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  • ewo@piefed.catoNonCredibleDefense@piefed.social•Tripwire force just turned into a bomb all of its ownEnglish
    65·
    18 days ago

    It is 1939 and a Soviet army is marching on Finland. As they pass the border, they hear a Finnish voice over the hill;

    “One Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviet soldiers!” The Soviet general laughs, as he sends 10 men on the hill to capture it.

    There is gunfire for a minute and then everything goes silent for a moment, and they then hear the same voice;

    “One Finnish soldier is better than a hundred of yours!”

    Annoyed, the Soviet general sends hundred men to capture the hill. There is gunfire and bombs going for ten minutes, and everything goes silent again. Suddenly, the same voice yells out;

    “One Finnish soldier is better than thousand of Soviet soldiers!”

    Enraged, the general sends a thousand men, accompanied with tanks, artillery, mortar teams, and tells them to not return until the hill is theirs. For half an hour hell breaks loose, bombs and explosions, gunfire, screams and death all around, and then it goes silent again.

    One Soviet soldier crawls back, severely wounded and battered.

    Before the general could say anything, the soldier says;

    “Do not send more troops, comrade general, it’s a trap! There is two of them.”

  • ewo@piefed.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•made me chuckleEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    Yeah I run it as a daily driver, I wrote a little something to bootstrap it with encrypted zfs set up. I personally really like it for how stable/minimal it is, no systemd and running musl libc which I used do myself on Gentoo but as a binary distro Alpine is a lot less effort.

    My whole install is under 4GB of packages and it’s very lean, there’s like 30k packages in the repos so quite decent for selection, and if you need to custom build stuff aports (like Arch Linux AUR) is pretty straightforward. Apk is also a great package manager.

    There are a few caveats though, with musl libc a few things won’t work (Obligatory fuck Nvidia) since they are compiled for glibc, so for that flatpak is your friend here (I use Steam with it a lot). It also requires a bit of understanding to debug sometimes, I use the Gentoo and Arch wikis for things if the Alpine wiki is missing something.

    It’s a fantastic distro though and I hardly have to maintain it/things rarely go wrong. Been running as a desktop for a few years now.