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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

    I second this.

    Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

    So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homeland) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.




  • Consider PCLinuxOS: they’re an RPM-based mandriva (mandrake/conectiva) derivative with really great and wide compatibility in stacks without the ‘modules’ shitfest RH started after no one remembered what ‘alternatives’ was for.

    They don’t use systemd, but their installation is a bit shite as it’s a “live CD” installer – they pruned out the proper templatey install that mandriva has. But so far that’s the biggest issue. If they can get off networkManager we’ll be even better off, though.








  • They forced an update that won’t run on my phone.

    • can’t run the required version
    • old version just tries to update

    So I’m almost out anyway.

    I like their chai lattes. I can’t get the same taste anywhere else, and if I try to make it it’s a “we have mcdonalds at home” result.

    So about twice a year, now, I get a fucking c$6 latte as a treat. I miss 2019 with the many locations - one 80m away in my walkable block - and a really nice barista who made the effort to smile and chat directly. Now I have none of those things and this is like dia de los muertos.










  • BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.

    (Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)

    And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.