Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

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I just write my config files directly to random unused blocks on /dev/sda, filesystems are overrated.

You still have sd devices? /s

You still have devices?

I'm over here chilling with my a

I'd say the only thing I own is the clothes on my back, but those were repossessed yesterday for nonpayment.

/s

Nah, dump em' to /tmp/ and let the user figure out the rest

I just leave all config in memory. If the user really cared, they would never reboot.

I just hard code all config in the source code. If the user really cared, they would recompile from source.

I deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn't opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.

“Developers hate him for this one cool trick.”

A filesystem is just writing to random unused blocks with extra steps.