But my wheel will be much better. I will start from the center with a very simple skeleton and build on top of it as needed. It will be very modular, elegant and easy to understand. It will be my masterpiece.
Wheels need manuals
“But is it a just a wheel if we add cloud and AI features to it? Think of all the leveraging of paradigm shifts!” . The trap explodes taking everyone out; even Steve in accounting who had nothing to do with this and wasn’t even in the same building.
Reinventing the wheel leads to a profound understanding of why wheels are round.
That’s what documentation is for.
That involves knowing how to read
Well, it would have been if people updated it when making changes; now it’s just all an incorrect snapshot of an older version of wheel that no longer reflects reality.
Documentation is written exclusively for people with PhDs.
but is it written in 6510 assembly, with cool graphics and catchy music with fast arpeggios?
rm rf saw
How is it licensed, Jigsaw? Eh? What distro is it from? Is that a fucking Snap wheel?
Snap
Ok, this set me off.
What I hadn’t anticipated in my 20 years away from Linux was not only had teams of unpaid volunteers been beavering away behind the scenes to make everything work better, other much more enthusiastic teams have been thinking up new and exciting ways to break it again.
sudo systemctl stop sawtrapdAnd don’t forget
systemctl disable sawtrapd
so it won’t restart again.sysyemctl disable --now sawtrapd to do both in one command.
Is the wheel FOSS? No? Guess I have to then.
This is a poorly designed horror trap. Here, let me help you!
“I WOULDN’T BE REINVENTING IT IF THEY DIDN’T FORCE
systemdAXLES ON EVERY WHEEL!!!”I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as wheel, is in fact, GNU/Wheel, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus wheel.
The Wheel weaves as The Wheel wills.
Wtf did not expect a Wheel of Time reference lmao
Use the
-wflag and the wheel will weave as you will.
The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.
I think we need to take a bit of a step back and consider what kind of shed we might use to store this wheel…
To answer that, we’ll need to do a deep dive into foundation technology (to determine if it is lacking and needs some improvements) (because we don’t want our wheelshed to sink).
Sounds like proprietary blobs.
What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?
It works fine. It’s a perfectly good wheel.
Hey where is Underwaterbob?
He’s trapped in that Jigsaw room.
The door is unlocked though?
Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won’t leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.
Has any one asked him to?
No
Will he get paid to improve it?
No
What does the wheel do?
You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.
Will he get paid to improve it?
No
Well, now I’m clearly going to have to find a way to monetize the wheel as well.
Put a lock on the wheel and charge people $0.99 to temporarily unlock it.
Evil. I like it! Maybe some mandatory ad viewing somehow shoehorned into the unlocking process as well.
Put a dynamo on it and sell the electricity
Use the electricity to power a screen and speakers and sell ad space!
Please stop giving BMW ideas.
Yeah but neither the romans, or medieval peasants had computers, so why are you on about?
Now we do have computers! Think of the models of wheels that could help us improve wheels!
STEP AWAY FROM THE WHEEL!!1!
Spent months setting up my home server with Docker containers while learning Linux. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I realised Ubuntu Server is just a Debian-flavored landfill. Switched to EndeavourOS. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I made NixOS my daily driver and thought, “Hey, let’s ruin my weekend.” Migrated the server. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Found out I could run containers as systemd services. Replaced Docker out of sheer spite using compose2nix. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Then I heard btrfs was the bee’s knees. Reformatted my drives, migrated again, and spent a week learning why subvolumes are better than sex. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Got a free MacBook. Slight hardware bump. Migrated again. Spent hours fighting T2 drivers while deepthroating Tim Apple’s cock. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Rewrote every systemd service as NixOS modules. Why? Something something George Mallory. Everything still works perfectly fine.
Did I ever notice a difference from the frontend? Nope.
Was this a good use of my time? Fuck no.
Did it need to happen? Does the pope compile from source in the woods?
NixOS Chad
Im at the compose2nix phase of this pipeline. Ive got a bunch or sevices in Docker compose files and all of my systems have been running Nix for over a year now. Ive gotten the hang of my repo and made a couple modules for my specific uses and im hooked.
What would you suggest to migrate all my compose files into a nix friendly environment? I use flakes as well.
I mean it sounds like you just enjoy spending your time doing that sort of thing. I’d say that was a good use of your time if you wanted to do it, no?
