Chimera Linux

by the way, osuosl is having funding issues: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

they provide a huge amount of valuable resources (including some niche stuff you can't easily get anywhere else, like access to ibm power servers) to all sorts of projects, including ours (e.g. the ppc64 big endian builder is hosted there)

if you can, you should donate to them

by the way, a riscv update:

the provisional builder has been running for about a month and for a while it looked like we'd have to shut it down again because the ssd was frequently going first read-only and then subsequently disappearing, rendering the machine unusable

applying some kernel command line tweaks (which are recommended on the milk-v website) that included significantly increasing the nvme driver timeout value results in this still happening sporadically, but nowhere near as often

i have a suspicion that frequently triming the ssd makes it happen less, oddly enough; this is not confirmed, just an observation (i will set up a timer to do this every 12 hours), i will continue to monitor the situation~

either way, for now it's usable enough that it can stay, i'll post about it if anything changes

nya

the fsf once again proves they're a total clown show

well while we're at stupid controversies and since this is a fresh account it's a good chance to reiterate some stuff

- fossbros suck
- having principles and sticking with them is cool
- keep politics in free software because it's the only meaningful thing we have
- in a supposedly community project you do what's best for your community (no it doesn't matter what sponsorship $sketchy_entity offers you)
- anyone can be a part of your thing in their own way (it doesn't matter whether they can code, or anything else), meritocracy advocates are full of shit
- look out for those that are vulnerable and give them a comfy space

i probably missed something but you get the idea :3

meow~

given the recent controversy regarding fosstodon and some matters coming up regarding our previous instance that they have refused to clarify, i've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to really trust any of these and that we're better off running our own

so here it is, i will continue adjusting the settings and stuff as needed over the coming days, followers have been redirected, any new content will appear here only

meow

instance migration soon