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Maybe not exactly what you are asking for but try out yunohost. Since you have some spares, one can be self-hosting stuff

That was quick. I guess he won’t get charges for obstructing the law, then. AFAIK he’s the first mammal to lay a golden egg

Rolling release means that you won’t be forced to reinstall the whole system when the number after the name flips. And you won’t be locked out of some newer version of a package because the distro you use decided they’re cutting off the updates to “old” versions

If you want something immediate to daily drive and want more of a custom system as opposed to Arch then maybe give NixOS a shot

IMO the main customization part of Gentoo is that you can compile the world without the libs you don’t want to have. With NixOS (AFAIK) being also package-based, how can it offer more custom system than Arch?

Yeah, with time the compile times only get longer and longer

I loved how tailored to me was Gentoo. But as time passes and your hardware gets older, the compilation times get longer and longer. That’s what made me to do the hop

I’ve heard some time ago that now Gentoo is offering more pre-compiled packages. But I don’t know the extent. libstd, gcc and libreoffice were the worst offenders in my time

If you’re going to be compiling your own kernel (or now Gentoo ships with pre-compiled ones too?) my word of advice would be “don’t forget to compile in the filesystem support”

On second thought, try to find out which driver your new network card needs and install it before the switch. As long as you have command line and network (USB drivers for keyboard should not be an issue) you can install whatever is missing

Btw, there are two command line browsers that I know of: links and lynx. Copying commands from phone gets tedious fast

In general it shouldn’t. You might need to install some new drivers for the new chipset but in itself the system should work. Especially since nowadays kernels are shipped with a lot of stuff and I’m guessing you’re not compiling yours
Regarding messing up with live environment, I don’t remember if GPT is enough for UEFI to load your bootloader or maybe you might need to install something in there

I can see how that could be a hassle on nixos and if you don’t have more scripts

FWIW, I use chezmoi for stuff like this, I guess it might be easier to make it work with nixos by setting up chezmoi in HOME, instead of defining scripts directly

At this point, I would make it a bash script and put it in ~/bin. If one has to get back to it 5 years later, it will be painful to debug

For music recorded via microphone, Ardour+Hydrogen

For music created more synthetically LMMS

Jack is the way to go. Save yourself the frustration and use it from the start

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

Shall I make you some popcorn too?

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1. it partitions same things into separate locations One library is here, another one is here, some older version there, which one should this binary load? Where should I point the -L to? Of course, compiling things completely from scratch is unmaintainable anyway (that’s why PKGBUILD was another big point - it’s easy to create your own AUR packages that will get pacman-level maintainability), but sometimes you want to check if that new patch solves your issue
2. if distro does not care, the packages will have different prefixes I can see some use of /opt. But it should be my decision if I want something installed in /opt/bin or /usr/local/bin. In distros that did not enforce where things are put in, it was all over the place. But to be fair, to me, even bin/sbin separation is bs

Unlike Linux, these BSDs have a clear separation of OS from these packages. OS files and data are stored in places like /bin and /etc, while user installed packages get installed to /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.

What do you consider the OS? Is firefox a part of OS? Is office part of OS?

On FreeBSD, the freebsd-update command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg command is used for managing user packages. On OpenBSD, the syspatch command is used for upgrading the OS and the pkg_* commands are used for managing user packages.

Personally, the ditching of /usr/local mess was one of the selling points of Arch for me, but in a way you could achieve this in Arch. Create a secondary pacman config with RootDir set to /usr/local and alias pacman --config /etc/pacman_local.conf as pkg_pacman

I think it’s a messy idea, you will be getting conflicts on files already present in the system. You’ve been warned ;)

With that out of the way, I guess just download the image and start from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Installation

Then how would they sell access in a deniable way?

Yes, but that was in the OP. Maybe normal disk is not feasible for some reason

no graphics card whatsoever

computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.

Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.

Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

Most of the answers seem to focus on the main problem, but your question got me thinking.
Since you are not getting shutdowns with lower qualities, maybe you could use RAM to play those videos.
Set up tmpfs. Before you start all the other things, use ffmpeg to recode the video to something without any compression, maybe tell it to not work too fast (like work on one frame at a time), and put the thing on that tmpfs. Maybe then playing this new file would be less demanding. The key would be to not force it to provide 30fps of encoded video

Although… Are you sure all this RAM is fine? Maybe it shuts down on more demanding videos because with those the RAM usage raises to the faulty part?

$ sh
sh-5.2$ echo dfgsdfgfd |& tee /tmp/t
dfgsdfgfd
sh-5.2$ cat /tmp/t
dfgsdfgfd
sh-5.2$

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