Korthrun

The amount of software available in the package manager, without adding external repositories, exceeds that I’ve seen in any other distro I’ve used. Even with epel, I feel like others fall short.

The ability to modify the build time flags of software while still using the package manager is also huge. I hate when ffmpeg doesn’t have speex support because some upstream dev figured it was a corner use case.

It’s me, I’m the target demographic. I’m the one asshole who wants to build ffmpeg with speex support, clamav without milter support and rxvt WITHOUT blink support.

There are some pretty great userspace helpers too. Things to ensure your kernel is always built with the same options. Things to upgrade all your python or perl modules to the new interpreter version for you. Tools for rebuilding all the things based on a reverse dependency search.

Slotted installs are handled in a sane, approachable, and manageable way.

The filesystem layout is standards compliant.

I recall someone on /r/Gentoo saying something like “Gentoo is linux crack, when you get a handle on it, nothing compares.”

When I boot my laptop into fedora/arch/mint/etc (or really any non-bsd based distro), I feel like I’m using someone else’s laptop. There are a bunch of git repos under /usr/src for the software I wanted that wasn’t in the package manager. I need to manage their updates separately. Someone else has decided which options are in this very short list of GUIs. I’m using whatever cron daemon they chose, not the one I want. Why is there a flat text log file under /var/db/? Why won’t you just let me exist without any swap mounted? $PATH is just a fucking mess.

I used to use prgmr, I still do but they call themselves TornadoVPS now. Haven’t had any issues.

Nightwish

Candlemass

Crypta (They’ll be considered classics when enough time has passed IMO).

Pantera

Exodus

Megadeth

Fear Factory

Napalm Death

Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.

For a while now I’ve been using either haproxy or nginx depending on my needs. I’ve hit instances with both where the functionality I want is in the paid version.

Wild, I get syntax error: unexpected end of file when I run your code, so just that alone is very confusing.

When you’re inside foo here, STDIN is the pipe. Once I fix this syntax error that you somehow dodge and add some extra debugging, you can get a better picture of what’s going on here:

foo() {
        read -r -p "delete $name (default is no) [y/n]?  " choice
        choice="${choice:-n}"
        echo "\$choice: $choice"
}

printf "%s\n" "foo" "bar" "baz" "eggs" "spam" | while read -r name; do
        printf "Got name '%s'\n" "$name"
        echo calling foo
        foo
done

Got name 'foo'
calling foo
$choice: bar
Got name 'baz'
calling foo
$choice: eggs
Got name 'spam'
calling foo
$choice: n

Looks super fun :D

I don’t watch a TON of these things, but I do enjoy them from time to time. The two bits I enjoy the most are vicarious rediscovery of something I enjoy, and getting a very different point of view on the same thing.

Generally when I watch these it’s stuff like “Classically trained musician listens to Megadeth for the first time”. I get reminded of some bits that I’ve grown accustomed to, and sometimes get a whole new perspective on something I’ve been enjoying for years.

I will say, I don’t get “Youtuber reacts to other youtubers reaction to some twitch streamer breakdancing” or “Gymrat listens to ABBA for the first time”.

The Ruin scream is solid for sure. My opinion is likely colored to some extent by nostalgia, but while the Ruin scream absolutely makes me want to get down, the Angel of Death scream makes me yearn for the pit. Just really hypes me up every time. I’ve never missed an Angel of Death pit at a Slayer show that I’ve attended.

I fell asleep during “A new hope” 3 times, and just stopped once out of boredom before I was finally able to make it through the whole movie. 100% feel you here. I respect it for what it is, and enjoy a lot of the stuff that has come after it, but man do I feel the original was just LIMP.

FWIW I’m using the downvote button as a “You didn’t explain”, “That’s a band not a movie”, “That’s a show not a movie”, “That’s a genre of animation, not a movie” button ;p I’m definitely clicking it far more often that I typically do =p

It’s wild how many people can write but not read.

Yes, they do fucking rule, and that opening scream is killer.

Infamous. Butcher.

Thanks!

I’m with you on not expecting to see change =/

As much as I want to enjoy posts like this one, I always ask myself this and it takes the joy out of it every time. It’s just a nice fantasy that reminds me of the “Nobody in this room know I …” meme.

It’s always “MAGAs are losing their minds over …”, but never any explanation or sourcing.

Toasty!

Broadly: How sad.

Musically: I caught the change and definitely thought it was unusual. It brought a mildly aggressive feel to the later section of the song.

If I’m remembering right it opens in Dm and then goes down to F#m after the first chorus. So pitch wise a shift downward, but maybe you’re talking counter clockwise on the circle of fifths or something?

Edit: when I first commented I either didn’t see the Strawberry Fields reference or it wasn’t there yet. We’re probably not talking about the same thing, but definitely give the acoustic version of Pool Shark a listen.

Your Strawberry Fields reference made me curious though and I found this interesting snippet https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/5fgser/the_famous_splice_edit_in_strawberry_fields/

I’ve never been good at theory so I could be way off, but I think Sublimes “Pool Shark” does what you’re asking about.

No, I would not.

Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.