But for some reason its stuck at this point.
Am I gonna have to wait? I'm using Debian 12
it just locks up like this all the fucking time
D is supposed to be parallel but for some awful reason it will block boot to do DHCP negotiations and it's terrible. Also sometimes when shutting down it would poll for TEN MINUTES
@icedquinn
This! As multicore CPUs were getting more affordable, you could find them not only in SMP systems, but in consumer laptops too. Upstart and systemd were supposed to take advantage of this parallelism to speed OS startup and had to do some dependency management to achieve that.
Modern systems got even faster and SSDs got cheap as dirt, there is no longer need for that — runit just launches everything at the same time and I've never ever had any issues with that 🤷
@grillchen @anonicus
@m0xee @icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus Do a case insensitive grep for ‘timeout’ in /etc/systemd/system.conf, you can uncomment and set these to just move the fuck on after 90 seconds. Why this isn’t the default I have no idea. I’ve never had /sbin/init do this but I’m told systemd is good for me idk
@swaggboi I'm fine, I've only been using systemd on one machine, it was Debian and it was a buggy version of systemd that went into infinite loops if hardware clock wasn't set 🤦
Luckyly, I've switched to Void PPC on it when it was still maintained — never looked back. Now everything just runs Void — even the microwave oven. And a vacuum cleaner! And a kitchen sink 🤪
@icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus
@m0xee @icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus Lucky, my kitchen sink is stuck on Windows 7, I gotta support my legacy faucet application!
@swaggboi
Yeah, kitchen appliances might be hacky😂
Jokes aside, I've even managed to get Void running on this old ARM netbook: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/110690146993488994
Had to build everything from scratch as Void builds for ARM assume presence of full VFPv3 instruction set, which isn't on this machine.
It only has half gig of RAM, but it was a nice machine for TUI software, Gemini browsing and lightweight coding, too bad the backlight died. I think I'll but new one on AliExpress
@icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus
@swaggboi The netbook itself might be tricky to find — it's Toshiba AC100, maybe you can get used one off Ebay, Scraglist or something like that.
Mine works except for the backlight — I can still ssh into it and even see whats going on there when I put bright lamp over display. So I only have to order a replacement display or maybe even a LED backlight strip. Maybe battery too, since mine's at ~50% capacity, that thing is pretty old.
@icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus
@m0xee @icedquinn @grillchen @anonicus If you do find one on AliExpress send me a hyperlink… I’ve been ARM curious for sometime but all I know is x86