In production? Pretty much yes. Packages are kept in a Sattelite repo and various manifests for machines are are made. Those are tested with the production software. Any changes between versions/manifests are scrutinized.

So, yes, it could have been "any OS repo, open or closed source, using this method" but if that's the method you you for installing deps in prod you're a hack job and your company is basically committing engineering malpractice.

What if? In my experience AI generated code is primarily sloppy, lengthy python that includes so many libraries no single person could know all of them well enough to peoperly review the code.

Same reason for including private equity. They've been selling to each other to pump the valuations for long enough that it's time to find some retail bagholders to keep this bullbe from popping.

No dealerships doesn't mean there won't be model showrooms, like what already exist today for several small brands where they are not allowed to sell direct. This is a problem that was solved over a decade ago.

So you bought a used car without the ability to inspect it yourself and also didn't get a pre purchase inspection and.........you're saying that was a really stupid, careless thing to do? Yeah, I agree.

funny how this /. poster doewsn't know how to use an adblocker, wonder how many yous had whe you posted that? Mine has 0.

Do you know how to do math? Because that's how. It's not a difficult problem space to quantify. You can easily know how much water one vs the other uses, you can easily know how much detergent you need to use in one vs the other and you also know the costs on those things. You also know how many loads of laundry you do and how frequently. Wear an tear on clothes would take more, but is likely unnecessary to show a net benefit.

Could you really not image this solution as soon as you read the problem?

"Everyone" did not, but people who tend towrads black and white thinking (like someone who would use "everyone" in this context) have.

Nope. It mean what it sounds like: low quality content. It's a perfectly good word. Sounds like you're a true believer who's feeling are hurt. Which means lots of the things you think AI is good at are also slop to everyone else paying attention.

It's not about protectionism either. Most "us companies" that make routers are making them in china. Cisco even has a ton of chinese developers working in china.

This is about graft and giving "US Companies" a way to submit a bribe through on of numerous already established cahnnels (crypto, library, truth social stock, etc) for exemptions.

Continually proving it's just a bunch of unserious unqualified fools.

Cisco makes their routers in China and have a huge amount of chinese developers as well - it's not just the hardware.

What an idiotically backwards opinion. Where do people like you come from?

This has been my experience as well. It used to be pretty garbage, but now things seem fine. Most apps I wanted were even available, no need to search for alternatives.

What's baffling are the "people" like the person who replied to you saying your story is "made up." To who's benefit could it be to make up "I'm using a free operating system for free and it works" be?

After decades of using linux at work and home for servers, I finally switched to it on my primary desktop and laptop about a year ago. Sure, there are some annoyances, but certainly fewer than my corporate laptop with windows 11 on it. YMMV depending on what software you use but I really didn't need to find many "alternatives" because the bulk of what I use was already available. Linux Mint seems to "just work", down to making the fingerprint reader on the laptop functional and has a sane-ish desktop environment unlike the terrible GDE that it's Ubuntu downstream is built on. I shrunk and left the original windows install only because Lenovo doesn't seem to be able to get their act together on firmware updates in Linux. But at this point the laptop firmware works fine, power management is good, etc so I don't think there will be any reason to update it again, certainly not for linux support.