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Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubbles… I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.

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Jak2k 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 22:48 UTC

Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubbles… I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.

edit: I found it! https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HW9D7JDTZK4HH6SCB4JAS2DW

#blost

Jak2k 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 22:48 UTC

Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubbles… I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.

edit: I found it! https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HW9D7JDTZK4HH6SCB4JAS2DW

#blost

Jak2k 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 22:48 UTC

Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubbles… I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.

edit: I found it! https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HW9D7JDTZK4HH6SCB4JAS2DW

#blost

Jak2k 🏳️‍🌈 @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 22:48 UTC

Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubbles… I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.

edit: I found it! https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HW9D7JDTZK4HH6SCB4JAS2DW

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OrbitalMartian @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 21:16 UTC

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

#WeekNotes W19

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OrbitalMartian @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 21:16 UTC

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

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OrbitalMartian @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 21:16 UTC

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

#WeekNotes W19

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OrbitalMartian @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 21:16 UTC

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

#WeekNotes W19

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OrbitalMartian @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 21:16 UTC

New #Blost !

https://orbitalmartian.vercel.app/blog/2026-05-13-week-notes-19/

#WeekNotes W19

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 19:31 UTC

@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.

Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD

Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)

I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.

I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR

Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.

#blost #raspios #cachyos #freebsd

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 19:31 UTC

@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.

Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD

Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)

I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.

I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR

Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.

#blost #raspios #cachyos #freebsd

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 19:31 UTC

@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.

Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD

Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)

I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.

I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR

Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.

#blost #raspios #cachyos #freebsd

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 19:31 UTC

@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.

Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD

Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)

I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.

I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR

Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.

#freebsd #cachyos #raspios #blost

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 19:31 UTC

@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.

Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD

Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)

I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.

I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR

Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.

#blost #raspios #cachyos #freebsd

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: @[email protected] · 2026-05-12 · 13:52 UTC

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn