Subj : AI-WX Weather Door Is
To   : Tiny
From : Accession
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 17:08:38

Hey Tiny!

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:43:04 -0500, you wrote:

 > It does.  One of the reasons I am not moving too fast to re-install that
 > machine, I do have an image backup made weekly just in case.

I think as long as you're not using proprietary graphics drivers and are using the open source ones, you should probably be fine. But yeah, backups are always a good idea.

 > Although in the background I've been quietly coding my own BBS 
 > software on the commodore 64.  Lost my original code due to a bad 
 > floppy so re-creating it from the data disk.

Sounds fun. Do you actually have a commodore64? I don't think I've ever seen you talk about it.

 A>> It's pretty amazing, to say the least. Also has a GUI package
 A>> manager that not only updates the dotfiles when needed, but runs
 A>> pacman for you without the need to type it in a console. ;)

 > LOL  I just can't get used to the command lines for that one.  I use
 > the terminal for this stuff on Mint and fedora, but pacman is causing a
 > mental block.

Right. I mentioned that you don't *have* to use pacman in a terminal, as the GUI updating thing does it for you. ;)

apt install <package>
yum install <package>
pacman -S <package>

Meh, all the same. I completely get it, though. Once you get well aquainted with one of them, others get confusing. lol

Regards,
Nick

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