The four stages of Mastodon user:
* what’s a Mastodon
* I feel lost and alone how does this work
* oh wow this is actually pretty cool
* I have compiled a linux kernel
@Natanox im on step 3/4 and i dont think ill be reaching 4 in the next 4 years
@Natanox Damn, I messed up the order... actually did the 4th one first :(
@saulmrt
Yeah, but compiling Linux kernels is so 1990s. #linux
@Natanox
@saulmrt @Natanox last time I did that Mastodon didn‘t exist.
@Natanox I hit stage 4 before stage 1. Is this proof that maths is secretly always modular?
@koz @Natanox I'm pretty happy I didn't have to do this in this century.

@mort @Natanox It really isn't that bad IMHO. Tedious yes, but not too bad.

... but then again I ran Gentoo as my daily driver for a while. So perhaps my perspectives are warped.

@koz @Natanox Depends on the use case, I guess. I don't care about the possible optimizations as long as everything works fine enough and like having kernel updates without adjustments. If you're using old hardware, embedded systems, or have some special requirements, self-compiled kernels become much more attractive.
@koz @mort @Natanox I believe that is somewhat of an understatement...
@koz @mort @Natanox ex #Gentoo user here also - still in recovery, keep wanting to type `make menuconfig` every time #ubuntu asks me to update :(
@koz
Right, I forgot all the LFS and assorted Rambo-style nerds? fundamentalists? people with to much time?
@mort @Natanox
@Natanox mal wieder am falschen ende angefangen: "der ganze mediaplayersch… läuft bei mir nicht richtig" - "versuch mal vlc" - "die festplatte geht nicht unter win98 und auf xp umzustellen habe ich keinen bock" - "versuch mal gnu/linux" und mir wurde klar, so wie der kapitalismus sich das vorstellt muß es nicht laufen mit der produktion …
@Natanox replace the Linux compiling with "and now I add image descriptions to my posts" and that's me. :)
@switch @Natanox somewhere between step 43 and 47 there's "become an instance admin just to add image descriptions to other people's posts"
@Natanox I’m somewhere between stage 2 and 3
@Natanox Yes, I'm currently at stage 1 😳 😂
@Natanox The next step is HRT
@Natanox I’m at stage 3, but I have no idea what stage 4 means !
@Natanox Accurate. I'm at 3 after a week.
@Natanox may have accidentally started with stage 4
@Natanox stage 5: celebrating 6 months of HRT!
@Natanox I did these steps backward. I compiled a Linux kernel first, back in 1999-2000…
@Natanox I first compiled a Linux kernel in 1994, so I think I'm out of order.
@Natanox. And I can't wait for #FollowFriday to introduce you to some of the cool people I've met up in here:
@odanu
@mojomoomoo
@Natanox I mean, I own a Steam Deck so I'm kinda there on the Linux thing.
@Smellbringer the linux gaming community is very happy about valves contributions like proton, the linux support of the games and VR headset and now the steam deck
@Natanox Hoping this is true. This is my first interaction and yes, it's an awkward platform.
@Natanox I’m still in stage 1 looking forward to the others (not so much 2 but it’s a journey, I guess)!
@Natanox can confirm, currently somewhere between 2 and 3 and looking forward to linux kerneling
@Natanox Now googling 'linux kernel'
@Natanox I am very much at number 2 still.....😂

@Natanox i use mastodon since 2017 and at this point, i casually test kernel patches and even maintain a #bcachefs kernel package on #nixos (well, not very active anymore, but my name is in the metadata 😁)

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=linuxKernel.kernels.linux_testing_bcachefs&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=linux_testing_bcachefs

but all this is very easy on nixos

this was my initial commit of the bcachefs package

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/4134db36d021b4715bdf0f4e54caee6d1255ee5e

this is how to patch a kernel

https://codeberg.org/davidak/webseite/issues/85

(i was a linux admin, devops and software developer, so i might be biased when saying it's easy)

@davidak @Natanox Thank you! I used bcachfs on Nixos.😃

@Natanox I resist the siren call of Stage 4.

For now.

@Natanox it's very much like Green Day's welcome to paradise.

At first we're scared to be somewhere new, but soon it's now getting like our home.

@Natanox
Just jumped from step 1 to step 2.
@Natanox umm did I miss a step? I think my computer is now in a container and in the cube cloud.
@Natanox Gosh, it's been so many years since I've compiled a Linux kernel, is this why all the sweetness has gone out of my life...?
@Natanox I'm still in the "am I tooting correctly" stage
@Natanox compile a linux kernel with yocto is indeed on my bucket list
@Natanox I’m stuck on step 2!!!
@Natanox 🤞🏻I’m hopeful…
@Natanox I’m somewhere between step 2 and step 3.
@Natanox I feel lost and alone how does this work

@Natanox

Like the BSD sharks in reverse:
https://xkcd.com/349/

Success

xkcd
@Natanox gotta get that PREEMPT_RT