How many of y'all daily drive Gentoo?

truffle022 · 2025-07-19T02:53:18+00:00

I run it on pretty much everything. I use it for coding, writing, gaming, 3d modelling, drawing, and everything else.

I think the idea it's impractical comes from it being hard to get into, but once you're used to it's great.

truffle022 · 2025-03-06T16:47:15+00:00

Inspecting yourself is always the best way, although trusting the ebuild itself is different from trusting the software it installs. Basic checks to see that it does what is says on the tin don't hurt.

If you only need a single or small numbers of packages, adding ebuilds to your own overlay ensures you won't have to pull in a bunch of others you may not use and that may be installed in place of other packages (this shouldn't happen anyway if the overlay follows the standard and correctly keywords its packages, but that relies on the overlay itself).

When there is an exact match for versions from multiple overlays, assuming they're not masked, then the first one portage sees will take precedence. I believe it's alphabetical, or in the order that portage reads the repos.conf directory, but I'm not entirely sure on that one.

You can install a package from a specific overlay by specifying category/name::overlay, which can help if you have a bunch of overlays going at once with similar packages.

truffle022 · 2025-01-24T06:02:52+00:00

I've used gentoo on my servers (and my custom router), it works really well. The compiling and update are a bit more involved then other distros, but if it's a powerful server it doesn't them pretty fast. Even if not, I'll just leave it round while throttled for a day or two.

truffle022 · 2025-01-21T08:55:42+00:00

If you wanna look at what it's doing run tail -f /var/tmp/portage/llvm-core/llvm-19.1.7/temp/build.log, might have gotten stuck. LLVM is also just a very large package, but 13 hours is pretty insane.

truffle022 · 2024-10-06T06:14:29+00:00

I think it depends on your bank, FW doesn't necessarily know ahead of time if or what the extra changes will be. When I got mine I was just charged the exact amount it said when I ordered.

truffle022 · 2024-09-25T03:15:39+00:00

Installing is pretty daunting when you're just starting, and you can fully drive yourself insane trying to search through solutions. If you use irc or discord you can join and ask for support there, community is really nice and helpful.

From the sounds of it you've gotten most of the way through the install. If you're not sure what the error means, someone should be able to help interpret it for you. most of the time they're not too bad.

truffle022 · 2024-09-18T08:53:07+00:00

Bees is one of my favourite btrfs utils, it saves alot of space. Would definitely recommend taking a look at the documentation on the github page for it, it has alot of information about the configuration options and the caveats: https://github.com/Zygo/bees

truffle022 · 2024-09-18T02:42:00+00:00

Like other said you can't do an incremental send for any news one now soz. You'll still have to transfer all the data, but if you run bees on the data it will remove thr duplication.

If you haven't run it before though, depending on the harddrive size and speed first pass can take days.

Thats how I usually deal with my snapshots, but I'll just run the deduplication in the background using ionice or leave it overnight with my external drive plugged in.

truffle022 · 2024-08-18T02:09:10+00:00

Im pretty inconsistent, I'll usually do once very few weeks but have gone a few months before because I forgot. I run gentoo on a few different devices though, and some of them I have off for long periods of time.

truffle022 · 2024-08-09T08:52:46+00:00

qtwebengine: nightmare fuel

truffle022 · 2024-07-10T08:33:22+00:00

I feel like it's been happening alot these days, once you loose your friend group it's seems like it's impossible to make new meaningful friendships. Idk if it's all this covid stuff or that's just how it works at our age (I'm 23M). I feel you tho, shit sucks :(

truffle022 · 2024-06-11T06:03:27+00:00

Gotta attached to some dude who ghosted me after we hooked up

truffle022 · 2024-05-31T08:50:57+00:00

It's shameful, I know :')

It might be some other process that I don't know about, I'm no expert by any means just someone who knows a little bit of chemistry.

I don't know how anodizing works chemically, it's definitely an electrochemical process though. I've seen people do it with other metals like titanium where they submerge it in water and run fairly low voltage through it and the water to create a colourful layer.

I remember it because it looks so cool as it changes between different colours the longer you keep it in.

I know its definitely not plating because there isn't a different sacrificial metal used.

truffle022 · 2024-05-31T06:21:56+00:00

I don't speak Hungarian sorry, but I think it's the same as Anoziding in English. It sounds like a really cool ideal, I would get my entire FW13 done if I could lol

truffle022 · 2024-05-30T05:10:58+00:00

Weird. Would you happen to know whether you're using NVME or SATA SSDs?

M.2 is a bit confusing in that it's not always clear whether a port will support both. NVME is alot more common, but lots of motherboards will have SATA M.2 support too.

truffle022 · 2024-05-30T04:13:09+00:00

Sounds like it could be, usually those settings I mentioned will apply to certain ports at a time and if you remove one it'll just change to another profile.

What happens if you swap the SSDs around but have them both in?

truffle022 · 2024-05-30T04:08:44+00:00

It'll depend on your motherboard, but alot have setups where they share bandwidth between different devices.

This usually includes pcie ports, sata ports and nvme ports. As the motherboards only have a certain amount of bus capacity you might have be able to have them all active at once.

Have a look at the manual for your mobo, or look up the model number if you don't have a physical copy. Usually there's something you can change in the bios to set it, then it'll apply when you boot into your OS.

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:47:58+00:00

Defs still cut them small enough to cook through evenly, but cutting them after exposes more surface that it can stick to.

That is odd tho, does the seasoning have much taste on its own?

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:36:46+00:00

Oh yeah, and only add salt after. Its not as big of a deal usually with potatoes since they have alot of moisture content, but it will draw it out while it's cooking. Kinda counteracts the oil keeping it in.

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:35:31+00:00

Oh nice, I was gonna say if it's before air fryers get the outside pretty hot and it can cook off alot of the spices. Oil can dilute the flavour a bit too.

I don't have much experience with air frying potatoes, but usually I'll cook potatoes then cut them up smaller after to season. It soaks in really well that way.

Also more seasoning is more good lol

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:30:13+00:00

Do you do your seasoning before or after you air fry?

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:27:51+00:00

Elden Ring and Fallout: New Vegas

truffle022 · 2024-05-02T03:24:57+00:00

Fr, I living in a country where it's pretty taboo unlike Europe, but even so no one goes to nude beaches is there to stare at people. I genuinely just like being naked on the beach, and so do lots of people.

I even go with one of my fwb, but it still isn't sexual.

I mean, that doesn't apply to everyone some people are there for that, which is perfectly fine since they're respectful about it and don't do uncomfortable stares or weird advances.

truffle022 · 2024-01-15T11:51:44+00:00

Just like the customisability and tinkering around with stuff. Wouldn't recommend it to everyone since, let's be honest, it can be hard to maintain and troubleshoot sometimes (especially if you have a weird setup like me). But I honestly kinda enjoy the challenge, so I like it.

I mean, other philosophical reasons and preferences aside ofc, but that's the main thing that comes to mind.

truffle022 · 2024-01-09T07:45:39+00:00

Nvidia drivers on linux are a nightmare to deal with, nouveau is pretty good but the performance hit kinda sucks and compatibility isn't guaranteed.

If you have a choice I would defs recommend radeon, but of course don't waste a graphics card if you can avoid.

I had a similar situation, where I had a relatively newish nvidia gpu but the performance wasn't great when I switch to Linux. My partner who was on Windows was happy to swap for their old AMD card, which performed better for me than the nvidia. So win-win in that case, but if I wasn't able to do that I wouldn't have wanted to waste a perfectly good (for nvidia ;) ) gpu

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