In the 00s there were these special walkie-talkies that would set up an independent mesh network to communicate without cell service or internet connectivity. That was more peer to peer than federation, I guess, but it’s a pretty cool invention that was only used to send messages between Barbie coloured pieces of plastic.

Meshtastic is trying to do something similar right now, I’m not sure how much Barbie colored plastic is involved though. I wonder what kind of tech those were using, I’ve never heard of it before and Google isn’t being helpful.

… Wait, are you taking about Cybiko? I wanted one of those when I was a kid even though I didn’t know anyone who had one and didn’t live somewhere with the density to really use the tech.

Update: Good (?) news - I just ran into a comment on the Discourse group linking to this post because they’re having the same issue, and several more people posted on the Bazzite Discord.

I didn’t break it!

Thanks for your help. I was planning on waiting a few days because I’ll have more free time on Monday, I’ll try updating again on Monday.

I’m on stable.

The developers are active on Discord and I’ll make a post there Monday when I have more time to tinker with it and reply to people, and until then I’ll enjoy the perks of an atomic distro, lol. Thanks for your help and the thorough explanation!

You’re right, it’s 1. I went ahead and pinned it. I ran rpm-ostree update and it’s still not working, I’ll keep using the working deployment for the weekend and I’ll have more time to troubleshoot Monday and Tuesday.

At least I understand what the kernel panic message means thanks to the people here.

Ostree: 0 caused the kernel panic, but in grub I selected ostree: 1 (I rolled back to a previous update) and was able to get to the desktop like expected. Boot is the wrong term, sorry.

Vim or Emacs?