Where does one go to work on science exploration that is immune from greedy assholes. I’d love to hear about this fantasy world you live in.

I just updated my OS and all my issues were from Hyprland working afterwards. I guess if the WM is going to be the issue every time, maybe I might try Sway or something rather than and an easier OS.

My issues with pacman are fighting with reflector, which I figured out, and forgetting where I got packages. Pacman and AUR are easy, but I can never remember if it’s a git clone or whatnot.

The fact that the bloat exists would be a dealbreaker if it has trackers or calls home.

I always thought CAE Linux was cool. Not sure if it’s still around though.

What do you do differently on a mutable distro?

Agreed. I do feel like it’s helping me troubleshoot better to deal with all that. Also, it’s helping me realize how to cleanly setup user installations in the right places.

I mean, if you’re on Fedora or CentOS, it’s basically Red Hat. Lots of such instances. Potato, po-tot-o.

Anyways, if a person uses Arch, is switching to Endeavor beneficial? Will it be more convenient or feel restrictive?

I’ve been in vanilla Arch for well over a year and have had a few challenges here and there. Really from Hyprland more than the OS. My mouse and touchpad are a nightmare and I just hotkey everything. Also there is a networking bug that took me 5 hours to get around recently. Saw lots of folks complaining about it, but I resolved it.

Which are you on now?

Any trackers or nonsense that comes with it? I’ve been vanilla Arch for a year and sometimes it’s a pain in the ass. I can never recall how I installed something. I still don’t know how to update my browser without just reinstalling.

I spent 5 hours fixing a networking bug on Saturday. Dumb people like me probably shouldn’t use Arch, but here I am.

Atlas is still running and took some folks to space last year, and Braun was imprisoned by Hitler at some point. Still a Nazi, but I have a feeling they didn’t quite see eye to eye. In any case, it was either kidnap the German rocket scientists, or let the Russians get to them first. That doesn’t mean NASA is Nazi or military. They could make rockets, we couldn’t, and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Impressed that someone knows that Atlas was derived from a missile. Most people don’t know that.

JPL is not a NASA center. It’s a non profit lab that supports government functions. Its not even civil service. It’s kind of like Aerospace Corporation, which is another example of a gov-affiliated non-profit that can support a variety of gov functions. You’re way off on this. Also, DARPA is DoD, not NASA.

JPL is owned by CalTec really. NASA does not own JPL. NASA wasn’t even stood up well until like 50s or 60s. It absorbed NACA, which might have led to this confusion. However, those people were working nuclear propulsion for space flight, like the NERVA rocket.

Science should be considered sacred. Say what you will about the US, but NASA is a good org. It’s just crippled by stupid greedy assholes that take all it’s money and go over budget right now.

JPL is not a NASA center. It’s a non-profit lab for government support. People at NASA like space flight and science. Killing people is not the spirit at any NASA center.

I thought ICBMs use silos. Rockets launching space payloads use launch pads, then they have space probes, experiments, observatories, novel imaging systems for gather knowledge about the cosmos. Rather than just solid rocket motors, they sometimes combine those with chemical propellants or just use chemical. Then maintain orbit with hypergols. The missions are much different, have much more rigorous and extensive command and data handling, way more complicated logistics, and way more mission flight algos / coding. Manned flights also have a lot more qualification, fault management, training, quality control and safety efforts.

NASA is science and space exploration. There is some involvement with military, but a lot of that is launch stuff, not weapons design nor DoD rockets.

An ICBM before NASA? Maybe the V2.

What does immutable mean? I’ve been using Linux for decades and never heard it until recently.

After how many years? They can fuck right off.

I’ve never thought of the probability that a Linux user is a fetizen. It’s probably fairly high. I’m close to Nashville and there is a LUG there, but it’s on Meetup, which I decided not to use due to tracker queries showing up in my domain blocker.