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I'd say, "inconclusive. it cuts off...", but, seems reasonable, at least plausible, given the faceplant.

... I might try that hence, should I return to something Arch based. :D

Facebook user's would get what that is in the OP?

Huh.

It must have changed from when I would still hang around facebook users.

Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious

Doesn't it normally do the opposite for most people?

feel way safer than before. Like, I started to regularly seek new updates via yay, it’s something you don’t hear from a windows boy.

Yep, eager to upgrade, when it's not stuffed down your throat when you don't want.

Could be telling us all something important about freedom... ;D

That sounds about typical for what I imagined.

Thanks for the reply,

right in the middle of my imagined bell curve of answers.

I had just been listening to some NDExperiencer/spiritualist or something just before posting that. And she was on about the level of perspective from which we do choose everything [from the timeless spirit realm "before" we were born]. :/ Hardly all that helpful from down here. Bit of a tractionless over-reach.

Yeah, that is (or was) part of the gentoo fun. :3 Lots of that kind of fun around the python versioning. Figuring out what emerge's output means is sometimes 90% of the challenge, and other times if feels like that, but then it turns out to be only 10% of the challenge. But as for python versioning specifically, that may have very recently had a big uptick in getting slipstreamed through with fewer bumps in the road for users to deal with. Fingers crossed in hope, ~ remains to be seen through many future versions yet.

And there are official binhosts now, so it generally only compiles what you've changed the useflags for. Gentoo package management's as snappy as other distros now. Though still as involved as ever for configuring the system how you want (albeit with few more ways to make it bother you a little less often now).

yay -Syu, it sure is.

Or was. I stopped using artix when the AUR troubles upticked.

Hrmm... that gets me pondering about cron'ing up a cascade of strata fetching (and whatever configuration copying required if any), such that there'd always be fallback... then, conceivably, could have "auto-updates and no problems ever", and not even need worry about having adequate detection of problems to know when safe to proceed, as it would all just work, with something that just works still present, as bedrock strata. ... May seem a mite heavy handed, and very wasteful for hd space though. ... And no guarantees all that complexity on the back end (to confer simplicity on the front end) will stay "just work"ing, and not need problems mended. [edit... oh, and almost seems inevitable that some mirror layout change would break fetches too... so I guess it's not so near to full proof.]

<insert the deadpan stare, from every anarcho socialist whatever whoever who had ever critiqued this uneconomic paradigm, that sternly says in its glare "told you so">

Because they did the decent thing and departed ...?

*shrug*

Mhmm. These puppets are just ordinary people.

• Ordinary.

• 1. not different or special or unexpected in any way; usual:

nah.

• Ordinance.

• An authoritative command or order.

• A custom or practice established by long usage.

• A Christian rite, especially the Eucharist.

meh, closer.

• Ordnance

• Materiel in military logistics, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment

• Artillery

• Artillery shells

• Aircraft ordnance, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft

That's what I hear when I hear ordinary these days.

Normalised cannon fodder.

"Guns don't kill people. People do." say some. Quibbling about whether it's the gun or the ammo aside, where are these people deploying this ordnance?

Sounds like something a middle-man interloper would say to insidiously manipulate you into obedience [to their tricking you] and out of questioning [what other dodgy stuff they're up to].

"Brahma has no grandchild" sprang to mind just before I click Post.