Can we get the names of these people so we can have their drivers licenses taken away?

I would be pretty concerned about the safety of yourself and your family. You might want to contact police so they can keep you apprised of his movements and if he’s out on bail, or later when and if he’s out of prison.

He’s expressed some pretty concerning attitudes about you and your mother, and the remark about your wife is strange. I wouldn’t arrange any meeting with him that isn’t well supervised. And if he knows where you live and work, you might consider changing that and keeping the new locations quiet, even from your mother, as she doesn’t sound smart enough to keep it to herself. Get a PO box if you need her to send you anything.

My attitude has become to buy high-end tools because even if I don’t use them again, I got the best possible experience when I did to decide whether it was worth it, and chances are I can resell it (keeping the box and all accessories) for barely enough discount to have rented some piece of shit that I couldn’t choose to keep if I wanted to.

And bad tools make bad products. A tablesaw that can’t cut a straight line and starts to wobble after 10 uses doesn’t make you want to keep doing that. When I’ve replaced a bad tool with a good one, I like the feeling I get when it just works properly.

I’ve bought enough cheap-shit tools over the years to change my attitude entirely on this. I’ve gotten lucky sometimes, but usually you pay for what you get.

“YOLO” - more than 1 merge comment I’ve seen.

Dyson is overpriced trash.

Perfectly fine, as opposed to having breakfast and feeling nauseous for about 6 hours afterwards.

Redwing

deLonghi

it’s usually just replacing “often”.

And my axe!

“Oftentimes”

That doesn’t narrow it down.

It makes my eyes bleed.

MariaDB CLI about once in a blue moon when I have to clear some table that’s gotten borked.

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I thought you meant for a declarative OS like Nix. Which does not have a GUI configurator, nor does any comparable declarative OS. Isn’t that what we’ve been talking about this entire thread?

I think your “proper graphical configurator” is doing some heavy lifting there. Of course, there’s no such thing right now, so you’re dealing with the coding yourself in a pretty oddly designed syntactical language, and the terrible official documentation that is the current state of affairs to do it with.

Other than that, sure, a declaritive and atomic OS would be the way to go.

No end of interesting shit you can do in Nix, at one point I had zfs and ipfs entries in one of my configs. I got away from it all before flakes started to get popular.

I tried it as a docker host; the declarative formatting drove me around the bend. I get a fair bit of disaster proofing on my docker host with git and webhooks, besides using Proxmox/ZFS to host it all and back it up.

Maybe homelab stuff that you mess with a lot and need to revert or stand up a multitude? I tried it for self-hosted apps and frankly a docker host is way easier. JB guys were pushing it for Nextcloud and it was a nightmare compared to the Docker AIO. I guess you could stand it up as a docker host OS, but I just use Debian, it’s pretty much bulletproof and again, less hassle.

I went through a NixOS phase, and for a user that isn’t trying to maintain a dev environment, it’s a bloody lot of hassle.

I’m all behind immutable distros even though I don’t particularly have the need for them, but declaritive OSs are kinda niche.

Jeez, Kevin Bacon back there just won’t get into the game.