#i just bought new sata cables and was about to compile ivpn and configure lvm and transmission-cli

[daemonhxckergrrl]

turns out i got bad ram. my baby, his memory's failing 😭 poor guy. it keeps making pacman do weird shit so ig project seedbox is on hold until i can buy some ddr2. assuming it's not the north bridge/memory controller giving out.

debian was headache after headache:

round 1: system hanged on writing random data to the disk (LUKS/LVM prep)

round 2 (skipped the prep): installer errored out on software installation

round 3 (disabled network, local install only): installer errored out on grub installation/configuration

bonus round !!!: i got grub installed via chroot from a live image but (my bad) think i corrupted my LVM through a bad unmount (/dev was busy, had to force unmount, lvchange thought that filesystem was still open due to the force)

i could reinstall again and go through that whole ordeal, or i could pick something else. we're doing artix. sometimes rolling release is just as (if not more) stable. weird how that works xD picked over void for the repo maturity