Think it's kinda funny that of course, out of all the sets of really cheap crap earphones I've had, the Nokia ones that came with my phone have been by far the most reliable and resilient.
Like literally I think I've fucked part of the cable so if I wiggle it around I get crackling noises, but if I leave it alone the sound comes through them absolutely fine.
Just fixed my parent's computer and I'm way more proud of myself than I should be because it was a really stupid weird problem.
Basically, Mint (and a bunch of other distros) symlink /var/run to /run, but somehow that got broken and they ended up being separate directories, so systemd-logind went looking in one for a file that was in the other and failing so you couldn't even log in.
Still going "hang on, did I actually just manage to figure that out and fix it? What the fuck how"
I think I'm definitely not bad at *writing* software (but still nothing special). What I'm bad at is *reading* software.
Like if someone said "write a program that does X" I could say "sure I could do that", but if someone said "here's a program that does most of X, could you finish it off?" I'd be like "uuuuhhh fuck umm maybe? idk"
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