Beej Jorgensen

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you’re curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

The double-edged sword of isolation.

On the one hand, poor communication between apps and waste of storage.

On the other, relative safety from malicious applications, or from otherwise-safe applications built on top of a thousand libraries none of which have been audited by the dev.

I don’t know how it’s going to go down, but I suspect something will come along to address these issues and snatch the market away from Flatpak.