commit 9748befba83e44cbcf43c9a22dc94008a7621571 Author: Alexander Mahr Date: Tue Dec 31 07:39:47 2024 +0100 setup non-offensive non-opinionated docu diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ca30dd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Questions + +> "The more you know, the less you know" + +This list of questions will keep record about the evergrowing number of things that +"could" benefit from being answered, or at the least being asked. + +## Concept + +* Each question here can feature "thoughts" that describe, or elaborate on the questions +background. +* For each a list of potential imperfect or outright "wrong" answers are provided for the +"be-spass-ment/be-lustig-ing of the estimed" reader. +* Free speech (as in USA 1st Ammendment should be assumed). Imperfect and lacking copies of that "i.e. the +pity of German GG Meinungsfreiheit" is not enough and a grain of salt is recommended +* Links to Q&A sites (e.g. stackexchange) is provided +* Unpolishedness is and error is the required ingredient to provoke appreciated of true beauty..., +* Imperfection resuscitate! +* I like smileys, but not as much as I would wanna use unicode, so ASCII all the way `;-p` + +## List of Questions + + +### Is Ubuntu the Windows of the Linux world? + +* Maybe the Dbus and the whole XDG totally is totally frustatring, needlessly "provoking excess complication" of principly understandable principles? +* Are there enough similarities? +``` +- Ubutu (when choosing among linux Distros) is like choosing Windows, mostly a decision of afraid "cover-your-ass" management +- is "snapd" a great way to infringe the value of "packages" (one could argue a core value proposition of distributions as in "set of packages"). +- Install is GUI? +- Configuration is GUI? +- Targeted noob users? +``` + + +### What is the point of Android Studio ? + +* Maybe, to install bloated software from Google, why? +* As with Ubuntu vs KISS-Linux, the GUI-klicki-bunti should "empower" the noobs which one could argue below some level of mastery are better adviced to leave it to the "adults". If you need an IDE to work... + +. + + + + +## What is the point of Gradle in Android build? + +Advertised as a "help/assistence" with dependencies, it strikes the at first sight by +not even being able to setup the JAVA and furthermore the ANDROID SDK... `:*(` ? + +* now you might say, well it "uses java" so it is a "hen-egg-issue" ? +* then however the whole "we go back to `gradlew` (yes we can spell it gradlew, why even say `gradle-Wrapper-script` or similar.... )" is basicly a shell script +* worse it it a "dual-boot" inclode the WINDOWS-NOOBS (did we mention that using windows .... (fun!!!) +* anyway, bottom line is that of all the dependecy management, gradle is "at best" only able to "help"(loosing the word rather loosely here) with the `*jar` help +* Is gradle an elaborate joke? Is Java's ideas a joke? +* why is it so "slow" +* why does it need to setup a daemon (making eversomore unfit for being quickly spun-up in the CI/CD) +* I know that Makefiles are hard and have shortcomings.. but the comparison of "overly complicated groovy, now kotlin-DSL" (and no it is not the internet conntion DSL, rahte the "we so cool, we so industry-standard-ish") +* is Gradle possible because people rightly were dsappointed, annoyed, "blessed" by the `XML shitiness` (yes ANT looking at you) +* Does the madness of `AndroidManifest.xml` which we then have to make into a "binary" version because of the verbosity of the XML sucks... +* why is there just no case in which XML did not start stinking , when scaled??? + +