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  • It’s absolutely true. And that my outdated Arch system is likely still more fresh than Debian.

    That said yeah I would like something that can update itself whenever without breaking, certainly if it expects me to update frequently. And manual interventions (ideally used for things that actually have a choice/fix, not just what ends up being a pasted command or two) should be a warn-step/update-blocker (depending on situation).

    Though what the image is probably about (2025-12-20, nVidia 10-series turned legacy, legacy driver put onto AUR) is a bad situation in its own right particularly later when the AUR issues started happening. And it is really an update-or-don’t (or get an AMD card somehow) issue.

    Other distros likely do solve the issue of updating, though from what I can see aren’t as good with packaging (dependency handling, lacking optional dependencies) and package availability. Which can be worked around somewhat too, but still needs more trial/input.

    Annoyances are also multiplied for me by having non-fiber internet (also shared).


  • this year

    And one post earlier (2025-12-20) that the image likely could be about:

    NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support

    Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

    Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages [without manually changing to AUR packages] on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.










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    8 days ago

    I understand perfectly but it doesn’t make sense. It’s simple, non-intuitive math and I can see 2 answers and it probably is one of those. Hopefully that’s all I need to know, but I won’t find out right now.

    Or maybe it’s (the missile knows)… “the triangle knows where_it_is at all times. It knows this because it knows where_it_is-not. By subtracting where_it_is from where_it_is-not…”




  • I mean it probably does cover that, one concept is bridging (connections between different groups, someone you met by chance not because they’re your neighbor) and political polarization has actually increased due to our voting system.

    Similarly I’d bet a lot of people only called themselves christian because it really wasn’t a choice (upbringing, peer/family/institution pressure, cognitive dissonance), the sort of thing that makes a lot less sense in recent years where hypocrisy is on full display (be it politics, cover-ups, or megachurches).

    For race, I think the most homogeneous communities that exist probably are still more alone today. A lot of the community options were built around places or conditions that disappeared and never recovered, or clubs that may still exist but don’t get new members.







  • For me the legacy nVidia driver put on the AUR is a no-go. Even before that, non-fiber internet added friction to updating especially when I forgot about it for a while (or when manual intervention is needed).

    I installed Void Linux on an old machine, I think updating might be more forgiving but the packaging system isn’t quite as good* and for some things I’d have to rely on appimages (I don’t want redundancy from Flatpak etc).

    Tumbleweed/Slowroll might be a better answer if I didn’t hate Patterns.

    * after adding some applications, already had to manually install missing dependencies, optional dependencies is also not handled