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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • As someone who designs systems as part of his job, “it violates Linux philosophy” is a perfectly valid reason to hate something as critical and low level as an init system.

    I think “hate” is a strong word, mind, but following consistent design patterns and constraining scope matters. The problem is that it’s one of those things that doesn’t tend to matter until shit hits the fan.

    The scope creep exponentially raises the efforts needed to properly test, troubleshoot, secure, and just generally work with the project code. The unique design creates rough edges for integrations with other pre-existing systems and tools, while also raising the effort needed for troubleshooting when something goes wrong.

    There’s also the whole “Chesterton’s Fence” aspect to a lot of it, where the project runner’s overall attitude has been dismissive of existing conventions and separation of functionality.

    There’s a lot of perfectly valid reasons to dislike it. That said, I think full on hate is extreme for an aspect of the overall Linux “system” and “user experience” that most users never interact with. Like having an opinion on the order your BIOS handles things in.




  • For #1, it absolutely is possible, but the technique has changed over time. You pretty much have to look it up every time, and check older methods until you find the way that works with the version you’re using. Last I checked you needed to disconnect any NICs, then hit one of the F keys during setup to get to the command prompt, then put in a specific command, then reboot into setup again. Been years though.

    For #2, Command Prompt doesn’t because it’s still the same shit it was from the 90s. They have an open source program called Windows Terminal that supports tabs, multiple environments, most of the nice stuff you’d expect from a good Linux Terminal, but they don’t include it by default so you have to install it yourself.

    #3 and #4 are pure bullshit. 1 and 2 are as well, but at least they have reasonably reachable workarounds.






  • Man, your videos never miss, do they?

    Not being able to instantly fit a voice, appearance, or avatar into the binary cis genders makes me intensely uncomfortable and unable to enjoy online video content, and I’ve never stopped to question why or given a creator a chance to grow on me because I can’t handle being made the slightest but uncomfortable during my brainless binge watching habits!

    But none of that matters if the content is good, that’s what I always say. If the content is good it doesn’t matter who delivers it, that’s what I always say. Unless they make me in any way the slightest bit uncomfortable, that’s what I always say. There’s never any practical reason to seek out creators from unique or minority perspectives because if they’re good they’ll just rise to the top naturally, that’s what I always say. Individual uncomfortableness with the unfamiliar could never effect outcomes on a large scale, that’s what I always say.

    That’s what I always say. That’s what I always say. That’s what I always say. What I always. That’s I say. That’s what. I always. Say what that. Always. Say always. That’s what. What. What. What. What. I always say that. Thatthatthatthatthatthatthatthatthat