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so are these… dinosaurs? What am I looking at?

Your control over the system is so great in Gentoo. While other distros may pull in a dependency you will never use – say like cups – gentoo allows you to remove the dependency by removing support for it at install/compile time.

I love how the portage packages are maintained, it is so easy to find which versions are available, select version, read about why a package is masked and having all the tools for overriding that decision by the package maintainers and install anyway. They inform you about important updates and migrations when you sync your package repository. It is also super easy to patch the code being installed.

I would not say portage is complicated. For most operations you just install a package, sync, and upgrade like you would in any distro. It tales time to do this, sure. What is complicated is, I would say, figuring out how to boot your machine. You want encrypted this or that, dropbear, systemd or openrc, want to manage your initramfs with dracut or make one yourself, distro-kernel or another flavour, and on and on. I also think that the wiki is not very detailed on a lot of what the different systems do and how they talk to each other.

Anyway, I love it. If I would start with Gentoo today, I would install a Gentoo Prefix

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix

There you can get used to the portage package manager withour messing up your system and without doing a reinstall.

Får får inte får. Får får lamm.

sheeps don’t get sheeps. Sheeps get lambs.

Får = sheep/to get

var tog vägen vägen? Ute på en åker och åker

where did the road go? Out in a field and driving

“Tog vägen” = literally “took the road”, meaning “where did it go”, sort of. And åker = driving and a farm field.

I got a t-shirt from the Swedish Society for People with Anxiety. It came with a print on the chest.

“print on the chest” would be “tryck för/på/över bröstet” having the double meaning “preassure over the chest”.

Then there are endless of jokes from Gothenburg which all do not translate.

Who is faster, Eminem or Taylor Swift? Eminem, he is a rapper

“rapper” in swedish is “rappare”, meaning also “faster”.

In stockholm a snake escaped the zoo and has not been found. The zoo is missing him a lot

The last bit in swedish would be “saknaden är enorm”, “saknad” being the emotion of missing someone, “enorm” being large/a lot/great. But also enorm=en-orm=a-snake.

My dog sort of does this when she has the runs. She needs to go out. She just sits and gives us that look. Not sure what it is, but by now we recognize it. if we see it! She does the same if we are asleep! We are just lucky to wake up in time.

I used xmpp with otr encryption… maybe also omemo, it rings a bell. This was some years ago. But it was barely usable. Otr refused to connect at times and only unecrypted worked, messages were encrypted with wrong keys or something and history became unreadable. It worked on the desktop, but then not on the phone, only with this and that client, but not those. It was a confusing mess and I had to stop using it. If it works today, thats great.

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/ses/2007-zagorsky.pdf

Seems to be it.

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In the top one you will never actually kill an infinite number of people, just approach it linearly. The bottom one will kill an infinite amount of people in finite time.

Edit: assuming constant speed of the train.

I don’t think a Gentoo Prefix is anything but an environment directly on the host, it’s not containerized in any way. For me its for a system where the package manager is a bit outdated or I need to patch it, then installing with portage by a Gentoo Prefix helps me do that.

Run a Gentoo Prefix maybe? You get portage and can install customized packages like one does, without risking the system.

emerge -ave @universe

In Sweden the youtube channel of the far-right party (second largest party in polls) have like 4ish years back said stuff like that they want to deport people to china (for some fucking reason) for writing political messages in washable crayons publically. Since then they have been invited to collaborate with the government, so, yeah.

you do love garbage cat poop, right?

This is unfortunatly our dog…

Took some pictures of my dog drinking from a faucet once. Only whites in the eyes, water disappearing into the mouth of a demon. Next picture, gentle lick on the faucet, of the cutest little fluffy puppy.

Some context not in the article

Some 280 girls aged between 15 and 17 were charged with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes last year

That “other violent crimes” appears to do some very heavy lifting. There are about 40 deaths a year in total in the criminal mileu. Unless I’m interpreting the data wrong

https://bra.se/download/18.63eed38e192716a4afccae/1742286318587/2024_6_Doldigt-vald-i-Sverige-sedan-1990.pdf

[Gangs] are even reported to have infiltrated Sweden’s welfare sector, local politics, legal and education systems, and juvenile detention care.

Yes, because liberals and conservatives sold everything. They sold it to friends, family, donors, who in turn sell it to gangs.

The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would allow police to wiretap children under the age of 15 in an attempt to curb the violence

Not only that, children will also now be going to prison in Sweden.

[…] on encrypted messaging sites.

Ah, yes. The head of the Swedish police said in an interview the other day that Signal have no other use than recruiting for assassinations. If you see someone using it, you should call the police.

– [x] I’m in this picture and don’t like it.

Really? Swedish government:

[G]rants may be paid in the amount of SEK 350,000 for those who have reached the age of 18 and SEK 25,000 for those who have not reached the age of 18, but not more than SEK 500,000 for spouses or cohabitants and not more than SEK 600,000 per family

https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/

So that is a litte less that 35,000 USD (after this proposed increase). This is liberal politics in Sweden.

Also to note, the first statement from the minister there in that link, Johan Forssell, his son is active club neonazi. He is still in the party and a Swedish minister. That, and how his party is collaborating with a full party of “ex” neonazis, is how far separated our governments are from nazis in Europe.

Twitch, at least did, have a IRC version of their chat. So you could stream the video with like mpv and have irssi to avoid the browser, and basically have the full experience

Spring bil snö penna ~ run car snow pen ~ run-kar sno-ppen ~ wanking the dick

Nice one!

Val: whale Val: choice Val: election

Smell: lukt Impact: smäll [sounds almost like ‘smell’] Speed: fart

The speed worsens the impact: the fart worsens the smäll

I ~ sounds like Swedish word for ‘ouchie’, Aj. Buy ~ almost sounds like Baj(s) = poop Pink ~ to “pinka” is to pee, “pink” may be just urine Sheet ~ almsot sounds like “skit” = shit (with an accent)

Ouchie poop piss shit = I buy pink sheet

Kiss = Puss Wee = kiss (+piss/pink)

Wanna kiss?