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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Gentoo is very much like an manual transmission. If you ask anybody that drives manual they will say 1 of 2 things “i like it because it gives me control” or “i use manual because i always have”

    I love gentoo as playing around and trying stuff out. My personal recommendation is use ZFS or btrfs for a file system and have subvolumes. So if you get so lost in the rabbit hole you can climb back up.

    If your philosophy is" stable and mine!" Gentoo is for you. You can build a distro, with all the packages you want and once your done if you decide to update every month and dont care a whole lot about bleeding edge. It will work really well, it you want bleeding edge, you can have portage use ustable packages with a stable system. But you really must know what your doing or you WILL BREAK STUFF.

    I ran gentoo for 6 months then went to debian, its a great learning tool for understanding how linux works under the hood. I would also recommended systemd over openrc. Its not that openrc is bad, its just alot of extra work for simple things to work.

    Gentoo to me is more a messing around on a spare computer distro, than a production computer. Not that it cant be production, but im personally very lazy when i just want to use my personal pc. 6331








  • At times i have felt that my distro was so not worth the flak.

    But the thing that keeps me on it is i write it once and never half to dick with it again.

    NixOS is really powerful, but the learning curve will push you to the edge!

    I currently self host alot of stuff on my server which runs NixOS, theres some services that are as simple as ollama.service = true;

    And others that you spend hours cussing at. But i feel the declarative nature is what makes switching to any other distro feel so unintuitive.

    My linux journey had been,

    Manjaro > ubuntu > arch > fedora > silverblue > opensuse tumbleweed > gentoo > nixos > opensuse tumbleweed > nixos.

    I kept coming back to nix because i wrote what i wanted it to do and it did it that way every time. Its been a godsend for ZFS, although its not super bad to use ZFS on debian just mostly time consuming. The fact i dont half to worry about a update breaking DKMS and making my filesystem not work. I SWEAR SUN IF YOU COULD HAVE JUST DONE THE GPL INSTEAD OF CDL!!!

    I have recently been exploring Guix, purely because of the NixOS drama. But i think nix is my main server OS











  • Agreed, if you want a relationship with somebody you should be the one to seek them out. Not let mommy and daddy setup a date for you.

    And i feel you are not the only person whoms parents are a little to nosey. Ive been in 4 relationships and they all ended up not working out. Purely because my parents are a bit of a handful and are just a tad overbearing, aswell as extremely pious.

    Life is not an anime/hallmark movie. Your not gonna get text message or phone call from a random stranger thats madly in love with you. Which if that does happen there probably batshit crazy and you should touch them with a 10 foot pole. But i digress, people need to learn how to interact with other people rather if thats a romantic sense or a friendship. In any healthy relationship it requires work, from both partys.

    And REMEMBER FELLAS, dont put your steamed hams in crazy 👌👌👌```