@threat @BiggusDiccus @laurel

> pacman/yay usually doesn't hose itself,

I had this problem every time; if I was the only one, nobody would have made a static pacman available in AUR. I chronicled this back when neckbeard.xyz still existed, here's the relevant part, I don't remember where the post is.

> i like systemd.

I don't and I think it's horrifying and none of the CVEs surprised me (including its central involvement in the xz bug recently), but that's not going to matter to someone that is new to Linux.

> rebuilding your system constantly listening to fans spin is much healthier than chewing your fingers and pulling your hair out.

Was yanking on beard while reading that.

Anyway, people make much of time spent compiling. Even on little ARM and RISC-V devices, it's hardly a factor. That single-core one I have in the DevTerm, it hardly takes any time at all to compile anything.

> wait what? i need to see this. not that i don't believe you. but because it's ken. ken is my bromance.

The SCALE 20 keynote was Ken giving a talk called about what he calls his "70-year project". Fun tour of music archiving and strange musical hacks. He mentions this part near the end.
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