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What all am I looking at here? Or is this all meme?

This sounds like the exact thing I needed when starting the linux life.
Do I stand to learn much if I’ve already been troubleshooting gentoo for a few years?

radiation exists in like everything to some small degree tho right?

why do we do this? Is it an american thing?

omfg hardy heron sends me so far back. Lucid lynx was maybe my most obsessive launchpad of a linux distro
Thanks for all the fish folks

why wouldn’t you just press ‘v’ to go into visual mode!?!?

These are the comments that do me in. Time to repolish the resume and my most practical projects. I can’t believe I’m getting serious about this again, but I do believe in my drive, determination, and earnest passion to be the change I want to see in the software world. I know it’s pointless, and I will almost certainly fail quite miserably, but I also know I have to go down swinging or my soul will rot from the regrets. I just have to fail better–I have to do it despite the pointlessness.

Could certainly be argued as a choice ultimately. I didn’t quite finish my BS in CS, I’m entering my 30s with a wife that depends on me not leaving my decent and steady warehouse mgmt job atm. I’ve tried a couple of times–last time I was building a great portfolio maintaining a hobbyist arch distro, but I just never got past the interview stages. My network is too small, and the job market seems to be a dumpster fire with no upturn in sight.

I know these are excuses and ultimately it is a choice that I shouldn’t give up on my dreams the way I am, but I wanted to answer your question as honestly as possible for some reason. As far as impact, it’s basically been a lifelong dream of mine to just make software that helps improve the quality of life of as many sentient beings as I possibly can. I know it’s immature and overly idealist, but I can’t shake it

That is certainly a bright side of the matter isn’t it. Maybe keeping the joy alive is more critical than the bread?

I felt this loaf

It’s easy to do when we’re all surrounded constantly by the paradox of money meaning nothing at all, but also the only material thing that dictates the action and activity of everything past and future

Biggest Pill I’ve had to swallow is that no matter much I love programming and will continue my computer hobbies for life. I will never make a profession out of it. I’m slowly coping with the fact that all my work will ultimately influence very nearly nothing at all…

Kubuntu is excellent for the stability imo. Super sane and low-demand defaults make for a reliable/enjoyable experience
I only use gentoo now so I can’t offer suggestions other than maybe alpine for servers

why have I been chmod +x so often then?

I’m pretty sure you could still find a decent thinkpad from ebay that would surprise you how cheap they are

I feel this, but my other love is gentoo…if only I could get portage to just stop finding more package masks or multiple instances of the same package slot…it’s always something that makes me do another upgrade in an attempt to troubleshoot and it’s usually because I get so caught up in just fixing silly mistakes that I forget to actually get to the eselect news that would have avoided the last stack of 6 compounding issues in the first place.

But I love how fun it is and I’m never leaving no matter what other nix-like cults pop up

I admit I chose poor wording to ask, but I promise I had no intentions of casting shade or shame of any kind.

you’ve got me itching to try it again. It’s been nearly a decade since I tried it, but I remember enjoying haskell. I just ran into headaches with updates. Almost certainly user error, but I remember cabal or ghcup breaking with an update attempt so I moved on to focus on i3. If I use extreme caution on setup, you think I can get a stable/reliably long-term xmonad environment?

Woah woah put the fangs away, it’s not worth it. I’m an idiot but thought xmonad was very fun, I just ran into issues maintaining it. This is why I was scared from trying nix os, I’m superb at breaking things unintentionally. I am genuinely curious to know what makes you passionate about xmonad comrade

for life? I’m begging for an explanation on how you’re sworn to xmonad for life? I’m terrified it’s related to nix os really

Some kinda irony there with the Advertisement branding on the left, yeah?

I’m seeing a post and some great comments that were achieved by the speech that’s for sure