I worry about the easy ones haha, they've got a tendency to turn into rug pulls...
Which is why doing this for ~5% of the #Bitcoin I have makes sense, it is a platform that is very different from the others, also if I change those later on
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i'd like to run bsd also, i just don't know about how it's gonna work with running VMs, as i need to develop stuff for linux VPS systems.
nothing that is pure Go is a problem, it's only hardware and linux-only stuff that is a problem.
my colleague back in 2019 switched his whole dev rig over to freebsd. i could never quite get into the sway WM or whatever it was he used... but gnome has rugpulled me hard, tracker3, the endless theme bullshit, i liked 3 but you can't run 3, for some reason. so i run cinnamon and keep my fave gtk 3 theme, adapta.
i expect it would be the same on freebsd.
the other thing i don't like about bsd is the whole business with the daemon beastie is quite distasteful. even if daemon is just a word for servant in ancient greek. i don't want no tricky bastards running my shit thanks.
for now i'm stickin with arch.
if i had money and wasn't only doing dev on my only tiny crappy 4 year old hardware i'd be looking to see how i can get a freebsd system running on something current. now that would probably end up being a huge pain too, but i'd have the money for it so there's that.
Its far easier for me, all I want to is to use it as is and hopefully as best practice, on a couple of old laptops for very simple tasks.
So I can let the software lead the way, and learn how to tweak it as time passes, like I did with QubesOS the past couple of years :-)
If I finally get completely rid of OSX after these 23 years or so I'll probably use Mint for general work like video editing, we will see..
Guess I'm on an open source jihad haha!
you are not alone on this jihad! death to spyware, bloatware and closed source! no more unpaid telemetry data!
Yep, and as in all warfare its about being PRACTICAL all the way, using whatever tools one might know how to handle in the fight :-)
Sometimes I feel like not sharing anything about stuff like this since it always pulls in the theorists with their "perfect" level of doing things, not realizing that this invites SPOFs
In a real fight you have to expect some real damage, keeping that on an acceptable level so that you are in for the long haul is what is necessary to survive & WIN in the end :-)
And that is why I have spread my #Bitcoin across platforms and devices, I can accept a loss of maybe 5% worst case but NOT losing most due to thinking anything is perfect...
some rules of thumb help too. like, always have more backup than working storage!
Yeah... 2020 wrecked everything, from my 3 companies to business visa, the house i Europistan and some shitty, theoretical pension...
Working on reconstructing 5-6 Terabytes spread across random drives now, don't think I've lost anything super vital, had pretty ridiculous routines for redundancy before meatspace got wrecked!
And then all games online are about to change for real, at least if the .gov goons get their will...
That is part of the motivation for getting into FreeBSD too, Apple is proooobably captured already and Linux has Linus himself as a SPOF