I've been tossing around CI pipelines for my work just for mirroring because of the patch work of support that repos have right now ...

I have to admit the fact that I got the metaphor BEFORE I got all of the technical aspects might be a sign that it was given more attention than projects normally do. I personally love how fun and dorky it is though

Thanks for the link

And migrate /opt and /home (or even remotely mount) so that user data is preserved outside of the system!

Both features make system admin much more sane!

The RAIL one?

There is a lot of cool federated learning frameworks, federated inference seems less fleshed out with petals.dev being the only example I know of for it.

How good is nix system config to OCI container? I really need to get my hands on it more, because that seems like a good experience to me. Maybe even use it as a build system for OCI/k8s config map generator/k8s manifest builder so I can define a system and build out the pieces needed to deploy on distributed system if need be.

Krita is my favorite drawing tool, don't know if that helps, but I like it

My first thought too. Like at first I was "oh cool apple is implementing that too for their pricy headset", but to patent the thing I already used at a demo at defcon last year (wifi signal piece at least) and what the hololens has been marketing around for years, absolutely wild.

Checkout The Thought Emporium for open source developments on this

Sweet, I'm glad the recommendation is working for you!

Have you checked out podman desktop or rancher desktop?