yeah sysctl > regedit

'tis a meme… ;)

the real question is whether you use git variants. Which is another way of not making arch (and Gentoo) certainly not free as in free beer, especially if you live in Europe and need to deal with those outrageous energy prices. btw imo one should be suspicious of projects with long tagged release cadence since it’s usually a sign of technical debt and the need to look for alternatives.

The X server has to be the biggest program I’ve ever seen that doesn’t do anything for you.
Ken Thompson

I see Wayland’s flaws but X is such a bloated piece of hardly maintainable spaghetti code that it is sadly beyond saving or prospects for anything in terms of significant improvement

well in this particular case it’s initramfs’ fault for not designing for all-or-nothing atomicity (a operation either completes fully or not at all). which you can work around with a terminal multiplexer where a session can be re-attached later in such cases btw.

well in my experience it was opensuse tumbleweed or Manjaro that were significantly less stable, but perhaps my perception is a little bit skewed since I use artix and it’s certainly not too rarely just the bloated, tightly coupled nature of shitstemd that causes some of arch’s issues.

one of the best

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And then for no good reason a “FOSS” app’s binary grows by a couple MB…

>no GUIX, Parabola or Gentoo on a DRMed SaaSS platform
fitting

simple is often the opposite of easy

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markets access and hitherto investments play a huge role actually. Israel is the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. In Ukraine the worst scum of the earth, agricultural produce and energy speculators (and real estate/companies hiring swathes of cheap labor in countries with large refugee populations, like Poland) as well as the military industry are benefitting from dragging this conflict out as long as possible whilst not allowing Ukraine to lose completely as to not lose access to hers market on beneficial terms.

us be like please please stop spying on our children so that WE can do that and also prevent the thoughtcrime of believing genocide (in Palestine) is bad

Good that you’ve enjoyed it. But a fundamentally wrong thing about systemd is that it is actively harming the best thing about Linux – freedom. Some programs won’t work on a non-systemd distro because how tightly coupled and vendor non-agnostic anything that becomes dependent on might become at times. Of course it’s not as bad as glib(loat)c, but still if something can be done without any degradation of functionality via standard POSIX facilities, WHY either incur additional maintenance overhead for non-systemd implementations or punish people for their computing choices if there’s no one to maintain it?

systemd is more like, uhh, ignition that takes care of way too many things beyond starting the engine

*devuan, artix or alpine

*keys and *omas are more fun though. mastodon’s way too businesslike to encourage a fair share of people to pick it over shitter (it works other way around as well tho)

what is marked for removal if you try uninstalling plasma?

really cozy

right after starving 20 million Indians kek

I’d like to interject

Imo random is good if you limit it to stuff compatible with Android 12 or newer, because there is a ton of legacy stuff that might have security or usability issues and any bugs would not be resolved