… You end up understanding your bootloader, every daemon you enabled, and the init system, and the maintenance is how you stay fluent. Handing these choices off would remove the education you get, right? When you've used Linux long enough, a lot of this stuff is like riding a bike. …
… Aside from this, it means that when I pull the handheld out on a train or plane a few days later, when I'm finally ready to play, it's either completely dead 0% battery or it's been aggressively looping an error state, running its fans at maximum speed, and roasting itself alive inside the sealed c… …
… GPU maintenance doesn't mean limiting your PC's performance, but you should also not ignore the best practices that can prolong your hardware's longevity. …
… I now question trusting only cloud/SSDs — optical offers passive, maintenance-free archival. Of all the things on my 2026 bingo card, a random rabbit hole about Blu-rays and DVDs changing how I think about long-term data storage was not one of them. …
… Ubuntu LTS is a perfect candidate for such containers because of its long-term security maintenance commitment on the main repo. For a container you spin up once and expect to still be quietly running in a few years, a long, predictable support window is exactly the temperament you want. …
… I already have enough little maintenance chores hiding in corners. A routine can run when I’m asleep, summarize what it found, and leave me with a short list instead of a mystery novel. It’s not magic, but it does make maintenance feel more like a habit. …
… It's a built-in command that helps Windows tell the SSD exactly which blocks of data are no longer needed. Then, the drive cleans itself more efficiently, as opposed to indefinitely carrying around stale data. TRIM thus helps maintain long-term responsiveness and write performance. …
… Now, when I spin up a new app, I try not to treat it like a long-term commitment from day one. …
… Flask handled the event, and termux-sms-send sent the SMS via Termux:API. What I ended up with was an independent server monitor with a reliable alert path. It would have worked in the worst-case scenario. The only remaining bit was to make it long-term and maintenance-free. …
… Even with those limits, this feels like the right direction It matches the way terminal-heavy work actually happens now The reason I still land on the positive side is simple: most terminal-heavy PC workflows are no longer purely local. …