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@justizin I've found snaps and Flatpak have made me very lazy, so I try to avoid them now, as much as I can.

@justizin The only non-standard thing I really like is sbopkg, provides a curses interface to the slackbuild repo with queuing and just enough automation to really speed complex packages up.

My autocorrect was obsessed with changing 'distro' to 'bistro' so there's probably still some in there I didn't catch

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Some people happen to like the way Slackware does things. These complaints come around every so often on LQ by people that I think in the nicest possible way are missing the point of it all.

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Bunch of bullshit

reddit.com/r/slackware/comment

The tool is not the work, use whatever works for you and enables you to carry out what you want it to.

@Mitsu Don't make me use the Crab Raccoon image again

Fancy a wee cuppa? 

@Louisa I for one welcome our new giant Louisa overlords

@nyquildotorg It was a gigantic album, made a lot of fans and the band's fortune. I long since grew out of any snobbery about it.

@nyquildotorg Nothing wrong with either. Later (post AJFA) albums tend to get a hard time from fans of the earlier material, but they're all worthy.

@HebrideanHecate Lawyers throwing out the rule of law for populist shite was also big in 30s Germany

@nyquildotorg It's all part of shifting tastes; I still enjoy a lot of my old metal faves, but few are anywhere near their peak.

@checkervest @senj@cyberspace.club Are they swaghetti_yolonaise_69 on Call of Duty?

Jim boosted

Today in 1921, 102 years ago: the universities of Oxford and Cambridge contested, for the hundredth time, their classic race of eight with helmsman in the Thames.

#OnThisDay

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