Current thing AI is a grift, but tech innovation does progress in bursts. The internet as a whole had some clown tier hype markets too. Even though pets.com isn't worth a billion the effect of the technology as a whole has been massive.
And there is a concerned effort to turn the software developer into a line worker, with AI assisted programming further pushing towards that direction by enhancing the stack overflow "programmer". There is quite a large number of people who just do api integrations after a 6 month bootcamp and they can be replaced by something like this or just drop the bootcamp requirement entirely.
AI assisted borrow checker, AI assisted Test Driven Software, AI assisted Web Components Fronteder
>deps and metadata The Pkgfiles have a "depends" field that accepts packet dependencies. Prt-get has a "depinst" switch to install the dependencies first. It's just that the selection of packages nicely configured with dependencies are those in the official repos and the selection is nowhere as big as gentoo. But the packaging system is made in a way that it makes it *very* easy to create your own packages.
The only other metadata are some md5 hashes, a .footprint file that documents all the files in the package so as to avoid conflicts/overwrites, and a package db at /var/lib/pkg/db with the ground truth of all the packages and their files installed in the system with prt-get.
The first time you install it that it will take some time to configure those packages not in the official repos. For me it's easier to maintain than any other system I've used because I know exactly how it's built.
>CRUX The base system is also in ports, there's a port called filesystem that creates the / folders. The build script for the iso basically collects all the relevant ports and adds a setup shell script to do the updating/installing. It's really meant to be used with any kernel version you want. Haven't broken once since I've been using it and due to the tools that it gives you and how it's built, it's really always fixable. The irc is very friendly and active too.
@mint I've been testing yggdrasil after seeing you recommending it a few times and it's pretty nice. The community is offering a lot of services on it and it seems to be like a central network connecting the various meshnets (i2p, tor, etc). Even though it can be used to setup a private network I think it'd be easier and more robust to do so with wireguard. I took a look at the source and since that's what yggdrasil is using to make the links you might as well run it directly.
If anyone is looking for a starting point regarding tunneling, circumventing firewalls and NATs, being always connectable, etc it is an excellent starting point mostly because of its very active community. 5e44941fe6d8f145cfaf945c81bf1b2…
There's also the duct tape solution of local port forwarding one of the ssh ports from the machine behind NAT to a server. Keep the forward alive with something like autossh. But @mint 's solution is more elegant.
In the end, choice of platform, or in this case refusal to use alternative platforms due to creature comforts does define a person's values. It is not as superficial as it seems because nowadays your inputs are completely dependent on the platforms you use. The equivalent from 30 years ago would be refusing to go hang out at any other place than the corporate mall. There is nothing wrong being friends and communicating with them but that doesn't mean you'll be able to change them towards something they really don't want to.
Turning them towards the kind of person that would reject slop and convenience for quality of relationships and content in the first place, would do far more than pressuring them to use alt platform. 2be6652c4be69a9ea5db01515978bb9…