The GPG keys that are used to sign packages expire and are rotated something like every six months to a year. If you don’t get the new ones in an update before they start being used, pacman will refuse to update at all.

It’s easily fixable, but if you don’t know that, it can be quite intimidating.

My Windows 10 computer eerily waking itself from sleep got me in the habit of shutting it down completely every night. I’d be lying in bed, turn over and open my eyes, and see the light of the screen reflecting off the wall. It was like something out of a shitty horror movie about computers taking over the world.

To this fucking day, even in Windows 11, it takes “Update and Shut Down” as a mere fucking suggestion. About half the time, it’ll restart after the update and just sit there chilling at the login screen. Not a single fuck given.

Linux is a breath of fresh air by comparison. Though, if you choose to run Arch you need to stay on top of updates or else a day will come where you won’t be able to update because you’re now too far behind. It can be fixed manually, but it’s still annoying and a little scary if you’re not familiar with it.

It was a leftover spool from a contractor friend of his that would have just been thrown away otherwise.

Just be careful unspooling it, it loves to kink up and any bend with a radius tighter than like 2 inches ruins the cable.

I once helped my brother run about 15 strands through his house and only around half of them actually worked when we were done. Wish we knew that when we started.