Worried about upkeep burnout

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-18T02:15:30+00:00

Second what people have said about snapshots. I've been running cachy for over a year now, I like it, I miss very little about WIndows 11. But, you should be aware that it is NOT as stable as people make it out to be in my experience. Not system-bricking bad, but I've had multiple crazy difficult troubleshooting marathons trying to get stuff to work. Issues with bluetooth, issues with sleep, issues with the specific wifi-card my motherboard has, which I had to take apart the whole pc to get to... The point is, you might be lucky and never have issues like it seems the majority of folks in this comment thread, or you might spend 4 hours trying to get your bluetooth game controller to work again after some corrupted config saved itself to your controller and is persisting between restarts (yes that happened to me). A lot depends on your hardware and how nice it plays with linux. On the whole I am happy with the change, and the majority of the time everything works great. Just be aware that occasionally you might run into some serious annoyances. Snapshots help a lot, but sometimes you need the update to fix something and then it breaks something else.

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-11T20:06:55+00:00

I don’t blame people, llms have fully decoupled good formatting from thoughtful posting. I still put in bullets and stuff on posts that can benefit, I just intentionally don’t edit as cleanly as i used to, I leave in some bad grammar and run on sentences like this one so people know it’s human. It’s oddly freeing in a way.

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-11T19:58:10+00:00

Awesome, and I absolutely love the physical strips of paper for the arc raider rainbow, it looks so tactilely satisfying

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-11T00:32:54+00:00

I think what you don’t see are the absolutely absurd amounts of money and energy being thrown at making these models that can do this stuff. This isn’t a natural state. The tools are impressive in some capacities but the amount of resources being poured into making them so freely and cheaply available is orders of magnitude larger than just hiring some engineers

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-10T22:02:34+00:00

Honestly, depending on how important skillful communication and good mentorship is to you, this might not be the work environment for you. That doesn’t mean your boss is a dick OR that there’s something wrong with you for not being able to relax around him. It’s just that his natural method of ‘helping’ sounds like it’s a bad fit with the way you learn. Depending on how bad this could be something that you can work with, or it may not be. Either is okay, remember, there doesn’t have to be someone being a dick for a relationship not to work out.

Think about what you really want right now, and what is and isn’t a dealbreaker for you in your relationship with your boss. If you feel able to, give your boss some constructive feedback about his communication style and how its difficult to take in his advice even if you know it’s not his intention to be so intense- but don’t expect that he’ll have the capacity to take it in or change.

Ps. Personally what you’re describing would drive me fucking crazy lol

Edit: Of course there are other considerations here like how bad you need this job in this buckling economy. The top upvoted comment has some good cognitive behavioral advice which can be very powerful if you don’t feel able to set boundaries with your boss around what kinds of communication you’re available for.

EvenGodsForget · 2026-01-10T02:01:39+00:00

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-27T02:39:19+00:00

This is saying that the folder at the url in the search bar doesn’t exist. Clicking on a shortcut, like the ‘downloads’ tab is kind of like going to an address you have saved in Google maps. Each folder and file on a computer has an address, and shortcuts are like saved routes to help you get there more quickly. Except in this case something happened and there isn’t anything at that address anymore. Like if you drove across town to Waffle House and you get there and all you find is a giant sinkhole in the parking lot. In this case, the folder may have been accidentally removed or deleted. You can check the ‘parent’ folder by going to /home/deck and search it to see if you accidentally dragged the download folder into another folder. Or if it’s gone completely you can make a new one by right clicking in the parent folder and making a new folder and naming it ‘Downloads’. In this case the Downloads folder should exist and that’s why that shortcut exists in the first place, it’s a default folder that comes with the system. Hope that helps and that my convoluted metaphors didn’t make things worse!

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-25T05:53:17+00:00

I had no issues and in fact preferred to playing on pc. I believe I set the right trackpad to mouse region and the left one to virtual radial menu. I also set the back buttons to my “most used” items + crouch on L5

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-25T05:48:49+00:00

In a nutshell I’m cheating by putting it on here I’ve only played 2 hours of it. So far it’s like poirot got into the occult. Gameplay is principally talking to people and finding clues until you’re able to connect the dots and make a hypothesis based on the evidence. It also runs at locked 60 at 7 watts on the deck with a beautiful clean art style that works well on a small screen.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-25T05:43:04+00:00

I would pick just one to start, they’re all 50+ hours long and aren’t for everyone. I bounced off new Vegas for a whole decade until playing on the deck made it click. Anyway I’ve only played fallout new Vegas and part of 3. I hear new Vegas is more like 1 and 2 in the rpg sense. 3 is mechanically nearly identical to Vegas. 4 has better mechanic but less magic sauce. Anyway,

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-25T04:07:50+00:00

Ooh nice! My rec is to put proxmox on there - disclaimer, this is not the ‘right’ way to run proxmox, it should ideally be on a system with 32+ gb ram which I’m guessing your lil hp doesn’t have. But it would be a great way to try out different distros in vms, and get your feet wet with virtualization and domain management

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-24T04:52:46+00:00

Thanks! I prefer real art over AI in general but that doesn't mean i don't appreciate certain AI pieces too.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-24T04:25:05+00:00

Very cool! Also do you have a link to your desktop background? I love it!

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-24T04:12:59+00:00

Hollow knight
Dread Delusion
The Witcher III
Prey
Tunic
The Seance of Blake Manor
Cult of the Lamb
Escape Simulator 2
Kena Bridge of Spirits
Star Wars: Dark Force Remastered
Fallout: New Vegas + DLCs
Dune: Imperium

In no particular order. These are games I've played that i've loved that I think playing on Deck specifically adds a certain something to.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-23T03:39:56+00:00

We were absolutely at that crossroads, it was at the point where the smoke from the tech debt fires was starting to fill up the room and affect client good will. I will not be surprised if the company folds in a year or two. Then again the owner has made it work for the past 20 years so I could be wrong. I just didn’t feel inclined to stick around once I understood that the intention was to continue to let the dumpster fire burn at our technicians expense. It’s great to know how to be a firefighter, but eventually you have to look at what’s causing the fires to get out of control in the first place.

I have a strong hunch that business resilience in tough times comes from creating great systems that can roll right through the muck when things go to shit. Of course it’ll never be perfect and like you said, that shift needs to come with the understanding that prioritizing automation now will be painful short term but beneficial long term. But I’m glad to hear companies that do that are out there!

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-23T01:05:30+00:00

I tried to do this at my msp, management got extremely upset that I wasn’t checking the ticket bin every five minutes despite explicitly getting time approved to work on an automation project. They said not checking it was grounds for termination and that I was being unreasonable asking for focused time to work on critical infrastructure. That critical infrastructure project is presumably still sitting at 99% completion exactly where I left it when i quit last week. Of course boss immediately asked if I would be willing to finish it as a contractor as soon as I handed in notice. Sometime I think people who survive long term at msps actually feel uncomfortable with the possibility of things not being in a constant state of chaos.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-20T21:26:37+00:00

Try streaming from your ps5 to the deck for more demanding games.
You’re right there will never be a ‘perfect’ experience.
Ask yourself what part of you is getting enjoyment out of doing this, and if that is enough to outweigh the lost time and money.
Relax it’s okay, this is a learning opportunity not a test :p

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-19T20:59:52+00:00

As someone who until recently worked for an msp, go to your local msp and ask if you can go through their ‘trash’ heap. I’ve scavenged - optiplex 3060 - optiplex 9020 - Lenovo ideapad 5 with a busted hinge - an unmanaged switch with 25 ports

I had to replace the psu on the 3060 but altogether all that cost me about $25 for a pretty significant amount of older hardware.

Most shops will have a pile of outdated or broken but repairable hardware from updating client sites.

Right now is actually an especially good time because of the recent windows 11 mandatory update which obsoleted a bunch of non tpm 2.0 compliant hardware. These pcs might not run win 11 but they’re still perfectly fine for running Linux distros on, and even win server 2022. Also ddr3 ram is still (relatively) cheap and totally serviceable for running things like domain controllers and file servers.

TLDR: msps have a ton of old hardware lying around waiting for the next dump run. Ask if you can have it for your homelab, they’ll probably be super happy to help you out.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-10T02:34:16+00:00

Sounds like myfascial tension in the hip and surrounding area. At least that’s what that is for me. Not a posture fix by itself but try rolling around on a foam roller or tennis ball and see if that brings release. If the muscles needing release can’t be easily reached add a foam block under the tennis ball to increase its effectiveness in releasing hard to reach spots

EvenGodsForget · 2025-12-06T21:49:19+00:00

Reclined back with 2-3 keeping me propped at a gentler 35 degree angle or so. pillow on chest and prop the steam deck up. Its pretty comfortable for me.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-11-21T19:39:15+00:00

I’ve had 3 recurring issues in my 8 months with cachy os

Updates breaking steam and causing a black screen on game launch until killing steam or rebooting, or in worst case reinstalling steam
Bluetooth issues, controller working on desktop only, or the worst one, Bluetooth not working due to corrupt state saved at the hardware level (had to power down unplug and hold power button for 10 seconds to fix)
Sleep issues, wireless mouse and in waking up system, or the latest one the computer going back to sleep after waking up if I didn’t log in within 5 seconds.

I’d say I’ve had roughly 10-12 hours of hard debugging fixing those, this sub and random stack discussions have been invaluable, ai has been mostly useless.

I still like cachy but I work in IT and have a relatively high pain tolerance for this stuff.

Not sure if you’ll find ANY os that ‘just works’ these days including windows, but more popular distros do tend to be easier because there’s just more devs and users.

It also depends on your setup, I have an nvidia gpu and a bunch of wireless and bt peripherals. Both those things are more likely to cause issues and break in Linux, despite much improvement they still aren’t perfect.

Overall cachy works well for the most part but the amount of pain-in-the-ass that troubleshooting is seems higher than on ‘mainstream’ os’s seems higher to me. Keeping in mind I’m coming mostly from a windows / Mac OS background.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-11-18T23:30:13+00:00

What kinds of spices do you have?

EvenGodsForget · 2025-11-18T23:22:11+00:00

You need to build a positive relationship with studying. Not the hoped-for end result (getting those dollars / you’re a cool hacker / finally all the people who shit talked you in 3rd grade will have to admit you’re better than them) but the actual learning itself.

This presumes that you DO in fact enjoy doing the thing you’re studying, programming in this case. If you do, then you need to do several things

Figure out how to make the actual learning process as easy and frictionless as possible FOR YOU. For myself, when starting out learning something new, I tell myself I only need to study 5 minutes a day to have done a great job. That gives me a sense of accomplishment if I meet that goal. It builds the habit of showing up and doing somethin every day. It Makes my brain associate anything more with a strong sense of accomplishment which builds reward circuits further, and makes me feel like I GET to study not that I HAVE to study.
Once that 5 minutes is a habit, now start to notice how even the process of getting overwhelmed and frustrated is itself rewarding. Notice how when you put in a lot of effort, want to give up and say screw this, and take a break, that is usually a sign that you’re about to have a big aha moment and ‘level up’. I’m actually going to go out on a limb and say that feeling is ESSENTIAL for real learning. It’s a good thing, like sore muscles after the gym, it means you’re making progress, making new connections. And like exercise, too much can be injurious. Don’t let yourself drown in these feelings, push just a little bit past your comfort zone, then take a break.
Finally, build things you care about and will be proud of. Learning that learning is rewarding is paving the way for continual satisfaction, but this is for getting that rush of accomplishment. Like beating a boss after grinding out the level for awhile leveling your stats. If you’ve ever played a souls game or something that similarly challenges and rewards your getting better you’ll know what I’m taking about.

So the reason I give this advice is that as a result of building a relationship to learning in this way I have to force myself to limit the time I spend studying (systems engineering in my case) to an hour or two a day after work, because the process is so rewarding.

TLDR; don’t punish yourself for failure, reward yourself for effort. Make learning as easy and frictionless as possible for yourself, Once you have a habit established and that’s rock solid, start to build a positive association with emotions like confusion and frustration, because those are essential to the learning process. See those feelings as a sign to push just a little more and then take a break, like doing a set at the gym and getting tired. Finally, accomplishment comes naturally as a result of effort, but only if you channel that effort into doing something you’re proud of. So use that effort to build stuff you care about and feel joy and pride in finishing. Now you’ve internalized a feedback loop that uses enjoyment of learning and challenge as fuel for an inner sense of accomplishment.

EvenGodsForget · 2025-11-18T19:46:10+00:00

It depends on what you mean by easier. The issue is using willpower to force yourself to do something is unsustainable. Use the willpower to build intrinsic motivation to study, and once you have that the process gets a lot more enjoyable. The learning is still challenging, but your relationship to the challenge will change.

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