#linuxes

speaking of bein on the computer. found this channel a week or two ago & it made me feel pretty significantly less insane than usual.

I follow a lot of channels that do videos about hardware & programming & linuxes & obviously MOST TO ALL of them are hosted by men. lot of them are very cool! I learn a lot. but I also can't help but get tired of just. Constantly thinking "what are the women who DEFINITELY ARE INTERESTED IN THIS STUFF doing instead of wrangling youtube channels." as one does.

most of the videos on "veronica explains" are more scripted than this one (& those are good, too. I learn!!), but this is the kind of thing I'm Exactly interested in & try to research and play around with on my own time, so listening to a Real Live Adult Minnesotan Mom Type Individual talk through the setup process live was like. wow! she's literally me! & that's nice to have sometimes.

I don't think I'd like grapheneOS, but FIRST of all it's nice to know how low-fuss it seems to be, and SECONDLY this reminded me that I should really try to VM some smartphone OS-es in my free time so I can find one I do like!

*side note / tone setter for this post: stuff like this is all the evidence you need that mx is The distro for people who are new here. they have put so much work into Tools For Getting Help it's insane. mint does not have this. ubuntu is a nightmare hellscape. etc.

they update their tools and default desktop stuff all the time & usually I don't pay a whole lot of attention to those updates (no matter how many times lightdm or whatever updates I still have the exact same problem with it. who cares. it at least almost never breaks a new thing; debian lifestyle) but today on a whim I ran QSI after it showed up as one of today's 2 entire Things There's A New Thing For and omfg. At some point they made it so in addition to the VERY SIMPLE window w/ the basic system information in it, it has a sidebar with like. EVERY LOG.

^ this is but a fraction. Every timeshift log it hasn't deleted yet (~3mo worth?!) is here. Normally I would have to Go Look Up where these are stored and Go Find Them and then open them in featherpad by fuckin right-clicking (because this OS treats .rpy files and .txt / no extension files as the same type of file and I need it to open .rpy files in vscodium more consistently than I need it to open .txt files in featherpad even though having every .txt file open in a fucking IDE when I space out and double-click it is like my worst adhd brain nightmare come to life) and this tool just

A. puts them all right in front of me, where

B. I can click them and they will SHOW UP in the main window, OR

C. check the checkboxes and then SAVE?? THEM??? TO A LOCATION OF MY CHOICE????? ALL AT ONCE?

^^^ LOOK!!!!!

& it says "ok." & sits quietly in its little system tray spot thereafter doing absolutely nothing. as god intended. and then when I finally tell it to go ahead it LEAPS into action slapping hundreds of upgrades in there rapid-fire like it's making a tall cartoon sandwich & when it's done 1 to 3 minutes later my user experience has changed literally 0%.

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED:

using btrfs as your filesystem will surface RAM issues you didn't know you had

having RAM issues on btrfs will stop you from installing bigger Steam games, for checksum reasons

to test your system's memory effectively, you have to not be booted into an actual operating system

the thing you boot into instead (memtest86+) looks like THIS (!)

ventoy is a fucking godsend.

THINGS I ALREADY KNEW BUT NOW I'M ACTING LIKE IT:

power blips you can't control WILL enfucken your RAM

it is important to use a power bank.

NUMBER OF MEMORY ERRORS DETECTED SO FAR: