I recently tried to migrate a rust crate from rust edition 2018 to 2021. The easy part was migrating the code for my current target

The story of how I actually contacted the microsoft hotline and tried for two hours to prove I'm not hacking my own account just, because I didn't use it enough.

So you want to run mysql/mariadb on linux in an unprivileged user, with a custom path (instead of /tmp, /var/run..) and maybe a custom port? (And no docker!)

Then welcome to a world of pain.

I recently had the chance of introducing linux to the laptop of a friend. Despite some discussions I've had recently on lobsters about the ugly sides of linux on the desktop, it turned out pretty well.