[2026-05-17T09:53:45Z] <midfavila> fuck i hate how expensive books are
[2026-05-17T09:53:49Z] <midfavila> even second-hand books are insane 
[2026-05-17T09:54:00Z] <midfavila> hundred plus dollars for some 30yo textbook 
[2026-05-17T09:54:11Z] <midfavila> that's after shopping around on a few different sites
[2026-05-17T09:54:12Z] <midfavila> god damn
[2026-05-17T09:54:23Z] <midfavila> the more popular ones are cheaper ofc but still
[2026-05-17T09:57:29Z] <midfavila> fucking hate money...
[2026-05-17T18:00:43Z] <kris_> dery: hey so how exactly are you supposed to update the kernel on ramdisk alpine
[2026-05-17T18:00:55Z] <kris_> i tried to update-kernel on it and it just started throwing out of space errors and ate shit
[2026-05-17T18:06:04Z] <kris_> nevermind i found https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-14-alpine-linux-from-ram-but-persistent.html
[2026-05-17T18:06:15Z] <kris_> this doesn't make much sense to me, kernels are pretty tiny
[2026-05-17T18:14:14Z] <midfavila> don't liveboot images usually use some sort of compressed filesystem, or at least partitions that are sized to be precisely enough for the software and no more? 
[2026-05-17T18:15:04Z] <midfavila> since an ISO with empty space reserved in the internal partition table would still take up that space on disk, which isn't necessary except in very particular cases... 
[2026-05-17T18:16:12Z] <midfavila> alpine is neat tho
[2026-05-17T18:17:00Z] <kris_> midfavila: by default it'll give you half of the RAM the system has
[2026-05-17T18:17:02Z] <kris_> in this case
[2026-05-17T18:17:14Z] <kris_> but the reason im confused is because the kernel it's booting should be able to just be like "physically" swapped out
[2026-05-17T18:17:29Z] <kris_> i could probably just delete the kernel and extract a new one from the .apk off of the mirror and it would work
[2026-05-17T18:17:38Z] <kris_> but there's supposed to be infra around this
[2026-05-17T18:17:45Z] * midfavila shrugs
[2026-05-17T18:18:01Z] <kris_> i'm not going to bother turning off my VMs to bump them up to like 8gb of ram just to do a kernel update lol 
[2026-05-17T18:18:12Z] <kris_> and then back down to 1gb
[2026-05-17T18:18:43Z] <kris_> ramdisking 99% of this shit was stupid anyway
[2026-05-17T18:18:50Z] <kris_> i kinda got carried away
[2026-05-17T18:19:36Z] <kris_> im probably going to just wipe these VMs and reinstall alpine normally
[2026-05-17T18:19:56Z] <kris_> one of them is my rtorrent VM, which i would use void for but they don
[2026-05-17T18:20:05Z] <kris_> don't want to update rtorrent to the current stable release*
[2026-05-17T18:20:11Z] <kris_> and i cba to maintain more packages
[2026-05-17T18:20:27Z] <kris_> with kiss or something it would be really easy but xbps-src kind of irritates me 
[2026-05-17T23:11:26Z] <kris_> midfavila: dude anonradio is so fucking cool
[2026-05-17T23:11:28Z] <kris_> i just found this