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Re:The curse of being good in IT by theshrike79 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:08AM (#35578049)
I had this revelation around 15 years ago. I was fiddling with custom i3wm setups and complex hotkey setups and my .emacs was longer than some short stories. I even had Windows with a custom explorer replacement that re-did the whole UI.

At some point I figured out that I spent so much time configuring everything at home, but I couldn't do the same for the other multiple computers I used at work (work machine + remoting to client's computers) and that started to grate on me.

I just gave up on customising and used everything pretty much on the default settings. Haven't regretted it at all.

The only "custom" bits I have is a homeshick[0] setup and a Brewfile that install some basic shell tools for me on a new computer.

[0] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

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Re:The curse of being good in IT by Paul-Craft on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:21AM (#35578113)
I'm with you. If I can't either take the custom config with me (.emacs, for instance), and it goes beyond a few simple things, like changing a couple of defaults on OSX, I just don't mess with it anymore. It's not worth the overhead of either having to use an unfamiliar configuration in other contexts or having to spend the time to completely reimplement my custom tweaks again (which might not even be possible due to IT policies).
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Re:The curse of being good in IT by ParetoOptimal on Sunday April 16, 2023 @03:07AM (#35587927)
> At some point I figured out that I spent so much time configuring everything at home, but I couldn't do the same for the other multiple computers I used at work (work machine + remoting to client's computers) and that started to grate on me.

I get the best of both worlds with nix and home-manager.

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