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The number of people that would break when they couldn’t access their email when they opened their phone… You could measure it with public health statistics.

Dang, this was the first I heard about mobile justice shutting down.

It had been on my phone and thankfully unused for a long time.

Well that’s not good…

They seem to be reasonably active, so I would imagine that situation won’t last long.

Garuda is about the same.

Arch base, preconfigured for btrfs snapshots on Pacman updates (and they provide a handy garuda-update wrapper to that), many niceties already done for you.

I’ve used the snapshot feature a couple times and only because the Nvidia drivers botched something horribly and I went back to the same snapshot a couple times.

And I use distrobox (rootless podman FTW) for some crap too. Like that time I needed WebEx at a moment’s notice for a call (and they only provide a deb and rpm). Or spur of the moment dev environments when I don’t wanna futz around with vscode devcontainers.

But with arch-based stuff, you gotta read the Pacman output. If you don’t wanna, definitely reconsider immutable. Next time I can be bothered to reinstall, that’s where I’m headed. Heck, you can start a distrobox with Arch and install all the AUR shit you please without a major worry.

I wish them luck and hope they can find better ways to work with the existing maintainers.

These two popped up in my brain right away.

https://www.popularfront.co/podcast

https://knowledgefight.com/

That the left lane is the fast lane in traffic. Nope. It’s for the people who want to go fast, but are nuts to butts in the mountain curves, so it ends up as a constant stop and go wave. I’ll chug along in the 80% less busy right lane and sneak in when the “fast” drivers hit the brakes in the next curve so I can pass the actual slow cars.

I’d like to suggest that you take a different approach, though it looks like there is a workable suggestion already.

Consider using apt_preferences to pin your versions instead of scripting.

https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#apt_preferences_.28APT_pinning

Here’s a clip from one of my distrobox builds:

Package: python3.10
Pin: version 3.10.*
Pin-Priority: 999

You can skip the soda stream and use a cheap carbonator cap on standard plastic bottles and a ball lock connector on your gas line if you’re willing to shake the bottle manually.

I’ve taken this setup a couple levels up over the last 5 years.

First level: kegerator and switch out the bottle for a keg, bonus points for using a diffusion stone in the keg to speed the absorption of CO2.

Second level: plumb the water line and use a continuous carbonator lid on the keg. Your gas pressure will need to be 10-15 psi (.7-1 bar) lower than the water pressure. Even a small 2.5gal (9.5L) keg makes for nearly infinite cold fizzy water at reasonable consumption rates.

Happy to make a parts list if anyone is interested.

Enshitification has come for them too:

https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/jersey-mikes-to-partner-with-blackstone-to-accelerate-leading-franchisors-continued-growth/

Enjoy it while you can.

Hey, me too!

I envy your lack of this particular childhood trauma.

When you start proselytizing your feelings about it including through seemingly bad faith posts on the Internet that beg the question.

The power team. Apparently vast amounts of sweat, tearing phone books in half, bending steel rods and blowing up hot water bottles is godly and there were several alter calls.

Then I had to see them at Jr. High the next day to preach about how bad drugs are.

Here’s an article about a visit.