As far as I can tell it separates the base os from user changes which could break things by forcing you to use containers by annoying you to death any time you’re trying to permanently install a package.

It’s fine but it seems better for servers than users.

Caddy certainly was the easier option but it’s as complex as nginx now and id argue it’s hard to to use.

It’s actually n-jynx duh

Actual tldr seems to be: There was an option to hardcode cpu count intended for fixed devices as in embedded systems where you might compile the kernel specifically for your device. This made it slightly smaller and faster. People did dumb things with this and used it so wrong that the toy was taken away.

Very uninteresting article, super disappointing Lemmy even showed it.