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amos (@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io): "Which brings us to the age-old question:  Has nobody done this before because it's hard? Or because it's really fucking stupid?"
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

It's even more fun when that someone is you and you have no useful recollection of the ordeal.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The number of times I've spent hours trying to figure out some obscure issue only to stumble upon a multiple-years-old stackoverflow post of myself asking the same question isn't that high, but definitely higher than I'd like to admit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I started keeping an informal "changelog" for my PC, because I was burnt out on reinstalling my OS every few months. I can be a bit patchy at actually updating it, but when I do, it's so refreshing to ask "why the hell did I install $software ?" and then to check my logs and find that I installed it while trying to solve $problem, but that it didn't work and I ended up solving the problem a different way, but forgot to remove $software. It's so nice to not be scared of breaking stuff when I've forgotten why I did things a certain way.

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