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The Great Script Purge

Saturday, June 21. Nineteen commits. One repo. FIX: I had accumulated a mess of integration scripts, hardware setup shims, and theme customizations that were doing more harm than good. => The headline here i…

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2025-06-21 · SIGNAL19 commitsuc-UC-119
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Saturday, June 21. Nineteen commits. One repo. FIX: I had accumulated a mess of integration scripts, hardware setup shims, and theme customizations that were doing more harm than good. =>

The headline here isn’t the new assets. It’s the deletion of over four thousand lines of code. I spent the morning tearing down the old structure of the UC-1 setup. I had accumulated a mess of integration scripts, hardware setup shims, and theme customizations that were doing more harm than good. I deleted 01-hardware_ai_setup.sh, 03-uc1_integration.sh, and the massive 04-theme_customization.sh. That last one alone was a 2,153-line monstrosity that I don’t even remember writing. FIX: It’s a small change, but it stops me from running performance tuning before the framework is even installed. =>

With the old junk gone, I had to reorder the remaining pieces to make sense. The optimization scripts were numbered in a way that reflected their creation order, not their logical execution order. So I renamed them. 02-rocm_ryzenai_setup.sh became 03. 03-pytorch-setup.sh became 04. 04-ml-frameworks-setup.sh became 05. 05-performance-tuning.sh became 06. And 06-npu-optimization.sh became 07. It’s a small change, but it stops me from running performance tuning before the framework is even installed.

I spent the morning tearing down the old structure of the UC-1 setup.

Then came the real work on the network cutover script. I updated 03-network-cutover.sh repeatedly. The first pass cleaned up 296 lines and added 80. That’s a net reduction of 216 lines of bloat. But I wasn’t done. FIX: The net result is a cleaner, more predictable desktop environment that actually respects the system resources it’s supposed to optimize. =>

The KDE desktop setup also got a serious trim. I stripped out 143 lines of redundant configuration and added 118 lines of specific fixes. The net result is a cleaner, more predictable desktop environment that actually respects the system resources it’s supposed to optimize.

I also spent a few cycles on the ROCm Ryzen AI setup. I added 381 lines and removed 104. FIX: They’re just images, but they make the repo feel less like a ghost town and more like a project with a personality. =>

Finally, I added some assets. The_Colonel.jpeg, The_Colonel.png, and magic_unicorn_logo.png went into the assets folder. They’re just images, but they make the repo feel less like a ghost town and more like a project with a personality.

Also today: I deleted the backup docker compose file. If you need it, you should have kept it in your own repo.

The repo is lighter, faster, and easier to read.