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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • Reinstalled Arch. I had used Arch way back in 2006, but fell out of Linux because I primarily game. Now that proton has improved so much, I dropped my windows install completely. I have tumbleweed on my desktop but decided to try a real Arch install on my laptop. I appreciate how easy tumbleweed was to create an encrypted lvm with snapper rollback, but wanted to understand it a little more instead of having a GUI do it all for me.

    Last night I successfully installed Arch with an “luks on lvm” setup, and was able to successfully boot! I didn’t quite get snapper working 100% either rEFInd, but I think I’m close.

    I definitely appreciate how easy Linux is to install now, but it’s good to know I can do it the hard way if I need to, and learn some things along the way.


  • My Framework 16 is arriving Monday! And I use Tumbleweed on my desktop. I currently use clonezilla every couple days and am starting to mess around with some other distros, but I keep coming back to Tumbleweed. My desktop is mostly for gaming, and it has pretty new hardware, so I like to have more leading edge packages.

    I keep trying NixOS, and while I like it and it’s cool, I have a mouse capture issue in World of Warcraft that I just can’t solve, so it’s taking a back seat. Also tried Bazzite, but had some issues during install, so didn’t try it much. Currently trying endeavour, I’ve been using Arch off and on since 08, it’s nice.

    But Tumbleweed just works. It has sane defaults, updates frequently, has snapper just in case something goes wrong (but other distros can do that too), has yast for people that like it, but I’ve been trying to run some benchmarks between endeavour and Tumbleweed and I can’t really tell a difference.









  • Bought a litter robot 4, wouldn’t do it again for the price. It’s a pain to clean and the cats are always peeing/pooping on the sides. It constantly stopped it cleaning cycle, and ended up growing a ton of bugs inside because the design had some cat poop inside the machine where I couldn’t get to it. I had to dismantle the entire thing taking out every screw to clean it. It’s currently sitting in my basement. I left a similar review on their website and they decided not to post it, I guess they don’t like unfavorable reviews.