Howdy, all!
~bartender? Some good filter coffee with cream and sugar, ah, take a big mug, it needs to last a bit. Thanks! --- Ah, and one of your ethernet cables, please! No, wireless is kind of never working when I need it most. :-)
/me heads over to the table in the dark corner near the power outlet and the hidden ethernet jack. I fetch my small notebook and the key dongle from my backpack and set those up on the table.
~bartender serves my coffee and inquires: Why oh why?
Debian 12.8 is out! Hot off the press, so to speak. I found out just before coming in! :-) And now, I'm going to remote update all my stuff running Debian. Nah, I'm not expecting exciting puzzles along the way, but who knows ...
/me takes a sip of coffee, nods over to ~inquiry and the other patrons chatting away, and logs in.
login:
update: :)
An hour or so, and a refill later, and 8 systems are up to date! Success!
A long time ago, when cardboard boxes with Linux distributions in them were still a thing, I said "Debian unstable is more stable than the stuff in those boxes, in my humble opinion." Unstable has failed on me maybe 2 or 3 times in >20 years. And I could always fix it without reinstalling. Ok, ok, I'm being guilty of adding boring tech stuff to gemini. AGAIN!
Cheers!
debian was
my daily driver
for a looong time
recently i got on
the nixos train
but when
i got this new laptop
the nixos installer
didn't want to cooperate
which led me to
installing mx linux
great debian based distro
so basically back to deb
in a roundabout way
although
i still dig nix
so eventually
i'll be installing
the nix package on mx
it really is a great way
to manage and install packages
take a look if you haven't ;)
^¥^
Hello ~wolfinthewoods,
I did come across nix, I find the concept intriguing, however I ended up with >50000 additional files under /nix in no time (1 hour maybe :) and since I'm striving for small systems (really hard these days), that kind of didn't cut it for me.
A system without perl and python and php and ruby and nodejs ... can be installed. I succeeded with alpinelinux. But then, how useful is this for me as a daily driver? Hmmmm. I can do quite a bit. But perl comes back with my own scripting, python comes back in with borgbackup, and emacs needs a bit of space to accomodate my 2 dozen extra packages ... and then I'm back to a not so small system again. AGAIN! Ah, and I use Gimp, KiCAD, LaTex once in a lengthy while, but that takes quite a toll.
~bartender? You have some herbal tea to convince my brain that it is not really needed to do another round of "small"? Sigh. No? Hmmm. Maybe some hot chocolate with spices. It's this time of the year again. It's well past noon and the fog has not lifted ...
Cheers!
oof, never realized
that footprint
mostly
because i was using nixos
haven't gotten around
to installing it
on mx yet
that kind of gives me pause
before installing mx
i was toying around with
tiny core
which comes in at ~55mb i believe
couldn't figure out
how to make it usb bootable though
<inquiry nods back, returns to staring straight ahead>
Not that you hurt your neck! However, tell me, what's to see that direction?
Less. :-)
More specifically, bottles neatly arranged before a stenciled mirror. I occasionally see the reflection of someone passing hurriedly behind me, usually rolling eyes while pointing my direction, I imagine for benefit of others that I can't see. (Likely incorrect, but inner lack of trust shouts otherwise.)
I'm trying to pace Ketel One martinis (straight up), but my love of the brand, and the glorious green olives they use here mock moderation attempts.