oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • You could try using Hashicorp’s Packer to generate images repeatably (usually more meant for cloud images though). Or NixOS (like others have mention), or Guix (like NixOS, but better in some ways, worse in others). You could make it an Ansible playbook, which would let you both make configured images, and just configure machines that already have an OS.

    I do something similar with archiso, fwiw, but that only works with Arch Linux.

    Would you want to change your distribution, or just keep Debian with some tools to automate?








  • It’s a bit of a false dichotomy, there’s a broad spectrum in both.

    A lot of the benefit of religion doesn’t come from the beliefs itself, but the community around them. You could just have a community built around other things, or even a religion that doesn’t mandate theism (UU’s and Quakers come to mind, they have fairly large atheist populations. There’s also less “serious” religions, like TST).




  • Unfortunately, that’s where they’ll do some “Hitler breathes air” reasoning as to why I also theoretically agree with him on something. “He encouraged rail travel!” or “Hitler liked airplanes”, and then I get dragged down into the weeds. And then, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”. Bringing up Hitler also usually makes people take arguments less seriously, like it’s been diluted down. We’ve all seen how weird was way more effective than fascist.

    Rowling dying would make this hypothetical a lot easier, but I’m not sure something like that is particularly likely.