If you do compile something, it is very easy to make it an installable package you could share. I’m not sure how the repos are managed

Can I request a hack? How do I handle several different versions of Python installed, which one is used for pip stuff, and how sudo/running as services changes all of this.

I’ve had a couple jobs with wonderful overtime pay, in those cases my overtime was usually while traveling to places I’d rather not be. More cash to spend when I got home was great. Better than sitting in a hotel room doom scrolling

I’m uninformed, why were things like snap and flatpak created?

I barely understand docker, but I’m starting to understand why it can be beneficial, although bloated.

I chose to set up grafana, mqtt, etc for an RV instead of home assistant. Little more lightweight for the raspberry pi 3 I used. Pulling together solar info, so we could see how long the AC would keep running on the road

KiCAD for circuit boards FreeCAD to import those boards and do everything else

Mint is great. It also works well out of the box in virtual machines. I like the MATE versions for my older machines.

There is a major shift happening right now, and mint is slower than many to adopt changes. I’d argue that’s good for mint users, but it may be bad for you personally if you plan to learn about modern linux. Idgaf personally about X11 vs Wayland, because I just need to be able to use my programs.

There’s university programs and even guys in their garages who do a lot of the processes in small batches on very old nodes. For example, a material science program may be trying to find new transistor materials, where the nodes don’t matter much. ASML is not the only tooling manufacturer, but they are very good at it. EUV sources are very complicated, so that is a large barrier to overcome. Many smaller outfits like Qorvo run fabs in North America that you may not know about. Clean rooms are a requirement, but that’s not a significant barrier at the very small scale (an entire university may only have one, most experiments done outside of it). Nothing is done by a single machine, it takes an entire building of machines (and supporting facilities)

Are the entire blueprints for Airbus’s manufacturing facilities open to the public?

If you are interested in broad concepts that are surprisingly similar processes in a factory, I might suggest watching printed circuit board factory tours. Lithography is lithography.

Don’t ever run random scripts from the Internet unless you understand every line.

ISO download from Microsoft directly. Use Rufus to make an installer USB. Click the “I do not have a license key” option. Who cares about the watermark.

Even if the French could communicate in English, would anyone want to have a conversation with a Frenchman?