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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.

we were just having a feel about neckbeard the other day, jacob and i. sad how that went down. i also discovered the origin of jacob's handle.

i had a few problems with pgp and manifests being borked on pacman/yay before, i'd end up refreshing to pull them which was always the fuck.

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.

you're talking to a guy who has a machine full of malware running called dirtysouth and wetmarket

systemd is handy for me, but that's irrelevant to the neophyte what our personal preferences are, yes

Was yanking on beard while reading that.

you have a beard now? do the clippers and wd40 multi-purpose the dome and the mug?

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.

i'm talking about gentoo's emerge world or whatever it is (stopped using gentoo shortly after it came out) and nix's nixos-rebuild switch # post garbage collection and a cold store. that can take minutes ->? thus fidget spinning

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.

i thought i watched this. i may have been high on the spacerock. will rewatch!