Arch is one of the most vanilla of Linuxes. Everyone wanted to run an opinionated distro. But what we needed was the opinions of developers and fewer opinions from people who think creating a distro is a sensible way to distribute art.

Arch - every package is just the software the original developer shipped, kept up to date.

“I have art work I want to share. I know. I’ll make myself responsible for the reliability of a thousand people’s operating systems. I hope my cooky ideas never come into conflict with that.” <- Not who you want indirectly changing files on your system when you use the package manager.

Was it a loud environment or was she just a soft talker? I’m pretty sure there is a Seinfeld episode on this. In fact, it’s the pirate shirt episode.

Just be glad you didn’t say yes.

It’s just that one spot. There’s a hint in this thread. https://submatrix.net/c/Economics/BP536RZXit

Yes.

Do the oceans turn into regular milk or salty milk?

That is your speculation. But he has to do worse than your speculation, isn’t there a kind of infinite recursion there?

Almost all politicians are. And Epstein wasn’t the only operator. Today’s politicians act like they are, and Epstine’s operation was too far in the past for most of them.

Blackmail mills blackmail a lot people. If you had political finance money, would you finance the campaign of someone who says they are aligned with you, or someone you know will stay aligned with you? Power isn’t given to un-blackmailed people. And people who want power know this. So there is a long list of people willing to get blackmailed to get into power. They may even enjoy the part that gets them blackmailed.

Funny how your meme did ok here: https://submatrix.net/c/LinuxMemes/4nnhnXwwim

FYI, Goku is a chinaman in some sense. In that the original manga is based on “Journey to the West,” which is a Chinese story.

That’s why I’m for electing Noone.

Sadly, a lot of people get tripped up because they are confused about one simple thing. We are not the government.

This really short book covers it well. https://cdn.mises.org/anatomy-of-the-state.pdf

In fact the first chapter argues that really pretty convincingly. So it only takes about 5 minutes to properly understand that we are not the government. Backing a politician’s grab for power really doesn’t benefit you, because, really, you are just giving social support to more power going to the uniparty, which doesn’t work for you.

It’s one of the shortest books written. It’s basically Machievilli if you freeze dried it into a two hour read. And the critical parts are up front.

But in almost any shell there is also ctrl+a sudo. ctrl+s requires you haven’t sent it yet.

Or also up ctrl+a sudo. It’s only one more key press than sudo !!, and unlocks ctrl-a. More useful to teach noobs IMO. Teach a skill instead of a quirk.

I don’t mind that communism has starved people because it hasn’t starved me yet.

A lot of people would need to find new jobs or transform them. I was wondering if anyone would see past the personal computing implications. I didn’t say anything to see how people would think naturally. With only a month to adjust, that would require a lot of fast movement. There has to be a buck to be made somewhere in that.

File distribution would have to move back to CDs or, more likely, SD cards with current software sizes. Games could still be sold. But the big question is what will happen with 90% of businesses that make use of the internet?

Israel. And they don’t want the war to stop. So the second there is peace they will tear it up. If the US wants peace, and we should, we need to decouple our negotiation from Israel. But we can’t do that while we fund their military because Iran would be reasonable to think that if we stop fighting per our deals that we are then using Israel as a proxy to get around the deal.

It is a very dangerous thing that we’ve given these people money. Now we can’t negotiate deals independently. We can’t be decoupled from their actions since we’ve funded those actions. So the US can’t have peace as long as we fund people who are dead set on maintaining conflict. We can’t cancel funding to Israel fast enough.

Trump needs to learn what a frenimy is. When you have a friend that fucks up everything you do, they aren’t your friend. It is safer to turn your back on an enemy than a false friend.

My top one is writing my own project management software, and maintaining it for over a decade as its only user, because without it I would be 100% dysfunctional. It could be argued that the software isn’t even that good. But it involves ranking the tasks against each other so at the end you have to pick something concrete.

All presidents are evil. Bill Clinton embargoed Iraq to shift the news cycle off of his blowjob, and it killed a million children who had dependence on imported medical supplies.

Trump isn’t special. Just one more cunt.

Well… with Arch it’s unsafe to install new software to a system that isn’t up to date at least semi-recently. But you really only need to update as often as you install new things. Or more often if you want to.

A related thing I’ve done is I’ve made it so pacman can’t run outside of Tmux. At least not in that shell profile. One of the reasons is I got so fed up with Ubuntu server that I decided I’d experiment with a few servers being Arch. Some might consider that crazy but it’s what experiments are for.

I can’t afford to have an ssh disconnect break a system and forcing Tmux prevents me from doing something lazy. Side benefit… it also means it’s easier to not babysit it.

I see. I guess home instance might be a phrase we should spread to avoid these kinds of confusions.