Not what I was expecting.
A lot is about the temporality of the word. I would like to add the psychology as well. It is to lessen the blow when confronted with the news your account got banned. Using the words 'suspended indefinitely' for it has a different impact:
Your account got banned.
Your account has been suspended indefinitely until further notice.
It is the same reason why we like to say someone has passed away, instead of died. Or we like to use lobbying for bribery.
This wording always has me imagining beefy American footballers tackling stained carpets.
Another FYI: winget is usable if you wish to use a native solution. It has its shortcomings over choco, but usable.
You are correct. I just have a coworker that has ingrained the philosophy in me to always look for a way to put it in configuration, and not in a script that you have to maintain.
I don't always agree with that. And I find your solution as valid as mine. It is always a matter of taste and trust. In this case in the script, or the fsdriver. That's why I always quote the "easier" when comparing solutions to Linux problems.
But you can still get a bunch of good ones on the second hand markets. Also, NUCs are still a thing. Intel deemed the formfactor mature enough too pull out themselves and leave it too the partners to develop further.
I am no expert. But I think there is an 'easier' way too manage this with an overlay filesystem.
Have an immutable base with all permissions set. When a session is started have it be done in an in-memory overlay. On logout drop the overlay.
This might be easier if you don't want to rely on cronjobs. But as I have no experience myself setting this up... 'easier' should be taken with a grain of salt. I just took inspiration from docker.
If we talk about solutions: python has plenty. Which might be overwhelming to the user.
I use Direnv to manage my python projects. I just have to add layout pyenv 3.12.0 on top and it will create the virtual environment for me. And it will set my shell up to use that virtual environment as I enter that directory. And reset back to default when I leave the directory.
But you could use pipenv, poetry, pdm, conda, mamba for your environment management. Pip and python do not care.
And maybe microplastics have the opposite effect. But this is just speculation, and afaik no sources support this.
Edit: I dunno why I got downvoted. Maybe I should be more specific that my claim, "maybe microplastics have the opposite effect", has no support. I didn't mean OP's claim was unsupported.
According to the WHO, 50% of all statistics are made up. Unsourced statistics have an even higher diagnosis rate: 70%!
But who would lie on the internet?
Yeah, more like that. Mine is from bing.
Also tried Firefly and only got stacks of paper out of that one.