It doesn’t hide what’s under the hood and permits to fix/modify it. Yes, I’m a nerd.

I have no idea. It depends on your locale on mac.

You probably need to pass the iocharset mount option.

I almost never use xargs. The most common case for it is find, but it is easier to use its -exec option. Also, with find your example is incorrect. You forgot that file names can contain special characters, the newline character in particular. That’s why you need to pass -print0 option to find and -0 option to xargs.

Antivirus wont protect you if you run everything you find in the interhet. You need to be smart enough to avoid cracking. But if you are smart enough, you don’t need an antivirus.

Have you tried NetBSD?

Debian.

There are no download managers because it is unlikely you are still on dial-up in 2026. There are no torrent clients because they would consume a lot of traffic and battery (unless they are leech-only that would break the whole torrent ecosystem).

Are there similar cases in the wild?

I live in another country, however the idea is the same as I wrote above: this all is about direct copying.

So what is the case we are speaking about? “Hey LLM, write the OS kernel that is fully compatible with Linux, designed like Linux, uses the same algorithms as Linux and the same code style as Linux”?

So, everything depends on how you define substantial similarities. My opinion is that if there are no copy-and-pasted chunks of code (except for trivial), there are no substantial similarities.

It’s not the topic we discussed, right?

Also, what if one implement proprietary software that is completely different from open source project they studied? They still may use knowledge they obtained when studying, e. g. by reusing algorithms, patterns or even code formatting. This is a common case for LLM coding assistants.

There’s no such a word as plagiarism in free licenses nor in copyright laws. One could violate copyrights or patents or not. Copyleft licenses do not forbid what you call plagiarism. If you want to forbid this as well as training LLMs on your code, you need a new type of license. However I’m unsure if such a license could be considered free by FSF or approved by OSI.

One of the four essential freedoms is the freedom to study the software and modify it. Studying means training your brain on the open source code. Can one use their brain to write proprietary code after they studied some copylefted code?

Your family will hate you if you’ll change their distro and DE every time you visit them. Distro hopping is normal for the first couple of years, but do it on your own machine.

Why custom? There’s 6.17 in trixie-backports.

I mean not much difference in hardware support.

Ubuntu is the wrong choice for any server.

In general, I agree. But I don’t want do participate in holy wars.

Don’t expect much difference between Debian and Ubuntu. I guess you just need to install a newer kernel package from backports.