I recently ended up on Debian’s “Don’t Break Debian” page while looking for advice about installing software that isn’t available in the standard repositories. The page contains plenty of sensible warnings, including one about running sudo make install and hoping for the best. That was where I discovered checkinstall. Debian recommends it as a better option when you need to compile a program from source but still want your installation to behave like a package....
This is a rant. Every few years, a new phone comes out with a better camera, a faster processor, and a slightly brighter screen. Laptops become thinner. TVs get bigger. Advertisements and social media make it feel as though our current devices are suddenly outdated the moment a new model appears. The message is subtle but constant: You need the latest and greatest. But do we really? For the past several years, I’ve been using hardware that most people would probably consider “obsolete....
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