"We are a technology licensing company"

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

What to do with people who jump the queue?

Not one for trypophobics.

Both distros [...] are based on the Linux kernel

Err, bad start.

The kernel section is confused or just wrong. Arch has you use pacstrap to install a pre-built kernel (there are options from almost-vanilla to more custom), whereas Gentoo gives you the choice of using vanilla or Gentoo kernel sources (optionally with custom configuration) or just using a pre-built binary.

The Gentoo wiki used to be the gold standard, even for non-Gentoo users, but it was an unofficial wiki and a hard-drive crash (if memory serves) killed it with no backups. It was mostly restored with help after that.
Nowadays, I think more people use the Arch wiki.

Gentoo has package binaries available, although that's a newer thing and if you use unusual USE flags you'll need to compile your own anyway.

By default, Gentoo uses the older sysvinit system

Weird to put it this way, since Gentoo is well known for its use of OpenRC which is what you'd use instead of systemd. Both are common on Gentoo systems.

I'm stopping here - the whole article feels off, perhaps it's AI-written? I'd recommend finding a better source.

Ukraine have destroyed three bridges in Kursk, which will affect Russia's ability to get supplies to their invading forces, but they're also over rivers where it's fairly trivial to set up temporary bridges (unless they are destroyed by drones).

I haven't seen Prevenge, but I loved her (and everyone) in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

curtesy of zagorath

fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.

I think on the Fediverse (or just Lemmy?) I've seen more people who'd post your comment non-ironically. Or maybe they're not serious either (but they'd have to be really committed to the bit).

I thought this was !programmer_humor@programming.dev at first.

That's really interesting, thanks. I hope you're feeling better soon!

I thought you were describing Debian (FOSS only, stable and conservative, boring in the good way). It does take longer to get the updates because they build everything themselves, but that's part of the stability deal.

I'm no expert though; I'm mostly reading to get suggestions for when I make switch properly myself.