I also greatly appreciate blogs and articles. Still, that is not to say videos are useless. There are still a lot of great technical videos out there
I understand your sentiment. I wonder, if one were to “recruit” a lot of popular youtubers to stream in a decentralized fediverse manner by offering to make a simple hardware solution for them, would it encourage others to follow? How much of an investment would that be? Presumably you could keep the hardware “product” going and if more catch on they could also be directed towards your solution as helping them get in (quicker to market) as the network effect grows.
One would need to address the way people could monetize themselves aside from getting direct viewer support via subscriptions or donations.
Guess this is what happens when a post in the lemmy verse gets about 100 comments.
Can’t people just make new accounts? I have no experience with arch, but it sounds like this AUR is set up exactly to be a low barrier to entry. Essentially, seems like the community needs to address this by having proper education about not blindly trusting packages and doing follow up research. Otherwise, a lot of grunt work will be needed to verify every package before hand, which is expensive
I appreciate rust as much as the next dev. But you can define your own types in C just as well? And with the proper warnings and errors -Wall -Werror in place, any warning is an error, and implicit conversions should probably be a warning right?
ETA: Just tried with the following C code and could not get it to fail with gcc.
typedef int t_0;
typedef long t_1;
t_0 test() {
t_1 foo = 1;
return foo;
}
Tried with gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror and it compiled just fine.
I would always recommend against normal users from straying away from the most beaten path. These more technical appealing distros are for advanced users that have specific purpose and use cases in mind. Yeah, in particular, users that adjust their environment frequently (maybe for software development purposes), and want to ensure system stability at the same time.