You need to find every occurrence of flag4 and remove references to it. So that boolean expression would need to have `&& flag4` removed.

Cambridge dictionary lists cringe as adjective.

Merriam-Webster lists cringe as adjective.

Might need to update your understanding.

... what?

Say what you want about starship etc etc, but space in space is far from free and will be for a long time.

To me, it's disrespectful to expect someone to waste their day reading every word of a blog post when even the author has not read every word. It shows that you value your time over your reader's time.

I agree this is true a lot of the time, speaking as someone who has made many Yocto messes and later regretted. But you also can't discount all of the messes made by silicon OEMs that you are forced to deal with to use their SoCs.

E.g. I recently did a project with Yocto on a Zynq US+. Look at the meta-xilinx layerset (or, God forbid, petalinux) and tell me they haven't made a complete mess of it.

The complexity and lack of upstreaming in kernel and userspace for so many of these SoCs, coupled with non standard boot process and devicetrees means you will be forced to use these terrible OEM layers. I don't think a new build system can fix this at all, it's a cultural/commitment that needs to change from the OEMs.

At the end of the day, of you are doing any complex embedded Linux work as a small team, you must use Yocto because it's what the OEM supports. I don't have time or resource to debug DFX not working because some userspace tool was built with slightly different flags than expected by the flaky ass xilinx upstream.

1. For one-off designs (quantity=1) ASICs will never beat a high end FPGA on unit price.

2. As a hobbyist, you want to EXPERIMENT. You cannot do that with an ASIC. Hobbyists want to do something simple, test it on real hardware, and slowly build up from that. I don't have the time nor expertise nor motivation to spend months writing verification to get it right the first time for a tapeout.

"Just use a microcontroller"... I will concede that microcontrollers do cover 90% of hobbyists use cases (that number increasing by the day). But for hobbyists sometimes you want to learn HDL or digital logic or computer engineering. You can do this hands on with a FPGA much more effectively than in software.

> It's probably cheaper for them to maintain Windows for one reason or another.

They already need to maintain the Linux build for all the other paid tiers?? These are the same software with different features locked behind a license key. It costs them NOTHING to keep the build enabled for free tier.

Really? In my experience it's the rank-and-file employees who have this knowledge of how to get on with it without ceremony and politics. And the broken processes and politics are created BY the middle managers.

1. Lack of faith in the company they work for, ie they don't fully "believe in the vision"

2. Love of tinkering and programming

I haven't noticed age factoring in at all. Working far far away from ant tech hub areas might be a factor as well.