There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • France, but more specifically Alsace and Corsica.
    In Alsace, when I tried out my French, people answered in German.
    When I addressed people in German, they replied in French.
    In Corsica, my friends and I were literally run out of town and pelted with eggs and rocks for reasons unclear to me.

    Honorable mention goes to Southern England, where a car coming the other way stopped and the driver mentioned for us to also stop and roll down the window.
    My dad stopped next to him and opened the window.
    The other driver punched my dad in the face and drove off.





  • What makes an Arch system an Arch system is the repos, the package manager and the fact that you installed it yourself.
    Anyone giving you support will expect you to be able to answer a couple of questions about your system based on the fact you yourself configured it.
    With EndeavourOS, even if you have the exact same repos, it still wouldn’t be an Arch system.
    And now get off my lawn!




  • I eventually gave up trying to make myself exercise every day.
    But I am fortunate enough that I could chose to live within cycling distance of my work.
    Now I bike to work every day, which is technically transportation, not exercise, so I don’t mind it.
    This summer I’m going to move into an apartment 11 miles from work. I’m really looking forward to it.





  • I tried Silverblue.
    And I wanted to run it without layering, cause everyone tells you to avoid it, since it kinda defeats the purpose of an atomic distro in the first place.

    First of all, it was buggy. As an example, automatic updates didn’t work, I had to click the update button and reboot twice for it to actually apply, even though it was activated in the settings.
    None of the docs helped (actually, there wasn’t any in-depth documentation at all). And no one had a solution besides “It should actually just work”.
    That’s the main advantage (the devs test with the exact same system you run) gone right from the start.

    Then Firefox is part of the base image, but it’s Fedora’s version, which doesn’t come with all codecs.
    If you install Firefox from Flathub, you now have 2 Firefox’s installed, with identical icons in the GUI. So you need to hide one by deleting its desktop file. Except you can’t. So you have to copy it into your home directory and edit it with a text editor to hide the icon.
    Then I went through all the installed programs to replace the Fedora version with the Flathub version, cause what’s the point of Flatpak if I’m using derivative versions? I want what the app’s dev made.

    Then it was missing command line tools I’m used to. Installing them in a container didn’t work well cause they need access to the entire system.

    Finally, I realized even Gnome Tweaks wasn’t part of the installation, and it isn’t available as Flatpak.
    That’s the point where I tipped my hat and went back to Debian. Which isn’t atomic, but never gave me any issues in the first place.

    Maybe it’s better now, I was on the previous version. Or maybe the Ublue flavours are better. But I don’t see any reason to start distro-hopping again after that first experience.


  • What I did was [add Flathub, don’t remember if it’s already done by default, and] go through all installed apps in the software center once, check if the Flathub version was made by the app’s devs directly, and if so, switch the source from Fedora to Flathub. I only kept the Fedora version if the Flatpak was made by an independent third party.

    I’m not sure if Silverblue is even the right distro for me if I care about such things this much, though.