Yes we know Americans are usually only happy when they live with people who are like them.

Most places in Europe are beating the US on the world happiness chart. I call that winning.

The problem is that the scope becomes too big with a large codebase. Though I'm still trying different techniques.

I now think that AI gives an experienced programmer a huge advantage over a new programmer. Coding at speed with AI is all about knowing what to ask for as precisely as possible. Ask it a more general question and it is more likely to hallucinate.

I am now using AI to code and once I figured it out it made me around five times faster with probably more efficiency to gain. Much better if you need to write a bunch of small scripts. I now structure my code around AI query sessions.

How many nuclear powerplants are we occupying with photo to video conversations now?

.. we have AI and automation.

We are not hacks.

Ok well, first of all if you are a developer and you aren't using some of form portable container by now for your environment, than you aren't really taking advantage of a solution that has existed for that problem for some time now.

Furthermore I have done a lot of large projects on Arch and for me the key has been to just make sure its up to date. Python espectially you set up an environment anywhere on anything and you have access to everything. So again, maybe not using the solution for the problem. I'm honestly not trying to be confrontational here.. it is just so contrary to my experience.

I guess it's just so sad that these companies have (IMHO) done things to earn this reputation, basically that they treat people like shit and there is always a new low.

I only know my own experience. I'm on Arch and I have never had an issue that wasn't caused by something I did wrong at some point. When that does happen, there is a community to help me. Although granted, I don't know if these communities will survive now that I can just ask AI for the solution instead of asking for the good of the community to see the newer answer.

Agreed with all of that. But I just wanted to point out that it is important not to make declarations about inflation in the economic sense based on prices, because then there is a lot of distortion happening with the numbers. Ie. No, inflation was NOT 6% in Canada in 2022. It was 3% with companies feeling they could help themselves to 3%. This is why Canada lost its carbon tax. People saw that prices had gone up by 6% so they blamed carbon tax, but that was only contributing to 3%. I think it was a very grave mistake to make as a society, all caused by predatory pricing essentially.

No distro without rolling release can solve every problem.

Why the theatrics? Just gift the statue.

You are kind of right, but there are two types of inflation. There is the kind that is because of rising costs.. like fuel went up so a grocery store needs to pay 0.25 more for a price of bread so they raise the price by 25 cents. That is considered natural inflation. Then there is the kind where the grocery store says, "aw hell we are raising prices anyway" and then they raise the price of that same bread by $2 even though it is only costing them 25 cents more. That is artificial inflation.