GENTOO is Rice

--time-records

My uptime is longer than your relationship.

Other communities measure themselves in frames per second. The ricer measures in hours of fan noise. Below, an unofficial leaderboard, self-reported and entirely unverifiable.

The board

  • OpenOffice from source: 9h 41m. "Worth it for the icons."
  • Full KDE rebuild after a USE flag change: overnight. Twice.
  • Firefox: long enough to read the entire changelog of the version you're replacing.
  • gcc compiling gcc to compile gcc: a Zen koan.
"i could've used a binary but then what would i have to talk about"

Exactly. That's the secret. The compile is the content.