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  • have a temperamental internet connection at home

    Love this description. :D

    I don’t use Fedora or dnf, but looking at the manual on https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/dnf.8.html I could find following:

     dnf [options] upgrade <package-spec>...
                  Updates each specified package to the latest available
                  version. Updates dependencies as necessary. When versions
                  are specified in the <package-spec>, update to these
                  versions.
    
    dnf [options] upgrade-minimal
                  Updates each package to the latest available version that
                  provides a bugfix, enhancement or a fix for a security
                  issue (security).
    

    So I assume you can just specify which package to upgrade only.The minimal variant does not support specific packages, but maybe a good idea to get all important stuff in one batch first. Then the general upgrade command would have less work to do I guess. At least here on the Arch side, upgrading a single package is absolutely not recommended. But I don’t know how dnf handles this.

    Also on Archlinux with pacman each package gets downloaded before the installation process begins. So if your internet goes away while downloading, it does not matter, because next time it will only download the rest of the packages and continue from that point. And it only starts installing locally after everything is downloaded from internet. Now, as said I don’t know how dnf handles this, but would assume it does it similar.








  • They do more than just autocomplete, even in autocomplete mode. These Ai tools suggest entire code blocks and logic and fill in multiple lines, compared to a standard autocomplete. And to use it as a standard autocomplete tool, no Ai is needed. Using it like that wouldn’t be bad anyway, so I have nothing against it.

    The problems arise when the Ai takes away the thinking and brain functionality of the actual programmer. Plus you as a user get used to it and basically “addicted”. Independent thinking and programming without Ai will become harder and harder, if you use it for everything.




  • Unless you actually interact with the developer. Such cases are in example when you do a bug report and discuss this. Or in social media. But its not only about the interaction, but the toxicity of the person towards other people and projects. Also if I am interested and using a tool, then I will probably read blog posts, update notes and so on too.

    Even if I don’t interact with someone, I don’t have to support bad behavior. I also don’t have much faith into the project with a human I dislike how the person treats others. If you don’t care and are unaffected by it, its your decision to do what you want and accept.