Well, at first I was doing it completely manually, following the installation guide, but I’d get so mixed up in the soup of it all with all those new terms and actions that felt completely foreign yo me. Then I found mention of the simple archinstall command which the guide either hadn’t mentioned outright or the mentioning of it got drowned out by all the other words.

It took me a long minute to play around and work out how that worked, but once I finally figured out what was what and all that, I would finally start the install and it would get stuck.

It would get to “Waiting for systemd.timesyncd to complete” but it never would (and I gave it the benefit of the doubt at first, and just waited hours the first try.) On googling, I’d get a lot of approximate answers and explanations that almost but didn’t quite match, and the solutions never worked. I’d give up for a bit and then go back to trying it, googling, and I started just trying to troubleshoot it on my own despite really not knowing what I was doing and just throwing random things at the wall and seeing what stuck.

Eventually though, I got the right keywords in the right order on google and came across a reddit post of someone with my exact issue. The solution after that was really, really simple. They had solved their issue by editing /etc/systemd/timesyncd.config, where multiple things were commented that shouldn’t have been. I did the same thing and went into the .conf and lo and behold, the entire thing was commented, so I fixed that and boom. Working.

Honestly I’m actually glad that I had to go on such a wild goose chase to fix that little issue, because as frustrating and, in the end, useless that whole struggle ended up seeming, I learned a LOT while struggling. I’ve edited lots of .conf files, I love modding my games so I’m not shy to dipping my toes in and changing basic values, but did I know what the term “commenting” meant in that context, or even how that stuff worked on a deeper, technical level? Nope. Now I do! Now I know how to do some menial tasks via the console that I hadn’t used before. I know better how the disks work, I have a better understanding of partitioning, etc.

I think I much prefered this experience over the one where I just popped in Linux Mint and everything was a-ok from the get-go.

I met several autistic folk over my life and each and every one of them suggested I might be autistic. Then my nephew got diagnosed with autism. Then my mom started thinking back on all the social and emotional issues that were brushed off by medical people when I was a child. Then I got an in depth psychological evaluation, and surprise surprise! Autism. Explained a lot…

Damn dude that’s deep 😔

“It’s just a phone call!” You do not comprehend the mental anguish I experience at the very idea of a phone call, and the utter confusion I feel every day about why it is so god damn terrifying, as I am fully aware that it is, in fact, Just A Phone Call

On steam alone, Skyrim. Oldrim at 1500+ hours, SE at 600+ hours. Then theres Skyrim on consoles, played on PS4, xBox, and Switch… probably easily doubles that number.