Here’s to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.

Thanks.

:)

Missing the joke is always worthy as it’s own joke.

I’m scared to run that.

Is that like some kind of fork bomb?

Or is it just a tubular cat?

man bat | bat

Huh. … I could have swore there was a woman. I even package searched, even in overlays… no woman.

digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % whereis woman
woman:
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % which woman
which: no woman in (/bedrock/cross/pin/bin:/bedrock/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/snap/bin:/home/digit/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games:/bedrock/strata/devuan/usr/libexec/xscreensaver:/home/digit/.cargo/bin:/bedrock/cross/bin)
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % apropos woman
woman: nothing appropriate.

digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % man cry
No manual entry for cry
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % whereis cry
cry:

No woman.

No cry.

These <file things must be for different shells than the ones I use.

and gnome

I’ve never seen something get so heavily downvoted.

Well done.

That was impressive.

Poisoned the well on more than both sides. Hah.

Heh. That was fun to try to read. Took a couple extra seconds.

Then I wondered how well an LLM would manage that… XD It’s been going at it for minutes already.

Oh, it’s done now…

Worked for 6min 27s

The text is upside-down. Flipping each character and reversing the word order gives:

I love you all with the Crime songs

XD

W°Ħłеŧ ł°µµ@© ħªĦł łÆĦł §Әð槧ªШ Я£↑!|ª¢ ©Ł <<°Ħ m•µ» ªŊŊ ΩΩøµ º§!

;D

[ps. preface warning: dangerous whimsy here… rtfm… don’t dive in eager and blind and then “break” your system and come blame me.]

Debian user here. I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update. How do u folks deal with that?

I don’t [switch]. Instead I [(having already thoroughly read through all the documentation several times)]

• go to https://bedrocklinux.org/
• click on Installation Instructions
• click on the first from here link
• scroll down select the correct line for my architecture, e.g. https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh and paste it to a terminal as target for wget, wget https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• make it executable chmod +x bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it ./bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it again remembering the need to add --hijack
• run it again remembering the need to run it as root. (… I know, I could just remember to do sudo and --hijack first time, but I like this silly ritual).
• and type in the “Not reversible!”, knowing how non-trivial a change to my operating system is about to happen in an instant.
• reboot
• enjoy seeing the new init select screen after the grub screen (albeit with only one option yet)
• once back at a tty or once back in gui with a terminal emulator (… maybe after some more configuration tweaks, e.g. in /bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf), brl fetch arch
• et viola, done. can do sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade ; sudo pacman -Syu.

… And more likely I’d do brl fetch void ; brl fetch gentoo ; brl fetch -r ceres -n ceres devuan ; brl fetch artix. But ^ that’s for if “I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update.”

Could also do frequent brl copy arch arch-fallback-(date) or some such, so then if something goes wrong with an upgrade, you could just carry on unperturbed, or even disable the stratum that had something go wrong, or even delete it, and brl rename arch-fallback-20260806 arch, and carry on with your day, sure it’ll resolve the upgrade properly next time tomorrow. ;)

But of course, this is a bit overkill, like starting a huge complex science and production logistics project just to crack a nut.

But it is my honest answer of how I deal with that. ;)

So feels like it.

Would be nice.

Can we pick this up again from 2005?

I wear a fedora, and I’ve used nearly any and all distros as my daily driver, except fedora.

It’s so confusing.

Reminds of the ol’ Churchill line… “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the other types of government.”

I didn’t think it even applied to suse

More true than many realise.

Nice notion.

But then…

The other replies.

Not very.

Especially for suse. Huh?

that’ll be fun once the AI finds out how expensive the CEO is

I’d say, “inconclusive. it cuts off…”, but, seems reasonable, at least plausible, given the faceplant.

… I might try that hence, should I return to something Arch based. :D

At least Ubuntu are kind enough to offer a faceplant every 6 months like clockwork, to help get accustomed to it. ;3

As much as I have a side fetish for the likes of CRUX, KISS/Carbs [and suckless’ness, like sta.li, etc], out beyond my love of the likes of VoidLinux, Arch/Artix/etc, for their hands-on simplicity that keeps one in reach of manually installing software and building packages, but I really love gentoo’s accoutrements for “building packages with your hands”, not just marvelling at ebuild clarity, but also the likes of how it caters for patches and saved configs, and portage just carries on with it, as you want it, like a cool summer breeze… :) [/gentoo-fanboi mouth-froth. … Started getting carried away again there].