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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Distrowatch ranking is just the distros that are more commonly searched on the site. The FAQ says “The page Hit Ranking represents hits per day by unique visitors”. It’s just an attempt to see what’s more popular among visitors.

    Yeah, maybe there is a feedback loop where people will click on the top one just to see why it is on top, and in doing so they give the clicks necessary to remain on the top.






  • Some decades ago when I was still an engineering student, my team had to present an electronic assignment. The damn circuit didn’t work, no matter what I did. So I decided to go ask the teacher for advice. I walked away a couple of meters, when my teammates told me that the circuit finally started working. As soon as I went back, it failed again. We soon determined that it failed only when I was near it. My teammates presented the assignment while I was at the other side of the lab. We passed the assignment, and sure enough, when I approached again to pick up my things, the damn circuit stopped working again.





  • I recommend that before using an AUR helper, you should familiarize yourself with the process by cloning, reading the files, compiling, and installing manually. Then after you think you are good you can install a helper. I use yay.

    Also, sometimes pacman itself gets updated and your AUR helper doesn’t work anymore. When that happens you have to update or recompile your helper manually. If you are not familiar with the process it can be difficult. I’m talking from experience, one day after an update my helper didn’t work and I didn’t remember how to do all the process manually, and I had to re read the wiki again.











  • In reddit there was a thread at AskReddit about terrible things that will happen soon but very few people knew about them. It was an anxiety-inducing thread that got thousands of upvotes. So I decided to create the opposite: a thread about GOOD things that will happen and most people are not aware of them. It reached hundreds of upvotes and comments in 1 hour before it was deleted by the mods because “it broke the rules”.