Any flavor of vi, Gnu Screen, lrzsz, bash with the usual cli tools (awk, sed, grep, tail, head, rev, cat, tac, and recently jq and yq). Also openssh client. Some flavor of netcat is also crazy useful too. This is a good home for me to do my thing.

Edir: oh, and git. How did I forget git?!

cpio is way worse

To this day I still don’t upgrade OSes in general and I even evangelize “rip and replace” professionally so loudly that it’s now enforced via policy at my workplace. This must be where my ethos for this practice originated.

I think it was SLS. I know it took a pile of floppies. At some point I made a tape to make it easier to install. Why I needed to install that often eludes my aging memory but those experiences still pay to this day.

Ext4 is the safe bet for a beginner. The real question is with or without LVM. Generally I would say with but that abstraction layer between the filesystem and disk can really be confusing if you’ve never dealt with it before. A total beginner should probably go ext4 without LVM and then play around in a VM with the various options to become informed enough to do something less vanilla.

“Nevermind, I figured it out.”

Terminal plus Gnu Screen plus vim makes the BEST IDE /for me/.

As with all tech; it depends. It’s another tool in my toolbox and a useful one at that. Will it replace me in my job? Not anytime soon. However, it will make me more proficient at my job and my 30+ years of experience will keep its bad ideas out of production. If my bosses decide tomorrow that I can be replaced with AI in the current state, they deserve what they have coming. That said, they are willing to pay for additional tooling provided me with multiple AI engines and I can’t be more thrilled. I’d rather give AI a simple task to do the busy work than work with overseas developers that get it wrong time and time again and take a week to iterate while asking how for loops work in Python.

I would argue this is only for apps you CAN trust. Bad actors gonna act badly.

Yeah, imagine a company being so dug into ruining the user experience.

What’s that supposed to mean!!! ;-) seriously, I overlooked it and your comment looked like it came from left field. My bad; pobody’s nerfect.

Fair… I somehow overlooked that. My apologies.

You’re the first one to bring it up here.

That’s not Rob Swanson; it’s Duke Silver.

Crack and cocaine are the same drug! From https://americanaddictioncenters.org/cocaine-treatment/differences-with-crack: “Pharmacologically, cocaine and crack are the same substance.”

The enshitification of capitalism? Color me shocked!

Homer should be labeled “Red Hat” in this day and age.

Switzerland will always be the cheese holyland.