The quote is from the founder of hashicorp and is fairly influential. Choosing to let his also influential friends ruin people’s lives instead of publicly speaking the truth makes him an asshole. Chances are you and your ex-lover are not influential so I don’t give a fuck what you do.

I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends

From the quote at the top. I keep seeing permutations of this and all I can say is these people are cowards

Anything but collecting bargaining eh

You can write a whole essay of theory, but my experience is running several arch devices for years and years with no problems and having ubuntu distro upgrades break so badly I just reinstall completely every single time.

Another hiccup is that LTS are not actually running stable packages. They are running Frankenstein versions of packages with backports that are not supported by the project maintainers, because the software has to be maintained for security if nothing else.

That is true. The fact you have to even do that is a lot for some people though. There are other things as well such as wifi calling and visual voicemail not working out of the box for all carriers.

GrapheneOS for example also is fully there already

There are some caveats to that. You do have to jump through some hoops to for instance get RCS working. I think it is worth it to feel like I’m actually in control of my device, and I would even recommend it to friends and family that I’m willing to play tech support for, but I can’t truthfully say I would recommend it to an arbitrary non technical person

I use arch because it is the boring but stable system. Rolling release means you just keep updating it and it works forever rather than having to do big bang upgrades between LTS versions that always break something

From a worker standpoint, while you’re researching that thing you can find for yourself, someone of equal skill to you that is leveraging AI has solved 3 of those issues. And someone with more skill has solved 10. And someone with lesser has either crashed the network, or solved that same 1.

This is complete fantasy. I’ve personally watched like 10 SEs decide LLMs are the best things since sliced bread and talk up how much more productive they are and without exception they’re all to varying degrees just worse at their job. Same for every other role I’ve observed as well, though I have fewer data points.