• shrugs@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    funny, I also started around 2000 with Linux, so we have the same time under our belt. I remember doing manually dependency resolving downloading packages from freshmeat.net

    Let’s be honest, I hated that “/etc/init.d/apache2 start” went obsolete, muscle memory and habit are a bitch, but you have to move on sometimes. Otherwise, are you really arguing that some obscure start-stop-daemon wrapper that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, because they were created for suse not redhat were superior?

    systemd monitors the daemons, can show you used cpu time, can start daemons depending of if the system is connected to ac or uses battery or if a port got a magic package, it know which resources a service needs and much more, all without needing to manually write scripts. Do we really compare that to some scripts with bullshittery like:

    case $1 in
      start):
        start-stop-daemon $service_name
        ;;
      *)
       echo fuck off
       exit 1
       ;;
    

    sorry to be so blunt, and im pretty drunk saying this: sherly you can’t be serious, and don’t call me sherly.

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      20 hours ago

      @shrugs @ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace people don’t like change. I almost had a nervous breakdown when gnome switched to gnome shell, still hate using it. better or worse I personally like systemd. You can use it or don’t but change means progress. systems are more complex than they were 20 years ago and systemd gives me one place to manage everything

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        20 hours ago

        funny, I also started around 2000 with Linux, so we have the same time under our belt. I remember doing manually dependency resolving downloading packages from freshmeat.net

        Good times lol!

        Let’s be honest, I hated that “/etc/init.d/apache2 start” went obsolete, muscle memory and habit are a bitch, but you have to move on sometimes. Otherwise, are you really arguing that some obscure start-stop-daemon wrapper that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, because they were created for suse not redhat were superior?

        systemd monitors the daemons, can show you used cpu time, can start daemons depending of if the system is connected to ac or uses battery or if a port got a magic package, it know which resources a service needs and much more, all without needing to manually write scripts. Do we really compare that to some scripts with bullshittery like:

        Oh no doubt that SystemD has its uses and it has great features. It’s great for a corporate Linux used in business servers and the like. But in a time where every OS is spying on people with so called telemetry and are being controlled by policies enacted by politicians bought by lobbies of large corporations who just want to know every fine detail of our lives to sell us shit and open our data to governments for surveillance, you can bet your ass that I want an open box with scripts that I can read so I know what they do.

        And the sheer fact that SystemD was undemocratically pushed down everyone’s throat against the will of the people on the committees that steer the decisions for the distros in question is huge fucking red flag. It sticks of political overreach.

        Pardon my French.

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          20 hours ago

          @ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace i guess i haven’t heard anything about any of that happening with linux as far as i know the whole age verification stuff didn’t affect linux and i haven’t bought any linux its freely available you can choose to use it or dont and its he source code is still available so its not like you cant look at it too so im really not sure where any of that applies here

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            19 hours ago

            Doesn’t affect Linux… yet.

            EDIT: I should add, this opens the door to many other government intrusions where they might require other personal information to be inputted to use your computer and access the internet eventually.

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              19 hours ago

              @ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace i cant tell the future. eating a burrito opens the door to needing to take a shit but i still do it. using anything you didn’t completely produce or engineer yourself opens you up to having to accept some level of things. idk i guess at that point you build your own thing choose your own tool’s but the #EFF works hard to keep an eye on things but buddy there is only so much we can do before you just have to turn it off and live jn the woods on squirrel meat

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                  19 hours ago

                  @ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace you’re correct a lot of people agree thats what opensource promises me. not that i will like everything some distribution does but that if i dont like something I have a choice if its a big enough concern I will switch but i also don’t know everything and make dumb choices sometimes and break stuff like my OS install and my life lol I thought meth was a good idea once for 6 years it was not I pick my fights that matter and sleep with one eye open on the rest

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                    19 hours ago

                    Amen.

                    I’m just pissed Debian went the SystemD route. Ubuntu and Fedora I can understand. One’s a corporate distro and the other is RedHat’s child. But Debian? At least give the option to use an alternative.

                    Anyway, I understand what you mean and I’m sure you understand how I feel.