I have no access and, it seems, neither does local IT. Yay.

At the moment i’m getting mount error(13): Permission denied at the new vm (where i was attempting to mount).
dmesg has

[ 9254.003440] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\10.10.10.10\dir\\dir2
[ 9254.181314] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
[ 9254.181333] CIFS: VFS: \\10.10.10.10 Send error in SessSetup = -13
[ 9254.181367] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

Attempting to ls the share in the other vm where it was previously working yields Host is down.
(Everyone else can access the share just fine.)

From my searching around for something similar, these showed up the most: TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus, Absolute, antiX (there’s more).

SP3

As long as mutable distros remain an option

Precisely this, linux is about choice. It’s not like suddenly most distros would change init systems and make it near impossible to choose… oh, wait…
I prefer mutable and see immutable mostly as lazyness but if people wanna use’em go for it, i’m not pushing mutable down their throats.

Maybe icinga?

It’s not an actual bedroom, is it?
Then again, the pictures clearly show it, so…

Any alternative to this site that’s more in line with privacy/foss/fediverse etc? CouchSurfing’s gone to shit, used to be great.

Some CD trays will auto-close though.

Tilling window managers like xmonad.
twm is an interface as well…

Lemmy’s text-oriented, i’m not gonna bother with a video… on youtube of all places. </rant>.

Just about everything built in the last 15 years has already got the fix

You mean regular PCs? Sure…
Less COTS stuff? Not necessarily.

how to install bare arch?
You can try Slackware.
Or LFS for a full zero-to-hero experience.

Gentoo’s still around and quite modern. And USE flags are addictive.

I install the minimal version and go from there.

Ah yes, my daily driv… prayer.

That’s a disclaimer in the bug submission page.

It’s usually the opposite…

PRTFM

True… i compile mine as well.

Linux does have proprietary blobs, Canonical has signed some NDAs, so not that far off from Android (which is linux-based and certainly has proprietary firmware).