DietPi, for setting up an SBC (ie raspberry pi) with common server software. very good for a first-time self hoster like myself.

reminds me of the infamous NSA backdoor patch blog for Notepad++

There’s already a bunch of distros for lower-end hardware. PuppyLinux is probably what you’re looking for, and it’s actually a genre of distro that takes a typical distro like SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch etc. and packages it into a slimmer spin with some shared utilities.

nix being 20 years old and still lacking decent documentation on the language it’s what hurts me the most, because the people who do know it works so some amazing things with it

I know this is being treated as a social engineering attack, but having unreadable binary blobs as part of your build/dev pipeline is fucking insane.

Because languages need to be able to handle the very common edge cases where data sources don’t return complete data.

Adding null coalescing to a null-safe language (like dart) is so much easier to read and infer the risk of handling null than older languages that just panic the moment null is introduced unexpectedly.

if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs

Honestly I had the same experience with qbittorrent’s plugins. Many are outdated and broken i think.

It’s much easier to use sonarr and radarr, with prowlarr for managing torrent mirrors.

I mean apart from the fact it’s not sourced or whatever, it’s standard practice for these tech companies to run a massive loss for years while basically giving their product away for free (which is why you can use openAI with minimal if any costs, even at scale).

Once everyone’s using your product over competitors who couldn’t afford to outlast your own venture capitalists, you can turn the price up and rake in cash since you’re the biggest player in the market.

It’s just Uber’s business model.