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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • I don’t have a good memory, because it was about 15-10 years ago.

    I remember one time where the dist upgrade finished, but after a reboot most apps would crash with core dumps and I wasn’t able to use apt for anything.

    One time I did the dist upgrade too late and the repos were gone. It would have probably worked by manually pointing at the archive, but I was a newbie back then.

    One time I had some ppa for work, that blocked the upgrade and I would have to completely remove it, but there was no version for the new release yet, even though I needed (also for work) a feature from some tool that was updated in the new release. So I was stuck between having one or the other but not both.

    But like I said, it’s all cloudy.




  • Not really answering your question, but what you describe is exactly why I switched to arch and have been rocking the same install for over a decade.

    It’s uNsTaBLe - I keep getting updates and things keep changing and rarely something needs my intervention to keep working. But it keeps working. And I can install viber from AUR without thinking.

    Before that I was on Debian and then Ubuntu and then Kubuntu - and dist-upgrades were a much worse, weekend-destroying, rage-inducing pain than doing light weekly maintaining of my arch install.







  • HelloRoot@lemy.loltoLinux@lemmy.mlExternal trackpad for Linux?
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    1 month ago

    Ah yes, the - rubbing off microplastics with my own fingers directly into my room - device.

    And thats ignoring the haptics and the hygene. Think of all your skin gunk that you’re never getting out of those micro filament line rifts MMMMH tasty!

    I’d never recommend buying a trackpad without a glass top.


  • I don’t think it accepts a “prompt” like “make a list of activities for me”.

    Ah I see, my bad.

    Another idea that might or might not work is filming a video at 0.0011 fps (1 frame every 15 min). Not sure if it accepts values that low or handles them correctly.

    wf-recorder --framerate=0.0011 --file=timelapse.mkv
    

    Or maybe do a 1 frame video on a loop

    while true; do
      wf-recorder -f frame_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).png -t 1
      sleep 900
    done
    

    As that will use a different interface it might not flash the screen. Just random ideas, no clue if they would work.

    Good luck with your project.