It's been like this for the past few weeks. I've tried 6 different pharmacies, 3 of which were large chains, and one of which was an online ordering service.

I read that there have been supply chain issues for the past few years, but for every supplier of every mom-and-pop and big-name company to be put on back-order at once has never happened to me before.

Does anyone know what's going on?

My little bro will be so happy to know I can play with him once more! 😊

Totally naive question, but is there any merit to Pop! OS continuing to be based on Ubuntu as opposed to Debian?

I ask because of the following developments that have happened over the past few years:

• System76 is gunning to develop their own COSMIC DE not based on GNOME
• Debian now officially supports non-free firmware in their ISO releases, meanwhile supporting this out of the box was kind of Ubuntu's whole "raison d'etre" in the early days
• Canonical is forcing snaps on everyone, and is making it progressively harder to remove them from the system without having very real impacts (I'm hearing whispers online about them "snapifying" CUPS printer drivers), and to get around this System76 basically has to repackage some software into .deb files by hand and offer flatpak integration as an alternative if people want newer stuff.

Essentially, the conclusion I am drawing from all this information is that it's going to get harder and harder to base things off of Ubuntu moving forward, and that other than newer packages (which is solved with flatpaks) there's actually not a whole lot of benefit to basing things off of Ubuntu as opposed to a slightly tweaked Debian flavor...

So with all that said, I'm curious what the community and developers behind Pop! OS think about my line of reasoning. Are there any considerations being made to potentially shift to Debian as a base? If not, are there things I'm not considering? Or (and this is totally out of left field), is System76 planning to become a company somewhat resembling Canonical and create their own distro based on the Debian testing branch?

Would love to hear some thoughts on this, and apologies if this has been brought up before.

Realized that I haven't done my "introduction" post yet!

I was a late joiner of Reddit since my need for memes were being fulfilled by other meme aggregators, what really convinced me to join my first message board was that I realized it could be a space to geek out about technology and anime, and see what other people are discussing in those communities.

When I saw the type of space it was becoming, I realized that if communities want to exist, they not only must be moderated by their communities like with Reddit, but owned by them too! Then I learned about the Fediverse, and felt it made much more sense from a sustainability standpoint in that regard, and decided to hop on this train to awesome!

I was really excited to see that this instance is pretty devoted to tech enthusiasts and makers of all kinds, so thanks for having me!

I'm particularly into programming language design, and my favorites are Ada and Raku, despite being a relatively young programmer (cue the ensuing "hipster" jabs), just because they offer features that are truly helpful in intuitive ways for their respective use-cases.