Some are.

Why are plants purple?

>150,000 unread emails and accelerating.

>9000

Glad to upvote that. lol

ufw’s all i know.

too lazy to look further.

i’m guessing you want a gui…?

idk if it has that, too lazy to look into it.

ufw just works.

(PS, I also use someonewhocares’s hosts file (with my own additions up top). May interest, for a lazy painless way of blacklisting at least, and doing other redirects, and more.)

Got me wondering… just a rudimentary poke at it, no deep investigation… time xbps-install -Syu and I see it takes about 2-3 seconds per mirror to update the list, and then with a big fat load to upgrade of 374mb to dl, 1238mb on disk, and as I watch the packages come in, most are giving avg speeds equiv to maxing out my connection, whole load done in 431.37s. Seemed super slick and fast to me. Would still be barely begun if on Gentoo or Suse.

Which of the at least 4 places you posted this do you want replied to? n_n

… Actually, I got nuthin. No distro-specific problems at all are standing out to me as worth mentioning.

xbps. found it slow.

Really!?

I find xbps very fast.

Oh cool. I’d completely overlooked and forgot that nala was a thing. Not sure I’ve ever tried it. Thanks. Good discovery. Shall be trying nala. :)

Well, the expression does come from an age where it was more commonplace that the artisan, the workman, the technician, would be making their own tools. Takes on new poetic meaning, in this age and economy.

I am nerd enough, so deeply steeped, so long, in linuxville, that it took me several seconds to get this. XD Well played.

The simplicity is so refreshing. The speed’s almost too fast, like it cheapens the event. (… Speaking from portage being my fave.)

Kudos.

It’s not one I’ve sank my teeth into as a daily driver yet, but, yes… as near a faultless choice as one can make.

No explanation necessary. Stands on its own merits.

Paludis

Thanks. Yeah.

I’ve dove into Exherbo installs, enthusiastically, several times, aspiring “this time, I’ll immerse myself like it demands, and make it my daily driver”. Yet to take. [Close, at least a couple times]. Love it to pieces still though. Never had the gall to try paludis in gentoo yet though [not even briefly to see how distinct from Exherbo’s quirks of implementation]. I do love its philosophy of decentralised repos, mirroring / resulting from, the philosophy of all users are developers. … Maybe another 19 years in gentoo bootcamp, I’ll be ready to give Exherbo the dedication it demands, to be able to properly use it. … Until then, portage remains fave.

C++

How long until there’s a vibe coded drop-in replacement for portage/paludis/pkgcore written in rust? :3

15 years ago, I was using Gentoo the funnest way.

USE="-*"

… And it was also the most productive time of my life. Really hones the system to just what you need, when adding useflags only per package as needs arise.

Yup.

Invites, even demands, the user have a look and get their hands on, just to use. Very good, keeps userbase more astute. No “convenient” plastic wrap, to keep users ignorant, disempowered and dependent.

Even today, I was looking into updating an ebuild, when a package in an overlay seemed lagging on maintenance, and was no longer successfully emerging. I’d not bother looking into doing such on other distros[1].

From my first 8 years distro surfing, apt sure is my most familiar to use; most in muscle memory. So many debian and ubuntu respins.

Spin it! Bebe. ;)

[To make a cheap adequate equivalent centripital force (centrifugal force?.. whatever) simulating gravity]

There be ways.

Bezos defo is lying to us though. … bwahahahaha, “rockets” XD Yuh, cos that’s how one travels through space. XD

I know I’m an asshole, but I was legitimately hoping that covid was going to wipe out a more significant amount. At least all the anti vaxxers, but that didn’t happen.

I’m the jackass that watched Endgame and was like “goddamn that abandoned neighborhood looks peaceful”.

Well, at least you know to some extent that that’s in the wrong. Better than still being in the terrorised totalitarianised fervor and seeing such atrocities (not as making you the asshole, but instead) as a necessary virtues.

It gets better when one realises where that [headspace] came from…