Many modern programming languages like Rust and Go and Zig compile statically anyway, so don’t use any libraries. The whole “my distro supplies my libraries” model has been steadily losing relevance for years now. Flatpaks are just one more example of this.
WinGet is nothing more than a list of random packages on Github.
Yeah, paru makes it pretty easy to do, and can also build packages in a chroot, adding some extra security.
You can. There are simple options, that only recognise predefined sentences, that even work on a Raspberry Pi, and at the other end of the spectrum you can host an LLM locally and chat with that if you have the right hardware (Coral isn’t powerful enough for that, you want a GPU with lots of VRAM). Obviously setting this up is more complicated, but there are a lot of options to do it your way.
Depends on which one you have. If you buy their own smart speaker (Voice PE), which is designed to stay entirely local if you have the right hardware and software locally, and even has a hardware switch to temporarily disable the microphone, it’s pretty easy. And of you don’t have all that locally you need a paid subscription to use their cloud a little bit, but they won’t store anything. So still pretty easy.
The books are over a century old so while I didn’t click with them either it’s easy to set why they’re not up to modern standards.
The movie bombing had many more reasons. Disney got a new CEO while it was being made who didn’t believe in it, so it basically got no marketing at all. It also demanded script changes during filming, which is why the character of Dejah Thoris alternates between powerful woman and damsel in distress throughout the movie. And there was a dispute over what the movie should be called. IMHO John Carter is the worst title they could have gone for, my personal favourite would have been Barsoom.
But yeah, for everyone who missed it it is definitely worth a watch, it’s a contender for the most expensive and beautifully made B-movie of all time.
I usually tell people running MySQL that they would probably be better off using a NoSQL key-value store, SQLite, or PostgreSQL, in that order. Most people using MySQL don’t actually need an RDBMS. MySQL occupies this weird niche of being optimised for mostly reads, not a lot of concurrency and cosplaying as a proper database while being incompatible with SQL standards.
Yes and no. It came at a time when TV makers weren’t allowed to assume their viewers would watch every episode, in the right order. So while it does have a big overarching story, half the episodes are stupid filler episodes so people wouldn’t fall too far behind it they missed one or two. If it were made a couple of years later they could have gone hard in every episode.
Watched the trailer expecting it to be bad in a fun way but ended up bewildered how even the trailer looks this terrible.