Hit install and never stop
I’ll tell you how I distrohop
There’s no flavor I’d say no to
‘cept that faschy one (you know who)
got a hundred boxes runnin’
and a vendor ain’t locked one in
Drop a new one and I’m on it
jumping ships like the bubonic
keeping ancient silicon churning
endless new OS smell burning
I’ll be jumping 'til I drop
to the beat of the endless distrohop

The following is my guess, I don’t know what the Debian project’s selection criteria for security advisories are.

Taking the first one as an example, CVE-2024-52560 is a bug that affects version 5.15 of the Linux Kernel. The oldest version of Debian that’s still in general LTS is Debian 11 which shipped with Linux 5.10. So they are still supporting releases that may be running the affected kernel and can’t upgrade the kernel for some reason, but would still benefit from some downstream patches that mitigate the exposure of the kernel bug.

If it makes you feel any better, it’s not like poor Americans are doing much better because of the lower sticker price. Federal minimum wage is (still…) $7.25/hr, less for some tipped jobs, and a lot of people with those jobs have a significant commute. It’s the same system where the working class is squeezed to the breaking point in the service of shareholder value, just with slightly different minimums for different things.

Between this and the blackouts, I’m beginning to suspect that Texas’ energy policy might not be geared toward the best interests of its residents. Concerning if true.

Or one might say “the catastrophic war in the middle east, the one waged specifically to drive down global supply to make the pillaging of Venezuela even more profitable, shows no sign of stopping any time soon so if oil companies hold on to their current inventory they might be able to profit from it even more in a few weeks / months as the crisis deepens”.

Texas is running out of diesel? That Texas?

Yikes.

Wow, that textbook looks great. Thanks for dropping some knowledge! ❤️

The news that American conservatives see is not the same as the news that everyone else sees. Part of the trick of a media bubble is lying so comprehensively that sources from outside the bubble sound genuinely out of touch with reality, a belief that is consistently and purposefully reinforced by sources inside the bubble. A lot of conservatives in the bubble, especially those that work two or three jobs, don’t really have time to fact check everything they see on the news, hear on the AM radio, read on twitter, etc. Some of them (a depressingly high number of them) did genuinely want awful things to happen to others, some of them didn’t, but they all were certainly lied to and manipulated.

Be more culturally dominant bro 👈🦅👉

I hope that comes off as the joke it was intended to be. In seriousness, I wish the internet were more representative too. It kinda sucks how overrepresented America is on the internet, especially the Anglophone internet. There are rather a lot of us, and I get why it’s annoying.

Yet another excellent reason to be working toward universal internet access.

ohh gotcha

Are you just… taking pictures of the insides of random people’s homes?

Fuckin around :)

Finding out :(

Important files go to repos / backup disks. Workstations are sinners in the hands of an angry god.

I don’t think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.

I started playing around with RedHat Cockpit as a potential podman-based replacement to my disorganized docker server. Only got a jellyfin instance running on at the moment, sharing the same network disk as my “production” jellyfin server.

So far, I am not impressed. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to preserve settings when I want to update the image, which is one of the main reasons I want to migrate. I’d like to have a weekly cron job that checks for new latest images, and updates them automatically, ideally without me having to intervene, but that doesn’t seem like something cockpit can do. If I want to update a container image through the GUI, it seems like I have to recreate it from scratch.

For reasons unknown even to myself, I hoard my old hardware and run it till it won’t run anymore. All of my servers are my own old machines, corporate castoffs, and a few that were literally pulled out of a dumpster, so I have a lot of test subjects. I like to experiment with distros and will probably never stop. I like seeing all the cool stuff people make. And driver support has gotten good enough that it’s not that painful to switch nowadays. I run through the installer and boot up, and everything more or less works. It’s a good time to be a distrohopper.

For my main rig and “important” servers I generally stick with debian; if I need to fix something I don’t want to be learning the guts of a new OS while I’m trying to figure out something else. Everything else is frolics.

Archwiki is an invaluable resource even when I’m not working in arch based systems. I think it’s a testament to the community that the ArchWiki has been maintained at the level it has (which is quite high) for as long as it has (a long while).

It’s tough for a distro to have both a strong newbie community and a strong old-timers community at the same time. Well done Arch community!

I too understand it. I have spent a big part of my life feeling the same way, after I spent the first big part of my life being immersed in the cult and parroting a lot of the same abusive, authoritarian ideas.

After I got over the collectivized hatred, which included no small amount of self-hatred, I started to get more specific and practical about dismantling the systems that ensnare people in the house of mirrors of learned hatred and distrust. One of the specific practices I find helpful is finding cogs that want to come loose, and helping them come out completely. Other helpful people did that for me, and I try to pay it forward. I think this group is doing something similar.

I also think that grouping everyone who’s ever been a part of MAGA into the same “categorically irredeemable” group is inaccurate and counterproductive, and it forces people who want to leave to stay in, because they don’t see where else they can go. Cults are fragile, and public ones, like MAGA, cultivate that outside pressure by being heinous on purpose, and on behalf of the group, because it creates a societal debt that its victims feel they can never repay. Once someone becomes convinced that it’s too socially expensive to “come clean”, so to speak, they are trapped. The only way to get them out is to show them that they have somewhere, anywhere, else to go.

That’s right, idiots, stay in your cult. Once you get duped you become branded for life as a stupid cultist, so you may as well stay and fester in the only culture that will ever accept you. Get comfortable licking that boot, because you need community to live and we will never allow you to join ours, so don’t even think about it as an option.

…sarcasm, obviously. I hope.