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Do I need to click? (Nope), Congrats OP!

Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.

Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)

now i want to fork something into a new distro called “Schroedinger Linux”…

“maybe it works. maybe it doesn’t. maybe it’s best just to leave it right there and not look at it.”

“Treat your friends like family- exploit them.”
-Rules of acquisition as relayed by Quark

Not to mention, how frequently the “I can fix it on my own” guy ends up making things worse.

Like my coworker who insisted he knew how to install a monitor and then couldn’t figure out why the display port wouldn’t work with a usb-a adapter. It had a normal DisplayPort plug and didn’t have a thunderbolt adapter (it’s a desktop.)

Rather than update the ticket that got him the monitor, he created a new ticket.

I can’t complain too much. IT guy likes me so he took the extra monitor and gave me a third one.

anything exciting?

Black holes eating stars? Aliens? something blow up?
hehe.

I’d say ‘be gentle’, but uh, brutality is kind of part of the formality, right?

What’s the thesis on?

And good luck!

Considering that the AUR is a repo of build packages that are managed by users, it’s mostly unsafe because of that- not being in manjaro (which also uses pacman, and as far as I know just a different flavor.)

If you really want to use the AUR, you just have to turn it on. As with any package builds, it’s safe to use if you check the build and see what it does- and you need to be doing that in arch too. (Or not. Fun times.)

Manjaro feels that way to me too.

Well. Picard would moralize a bit too much before getting on Arch. but, he ain’t wrong.

Somebody needs to rebrand fstab into “Brutus”.

Sudo halt -fn

I feel like I shouldn’t judge.

but some fetishes make it really hard not to.

That’s the idea, yes.

I kinda wanna inflict windows ME on my worst enemies.

Hmm. But have you tried it with second and third linuxes? What about eightses?

There’s always someone with more money willing to pay them to do the wrong thing.

For profit companies are solely motivated by profit.

Inevitably they will choose profit over what’s right. In the meantime, there’s nothing wrong per se, but, for example, I don’t trust Canonical to not try and slip unity-lens or whatever it was back in all quiet like.

Or, duck duck go to not quietly expand what it tracks and sells on you. (Mobile browser app caved for Google money,)

LOL.

So. Fun story. My dad is a Unix SysOps guy. I grew up on Red Hat. he went out to REHL’s HQ in Raleigh, NC, to get pitched their enterprise services for his org. (they were soliciting bids from several places,). In any case, he came back with, for him, a new hostility towards red hat. (“I regret setting you up with red hat…” lots of other comments that could be described as “fuck them”, he’s far less crude than I am.)

the most hilarious part is the some of the swag was this nasty-ass 1 pound chocolate bar that they made a big deal out of. he put it out at his office and not even the office grazers that would eat 3-week old pizza left in the fridge would touch it.

RH has fallen from grace.

It was a bit weasel-y of debian, but like, I understand branding issues being “important”; the issue with Ubuntu and branding is you can’t do that. You have to get approval to repackage/brand Ubuntu.