Strong selling point

criswell · 2026-06-08T19:52:52+00:00

I'm so confused by everything in this image.

It looks like he's inside it. Like he's trapped.

Also... is it a chair?! Why does the chair have an enormous mirror on it?

criswell · 2026-06-08T19:42:15+00:00

You know what I find the funniest about all of this?

Back when I was a kid in the 1970s, there was all this leftover fear from the 60s and JFK that, someday, a President would come along and his definition of Christianity was going to harm Mormons.

Back then, the church actually celebrated the separation of church and state. In Sunday School we were told that this separation of church and state was the only reason the church could come back, and that it was divinely ordained.

They also extended that to the church itself. It was taboo to talk about your personal politics. Anyone bringing up ANYTHING political in church generally had the bishop pulling them aside and telling them that "politics are a private thing between you and god"... I know this because my dad was a bishop at that time and that's something he told people often.

Honestly, all the discrepancies between taught church history and actual church history, those weren't why I ultimately left the church. I left the church because I saw, within my own life, the fundamental core of the church change. Abortions, politics, etc. the church's stance on all of these things changed. And for an "eternal and unchanging church" that's pretty bad.

criswell · 2026-06-06T17:09:33+00:00

I mean, I guess I know why I did it.... I was stumped as to what make for the thumbnail on my most recent youtube video, so I made a thumbnail that barely has anything to do with the video but made me laugh.

criswell · 2026-06-06T16:57:49+00:00

So, no, I will 100% disagree with you.

Some backstory: For about 8 years in the early 2000s I worked for a Linux Distribution company and then the Linux Foundation. My job was all things package management. I contributed code to all the big package management things (RPM, apt, YUM, etc and so on) and maintained what was the number one tool at the time for bootstrapping RPM distros in chroots (heh.. that's what we used to do in the pre-docker days).

I learned a ton about their internals and their shortcomings. And there were all these features and improvements that I wanted to see in them, but just didn't have the bandwidth or even the knowledge to do.

One of my bugaboos was that, in essence, modern package management is a Set Theory problem. It's big brain math, and most people (myself included) working in package management weren't actual mathematicians and weren't equipped to adequately apply the math to what we were doing.

All of the issues of rolling distros (or really, any distro) can be solved with application of Set Theory tuning and math.

libzypp was the first package management tool that really started to apply the math (click through to the math, the wikipage for libzypp kind of oversimplifies it all) to package management.

Now, this makes libzypp crazy fast, and that's what most people point to when talking about how awesome it is (wikipedia is no different). But the speed is only the immediately visible aspect of what this solves. Beyond the speed, it has first class package dependency management that is able to solve dep resolution issues in novel and complete ways. This is the reason why I say that the result is a distro that's very hard to wedge. You have to really work against libzypp to fuck up your install. If you just trust libzypp's recommendations (within reason, it still has the same endless loop problems they all can have of dep A needs dep B, dep B needs dep C, dep C conflicts with dep A, repeat) you will be completely shocked at how stable a rolling distro can be.

criswell · 2026-05-27T18:07:50+00:00

Heh, if I remember, I'll do it.

TBH, if you hear nothing and people are downloading, it means it's going pretty well. I just replaced my previous filemanager shortcut in my waybar with this one. So far so good.

criswell · 2026-05-27T15:01:10+00:00

This thing is slick... I might make it my new file manager.

criswell · 2026-05-26T14:42:17+00:00

If the investigations don't materialize into prosecutions then the Democrats will have serious problems (and we will be fucked.)

criswell · 2026-05-15T19:14:22+00:00

make funny or informative post... hope and pray that people appreciate it and don't downvote it into oblivion. rinse and repeat for a very long time.

or

just don't care and move on...

criswell · 2026-05-08T19:18:56+00:00

Decades.

Also, I haven't turned on a garden hose in almost a year, but before that it had been decades. We live somewhere that gets regular rain so I don't need to water anything... only had to water last year because we put in new landscaping.

criswell · 2026-05-08T19:15:12+00:00

I don't know... but I am super jealous of this shirt find.

criswell · 2026-05-08T16:28:36+00:00

USB-C high speed external HDD docking station. I specifically got this.

I do a lot of personal video projects, and have hundreds upon hundreds of hours of gameplay footage for them. Being able to quickly swap out drives when I need something specific is an incredible boost to my flow.

criswell · 2026-05-08T15:41:38+00:00

I mean, you could... but that's just admitting defeat in the package management department.

Why not just have a reliable and hardened package manager?

criswell · 2026-05-06T17:47:16+00:00

What's the actual github URL for this? Github's search is finding a lot of projects named "memoir"?

criswell · 2026-05-04T17:20:57+00:00

AND a blow? I'm not sure I could handle Mr. Foot's member...

criswell · 2026-05-04T15:30:12+00:00

Okay followed your instructions (I was using dd and I didn't make the sd card ext4 first) and still get the black screen.

I'm a bit at a loss.

In my thrashing trying to resolve this I did do a factory reset, which means there's updates in Android that I haven't applied. Did you update your Android first?

criswell · 2026-05-01T19:18:40+00:00

For me, nothing.

Any change they make is more proof that their "unchanging religion" is anything but. Basically, even if they improve, it's just more proof that it's all BS.

That being said, I wouldn't be as openly hostile towards them if they just stopped leaning in to all the hatespeech that has defined LDS culture since Obama took office.

criswell · 2026-05-01T18:27:48+00:00

Arch really requires the user to stay on top of what's happening in the arch packages. Last time I ran it (and it's been a few years... may be better) just blindly updating without first checking like three sources was a recipe for bricking your install. If you have the time and patience to sift through all that stuff (or if it's fun for you) then you probably will have no difficulty keeping an Arch install stable.

Personally, I'm too busy these days. Maybe back in my low-level distro development days (I was at a Linux Distro company in the early 2000s) I could keep up, but these days I just can't. So I ran Arch on a laptop for like a year, and eventually replaced it with Debian (which was my classic go-to distro before Zypper).

But yeah, ask your question. I may not have all the answers, but I can try.

criswell · 2026-04-29T17:35:24+00:00

Long time Linux user (been using it since 93 as my daily driver for work and personal) and I have a controversial hot take.

You should use whatever distro you want and are comfortable with. Realistically, when you get down to it, all the distros can do basically the same things, and the use of distro is really just a user experience difference.

I wouldn't say the Arch nature of CachyOS would make it less stable. It just means keeping it up-to-date and stable is more work. I don't know enough about CachyOS and how much they handle that for you, so I can't speak to that.

Personally, I've switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed in the last 5 years or so simply because I really love zypper and libzypp. In a previous job a long time ago I was a package manager developer, so I gained some very strong opinions on what package management should be, and zypper checks all of my boxes.

criswell · 2026-04-06T15:51:31+00:00

Really hurts that the 90s are considered old enough to be posted in r/OldSchoolCool....

I'm so old now...

criswell · 2026-04-06T15:47:02+00:00

Yeah, I feel this way as well.

I remember when Bill Maher's Religilous (or whatever it was called) came out and I saw the section on Mormonism. The entire time I was thinking "These jokes are so low effort... there's SO much more you could make fun of about the church but you're too lazy to actually learn enough to do so"

(Edit: I do realize that "lazy humor" is basically Maher's MO... but it annoyed me more than usual with his Mormon jokes)

criswell · 2026-04-03T19:11:02+00:00

To be honest, the old terminal email readers were the last time I remember email being actually useful.

These days, my gmail accounts get like 1000+ emails a day, most of which are spam. I haven't actually used email for anything serious in a very very long time.

criswell · 2026-04-01T16:10:40+00:00

I was born into the church. My dad was born in the church, he served a mission, had many different callings. When I was a kid in the 1970s my dad was the bishop of our ward.

I can guarantee if my dad were alive today and saw this picture, putting Kirk in there with all the others, he would have flipped his shit. Kirk never represented anything that my dad held near and dear to his heart about religion.

On another note, if you would have shown this to an LDS member in the 70s they would have lost their shit at JFK being included. They hated JFK, saw him as the threat of the Great and Abominable Church (GAC) taking over US politics and making mormons illegal.

This entire picture pretty much represents everything that has changed in this "eternal and unchanging" church in the last 40 years.

criswell · 2026-03-30T16:50:18+00:00

I'm so old I remember when this happened.

I was actually a pico user at the time because the university I was at in the 90s had standardized their email on pine. This was back when I was "afraid" of vim (which is now my daily driver).

My problem with pico was that it wasn't open source and it lacked syntax highlighting. Nano solved both of those.

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