I agree with you to a point. I would say however that it’s not the fact that government exists that’s the problem. It’s the fact that government is controlled by corporations and billionaires that is the problem.

Take all of that away and have a government is actually by the people and for the people…we’d be golden.

That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.

I used to bother doing all of that too. I just found symlinking achieved the same results without a bunch of manually configuring of mount points.

If by movement you mean bullets…you’re almost there.

The United States has always been the villain of the story. But they used to at least try to hide it behind a sheen of soft power. The only difference between now and then is that Trump unabashedly takes the mask off and gives no fuck what the rest of the world thinks.

Me neither. The more I dwell on it, the grumpier I’m getting. Distro hopping is a young man’s sport. I’ve got work to do.

Thankfully, I learned the hard way a long time ago that my files are almost entirely on a secondary drive and my home folders are all simply symlinks to folders there, so I won’t lose any data since that drive won’t be wiped. But it’s just such a pain in the butt to set up everything the way I like it.

I started using Manjaro long before all this crap started going down, and I’ve been holding on hoping this all gets sorted because I hate distto hopping.

But sadly I don’t think its going to happen. I’ve got a new PSU coming to fix a burnt out one that has left my desktop turned off and unupdated for two months. Might be time for an install of something new rather than updating afterwards.

It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

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True. But I was meaning more spiritually.

If Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Suse, etc… are the Greek Gods, then Debian and Slackware are the mythological Titans that preceded them.

Distros that come after the Greek Gods (Elementary, Manjaro, CachyOS, etc…) are basically the equivalent of every time Zeus or another god would go down to earth to have sex with a mortal and create a demigod (Hercules, Achilles, Aeneaus, etc…)

Debian’s the grand-daddy from which the others all were born.

I’ve thought about making the switch but what holds me back is stability.

I don’t mean stability from a software perspective. But from a distro perspective. Distros come and go all the time. Four or Five have stable enough support through community developers and industry sponsorships that they’ve managed to become large enough and supported enough to be considered Evergreen Distros for lack of a better word. In other words, distros where the support base is large enough to be considered “too big to fail” (Ubuntu, Mainline Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc…)

The rest eventually just fade away. I’ve always avoided distros that are maintained by a small community of enthusiasts because enthusiasm goes away really quickly once the real work of maintaining a distro rolls around.

I won’t pull the trigger on any small community project until I’m reasonably sure I’m not going to have to jump to a new project a year from now when the developers get tired of it and move on to something else.

Bitwarden.

Paid. Not because I need the added paid features, but because I value it and want to show my appreciation for the developers.

An adorable little bag of Ricin.

Actually it’s pretty clear that part of domestication for dogs was making them less intelligent.

Had a Mastiff. Can confirm.

Quokka of course.

So Hank’s head on Bobby’s Body is basically Cotton?

Is it a base within reach of Iranian drones? Pretty please…

“Risk of attack is too great…”

Ah…so the US Navy operates off the same playbook as the Uvalde police department, I see.

Like Bitch, you’re a warship. It’s literally your job to put yourself at risk during a conflict.

Precisely.

Part of the awe of watching movies (The so-called movie magic) is that at the same time as you’re in awe of the film, there’s a part of you in awe of how much collaborative work it took to create that stunt/effect/miniature, etc…

There’s no magic anymore when one can just do the same thing in Blender at home if they had enough time to learn.