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I do use a Mac. We spend a lot of time on maintenance. Here's my Saturday schedule: * 7:00 AM find and remove duplicate files * 8:00 AM reorganize the 2D layo

I do use a Mac. We spend a lot of time on maintenance. Here's my Saturday schedule: * 7:00 AM find and remove duplicate files * 8:00 AM reorganize the 2D layout of file icons within folders for maximum visual pleasure * 9:00 degauss the LCD (really frustrated that you need third party software for this since the CRT days) * 10:00 find and remove duplicate files And so on. Finding duplicate files is just as essential as monitor degaussing, but you won't find this listed in the manual. You have to go to user forms where people will convince you of the need and get you to adopt procedures like the above to keep your machine at top performance.

taneq 4y ago
How do you ever find time to record a video of yourself on a white background talking about how much better you are than PC users? ;)
- epistasis 4y ago
  I have a few Linux boxes which let me regain some productivity.
graypegg 4y ago
Heheh, don’t forget to reset the SMC, it collects too much entropy overnight so if you want deterministic behaviour you’ll need to make sure to dump its contents to /dev/null.
- faeyanpiraat 4y ago
  You can also make your database persist writes to /dev/null, it will make performance go through the roof
- onionisafruit 4y ago
  Then you are going to need my app Dr. DevNull. It keeps your /dev/null clean and tuned for high performance writes. Only $5/mo. Upgrade to Dr. DevNull Pro to keep backups of everything written to /dev/null. Dr. DevNull Enterprise has all that plus SSO.
- cmg 4y ago
  If you're not rebuilding the desktop every other day you're really missing out!
  - doubled112 4y ago
    I used to habitually hop from one Linux distro to another, and I was often rebuilding my desktop every other day. Learned a ton about distros, backups, treating machines as disposable, configuration management and scripting the desktop setup though. It wasn't completely wasted.
ChumpGPT 4y ago
Just install Gentoo
- epistasis 4y ago
  Interesting, that's one distribution I have not tried. However, searching for a degaussing package comes up empty: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=Degauss https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=Degauss Until gentoo has this, I'm not sure if it's ready for the desktop. Maybe next year?
  - cwillu 4y ago
    You don't need a fucking app, just echo full | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/drm1/i2c/00/power/degauss like a normal person.
    - epistasis 4y ago
      Good point, I can add this to my bi-hourly disk cache flushing + cache algorithm rotation routine since I'm already on the terminal.

taneq 4y ago

How do you ever find time to record a video of yourself on a white background talking about how much better you are than PC users? ;)

epistasis 4y ago
I have a few Linux boxes which let me regain some productivity.

graypegg 4y ago

Heheh, don’t forget to reset the SMC, it collects too much entropy overnight so if you want deterministic behaviour you’ll need to make sure to dump its contents to /dev/null.

faeyanpiraat 4y ago
You can also make your database persist writes to /dev/null, it will make performance go through the roof
onionisafruit 4y ago
Then you are going to need my app Dr. DevNull. It keeps your /dev/null clean and tuned for high performance writes. Only $5/mo. Upgrade to Dr. DevNull Pro to keep backups of everything written to /dev/null. Dr. DevNull Enterprise has all that plus SSO.
cmg 4y ago
If you're not rebuilding the desktop every other day you're really missing out!
- doubled112 4y ago
  I used to habitually hop from one Linux distro to another, and I was often rebuilding my desktop every other day. Learned a ton about distros, backups, treating machines as disposable, configuration management and scripting the desktop setup though. It wasn't completely wasted.

ChumpGPT 4y ago

Just install Gentoo

epistasis 4y ago
Interesting, that's one distribution I have not tried. However, searching for a degaussing package comes up empty: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=Degauss https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/search?q=Degauss Until gentoo has this, I'm not sure if it's ready for the desktop. Maybe next year?
- cwillu 4y ago
  You don't need a fucking app, just echo full | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/drm1/i2c/00/power/degauss like a normal person.
  - epistasis 4y ago
    Good point, I can add this to my bi-hourly disk cache flushing + cache algorithm rotation routine since I'm already on the terminal.