Yes when you are in charge of that then it is something different.
In our company we luckily have the possibility to run containers at all those stages (we are also developing container images for customers) but as developer it's still a good thing to know alternatives. It may save you time because requiring containers decides whether your build can only run on 10 new linux build agents or on all 80 that are currently deployed.
"The claim was that we needed to set up containers in our developer machines in order to run tests against a modern glibc." At first you are absolutely correct that you don't need containers for that. But then on the other hand, hey I wouldn't work for a company where I need to provide an explanation to get containers on my developer machine.
If you use Home Assistant you just need a cheap zigbee adapter instead of the ikea thing. If not use something like zigbee2mqtt which provides you an api.
As long as none of your csv producers are using microsoft products or live outside the US. In europe csv is terrible with different delimiter depending on system language and such nasty things just because of excel.
It depends on your goal. If you want to build the bomb and survive in the long run, it will be difficult. If you just want to make a big bang with no other requirements, unfortunately it's pretty easy to do.
We could be happy about the two things that it is not that easy to get enough plutonium in the required purity and that most people love their lives.
Good news. Bitcoin and this enormous waste of energy should get forbidden anyway. It does hurt the environment and has no real advantage over existing infrastructure.
After Ubuntu began to use all those snaps I tried Debian in 2020. Switched to Debian Buster (10) and soon back to Ubuntu because it was not usable for me. In 2023 I tried again with Debian Bookworm (12) and I'm not missing anything. It's a great distro.
In our company we luckily have the possibility to run containers at all those stages (we are also developing container images for customers) but as developer it's still a good thing to know alternatives. It may save you time because requiring containers decides whether your build can only run on 10 new linux build agents or on all 80 that are currently deployed.