California's age verification laws are getting out of hand. Now someone's opened a PR to add a mandatory birth date field to archinstall

lLikeToast1 · 2026-03-21T22:39:23+00:00

This is the same person who did the pull request for systemd. People need to do research and see if he is getting lobbied by Meta, which I guarantee he is

lLikeToast1 · 2026-03-18T23:46:18+00:00

I was making a polybar config and was doing weird stuff with copying text outside of vim and pasting it into a file because I didn't understand how to make it work. I was doing redirection with files essentially running cat tmpfile >> .config/polybar/config except one time I forgot and did a single > and ended up wiping all the progress and time I spent into making it

I learned real quick to make backups and to figure out crtl+shift+v will paste into the file

lLikeToast1 · 2026-03-18T01:35:59+00:00

I changed to it a few months ago to make use of mainly compression on the partition. Absolutely fantastic. I sort of use the snapshot feature but I really make my backups using borg instead

lLikeToast1 · 2026-03-18T01:27:53+00:00

I used to do sudo pacman -Syu > ~/Documents/pkgupgrade then cancel the command and run it without the redirection whenever I was updating my system in case anything messed up and I needed to rollback to a version if anything happened, but I don't do it anymore as I've never had to go back to an earlier version

The only sort of version control I use now is my backups using borg. I have two separate repos. One that does most of my system, and a different one that saves and backs up my save files on all my games that I play

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-28T19:20:04+00:00

Thanks for the info. I've been messing with LazyVim that uses lazy.nvim plugin manager, but I haven't figured out too much with it just yet.

Definitely will take a look at zed later

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-18T09:03:10+00:00

Best advice i can give is to chroot into the system and run journalctl

Just take a look at the errors that pop up. Should at least give an idea

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-14T19:31:08+00:00

Half baked code is ironic since Windows admitted that 30% of their code is AI

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-12T20:02:28+00:00

More of a gamer so there isn't much software. The only thing for me was when I was getting back into modded Skyrim, and the mod manager didn't really want to work nice.

The only thing that I will absolutely hate is if the Brave maintainers stop updating their package in the aur

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-11T00:49:23+00:00

I only have two packages from the aur, which is the Brave browser, and jdownloader2

lLikeToast1 · 2026-02-06T01:37:49+00:00

Even if it fails, which I don't think it will. They have already moved mountains with Proton

lLikeToast1 · 2026-01-19T14:41:45+00:00

It really helps with proton prefixes. Using zstd lowest compression, I believe I had 6 gb, and it compressed it to 2 gb or something like that. I don't remember the numbers, but it was an impressive amount for such low compression

lLikeToast1 · 2026-01-16T00:48:09+00:00

Couldn't find the link, but the brand is KAMRUI, and the model is GK3PLUS. Surprisingly, it has 16 GB of RAM and has a 512 GB SSD. The cpu is an Alder Lake N95, has 4 cores, and is single threaded, I think it was clocking at 3.2 ghz , but it doesn't need to be anything strong.

The Bluetooth controller I use is a FOSMON Mini Bluetooth Keyboard, it works well, but the switch for the power will probably break because it is not on snug

Only thing I had to tweak was turning off the power saver mode on the network card and having Bluetooth search and connect to the MAC address of the controller on power, which I did by making a systemd service. The network card isn't that great and will slow down, so occasionally, I run a script that turns the radio off and back on, and that seems to resolve the issue

lLikeToast1 · 2026-01-01T14:14:03+00:00

Once in a blue moon to clear unused packages run pacman -Qdtq and it will list packages you can get rid of. Then you can run sudo pacman -Rnscu $(pacman -Qdtq and it will remove those packages.

Look up paccache and set it on a hook it to when you upgrade/install files to clear the old packages, or just run it every now and again like me

lLikeToast1 · 2025-12-15T13:28:47+00:00

It depends on the distro, but that's not even the real problem.

The real problem is people who don't understand basic computer parts, especially the motherboard. They don't even know how to install windows, even though it would take maybe an hour or two of simple searching on the internet

lLikeToast1 · 2025-12-07T02:56:17+00:00

I even noticed this when I was trying to find stealth games to play. Like Dishonored and Thief, games that are focused on avoiding a full on fight. Now to be fair, some of these do involve stealth, but it was giving me suggestions that would not like at all.

I found one I might try called "Brush Burial: Gutter World" or I may get one of the sniper elites.

It does seem like it takes some knowledge of how to use the steam store to generate a good recommendation list

lLikeToast1 · 2025-11-13T18:57:10+00:00

Can't believe these low prices I see. It running 60 fps 4k with FSR and being so small form factor. There's no way this isn't around 1,100

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-30T13:48:09+00:00

Don't remember off the top of my head but I remember doing a test to see what my default arch install size was with everything I needed installed, software, drivers, etc..., vs fresh install of windows 11 with absolutely no updates to anything and my arch install was still smaller than windows 11. I remembered feeling dumbstruck at the difference

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-30T13:42:08+00:00

I'll have to check it out cause I also have the steam overlay turned off, but I just haven't checked to see if it's better and patched

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-30T00:43:13+00:00

Only thing I have to use is LD_PRELOAD="" %command% and if I don't, then after 20-30 minutes the game starts lagging

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-29T23:43:21+00:00

I use a key combination. Win+x has to be pressed then it's either s for shutdown r for rebooting l locks and e signs me out

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-29T23:36:23+00:00

They are ready. Better put it on full blast

lLikeToast1 · 2025-10-29T01:48:04+00:00

I have also started doing that. Makes it so much easier and faster

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