• thelastknowngod@lemm.ee
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    Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.

    In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.

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      Jesus Christ. I’ve never been so thankful for being a Linux noob in my life. That sounds awful.

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          Remember make

          Oh wait. Missing something.

          Download it.

          Tar unzip make missing something else. Tar unzip make.

          1 hour later. What was I doing?

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          I owe much of my career to trying to set up Linux From Scratch two decades ago. While it’s a much better experience installing Linux nowadays, there’s a lot to be said for the experience spending your weekend debugging a system will give you.

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      Had a similar experience with Mint (of all distros) on an old laptop where it would not detect the headphones I plugged in. Spent like 30 minutes troubleshooting the settings/configuration and googling. Turns out the cable was weird and I just needed to not push it in too deep for it to be detected.

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      Been there with those old printer cables that had the two thumb screws. I spent way too long troubleshooting print problems turned out with some cables if you dont screw the thumb screws all the way in you don’t get a good cable connection.

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        Ah yes the good ol’ LPT ports. Back in the days of pin printers and them catching on fire. Good times.

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          I like that it has those little inside bevels to guide the pins. More connectors should have that.

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      Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events

      That’s not possible. In the dark, old days of Linux, dbus didn’t exist yet.

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      I am still bitching when I have to touch anything dbus, x11 or xdg.
      Also, finding where an environment variable comes from is fun too.

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      Once helped a nice old lady troubleshooter her computer. Everything was yellow. Checked monitor settings three times. Checked Windows for f.lux. Checked Windows video settings. Reverted drivers. Updated drivers.

      Jiggled the cable.