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Physics is a mathematical model with the most proven utility to humans.

If you have a model more applicable to a situation, youre free to use it, but its pretty unlikely to be as broadly applicable as modern mathematical physics (A thousand times so when considering computers).

But yeah the study of physics is 100% math (And its not 100% a perfect model of reality! Thats why we study it).

Finally, the first negative efficiency solar panel

The only substance I can see to it is when do you draw the line from a modified Debian (or Ubuntu) setup to a “new” distro?

If you start with an Ubuntu image its technically possible to ship of Theseus it right into an Arch image, but you could argue the default config of both is best representative of the actual distro maintainers goal (even if irrelevant to power users).

(Saying this all as a NixOS user with a system that hardly even looks like Linux sometimes so maybe I’m a bit biased on how blurry all the lines are lmao)

Modular custom single-program kernel running in a VM live migrated across a cluster?