This is one of the things that frustrate me about Debian based systems. I know most distributions ship with lots of different tools to do the same job and you pick the one you like. But with something as fundamental as system timers it just feels wrong to me - when I want to change the timing of something I first need to figure out is the cron job real, or just a stub referring to the systemd timer, or visa versa.

So for a while I had removed cron from all my systems and fully committed to timers. Now I’ve decided I don’t like systemd and gone fully the other way.

I know it’s not that bad, but that’s the way my brain works - and I can remember getting really screwed up with some early Ubuntu systems.

The North American pole of inaccessiblity being in South Dakota (maybe an hour drive from major highways) and not somewhere in northern Canada says to me that the name does accurately reflect what these points are.

Exactly - I’ve got a really shitty memory. I’d take a photo so that in 5 years time I’ll get a reminder from my photos app - hey, on this day 5 years ago you were in The Louvre.

Or:

shampoo -> /bin/busybox

conditioner -> /bin/busybox

I find it funny that systemd gets so much hate for trying to be all the things, but haven’t seen the same criticism directed at busybox

That makes sense - thanks

Shouldn’t he be in the cage? Why should she have to be inconvenienced to protect herself from him?

I’ve read a lot of fucked up shit in the last few years - that’s the first time I’ve thrown my phone in response!

(My phone’s fine - I just threw it onto the sofa beside me, but still…)

Really?

My list of “not trivial to replace” is:

• firefox - desktop and android
• ImageMagik - I don’t use it directly, but other things I use depend on it
• VLC - yeah, I know there are other options but VLC has so much else going for it, it’s hard to change
• Jellyfin - what’s the alternative? Kodi? Oh wait…
• curl
• rsync
• .NET - I don’t use it directly, but things I use depend on it
• python
• vim - I’ve been using vi for 35 years, I’m not changing now. But I’m happy to use old versions.
• Joplin - argh, just finished migrating my documentation into here
• KeepassXC
• Mastodon
• Lemmy
• systemd
• Linux Kernel!!

Sadness and dread is a perfect description. As I started reading I was building a mental list of things to stop using - I didn’t get very far before I gave up. So many projects I’ve held up in high regard.

Sadness, dread and defeat.

Edit to add - I want to be clear that I’m not judging the developers of these projects. If they’re being overwhelmed with AI generated PRs, they’re being forced to use these tools in their “real jobs” and it spills over, or they just feel that this is the way things are going or whatever reason - they’ve got to do what they’ve got to do to survive. My sadness, dread and defeat comes from the state of the world and this is just the symptom that’s currently front of mind.

33% have a college degree yet only 3% are atheist. That’s batshit crazy. I can’t imagine having the critical thinking skills needed for a degree and not using those skills to figure out that god is a fairy tale.

Yes I know lots of educated people are religious - I had several christian professors when I was studying mathematics / computer science. That doesn’t make it any less crazy to me.