I spent a few clicks on the site trying to figure out what guix is and does.

It’s a distro. Saved you a click.

It sure is!

In my case it’s vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.

I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

I’m not in/from the US. I haven’t been one paycheck away from homelessness since I was a student.

Enough savings to last half a year without income has always been a rule of thumb.

Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.

Or buy cloud storage.

I ran it 2003-2006ish.

Having a package manager that updates online was a game changer for Linux distributions.

I had been using slackware for 6 years prior, and there was no real update path. Best case you’d just get the latest release on CD and install it over your (hopefully) separate root partiton.

Conpiling all your stuff sounded like a good idea in the age of the architecture options at the time. Alpha, Crusoe, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS were all viable options.

If you’re coming from a feature phone - it’s great!

If you’re coming from a modern smartphone, you probably won’t be happy with it as a daily driver.

I’m voting with my feet, but carrying two devices.

Maemo on the N900 was close, but MeeGo on the N9 was there. The Ovi store even had the hot apps of the era.

Fuck Microsoft for killing that dream.