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Debian? Pah! Try Gentoo and then you can talk about compiling...
why? i'm not looking to have a offshoot of debian that forces you to compile everything. I compile the kernel at my own discretion because i want to. Not because i need to.

Debian unstable > gentoo . And i got finished with distro sampling about 24 years ago.
 
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So I had a rather leisurely play session last night. But that's not where my story starts...

Several weeks back I was "engaging" in some monkey business at an Ody settlement with my Krait Phantom. and ended up with some fines and bounties.

I paid off what I could in a neighboring system, though that ship still has a wanted moniker. And I'm carrying around a fine/bounty from that system.

I'm currently hundreds of LY from both that system and that ship

...anyway, last night I decided to do a couple of "transport" foot missions while waiting for a ship to be transferred from Jameson.

So I went down to the first settlement, no issues, the container I needed was right next to the landing pad. Didn't even see any of the guards.

At the second settlement, I was walking around in a Dominator with my weapons stowed and I encounter a guard who wanted to scan me. So, not wanting any trouble, I wait while she scans me. At the end of the scan, the guard said sometihg along the lines of "We're not interested in your current infractions. You may go."

Next guard, I stop and wait for scan, after scan the guard says "I thought the pilots Federation was supposed to be the good guys."

Next guard, "You've been naughty" ("naughty" probably wasn't the word, but same context).

So I finally find a terminal and locate the container, all the way across the compound. This was the first time I've been to an AGRI settlement. Had no idea how large they are.

Trek across the compound. Get to the container, open it , take the item and I see "Illegal Item: "You may not want to be scanned" or some such.

So on the way back to my ship, I gave the settlement a wide berth. Made it back to my ship no issues.

I thought it was interesting, the "comments" from the guards.
 
why? i'm not looking to have a offshoot of debian that forces you to compile everything. I compile the kernel at my own discretion because i want to. Not because i need to.

Debian unstable > gentoo . And i got finished with distro sampling about 24 years ago.
Yes but... Error 1201
 
such poor old hardware would have no chance in today's world of framework on top of framework on top of web browser on top of framework kind of programming that gets passed off as new software.
 
you make menuconfig... pick your hardware and features you want (you usually only do this once and then only have to play with things that change in subsequent kernels). run make -j24 bindeb-pkg .... then dpkg -i the deb files. easy peasy.

then there's the optional patch you may want to test that hasn't made it into the mainline yet...so you'd patch that in first ..but it's a pretty straight forward process.

depending on hardware it takes anywhere from 1 min to maybe 5 min ...unless you're rocking old / slow stuff..then longer.

you end up with a streamlined kernel with only the stuff you want or need in it or new stuff not yet available to your distro...and optimized for your hardware.

Compare that to the fun of exploration in some games...where you can spend hours and hours looking at variations of things that the game will pay you credits for and do nothing else, leaving you and the game no different at the end than when you started. Some people think that's fun. So relatively, kernel compiling is spring break (for attractive people).
 
I normally get back to my ship using the rooftops - or if I've been sensible and parked a SRV nearby...
My normal MO is land away from the settlement and drive to it. But I purposely wasn't expecting any combat and requested clearance to land from the settlement, which I've never done before, or tried but was unsuccessful, which in retrospect was due to needing a large pad at the time.

Didn't think about the roof tops though. And didn't want any combat. Did encounter a skimmer outside the perimeter but there were rocks large enough to hide behind.

I was in the Huandja system, body B 5 A I believe; two planetary ports and a few Ody settlements on that one. Found an engineered G2 Maverick with Combat something or other at one of the ports.
 
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