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Cake day: January 28th, 2025

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  • I have been donating for many years. Small amounts surely, but it’s the least that you can do for such a project like Gentoo.

    It might be niche and pretty peculiar, but it’s unique and probably the truly most open Linux out there. And also, pretty important, zero drama.

    Also one of the few alternatives that let you freely choose if you want/need to use systemd network manager Wayland or whatever tech stack you prefer. Without holy wars, stupid preconception or fussiness.





  • Things usually break on updates unless your disk fills up or worse some hardware fails…

    So it’s pretty easy to fix: never upgrade automatically.

    I always upgrade manually and check immediately what I have upgraded. Works fine so far.

    And I was only partially joking… Yeah if a service stays broken for a long time, just uninstall it, it was useless.