It's a good thing that little black line protected me from seeing the word "fucking" on the internet.

Wait a minute... FUCK! 🤪

thank fuck for the little black line censoring the word fuck

FUCK

I may have found ways to make computers not work but in the process I usually find ways to make them work again. Its a cycle

Computer works -> I get bored -> I mess around -> it no longer works -> I fix it -> repeat

fuck

ew censorship

Gasp! Is that a naughty word!? My delicate sensibilities!

Anyways, i probably have an AI data center's worth of tech lying around my house because of one project or another. Some broken, some old, some saved from the trash, some held together with load bearing thermal paste... You know, a perfectly normal setup.

I spent hours today trying to figure out why my computer wouldn't boot, an update had changed my boot configuration to raid mode.

That is why we need many computers, at least one's gotta work

it's true, 100% of the stuff I learn is in service of making a 10-year-old GeForce 980 run increasingly unstable, modded, and unholy builds of games. it's not a matter of will it BSOD, just a matter of when do I not want it to BSOD

Downvoted for self censorship

Being Very Computer means I can operate a computer that doesn't work.

It's true. Source: I am Very Computer.

“Hmm, I think I want to try KDE plasma”

rm rf gnome

“Oh wait, crap, I probably should have started with setting up the new desktop first…”

Regular people would consider me Extremely Computer, but compared to many of the people here I feel Barely Computer for not knowing the difference between /bin and /sbin.

People who are "very computer" tend to combine stuff that doesn't have a guarantee to work.

Like a desktop Frankensteined together from multiple different computers into one working monster.

Those things have whole new problems of their own.

I don't want to offend anybody with the badly wordings so please do not read this. And I will strike through so it's completely unreadable in case you get any ideas.

I became very computer because my computer's were all so shit and broken in weird ways and I was too poor to pay anyone to fix them, and even if I did they didn't know.

Fucking

Okay so there's a better one but this xkcd fits well enough.

I have not bought a new computer in so long, i keep them together with literal duct tape and blocks of wood and poorly hacked together software workarounds.

I'm doing things you wouldnt even think of. But implementation was imperfect. Some things like "playing audio" and "sending emails" are slightly complicated, require adjusting some stuff in systemctl (then back when im done)

This is also very true for somewhat similar reasons with car mechanics.

I am very computer.

I decided I didn't want to deal with it anymore and picked up a used Dell precision system with a pair of Xeon processors and put 64 G of RAM in it, with an 8x SSD raid array.

If anything fails I can completely fucking ignore it and my system continues to fucking work.

Also, a willingness / knowledge to ‘work around’ the problem

cries in NixOS

once it works, it works forever, but it's really hard getting it to work.