I’ve been ricing my Debian daily driver the last 24 hours or so and I feel as if I have gotten to a point where it can’t get any better (without implementing hyperspecific mods that might be difficult to reproduce after an update).
It’s in every way better than Windows and more user-friendly than all the Apple stuff should you know how to use search engines, seriously. It also simply looks better and the trimming I did reduces cognitive load significantly. I don’t have to make that many decisions during use.
All of this produces a feeling of anguish. I don’t know if it’s because it felt to easy or something else entirely. Maybe I cannot stand knowing that this could be the standard everywhere.
Colemak and various other efficient keyboard layouts exist. So do BT ergo splits and orthos. We don’t have the limitations of typewriters anymore, QWERTY and staggered keys are indeed optional. How this example from the world of keyboards isn’t the default is rather puzzling. Or take Python, why do universities, some would say even respected universities, teach this language when Go and C/++ exist? I have similar feelings about the lack of alcohol taxation and the low rate of rice cooker adoption in the west.
It really makes me want to get active to proselytize because we live in a world with all the tools available to us to create lives for at least 80% of all people that are entirely fulfilling and within personal control. Until I work somewhere where I can affect change in the direction of sustainability I have several VMs to take apart and put back together.
I hope you can forgive the weltschmerz. How do you feel about this?
Yea,h I’m also autistic :)
I can’t explain why the world is like this but it is upsetting.
You just have to carve out your own “safe space” with split ergo keyboards, trackball mice, stable Linux distros and sane programming languages.
C > C++ btw ;)
Aye, you get it
All of this produces a feeling of anguish… Maybe I cannot stand knowing that this could be the standard everywhere.
I have similar feelings about the lack of alcohol taxation and the low rate of rice cooker adoption in the west.
You are struggling to accept the imperfect world as it is. You should stop introspecting on the symptoms and try to figure out why you are unhappy with other people’s choices.
I already know why that is. Perfectionism :)
And I know it’s a darn problem lol
What’s the deal with rice cooker adoption?
Let’s say you make rice more than twice a week. Rice cookers can save a stupid amount of time. They’re cheap, reliable and you can use them not just for rice, but also a bunch of other stuff. My advice, try one if you like rice.
I couldn’t imagine my life without a rice cooker when I lived in Asia, but in Europe, I don’t really use mine a lot. I just use regular pot and it’s so easy to make rice for me, I am too lazy to take a rice cooker for the task. I don’t know why. I literally brought a rice cooker I’ve bought in Asia, all the way to Europe. It’s not used much now.
Interesting, where in Asia, if I may ask?
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Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too, but I can see where you’re coming from. I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.
Have you considered making a sort of install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks? Makes it all a bit more accessible for those interested to adopt elements of your system. I’ve personally wanted to put together an automated install script once I perfect my Chicago95 rice since I’d imagine there’s quite a few people who want a one-click, retro, but functional system.
Fellow Debian user ricing my daily driver here. Other people may call me crazy too
that makes two of us!!
I’ve mostly come to terms with it by reminding myself that most people are either blissfully ignorant or too busy to care.
Active meta ignorance, making yourself be ignorant of the ignorance of others. Which is the same as ignorance but implemented as an abstraction :P
Have you considered making a sort of Honestly, I have not. I don’t do much with sharing stuff on my GitHub since my programming stuff usually doesn’t exceed a handful of scripts save for when making websites. install script or even just a public repository for your tweaks?
The whole idea of putting all the changes I made to my system is daunting since it’s quite a lot even though it isn’t that finicky at the smaller scales. I wouldn’t know where to begin and I take it it takes a few weeks to get a basic structure going that feels comfortable. I’ll try it though! Thank you for the good suggestion
I’m on Arch, but I’ve been improving my system for years, and only recently I felt I’m settled more or so. I’m so sad I haven’t been keeping a blog about my journeys, I started one, and now trying to write things in retrospect is challenging and takes too much effort, I’m thinking of giving up. Do you guys have places where you share what you do and why? I’d love to read. Not many things are obvious, even for me. That’s why normies aren’t doing it. They are not aware there’s Colemak or Dvorak.
did you take your meds today? it feels like you didnt.
fyi, he who dies with the most optimized machine does not win.
rawdogging life rn
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“It’s really great, and I hate it” is kind of an insane take, but if you’re looking for things to tune, tweak, or squeeze extra performance out of, try compiling your own optimized kernel and drivers. Maybe get into building a more portable profile for yourself so your changes can move with you elsewhere.
I think there is a misunderstanding. While I do think that it’s great, I am not saying that I hate it haha
Good point though about portable profiles, that’s why I’m messing around with NixOS currently.
If yours feel like a stable/balanced setup, maybe find another project? From my experience, without majorly reconfiguring the machine, virtual machines, RSS and making your own programs can be rather time-consuming, though also carrying a challenge you may be lacking as is now.
Or just switch to a distro that breaks every other day like arch /s
Where is this meme coming from because I’ve been running it for two years solid and update once per week with no issues.
I update daily and had zero issues for seven years. Some issues need some light trivial manual intervention, but nothing more than that. I needed to downgrade kernel once or twice. I don’t know whether there’s much of unstable. I have servers running Arch and I faced zero issues so far. I so much hate upgrading Debian, it always breaks on me. Here, I don’t need to worry about that, I just update here and there (with servers), and I update multiple times a day (desktops), no issues so far.
From my experience, without majorly reconfiguring the machine, virtual machines, RSS and making your own programs can be rather time-consuming, though also carrying a challenge you may be lacking as is now.
Exactly that is time excellently spent. Aside from the obvious hobbyist character, this has extremely wide real-world applications. I love that you guys are talking me into modifying kernels :D
I would start with making scripts to reproduce your current customizations on a fresh install, personally.
I love the phrase “ricing my daily Debian driver”.
I do often have this feeling “everyone could be enjoying this”.
Once in awhile it comes out when someone asks me about how I countered some Microsoft or Apple bullshit, and I admit I jumped ship and have been enjoying software freedom.
A few have actually switched after interrogating me about my experiences.
Ricing Debian is as easy as on any other Distro. Most people I know are using Debian AND (Cinnamon/GNOME OR Xfce). Those are maybe a bit annoying to modify and make your. KDE however works like a charm and people think I’m using Arch because it looks unlike anything the way I’m using tiling.
Props though for getting people to switch, you’re a real one.
