It was not really “deployed” by a lot of people in the same sense.

It was forced upon most of us(not me, I used BeOS then Debian then FreeBSD).

I deployed phoenix.

The reason SQLite is the most deployed is that it's used by Android.

…and iOS, and Windows, and Mac OS, and Boeing, and Sony, and Firefox and Chrome and Safari…

Yes, which goes in line with the argument that claiming that it's "the most deployed" as proof of superiority or suitability for any use case is equivalent to claiming the same for Internet Explorer. It's the most deployed because it's bundled in a lot of systems, not because people are purposefully using it as a DBMS.

But it doesn't, because none of those systems are presenting SQLite to the user as something they should be using; they don't even make SQLite available to the user at all. Those systems all use SQLite internally to manage data.

If the realism is important, it does matter. If realism is not important("strong symbolism"), then it is not important.

What are these Linux distributions “in the middle”?

I use FreeBSD and Arch primarily. FreeBSD gives me a lot of customisation options(ports ftw) while at the same time, it’s remarkably stable.

With Arch I find myself praying shit won’t break with every update, and a lot of 3rd party software just don’t work.

Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers.

Depending where on the rather broad spectrum between Arch and MacOS you want to be (GP switched from Arch to MacOS because Arch needs maintenance and can break) I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more.

> Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers.

It sounds like you were using Arch on a sever. You use Arch if you are happy fixing breaking changes. its not for something you just want to keep running.

Specifically for servers Debian is an obvious choice. Suse and a few others are fine too. Possibly Alpine if you want something lighter. Nix if it appeals to you. Void is supposed to be a stable rolling distro and is probably appealing to a BSD user. Many more.

And what are those many health issues shared between snus and cigarettes?

As an ex snusare and ex smoker, this is a pretty wild claim to make my friend

Looks like my information is a bit outdated. Some published research do state that snus cause increased risk of certain cancers (e.g. esophageal, pancreatic, stomach cancer, colorectal, oral and pharyngeal cancer), but some newer research suggest that this inconclusive.

The other primary risks are things which tie more to nicotine in general (like stroke & various effects on pregnancy including increased risk of stillbirth).

No it isn’t.

Honestly, your suggestions found just as awful.

Bloated sites need to go. Putting makeup on the pig and it’s still a pig.

I think the suggestions were a joke.

It looks like you guys are both in alignment.

CSS has advanced to a point, where you can add quite a bit of interactive “bling” to a site, with very little code.

It’s a favourable structure in many cases.

Not everything is a business.

OpenAI wasn’t, until it was.

You cannot use excessive force, though.

He could have handled this better by calling the campus police.

You are vastly overstating how much maintenance a FreeBSD box has.

Show me those benchmarks

From every benchmark I've seen so far, Linux has always been faster than the BSDs.

For example, look at these benchmarks from 2003[1]. The newest benchmarks I could find[2], [3] point in the same direction.

[1] http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

[2] https://matteocroce.it/blog/freebsd_linux_networking/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-15-amd-epyc-linux

The comment I replied to pointed out that the benchmarks were old, which I agree with.

Both 1 and 2 are old and irrelevant, the 3rd has no clear winner?