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[-] reddfugee@lemmy.world 95 points 2 months ago

Donā€™t you hate it when your computer gets all bricked up?

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago

You can help keep things regular just by adding a little fiber to your network.

If thatā€™s not an option, open a tab to metamucil.io and download a couple packets twice a day.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I thought "bricked up" means having a hard on.

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

That's why I don't store it with the Amontillado.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or the router, in another state, and the person with access to the closet/server room knows how to push a few buttons at best.

That happens onceā€¦ and you get misconfigophobia for life.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

FYI with many routers, switches, and firewalls there are ways to automatically rollback changes in case the device is unreachable after applying them. Usually the command is called something like "Rollback".

You usually supply a time limit when you run the command and if you don't confirm the changes before that time limit it will rollback. So if you run rollback 30 and then do something which breaks the network connection, the config will rollback in 30 seconds. If it does work, you simply cancel the rollback.

[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's a good indication you're about to be fucked.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It usually happens after I get mad at it.

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

How do i make a backupand?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Litteringandā€¦litteringandā€¦.litteringandā€¦

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's a typo. It's supposed to say backupanda.

The Backupanda is a small black and white Chinese mammal that's is unaware of the concept of procreation.

[-] trespasser69@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

How do i make a backupand

Forget add spacing: "backup and"

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Why do i now Picture an Elephant making a backup?

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 34 points 2 months ago

It would be nice if RTFM was always an option, but a lot of the time the documentation is woefully incomplete.

[-] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

What's there to document? It's all there in the source code! šŸ˜œ

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Ah yes.

/* return an item's property as identified by 'prop' */
prop_t* getItemProperty(item_t* item, char* prop)

The floor is made of floor.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Or it presupposes existing knowledge or configuration.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

So so true. A perfect example is anything on any page of man other than 1 may as well not exist.

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

It's either woefully incomplete or behind a paywall so someone in the company has access to be you can't figure out who and eventually just give up.

[-] not_a_dog@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Is there a term for humor that is ruined by terrible grammar and diction?

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ortographobia.

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago
[-] chottomatte@lemdro.id 2 points 2 months ago
  • Brick, try, cry
[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Using nixOS has decreased my fear of misconfigobia

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

same here, using Guix_SD a rollback is all it tekes

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

What manual?

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a linux noob, I am developing the spider sense of telling when a solution is something reliable and when it's something that will fuck me up 3 months down the line.

It's been... Interesting. I still haven't figured out what's the sane way to have multiple CUDA coexist peacefully...

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

It's okay to spell-check articles before screen-shotting them.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

ā€¦because of improper configuration and messing with system. The best way to heal is to make proper system backupand ~~read the fucking manual.~~ quit messing with the system.

I know itā€™s like asking a smoker to ā€œjust quitā€, butā€¦

[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 2 months ago

Aren't manuals a weight lifting thing?

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I thought manuals were a type of car transmission

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I thought you were talking about backups.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Jokes on you i use fedora atomic

[-] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Like how I used GDM-Settings on Pop_OS without knowing GDM-Settings is for OLD gdm, and now I have to use LightDM because I can't find the config files that are broken in GDM that cause it to have no styling and be black font with trails anytime something moves?

(and yes I have reinstalled it, gnome-shell, pop-theme, etc even with forcing dpkg to re-write over config files. I've manually gone through and deleted config files and reinstalled to redownload them, I cannot get GDM back to even default GDM let alone the pop version.)

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

See this is the exact sort of problem I always had with different flavours of Ubuntu. Iā€™d always muck up my install with misconfigured shit and it would be too much time and effort to fix so Iā€™d have to nuke the whole OS every now and then šŸ˜œ

[-] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I honestly just wish there was some really good GDM docs I could find to make it easy to reset it to default.

[-] scsi@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The Arch wiki may have some ideas for you - tl;dr is that GDM uses a global dconf db over in /etc/ and this might be the root of your problem (these configs might not get cleaned up with a --purge?) I'm a LightDM user so best I can do to help: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#dconf_configuration

[-] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I appreciate the help, I did use dconf editor but I haven't manually cleared these out and updated dconf I'll try this out, worst case GDM is still busted.

[-] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Update, I have made GDM unusable (not just broken styling), progress!

[-] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Wonderful update

[-] scsi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[-] _____@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

this is why I keep my config as minimal as possible and everything I do is up on a GitHub repo

inb4 just use nix, cloning a repo and putting the right files in the right spots is something that can be scripted with relative ease and nix is way overkill unless you're using it for application deployments in money making incentives

[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nixos is amazing, real immutability with absolute recovery.

Well.

Backups? Whats that! Is that where I store a copy of my config file? I havent modified mine in months. Life sure is breezy when I have no reason to tinker. Got so much of it.

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wikipedia does not state the best things.

--sincerely, wikipedia nerd

[-] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

i have the opposite. i config everything that i understand even a single word from and reinstall the system if something goes wrong. I also got locked out of suse updates once bc messing with the repos. just restarted the vm and it worked

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