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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • i use…colors…

    the servers in my and my friends’ network are called Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Heracles, and hp_elitedesk (don’t ask about those last two

    I do come up with fancy names for my laptops though, usually some combination of the model of the laptop and the OS it’s running. Void Linux + Thinkpad = “voidpad” was pretty straightforward, but when my next machine was an Alienware running Arch I was a bit stuck. After a bit of thought I remembered that one episode of Star Trek with the Guardian of Forever and named it “guardianoffornow”







    • Accidentally did a partial upgrade of Arch Linux in which I upgraded libssl but not systemd (which depended on it) (which refused to start becuase one of its dependencies had been upgraded to an incompatible version) (which caused the kernel to panic immediately on bootup because the init process died) (writing init=bash on the kernel command line gave me a shell but not network access) (i had to boot off a liveusb, chroot into my /, and run pacman -Syu from there in order to fix it)
    • Use Ubuntu, at all, for anything, ever