manned_meatball

Replace Manjaro for EndeavourOS and it's a fine chart

My own intricate system of 4 git repos to manage dotfiles, bash initialization, cli tools/scripts, and system state.

The last one keeps track of installed packages and "dotfiles" out of the home directory (system config files like /etc/hosts).

yes

as one of their customers, I second this

I don't have a specific recommendation (I could just give out names of tools that seem to match your needs but I can't really say I've used any), but in your place I'd reconsider your last requirement of "no connection to the DB".

In my view the best docs are the ones that take the least effort to keep up-to-date. Consider a tool that's able to dynamically list and extract schemas from your existing tables and generate a nice HTML or diagram that can be used as a quick and up-to-date reference. That will require little or zero maintenance compared to a manual diagramming tool. So I'd start looking there.

Depending on the project and usage I'd also consider exposing the database through an API. This makes documentation much easier too, as there are tools to auto generate API docs and you'll decouple your DB schema + access from its usage, which has its own benefits.

Is there a web archive equivalent to github repos? At least for the most popular ones.

I know there are hard copies in Svalbard's seed vault, but they're more for a one-in-thousands-of-years post-apocalyptic scenarios than this.

Without knowing the "higher" reality, I'd still call it a simulation. An emulator is capable of replacing the "real" system it's emulating. Maybe that's your view on the topic, but I find it more likely the higher reality is more complex than ours because it contains ours. Therefore our reality could not be an emulation. Lots of speculation though.

cause it looks cooler

- the victim was having a fever, your honor!

duh

that assumes you already have a credit line, as one should.

you would do Donnie Darko? No judgement, that's understandable