Windows ran fine on the machine (Lenovo 200) before, and Linux ran fine after. FFS (and the intel video drivers) are the weakest part of OpenBSD in my experience, I liked many other aspects.

like out-of-control global warming, depletion of freshwater reserves, destruction of soil, mass surveillance, extremely uneven distribution of resources. I mean all previous innovations which were supposed to allow working less somehow never materialized in working less, and the quality of life improvements are greatly questionable, basically keeping the production-consumption machinery takes up all the surplus it produces, while depleting the resources we have.

The great achievements we have are much like the Moai statues on the Easter Island.

Gathering more resources so the overlords can have more humans enslaved with shinier golden handcuffs, who can consume more so number line goes up is not a meaningful goal to pursuit, and robotic-only commercially rationalized spaceflight has only this to offer.

Scientific discovery, so we can have better simulations about things of no use or effect on us? Why? Taking people to places and utilizing the resources there, and building a more resilient humanity is a worthy endeavor, and while robots are useful for that, ultimately human spaceflight (or interplanetary/interstellar travel) is he goal, not having only a space industry.

Guess also don't give money to Google (and other privacy-invading, usually US companies)?

disclaimer: I only use Siri for voice dial (worked on my Ericsson T20!), and it is extremely unreliable, and setting kitchen timers.

What did you expect on this SV VC funded site? There is a serious selection bias here, and in all SV.

it is a standard way, well documented. And local. Suppose you need a new minor version quickly of a package or a dependency... with traditional package managers you have different versions of difficulty setting up the build environment (I have done rpm and pkgsrc packaging alike, also portage), and it may be pretty involved to do an update of a dependency somewhere. pkgsrc (and ports style package management) is really handy if you need to do some custom stuff in a no-fuss way.

Also if you have compiled a fair amount of packages, you know painful it can be sometimes, broken automake config, random esoteric build tools, and if ever had to target non-linux, then all of these are amplified.

IMHO pkgsrc is relatively simple to comprehend, and easy to get started, compared to other build packaging solutions. Not as fast or fancy, but very rugged and can work "offline" as other comments called out.

The datastructures already did the heavy lifting. The syntax was not something to struggle with, but it was the natural way to stick the bits together.

JavaScript for one never gave me this feeling, and I always felt that either the language, or the libraries, but something was always a struggle to overcome. (Python too... seriously, working with collections is a pain in the "pythonic" way for someone who has experienced LINQ... and for most line of business apps it is all about working with collections.)

Some "smart" TVs could do skype in the past, I'm not sure if they needed external headsets of worked with builtin mikes.