Stable if you want stability, meaning it doesn’t change often (minor updates only).
Testing if you want newer packages that have at least gone through some level of testing. They’ve been in unstable for at least 3-10 days with no major bug reports.
Unstable/sid if you want to assist the Debian project by reporting bugs (which is always appreciated!), or want the “breaks all the time” experience of other distros.
Debian unstable doesn’t break all the time, tho. There’s only been a handful of times in my 27 years of using it that something got truly borked.
(That’s not counting times when two packages have the same file and there’s a conflict. That’s trivial to resolve once you’ve seen it a few times. Even that is relatively rare.)
I’ve never had Debian or Arch completely break, but have had my share of annoying bugs with both of them. Biggest issue I kept having with Debian is it’d just get stuck and wouldn’t update. Think it was 12.4 I had this problem with. Way more annoying than anything Arch did to my system. I’m using Fedora now days.
a whistle is blown, people start running out the trenches rifle in hand. Shouting while bombs pounder around, you stay still, disoriented. The general grabs your jacket and starts screaming. You cannot figure a single word of what he says, he just puts a monad into your hands.
Blue, black or red inks, and wet ink means something different. All capital letters, especially on names. Making sure to incant with the law using the correct statues (and statutes), citing the specific sections of case law. And sprinkle in a mighty, but perfect amount of phrasing like “All Rights Reserved”.
Sometimes you are too low level at this and that lack of experience leads to imperfections and you just have to keep trying until the spell works on the right person in authority. Trust me, I got my degree from Trump University. It’s a bigly degree.
I guess I can show you how, but I’d have to barter for fiat currency - unfortunately my car broke down and that’s the only thing my mechanic will take. He doesn’t understand Coupons (note the capital) !
Poor your friend too, although if she’ll miss it, I guess it does have its upsides. I do get it-
Back in the 90s, I was designing book covers for what amounted to an eBook vanity press (this was way before stuff like smartphones, let alone Kindles, so you were expected to read on your browser on a computer). It was a stupid company run by a crook, but I do admit, some of the books that we got were absolutely hilarious.
Even all of these years later, I will never forget this biography line:
DawnStar has never been the same since “the head injury.”
She put it in quotes like that too. It was quite the book. I don’t remember a lot, it was mostly incoherent ramblings about the sort of stuff someone who writes “the head injury” would write, but there was one part I do remember, which was a pitch for a TV series that involved the universe hatching out of an egg laid by a giant cosmic chicken. And this was not meant to be funny.
My middle age crisis retro tech collection compulsion is begging me to shout at you to take those brittle plastics out of direct sunlight. Those readily available, dirt cheap, well emulated plastics.
I mean, at least the Wavebird receiver. Won't somebody think of the Wavebird receiver.
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