> Things are not going in the right direction, but on the upside I now learned how to install MariaDB manually so installers can't brick my OS like MySQL did ba

> Things are not going in the right direction, but on the upside I now learned how to install MariaDB manually so installers can't brick my OS like MySQL did back in 2014 (MySQL bricked itself and no way to unbrick it except reinstalling Windows). For local development and testing, running a database in a container is generally a good idea: https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb/ https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb/ You know, if you ever want to be able to create various throwaway environments with resource limits or port mappings easily, for any number of versions you might need to run in each of your projects. This works similarly well for something like PostgreSQL, too! And if you need persistence, you can use either volumes or bind mounts.