Well hopefully you can’t harm your computer with userland programs. Windows is perhaps a bit messy at this, generally, but Unix-like systems have pretty good protections against non-superusers interfering with either the system itself, or other users on the system.
Having drivers run in the kernel and applications run in userland also means unintentional application errors generally won’t crash your entire system. Which is pretty important…
It helps with compile time. I don’t know why exactly rust macros are slow, and precompiling them helps. Unfortunately, it means distributing a binary along your build process which I personally think is not worth the few seconds of build time speedup.
Btw I do think it is a technically clever solution to improving build times. I’m convinced serde’s author is trying to improve the project and this does address one of the common complaints. Clever solutions are not always the right ones though.
Yeah, exactly. Commercial social media sites pay workers in low-wage countries to moderate content. Plenty of stories out there about the toll it takes on them, but it’s easy enough for the commercial sites to just keep finding more cheap labor. Fedi is mostly volunteers so it’s quite different, and much more visible.
Install the Mono package using the package manager. Then you should be able to copy your application to the NAS and run it in a terminal.
Yeah, security is in layers and userland isn’t automatically “safe”, if that’s what you’re pointing out. So I did mention non-superusers. Separating the kernel from userland applications is also critically important to (try to) prevent non-superusers from accessing APIs and devices which only superusers (or those in particular groups) are able to reach.