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Of course this is nonwithstanding other environmental crimes should be prosecuted, just as hard.

Definitely not harsh enough. They should have gotten AT LEAST 12 years each. And even that could never make up the damage they have done. 12 is too mild, 4 entirely laughable.

Only main is protected, you can force push on feature branches.

No, it does not prevent pushing (as long as the pre-hooks work) but you cannot deploy from a failed pipeline/branch because you have defective software, as proven by failed tests.

Not quite.

• Every commit is just a local commit
• Every push runs pre-hooks which execute bunch of checks, for example linters, style checkers, etc. and prevent a push if something is not perfect
• After every push the CI/CD pipeline runs on origin
• Every run of the pipeline executes again checks with linters but also securoty checks for CVEs on dependencies and runtime
• Every pipeline run also executes all tests such as unit tests, scenario tests, integration tests
• If any of the above fails, the pipeline fails and stops
• Only if everything is okay, one can deploy on dev, the first stage
• Only if this is okay, the artifact gets pushed to the central artifact store
• Only if this suceesa a prod deployment can run, which pulls the artifact from the store
• Runners for dev and prod are distinct and don't have rights the other has, the only common contact point is the artifact store

That's an extremely very basic overview with many steps and concepts omitted but you get the idea.

If you have code that is not complete it is not qualified to be deployed. Cut work items into smaller chunks but never deploy not fully, 100% working and tested stuff. Not even on dev.

If you have tests you have to automate them and have a pipeline which stops any deployments when these tests fail. You definitely have a mindset issue and not a management or tool issue. I am not sorry but as a DevOps Engineer I can only say you guys are a lousy hack and should probably seek a different job.

works perfectly with my Arch Linux

If you don't tell them you're a sociopath.

What a coincidence as I just watched this from one of my favourite youtubers:

TheYamiks - The Failure of Game Graphics (35:29)

https://youtu.be/5LvxG5zbSK0

Where he reflects on how the graphics of current games came to be technically and why they are so terrible as they are.

No, no comment in the sense of I have no experience with 24h watches so I cannot comment on them regarding this topic. If others have experience they might add their share, which they did.