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tl;dr china is throwing a tantrum around usa stating that it might investigate sanction evasion. There are no good guys here.

Probably not an AI issue

Don’t call centers already have similar technology available?

There is a lot but I think you will find a lot of them more enterprise focused rather than consumer. For apps installed to home, why aren’t you preserving your /home partition? For system apps, could you create an image? (Although it should be basically a one liner?) There is a lot of missing detail, why are you reinstalling, what distribution(s)?

It’s probably better to write a script in a repo that downloads and installs everything…

Then for configuration files create a dotfiles repo. I use chezmoi but there are a bunch of solutions for this.

No one wants to be a good employer anymore!

Different disks if you must at all.

I would like to know too. But I guess it really depends on a per app level b/c of libraries, frameworks, and languages/runtimes.

You can (and generally do) install gentoo in a Chroot, I recommend using btrfs with subvolumes on your current install, then switching when everything works, that way you can roll back.

But since you’re on arch you probably already know a fair chunk of what is necessary.

1. Use flags are more about features, there are other flags like cpu architecture. I don’t recommend you do too much on your first build, except for having some sweeping ones like X and/or Wayland. Then once you have it running you can do a rebuild. I also recommend taking subvolume snapshots before doing major changes.
2. Yes. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC#Runlevels

jdownloader seems pretty close to “internet download manager”

Also I prefer yt-dlp over youtube-dl