i am posting from my proper-pooter's #kdelinux boot atm [still love my #archlinux boot ofc, but currently captivated by #ProjectBanana]. this is a fascinating internal discussion wrt possible rebasing of the project away from ​​ . fwiw i have 🤞🤞🤞 they will not pick ​​ ... the irony to me would be extreme given it was only recently i made a personal policy decision to abandon pp's hitherto #kinoite for the present ​​ ​​

https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/459

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​​ ​​ #KDELinux | ​​ ​​ ​​ #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
​​ #SparkyLinux | ​​ #Kalpa | ​​ #Kinoite
​​ #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery

woot 💃🥳🎉

tower's /dev/sdc now, since this morning... pic.

last year i initially plonked Kalpa on this SSD, then replaced it with KDELinux, then Kinoite. i recently made a moral decision to remove ​​ from all my pooters, coz merkan [fuck trump!], & also apparently embracing the scourge of gen-ai, ugh.

/dev/sda, tower's original 2015 SSD, still has my 6.5 y/o ArchLinux on it, but for the past six or twelve months the bugger has been exasperating me with a spate of random system freezes that even defeat #REISUB, & so far has also defeated all my troubleshooting efforts. i'm frankly totes over it, & am now seriously considering possibly replacing it.

/dev/sdb is potentially gonna get another [or a replacement?] Arch, &/or SparkyTesting.

sadly though, for some of the now spare partitions across these three SSDs, i've been making numerous attempts over the last several days & nights to install various penguins that keep failing at the final stages of their installations, which is quite ... disappointing 🥺

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS
​​ #Kinoite | ​​ ​​ #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma
​​ #SparkyLinux | ​​ #Kalpa | ​​ ​​ #KDELinux
​​ #FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #Sidebery

Truly terrible time Towerly-talking, last 24 hrs

- failed final attempt to install a certain ​​ debian-testing spin that shall nevermore be named, & whose ISOs have now been purged with hatey vengeance, not only failed its billionth installation attempt [all prior attempts with manual-partitioning, into /sda2, but this time using auto-partitioning, into /sdc, ie, i gave it the entire bloody SSD, replacing hitherto ​​ #kinoite there], but this time also fscked my beautifully purring lovely new Arch2, which ffs lives on a different fooken SSD jfc [in /sdb4, with its efi bootloader in /sdb3]!

- desperately researching how to fix grub on an encrypted Arch installation, my fav browser went on strike, choosing to begin displaying all tabs as blank pages... in a classic demonstration of the good ol' "i have an urgent meeting to attend but just need to make these important photocopies for it first" syndrome.

- finally landing on what seemed to be the appropriate procedure & commands, i made my dozenth attempt to fix Arch2's buggered grub, only to eventually be told by arch-chroot that it can't find a canonical path to /boot/efi, having already told me that my initial attempts to use either of /efi or /boot "don't seem to be EFI thingies". Obvs i still have to revisit & solve this, otherwise... i'll have to nuke this really lovely Arch2, which i had fussed & finessed for a coupla days getting it Just So, & reinstall it, then re-tweak it, despite afaict the root partition itself still being good, & only the preceding EFI partition stuffed up [this is supposition atm]

- icing on cake that sent this correspondent totes over the edge, late last night, whilst engaged in these battles... Tower's original 6.5 y/o Arch1 [being atm the sole surviving penguin, in /sda4], after pretending for a coupla months to be fixed, fooken FROZE on me again [have been battling this curse for 6mths+, it having run sweetly for the prior 6 yrs].

I stormed off to bed, furious, & utterly determined that once i get at least one of my other penguins playing again, i was then gonna nuke the arse outta this recalcitrant Arch1 wotsit. This morn though, with the sun shining, & some time to reflect, i've decided to take the high road & be all Zen about it, in my local version of Downunder Dropbear, or How i Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Ice.

🙄🤦‍♀️🥺🤞

#linux #linuxwomen #dropbearpooterising #arch #archlinux #archchroot

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in https://blahaj.zone/notes/am2tp4mwf6l200wt i wrote:

i have a 2010 dell xps-15 L501X i5 ssd lappy currently running ​​ #kinoite . it's lovely to use. however, without faulting kinoite itself, i am becoming increasingly unhappy about running #fedora itself, coz

- merkan, which in the disgusting epoch of orangeoaf, maga, & their repulsive rwnj hatreds, day by day offends my sense of morality by vicariously making me feel complicit in their outrages by using ANY merkan product or service [all others of which i have already rejected]
- IBM & redhat general shitfuckery
- fedora's recent active drift into the claws of #GenAI, which i deplore with a visceral passion 🤬

so, i am wondering about doing yet another installation on lappy, to replace kinoite [i have run many many different ​​ on it since first removing its win7 in 2014], but this time with a definitely not merkan system. ofc there's various other penguins i could use... & tonight i decided to go for it, ergo, as i write this [on Tower], Lappy's nice-to-use but sadly-merkan ​​ kinoite is being wiped & replaced by ​​ #SparkyLinux Semi-Rolling Testing, ​​ ​​ .

Per that linked post above, i had briefly contemplated #BSD for Lappy, but for now i've decided not, as i fear i'm still not grown up enough for the responsibility! 🤪

🎵i'm gonna wash that merka right outta my hair 🎵

#dropbearpooterising #linuxwomen

questions for #BSD fans pls.

i have a 2010 dell xps-15 L501X i5 ssd lappy currently running ​​ #kinoite . it's lovely to use. however, without faulting kinoite itself, i am becoming increasingly unhappy about running #fedora itself, coz
- merkan, which in the disgusting epoch of orangeoaf, maga, & their repulsive rwnj hatreds, day by day offends my sense of morality by vicariously making me feel complicit in their outrages by using ANY merkan product or service [all others of which i have already rejected]
- IBM & redhat general shitfuckery
- fedora's recent active drift into the claws of #GenAI, which i deplore with a visceral passion 🤬

so, i am wondering about doing yet another installation on lappy, to replace kinoite [i have run many many different ​​ on it since first removing its win7 in 2014], but this time with a definitely not merkan system. ofc there's various other penguins i could use, but noting that many fedizens post about #BSD, i've begun to wonder about it as a possibility. so, to the questions:

- are any / all / some of the current BSDs [i only know of Free, Open, & Ghost off the top of my head] merkan-based? given the origins of the name itself, i expect it's a stupid question, but thought it best to ask
- would asking for a BSD with ​​ ​​ #wayland be a ridiculous hope? [& btw as plasma is a rolling DE, i'm only interested in using current versions, not getting stuck on obsolete versions like Kubuntu users inflict on themselves]
- do any of the BSDs have "LiveISOs" akin to what's commonplace for Linux distros, so i could actually try booting lappy from one & testing all my HW?
- would a mandatory desire to use my paid #VPN app, which has no BSD pkg https://windscribe.net/download, automatically end this little thought-experiment [ie, my attitude is... no VPN app, no BSD for me] ?

many other questions, but i fear that those four prolly already would make my use-case incompatible

thank you! 🤞