Had a 2006 Subaru Baja, stupidly traded it in on a Tacoma “because I needed something bigger.” The guy who bought the Baja off the dealer tracked me down online, because the story about the crazy Baja guy followed the vehicle (affectionately known as the caruck). Three years later, I caught his forum DM and called him. Had a good hour long discussion about the Baja and asked for first dibs if he ever sold it.

Fast forwards a few years, and it blew a headgasket outside Saugerties, NY. I gave him $1,500 cash and towed it home. Chassis was all rotted out, so I bought another '06 Baja from Virginia and shipped it north. It turned out to have a bum engine (water pump leaking bad, and oil sitting on top of the block). Swapped engines, drove it for another year and a half when the head gaskets blew again. She sits out front now, ready for the next set of hgs.

I’m not making the same mistake and getting rid of my Baja again. I’ll keep throwing head gaskets and whatever else I need to keep her running… And soaking her in Fluid Film.

Crazy Baja guy. That’s me.

If his cult hadn’t made comments about Zelensky’s choice of clothing when visiting the White House, I’d not give two shits either.

More than happy to point out the hypocrisy, however.

I die changing a CV axle.

How did they know I own a Subaru?

My initial attempts at running Linux as a daily threw me off. Had a couple Comp Sci friends in college recommend switching, but they led me to distros with pre-compiled binaries and installation wizards. I’d install, get dumped out at a desktop, then ask “And what do I do now?”. I had no idea how the filesystem was organized, etc.

I stumbled across LinuxFromScratch somehow. Took a few months and ran through the installation three times before I felt I had a good handle on what was going on. Then I tried to tackle compiling X.org and all its dependencies, learning exactly why a package manager is useful.

That lead me to Gentoo. I haven’t found a problem running it in the last ~20 years that I couldn’t solve, so I’ve stuck with it. Now it’s just comfortable. I’ve slapped other distributions on other boxes (Mint, Kubuntu, etc), and even on laptops for family members, but they don’t feel like home.

I’ve used Gentoo on my main desktop for decades.

Anything else in the house gets Kubuntu on it, 'cause ain’t nobody got time for that.

I went through LFS’ build process three times. By the third time, I felt like I might actually have a clue as to what’s going on. Then I tried build X.org, and discovered what package managers are for. Tried a few “standard” distributions with their binary packages, none of which satisfied my newly discovered control freak tendencies. Ended up settling on Gentoo, been with it ever since.

The meme is definitely LFS.