I wonder if it’s more like VR.

People don’t like losing control over their technology in reality.

People want to retain control over their technology, like it’s a tool.

Virtual reality removes awareness and agency in the real world.

Same as agents do.

Here’s to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.

Thanks.

:)

Missing the joke is always worthy as it’s own joke.

I’m scared to run that.

Is that like some kind of fork bomb?

Or is it just a tubular cat?

man bat | bat

Huh. … I could have swore there was a woman. I even package searched, even in overlays… no woman.

digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % whereis woman
woman:
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % which woman
which: no woman in (/bedrock/cross/pin/bin:/bedrock/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/snap/bin:/home/digit/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games:/bedrock/strata/devuan/usr/libexec/xscreensaver:/home/digit/.cargo/bin:/bedrock/cross/bin)
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % apropos woman
woman: nothing appropriate.

digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % man cry
No manual entry for cry
digit 20260807 tyson gentoo /home/digit % whereis cry
cry:

No woman.

No cry.

These <file things must be for different shells than the ones I use.

before/after what?

You feel like a dead murderer? ?

… How did you feel the prior 24 times?

What shall you feel like each of the =>26 times?

That’s hawt.

Did you know, in the season 4 DS9 episode “The Visitor”, they didn’t just use make up to make Jake look older. They used a different actor.

and gnome

I’ve never seen something get so heavily downvoted.

Well done.

That was impressive.

Poisoned the well on more than both sides. Hah.

Heh. That was fun to try to read. Took a couple extra seconds.

Then I wondered how well an LLM would manage that… XD It’s been going at it for minutes already.

Oh, it’s done now…

Worked for 6min 27s The text is upside-down. Flipping each character and reversing the word order gives:

I love you all with the Crime songs

XD

W°Ħłеŧ ł°µµ@© ħªĦł łÆĦł §Әð槧ªШ Я£↑!|ª¢ ©Ł <<°Ħ m•µ» ªŊŊ ΩΩøµ º§!

;D

[ps. preface warning: dangerous whimsy here… rtfm… don’t dive in eager and blind and then “break” your system and come blame me.]

Debian user here. I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update. How do u folks deal with that?

I don’t [switch]. Instead I [(having already thoroughly read through all the documentation several times)]

• go to https://bedrocklinux.org/
• click on Installation Instructions
• click on the first from here link
• scroll down select the correct line for my architecture, e.g. https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh and paste it to a terminal as target for wget, wget https://github.com/bedrocklinux/bedrocklinux-userland/releases/download/0.7.31/bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• make it executable chmod +x bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it ./bedrock-linux-0.7.31-x86_64.sh
• run it again remembering the need to add --hijack
• run it again remembering the need to run it as root. (… I know, I could just remember to do sudo and --hijack first time, but I like this silly ritual).
• and type in the “Not reversible!”, knowing how non-trivial a change to my operating system is about to happen in an instant.
• reboot
• enjoy seeing the new init select screen after the grub screen (albeit with only one option yet)
• once back at a tty or once back in gui with a terminal emulator (… maybe after some more configuration tweaks, e.g. in /bedrock/etc/bedrock.conf), brl fetch arch
• et viola, done. can do sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade ; sudo pacman -Syu.

… And more likely I’d do brl fetch void ; brl fetch gentoo ; brl fetch -r ceres -n ceres devuan ; brl fetch artix. But ^ that’s for if “I want to switch to arch but dont want to troubleshoot my pc after each update.”

Could also do frequent brl copy arch arch-fallback-(date) or some such, so then if something goes wrong with an upgrade, you could just carry on unperturbed, or even disable the stratum that had something go wrong, or even delete it, and brl rename arch-fallback-20260806 arch, and carry on with your day, sure it’ll resolve the upgrade properly next time tomorrow. ;)

But of course, this is a bit overkill, like starting a huge complex science and production logistics project just to crack a nut.

But it is my honest answer of how I deal with that. ;)

So feels like it.

Would be nice.

Can we pick this up again from 2005?

I wear a fedora, and I’ve used nearly any and all distros as my daily driver, except fedora.

It’s so confusing.

Reminds of the ol’ Churchill line… “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the other types of government.”