Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.

That’s funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix’s perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

There’s clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It’s like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they’ll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

Ideally we’ll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that’ll be nice.

They surrender their passport on arriving.

They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.

They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

They die.

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

– randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

Maybe this will help.

I LOVE “dissolved girl” but I’m not as Gaga about the rest of the band’s material. That sultry style cut with that music tempo is amazing.

It’s like Finger Eleven has their their one massive departure track ‘paranoid’ – all good, but very different.

I’ll be checking this in the hopes it’ll match a track and give me more sexy molasses for my brain.

I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.