Honestly, at this point, this sounds like the optimistic outlook.
MystikIncarnate
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AFAIK: Gentoo used to be just source repos, but times have changed. Gentoo repos now have binaries. You can opt out of them, so it's up to you.
With binaries, it works like any other distro. Download the updated binaries, install, done.
If you go from source, then it will download all the source code, and do the whole makefile thing, and install the new binaries when the compile is done, every time you do an update.
So the direct answer to your question is: it depends. If you're compiling everything then yes, you need to recompile everything that is updated. If you're going to opt for binaries in the package manager, then no.
That too. FFS.
I just want the OS to run things, and get out of my way. Windows used to fit that description.
I went out of my way to get a TPM from my systems OEM. I'm a tech, I've built dozens of machines without issue. I personally use a Dell, because I can't be arsed to deal with it for my own kit.
Granted, the Dell I'm using can easily fit the HEDT description, but still.
I'm still using Windows 10 because fuck Windows 11. I am forced to use that shit for work and I hate it. I'm constantly in need of stuff from the settings/control panel to fix other people's shit, and every time I go to settings, shit is somewhere different, buttons are moved or entirely missing... It's a right fucking mess.
On any Windows 10 system, I go to control panel, find the appropriate item, such as programs and features, or network and sharing center, etc... And all the controls are there, working, and haven't changed in any meaningful way since XP.
The thing that Microsoft seems to have abandoned is sent semblance of consistency. They're so deep in the shit with their CD/CI with the settings panel that for every feature build of Windows 10/11, the settings menu will have options in dramatically different locations. The main difference between 10 and 11 here is that, in Windows 10, the control panel was still in one piece. In Windows 11, several control panel icons now take you to the settings menu "equivalents" to the cpl you're looking for.
This is particularly bad with printing. Omg. How tf do I check/change the fucking driver in use for a printer in the fucking Windows 11 settings menu? If I go through what's left of the control panel, and go to devices and printers, I get taken to the settings menu for devices which includes a section for printers, so I go into printers, and I have to hunt down a moving target for where tf they put the button to open the control panel printers and devices dialog, which seems to change weekly. Then I can open the printer settings dialog and see what driver is in use on the advanced tab, or what fucking port it's connected to.... Which, when you deal with network printers, is a pretty fucking important piece of information. Then, half the time the printer port is a fucking wsd, and I have to go spelunking into the registry to find it's fucking IP address.
Wsd ports are fine right up until they fuck up, which happens frequently, TCP/IP ports don't really have any problems at all. So why the fuck are we moving everyone to fucking wsd ports? Where is the benefit? Explain Microsoft! Explain!
It's so goddamned frustrating to use as a technician. A lot of this stuff doesn't really apply to steam users or home users in general, because these menus aren't really looked at a lot. So the TPM requirement is the usual suspect for people's frustrations with Windows 11.
I wouldn't give nearly as much of a shit if they would just leave things where they are. I would only need to learn where the buttons and knobs and dialogs are once, and that would be it. But they have a bug shoved so far up their ass about making "improvements" that I can't rely on anything staying where it is.
I'm certain there would be a pile of unpatched vulnerabilities with windows 7.
I would not recommend it.
This is exactly the first thing that comes to mind. There's surely a large number of average people, who don't care or have any interest in what Elon has been doing, or anything else....
People who can't readily afford to just throw away a vehicle because the owner of the company is a shithead.
But yeah. Fuck cyber trucks. Never liked those eyesores anyways
I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn't sell parts for a long time.
They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.
IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.
Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There's no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account.... Mostly. And because of this, I've been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don't like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.
The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn't be necessary. But it is. They're worse than John Deere in my books.
I'm any case, I generally don't support vandalism, especially when it's in the realm of "destruction of property". The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don't want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.
No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn't ask for this. They're not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.
Fair enough. I honestly just think they can't see the forest because of all the trees in the way.
They'll cry foul on someone insisting on being called by they/them pronouns, arguing that it's an incorrect usage of they/them, or whatever the argument of the week is, then immediately use they/them pronouns for an individual in a different context without batting an eye, or even realizing what they've done.
Ignorance and hypocrisy.
Culture war, race war, nationalism wars....
As long as it's not a class war, they're okay with it.
Thank you. I'm elated to hear that most don't get offended at genuine mistakes.
That's all I really needed.
I still don't get why people have such an issue calling people what they want to be called.
You don't balk at a guy or a girl named Robin, or Alex, or any of a hundred different androgynous names....
But you take issue with "he", "she", and "them"?
Why?
My only problem, and to be clear this is entirely my problem, nobody else's, is that I'm so dumb, I frequently forget and call someone he/she when they prefer they/them. I fuck it up sometimes. I try, but decades of societal norms are getting in the way of me getting it right sometimes.
To every person who identifies as they/them please forgive me because I'm going to screw it up. Just correct me when I say it and hopefully in time my brain will stop making this mistake.
As long as their line goes up, they don't give a fuck about the environment.