• Baku
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    6 months ago

    Yesterday I decided that I wanted to mess around with hosting a Lemmy issue, and since I’ve been trying for the better part of 12 hours, I think it’s safe to say I wouldn’t make a very good Lemmy host.

    The Lemmy files themselves are fine, so far anyways. But actually getting them working has just been issue after issue after issue. I’m almost done - all I need to do is run the ansible playbook. Unfortunately I can’t get ansible to work through terminal. I’m pretty sure it’s an issue with ansible not being added to path, but no amount of adding things to path has helped, zsh still has no clue wtf an ansible is. So I decided to homebrew it. All well and good until I realised it’s actually building ansible and all of its requirements from scratch, with most of the requirements taking between 5 minutes and 2 hours to build 🙂

    As much as staring at a screen for 12 hours progressively fixing error after error kills the psyche, it’s also kind of fun. I mean I’m like an offbrand wizard at this point! I may take 48 hours to complete the spells you want, but that’s not because I forgot about you, it’s because I have to complete 9,787 things before I can do your spell + figure out wtaf I’m doing

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      6 months ago

      There’s something really special about what I call the “IT fucking bullshit cycle” that can be hard to explain. It really is rewarding lol

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        6 months ago

        I’m not sure I’ll get much reward out of this since this is just a test I’m running on whatever hardware I have to see if I can work it out to see if it’s worth renting a VPS

        llvm is still building, a good 40 minutes after it started. Google tells me it can take up to 4 hours, but I’m too scared to leave it alone and check in the morning😅

        Edit: 2 hours and it’s still building. I’m calling it and going to sleep and just sort of hoping it doesn’t fail overnight

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      6 months ago

      You’re a ritual caster not an instant spell caster. Rituals take time.

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        6 months ago

        If the wizards eyeballs were still working after half a day of screens,.I’m sure it would be happy