Yeah, doesn’t growl and make an angry fuss. It’s all so graceful.

My old one was a petrol mid-engine, real wheel drive, manual, no power steering, no power brakes, with twin sunroof. ;D

This sports car pedigree is adequate masculinity bragging rights. ;D

… Also, according to the advertising, it picks up 5 times as many women as a lambo. :D

Reminds of the moments when paying for fuel, and SUV drivers waiting next in the queue weep when they see how much I pay, as a microbus driver. Yeah. I have double the usable space in my vehicle, and am paying less than half for fuel.

Tragic. Shows we never know when. And a little irony there too, in how we’ve lost the chap who contributed so much to preparation [and so recent too] for what to do if we lose that other chap.

So there’s hope yet for me being able to tidy up decades of mess around here.

I got a new thinkpad with double the ram, because I kept running out, even when telling mpv to not cache so much, with over a dozen paused playlists… Now I have over three dozen paused playlists.

But, I’m getting through it.

Been catching up with interesting happenings from April.

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need … ‘roads’.” -Dr Emmett Brown

It’s been over 20 years since I heard about how industry had suppressed innovation. …How before cars and planes, we had balloons. And not only balloons, but some were innovating with the new marvels of electromagnetism, experimenting with high voltage faraday cages and things, finding ways to meddle with inertia, even to cancel out inertia… And once you have that, you’re only 1 step away from a rudimentary spaceship, if you’d only make an enclosure suited to being in vacuum. And indeed the development of such technology did continue. … I heard, back then, 20 years ago, that even by the 1930s, we could have had spaceships for everybody. And certainly now, and for many decades, … zero inertia propulsion. Zero-point energy. Can sustain human life indefinitely. Safe enough for a 2 year old to fly home. Can print another of itself instantly. … Such exists. By human innovation. ~ Unless of course it was all a cleverly constructed deception. … But considering the “cui bono” of it, especially in contrast to the “be very affraid, there are aliens” rap we get hit with, and the reports going around of grand plans of global domination enabled by a series of problem-reaction-solution manufactured catastrophes… It just seems silly to presume it more likely the narrative that gets pushed heavily in the corporate media. The narrative that has us disempowered, and dependent on big daddy government. Rather than, 1 in 10,000 humans can innovate something that supports the rest of us… If only the corporation would stop killing off the innovators.

The sacrifices we’ve all made, to have “cars”.

… They don’t even make it easy to fuel them with anything even remotely more clean and empowering, let alone the more advanced stuff.

Enshitification.

And now people are being denied the right to repair them too.

How much more environmental burden will that artificially accelerated churn for “profits” [wealth extraction maximisation] cause?

How long, how much worse, before we manage to break free of this, and restore VTOL, to eliminate the excessive footprint of roads on the planet…? …Maybe there are blessings in disguise here… But I really do like the idea of allowing habitats to reconnect, eliminating the death gauntlet between them, no longer mowing down wildlife and terrorising it away, whilst simultaneously freeing humanity to travel freely.

How about a third column to the sticker on the lamp post… Things drivers have sacrificed for the Corporation. …That might get even the selfish to rethink. Because I’m not sure the selfish narcissistic apaths would be swayed at all by their “win” of having sacrificed nothing for the children. But if maybe they saw how much they’ve been deprived off… Like the monkey in the cage seeing the monkey in the next cage get more fruit than they got, they throw an absolute raging fit at the injustice. If only we all knew how much the Agnotology Industry has taken from us…

Oogh. Such rage bait.

Don’t call them mister, guy.

In 2010, I fucked with a gentoo to the "USE="-*""th degree.

Honed it to just what I needed.

No more.

Most productive period of my life.

Big love to void. It was my go-to to install for the longest while. Still always a cornerstone of all my systems. Still my first go-to to get packages from, and is surprisingly well stocked for such a “little”(?) “new”(?) distro.

Yep. I do love to play around with my computers (which does risk breaking things)… but when life gets hard, and have too few spoons, it’s an important choice for health and sanity, to have something that “just works”. It’s Devuan for me, when I need[ed] that.

Warning. You are the same person.

From 2004-2008, I lost count how many tall spools of CD/DVD I tried, before I moved to USB pendrives for my distro surfing and distro hopping, for 2008-2012, and even more lost track how many many many more done ephemerally so, leaving no trace.

in 2012, I found a way I did not need to wrestle the compromises to try to find “the one”, and embraced the many, with bedrocklinux’s 2nd alpha release, and stopped all the rabid distro-hopping.

But…

Me on my way to distro hop for the 72th time

… Never needed be the corporate psycho though. You distro-hop differently to how I distro-hop. To me, it’s a joy of exploration. To you, it’s an inconvenient strategic means to power. We are not the same. ;)

Also… I’d say “72nd”.

Edit:

Okay… I’m going to try answer this a 2nd time, in similar style as how others answered.

Suse > Sabayon > Crunchbang & Gentoo > Bedrock

Suse and Sabayon were basically my homebases from which I distro-surfed (1000s? 100s of distros). … Though that didn’t stop them getting hopped from and back to several times in each their aprox 4 years tenure.

I suppose I should at least make it this much more accurate, to give Devuan its due too.

2003 Suse > 2007 Sabayon > 2009 Crunchbang (on thinkpad) & 2010 Gentoo (on workstation) > 2012 Bedrock > 2018 Devuan > 2020 Bedrock

And all the spray of others don’t get a mention. n_n

Almost never used systemd. Did not like the exceptions.

It’s nice that on gentoo (and decent gentoo respins), you can choose. It’s not leaning on you, with the “we don’t support”, the impression it has to be either systemd, or anything but systemd, respective of which camp that distro is in. But still, it is nicer to be in one of the distros that [purport to offer “init-freedom” but really] do “anything but systemd”, for the range of choice and freedom that affords, contrast to the dogma of the one true way that all must follow. Systemd! Systemd! Systemd! Come, join the cult! Hehe. But, no, more choice is better. … And not just a choice of which one true way (as in whatever the distro tries to decide for you), but choice within that distro too.

Okies… Let me just wipe the mouth froth away, and come to my senses again, out of that little gentoo gushing rant… What was this comment about again? Oh right… which distros… Yeah, answered. Now I’m just in overkill, burying the lede again, as pre usual. Meep.

How does one get through to those who’ve blinded themselves by wrapping their heads in the notion that Musk’s their strongman hero to save them, the fact that he’s a puppet icon being used to distract you and continue the maximisation of “profit” (aka wealth extraction maximisation). … That he used Nikola Tesla’s name… Tesla… who wanted to power the world for free, in health affirming frequencies… and now Musk uses his name to extract wealth from people, disempower them, deceive them… ~ Ough… I’m gonna skip this rant for once, and go live a little.

Maybe more people will see the system’s rigged dozens of ways. … Can keep that tenuous hope going, defiantly.

Stable over rolling release?

These are not mutually exclusive.

Can haz stable rolling.

E.g. use Gentoo, and avoid the ~ and ** keywords.

Gentoo’s all about choice. You can choose to configure it so it does not require hand holding, and running it like a tamagochi. Or you can choose to fiddle with it so much it’s very time demanding… not the compiling, so much as the system configuration management. There’s official binhost now anyway. But then, if you’re fiddling around alot, you’ll send emerge to compile rather than just get a binary, to meet all your exacting nuances of configuration.

I have one gentoo that’s been rock solid for … about 17 years, with only one blip of downtime when there was a fire. No hand-holding.

Arch is indeed a different beast. In my experience, it’s only a matter of (relatively short) time before Arch eats its kernel or some other catastrophe that requires rescue or abandon.

Respect to Manjaro for what they try do, offer arch with more stability (and conveniences).

On a whim, just now, I made this

But, then, I hear many things have changed in arch, since I last used arch (just before the switch to systemd)… and maybe things have changed, and it does not do that any more…?

“Why was 6 scared of 7? Because 7 8 9.”

(that works better spoken, than in text. … 7 ate 9.)

Reminds a little of Socrates, when asked what his punishment should be.

… After reading a few comments… a figure creeps into my mind from memory…

8 million.

That’s how many children we’re estimated to lose to the traffickers ((or whoever else) for who knows what horrors), per year, globally.

… And I don’t think either of these, the politicians or the capitalists, are going to do even one honest thing to help solve this.

… And yet at their disposal, is the means.

… The stench of these psychopaths using this crime [as vast as it is], as a mere tool to carry on with all their other crimes, is sickening. … How many of the 8 million, are used, not just to be abused, raped, eaten, but as tools of blackmail to usurp all these pseudo-democracies at these single points of failure, “our” “representatives”, as they doubtless do throughout industry and elsewhere too. No strongman saviour to save us, nor our children.

We have to face the horror and come up with better/real remedies to this unacceptable monstrous situation.

[That 8 million figure, I heard elaborated upon, how it was derived, how it was extrapolated, estimated based on the known missing children and so on, from an "ex-"cia guy on some podcast interview… which I failed to find in a timely manner to add as reference here.]

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