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Written by xan on 2025-01-14 at 01:26

hmm. @tef do you think long form blog posts in mostly lowercase contribute to your popular perception as an aloof genius whom people do not wish to correct? if this is the case i might start a blog to share accomplishments and exposés into my experiences whilst hedging against "HEY HAVE YOU CONSIDERED $X" bullshit remarks which i am deeply reactive to

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Written by xan on 2025-01-14 at 01:27

i'm full of progesterone rn and i want to wax on about how i finally moved a machine off a years old Manjaro install despite, decades prior, rolling my own Linux From Scratch before even knowing LFS was a formalised thing, to counter the notion that i am possibly a misguided n00b and rather just someone who enjoys some damn convenience sometimes (and yes i know Manjaro sucks which is why i switched to Arch on said thing)

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Written by rj on 2025-01-14 at 01:30

@xan and I decided I Did Not Have Time for that and here we are just running Debian and making it weirder

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Written by xan on 2025-01-14 at 01:32

@arrjay extremely legit, i'd run Debian too on this machine o' mine but i need that bleeding edge going right to the veins. makes me feel alive. my cattle though? all Debian Bookworm, Docker or K3s now. merciless

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Written by rj on 2025-01-14 at 01:34

@xan oh that machine.

That one runs Fedora so I can experience maximum impedance mismatch switching between.

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Written by xan on 2025-01-14 at 01:36

@arrjay the EndeavourOS machine stays tho. he is good and nice

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Written by liz ten eleven on 2025-01-14 at 08:20

@xan @arrjay i just keep losing track of which machines have rocky and which have fedora.

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Written by Su-Shee on 2025-01-14 at 04:44

@xan I called my "linux from scratch before lfs" "zervix" (german for cervix ;) then I switched back to slackware which is nice and simple and not stale but I'm eyeing chimera. many edges, much bleed. I would try nix but I'm not up to date on their nazi thing so I'm not

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Written by tef on 2025-01-14 at 01:41

@xan i think it's maintaining a grouchy personality and being block happy with angry comments that contributes to my reputation as a hermit savant

but, well, my writing style has evolved to be a lot more defensive, carefully hedging earlier statements

or raising the questions people will be asking, so they stick to the text and carry on to the end of the paragraph

at the end of the day, diogenese hung out with dogs and slept in a real big jar, it's all about vibes

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Written by tef on 2025-01-14 at 01:44

@xan it helps that i wrote "technical note" or "notes to self" and hammered down expectations in the first paragraph

but well, you do have to house train your audience too

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Written by xan on 2025-01-14 at 02:28

@tef you are one of the most personally validating people i have ever had the pleasure of interacting with, btw

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Written by tef on 2025-01-14 at 03:00

@xan i guess the take away moral here is "you can't blog like a wikipedia page, you have to use weazel words in the real world"

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