I hate how accurate this is
Lemmy: I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust any bike helmet that I can’t compile myself from source. It’s best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn’t target you for your striped Linux socks.
The moment I got arch running I immediately started hearing about this Gentoo thing but I know for a fact the moment I use Gentoo everyone is gonna start making their own personal Linux distributions using Linux from scratch and then I’m gonna go further down the rabbit hole
Lemmy:
from Eggdoy77: I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust any bike helmet that I can’t build myself from source. It’s best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn’t target you for your striped Linux socks.
rshmuck: have you ever actually looked at the helmet source let alone build it?
Eggdoy77 no
And the amazon result is some unknown Chinese brand with 5,000 suspicious 5 star reviews
The worst thing is sorting by price. If you sort by reviews or something things look decent. Sort by price and you see pages and pages of things that are in the wrong category and very cheap.
Sometimes you get lucky and there’s a recent Wirecutter article but then of course the top options are all sold out or not available where you live.
Then there’s all the comments telling you to kill yourself
That’s when I search on Lemmy, Reddit, YouTube, or Looria. Worst case, I ask Bing Chat to find some recommendations and reviews for me.