding weird, hacky shit that works like some kind of digital Rube Goldberg machine. If you find yourself writing convoluted bash scripts, and dredging up plugins on GitHub with the last commit from 2012, you're on a crash course with destiny.
Hey, how'd you see what I've done to my Android phone?
Cause this exactly describes what I do to it. Then I get weird conflicts. Lol. I do it to myself.
I was primarily noting that I usually don't engage in unnecessary and unproductive customization, as there will always be some way you could meet your desires a little better, but unless you're creating and documenting an automated system like https://larbs.xyz/ or even just "copy this file to
~/.profile" your customizations will eventually be lost when your system fails, leaving you with new reason to spend more time customizing.As the video I linked said: if computers are as powerful as the universe and the universe was created in billions of years, you may only be done customizing billions of years from now (and at that point you will have had even more billions of years to come up with new ways you want to improve your customization).
If I'm spending time on something that won't result in an update to a git repository, or a Lemmy comment, or even speaking to someone in person or me acquiring more property, I consider it more frivolous than not.