Before I met Amber I never expected to get married again. No joke, I really thought I’d just solo the rest of my life or just at most have a “life partner” that’s close but I’m not legally attached to, because it was a terrifying thought to be legally attached to pretty much anyone.

Then I met Amber, and she’s my life partner. She’s it. She’s my ride or die, and now she’s my wife.

I love you, my wife. More! ❤️

If you’re like me, you’re just a smidge OCD about your seedbox. You might even run one on your own home network. Yeah yeah, I know the risks. Blah blah. Anyways, I’ve been running my own on a mac mini with a 12TB external plugged into it, and I mostly use it headless. It’s been rocking awesome for five years now. However, I’ve sometimes had issues with rtorrent stability from time to time. That said, I finally got sick of it and decided to leverage the obscure dark arts of launchd. It’s not superbly documented, I can barely find much of use on the internet about it, and what little I can find doesn’t exactly shine a bright light on this black box tool.

Well goddamn. Finally installed NixOS. It is incredibly autistic. Wildly autistic. This fucking OS is feral. It’s hate-fapping in a corner with a fist that has a bunch of lego pieces glued to it.

That said, I really like it. There’s a distinct amount of granular control in having your entire operating system defined by one or two scripts. Atomic updates are also pretty fuckin cool. The immutability makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

I’ve been playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 lately. I’ve owned the game for a long damn time, but I haven’t really gotten into it until recently. I know part of that was waiting for game-breaking bugs to get squashed, which largely seems to be the case for the current state it’s in. Another part was just that I didn’t get into it quickly. I never get into any game quickly, honestly. I have to just wade in gently until it really grabs me. I wound up finding out that Cyberpunk is really just a Borderlands clone with a Shadowrun backdrop and that honestly is right up my alley. So I’ve been playinng the hell out of it lately.

We’re back from Hawaii and I have successfully knocked out a whole ass work day. It was really “touch and go” there for a minute, but I struggled through the typical Monday fog and banged out the whole list of tasks the customer needed done. I guess I also receieved some praise while we were gone. All in all not the worst day ever. Maybe not the easiest, but not the worst by far.

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for a couple weeks now and I have to say that I fucking love it. KDE Plasma is a decent enough WM. The only thing that annoys me is that most of the terminal emulators suck balls. Alacritty just condescends to the user by saying “you don’t deserve ligatures because no one has written a good implementation yet”. Pretty much all of the other ones are just vibecoded nonsense or are buggy as fuck. If anyone has a decent recommendation for a terminal emulator, I’m definitely taking suggestions.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MY WIFE! WE’RE GOING TO HAWAII, FUCK YEAH.

So I have a couple extra laptops laying around and I’ve decided to give CachyOS a spin. Excellent fucking distro, I have to say. I’ve never really consistently run Arch at all outside of my Steamdeck, but CachyOS has been goddamned excellent. I fucking love it. The BORE scheduler makes this thirteen year old hardware feel like it was made yesterday, not yesteryear. The hardware support is excellent. I haven’t yet found any instances of software or packages that I can’t obtain easily with either pacman or paru.