[-] Digit@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

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].

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

Facebook user's would get what that is in the OP?

Huh.

It must have changed from when I would still hang around facebook users.

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 4 points 15 hours ago

Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious

Doesn't it normally do the opposite for most people?

feel way safer than before. Like, I started to regularly seek new updates via yay, it’s something you don’t hear from a windows boy.

Yep, eager to upgrade, when it's not stuffed down your throat when you don't want.

Could be telling us all something important about freedom... ;D

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago

That sounds about typical for what I imagined.

Thanks for the reply,

right in the middle of my imagined bell curve of answers.

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

I had just been listening to some NDExperiencer/spiritualist or something just before posting that. And she was on about the level of perspective from which we do choose everything [from the timeless spirit realm "before" we were born]. :/ Hardly all that helpful from down here. Bit of a tractionless over-reach.

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, that is (or was) part of the gentoo fun. :3 Lots of that kind of fun around the python versioning. Figuring out what emerge's output means is sometimes 90% of the challenge, and other times if feels like that, but then it turns out to be only 10% of the challenge. But as for python versioning specifically, that may have very recently had a big uptick in getting slipstreamed through with fewer bumps in the road for users to deal with. Fingers crossed in hope, ~ remains to be seen through many future versions yet.

And there are official binhosts now, so it generally only compiles what you've changed the useflags for. Gentoo package management's as snappy as other distros now. Though still as involved as ever for configuring the system how you want (albeit with few more ways to make it bother you a little less often now).

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago

yay -Syu, it sure is.

Or was. I stopped using artix when the AUR troubles upticked.

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

<insert the deadpan stare, from every anarcho socialist whatever whoever who had ever critiqued this uneconomic paradigm, that sternly says in its glare "told you so">

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Because they did the decent thing and departed ...?

*shrug*

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

I hit upon a lot of pebkac errors.

... Though, in hindsight, maybe some of the determinations of "pebkac error" may have been a bit gaslighty darvo to hide bugs anywhere in the stack including up to ux. "you didn't read the , so it's your fault" type of events. ... reminds of the post-it note that's there to save the world, then eventually it gets ignored, then eventually falls away, gets crumpled, dumped, forgotten...

[-] Digit@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago

some suggestions for your consideration in order of empowerment and learning curve first,

  • AWK
  • ffmpeg (~ & imagemagick ?)
  • bash, zsh, or fish
  • kew (it's just a really simple nice tui music player, no fuss). (... "Am I the only fun one in Digit's list here?" -- kew)

n_n

Some other things that sprang to mind, (generally tending to more gui things, some distro/packagemenent things)... audacity/tenacity, fontforge, gimp, gentoo and portage, bedrocklinux and brl, peertube self hosting, forgefed self hosting, suckless.org's tools, CRUX or KISS/Carbs, just playing around in stellarium, playing around in pioneer space sim, learning how to evade humanity's detection as an ai in the game called singularity, ;3

Oh... Here's an idea for you... Learn a text editor.

Think it's not fun?

Depends on which text editor you pick, and how much the fun suits you. ... Emacs has so many things (including games, like tetris and doctor). Even neovim has some extra things (~ opencode runs on neovim... tho it's not the same, lol). Or maybe you want something simpler, like nano, mcedit, or fin (I wrote fin, don't use it, it's scruffy... and only able to do that from learning some of the things mentioned, and more).

Yay for learning. Yay for asking for what other fun things to learn. Good post. Good question. ... Sorry my answers were not better. Heh. Caught off guard, answered just what first sprang to mind. n_n Doubtless many other more fun things exist.

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Made this on a whim, while commenting on that other recent Arch related post... the tamagochi one.

It's been years since I actually used Arch. I hear much has changed (~ like it has an easy installer now?). Does it still itch to faceplant from time to time, needing rescue or abandon? Does Arch still faceplant itself?

How long have you managed to keep an arch going? How many times needing rescued back to being bootable in that duration?

[And would have posted this from that account, but that lemmy.wtf instance is tempramental, currently 504ing again. Glad I recently made this alt account so I can still post this and carry on with life.]

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