systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd
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Vote the Fuhrer and his goons out already and turn the US back into a free country again!
Really, tired of living in a dictatorship.
'Mice playing'
A pair of mice are playing on a table.
This was drawn in oil pastel on cardboard and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #cuteanimalart #mouseart #oilpastels #oilpastelart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vintagelenses
'Pichu and Dedenne's Oil Pastel Portrait'
Pichu and Dedenne are posing for a portrait in a random field with the sun setting behind them.
This was drawn in oil pastel on cardboard and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #dedenne #oilpastels #oilpastelart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vintagelenses
Discord is about to roll out global age-gating next month.
For those looking to get off Discord in the wake of this upcoming global age-gating, I'll put my Matrix down, and also link a directory of Matrix servers for you to join if you can't self-host.
My Matrix: @dfx4509b:unredacted.org
List of Matrix servers you can sign up for.
Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.discord.com
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So, I haven't posted any actual pottery here before...
Well, this is my first post of any pottery I've done, but this is a cute sunny day cup I made out of air-dry clay years ago.
I normally keep random stuff in it, but I posed it with some of my crayons for this shot.
This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cuteart #cutepottery #pottery #clay #airdryclay #crafts #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintageglass
'Cheese and Chocola's Oobleck Playday'
Cheese and Chocola are playing in a glitter rainbow oobleck pool that Cream, Tails, and Vanilla set up for them with their help.
As this is just corn starch, water, food dye, and edible glitter being depicted here, there's no harm in just leaving it outside to dry and disposing of it however from there, although the Chao twins' skin is going to be rainbow-colored for a while due to food dye's penchant for staining skin.
There's also a random bee flying around.
This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #chao #chaoart #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
'Cream and Tails Make a Valentine'
Cream and Tails are making a shared Valentine handprint collage canvas. They're sprawled out on a tarp as given loose glitter is involved, that stuff is very messy and gets everywhere, so it's best used on a tarp if used indoors.
As such, there's glitter spilled out all in front of them, and also blue-violet and fuchsia paint that Cream and Tails are using for their handprints respectively, two bottles of glue with blue-violet and fuchsia paint smudged on them respectively, shakers of purple, green, and blue glitter, and violet red, bluetiful, and vivid violet pieces of construction paper that have had hearts cut out of them scattered all over the tarp as well.
Also, trays of blue-violet and fuchsia paint that Cream and Tails used for their handprints are in front of them as well.
This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #creamtherabbit #tails #crayonart #crayons #traditionalart #valentines #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
'Pichu and Dedenne Go Sledding'
Pichu and Dedenne are going sledding down a snowy hill using sandbox lids as sleds.
This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #dedenne #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
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Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father from U.S. immigration detention. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
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"31st day of February 2026"
This does not look real.
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'Fingerpainting Pichu'
Pichu is fingerpainting in her family's living room with some paints she got as a present in front of the door to her back yard. She had previously built a snowman and in the background is various artwork she made including a pawprint canvas she made with Dedenne, a family drawing of herself, Raichu, and Pikachu holding paws in a grassy field, and a tile mosaic that she made and signed with her pawprint in the space where the sun is represented.
This was drawn in colored pencils and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #coloredpencils #coloredpencilart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
'Frozen Tree Shadows'
I snapped a pic of some tree shadows against the snow (it hasn't melted yet) because I thought it looked really cool.
This time around I ran my Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens on the Lumix.
#snow #snowyweather #treeshadows #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vintagelenses
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'Glittering snow'
A ground-level shot of the snow glittering against the street lights at night in my back yard.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a generic 35mm f1.6 manual native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'A Snowy Pathway'
A ground-level shot of a snowdrift next to a tree in my back yard, looks like a snowy pathway for small creatures to be walking down.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a generic 35mm f1.6 manual native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'Snowy Footprints'
A ground level shot of tracks in the snow outside my back door while the snow still exists as it's supposed to get above freezing soon so the snow will probably melt.
I'm still genuinely impressed by this no-name prime lens.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with the aforementioned generic 35mm f1.6 manual native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
#snow #snowytracks #snowyfootprints #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
I'm sorry, whoever's still active on Facebook, but how are you able to put up with being on what is effectively nothing more than an ad board for more than a couple minutes at a time?
Even local town pages are just ad boards for the services local to that town and the occasional MLM sneaking in as well, and basically no actual human discourse.
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@Sigmundkapje IANAL, but I don't believe so. Everyone must follow the Constitution, which provides no exceptions to its fixed schedule of elections. The US kept that schedule during both World Wars, and also through our own Civil War. (Though Rebel States did not participate.) So there seems to be no grounds for this.
That said, there's nothing I wouldn't past this lawless regime.
@surethingwhitey I read in the European press that the Trump administration wants to create chaos so that midterm elections do not have to take place. Is this really an option?
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'The Snowy Morning'
A shot out my back yard from right at sunrise this morning, with the snow deep enough to make the road disappear at this point.
Given we didn't get above freezing, it's still there right now.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 manual, native-mount prime lens mounted to it, and this time I used a Polachrome sim because it seemed more appropriate for the scene being shot.
#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'Lawn Ornaments Buried in the Snow'
A shot of the lawn ornaments buried in snow. I'm actually impressed so far with this cheap little prime lens for actual photos as well as for digitizing art work with, nice job for no-name glass!
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
This is my first actual test shot with this lens outside of digitizing artwork. This snowfall actually gave me a good reason to try this lens for actual photos and see how it does.
I'm going to say it now, no-name manual lenses are a completely viable new option especially for prime lenses, as far as anything native-mount goes.
'Dead Twig after a Snowstorm'
A quick ground-level shot of the fresh snowfall, and also a close-up of a twig sticking through it because I thought it looked cool.
This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it, and it had a Polaroid PX-680 Cold 5++ film sim applied to it.
#snow #snowstorm #snowyweather #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
'Snowdrift'
A photo of my back yard after the snow stopped falling for the night; the entire place is covered in snow for the first time in four years and I love it!
This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted on it, and I applied a Polaroid PX-680 Cold 5++ film sim to it, because Polaroid cold sims look cool for stuff like this.
#snow #winterweather #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
'Fresh Snowfall'
This is a nearly four-year-old photo from the last time we got any significant snowfall here. This was also shot through an E-M5 which sadly has long since died from sticky-shutter syndrome; I'm still kinda sore about that as I loved that camera....
Also, this was from before HPS street lights started getting phased out in favor of LED replacements so there's a bit of an orange tone that I had to correct for.
I also used a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens adapted to it; the same lens I've been using adapted to an EOS Rebel T3i lately.
#snow #snowfall #winterweather #olympusem5 #microfourthirds #vivitarseries1 #canonfd #vintagelenses
Hartman is an outed and proven grifter, this type of thing is on brand for him.
Yeah, I'm not surprised by this in the slightest, given Harman has a history of running grifts, see Oaxis.
-sigh- Why does Nick seem to have an attraction to people who are either creeps (Bill Cosby, Dan Schneider, John K, Chris Savino), grifters (Butch Harman), or both? I'd think a network as big as they are, or at least *were* at one point, would have standards with who they hire.
Dave Jones is fuming and very rightfully so.
Like I suggested in this vid's comments section, move to an alternate platform, either Odysee like shown here or ideally PeerTube, before Google pushes out all human creators in favor of their own AI slop.
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eevBLAB 137 - Youtube AI Slop Creators Are SHAMELESS!
The AI Slop creators are completely shameless!EEVblog (Odysee)
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'Pichu Plays with Letter Blocks'
A chalk drawing of Pichu playing with letter blocks in her playroom, spelling her name out with them. Behind her is a Pokeball inflatable and there's varying artwork on the wall.
This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it, as since this was drawn on a massive sheet of cardboard (this is the biggest chalk drawing I've done in years), the Lumix GF2 with its prime lens wasn't going to work like it does with smaller works.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
Hell no and Nvidia can fuck off. And MS too for that matter, and anyone else who pulls this crap.
So, Nvidia and MS want us to be nice to the massive scam that is GenAI because their grifts are deservingly getting negative attention for, well, being grifts.
*No!* As long as I still have free speech, I will be as scathing towards GenAI as I want.
@DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) I imagine Luddites felt the same way about the steam engine and later the internal combustion engine, but without it farms would not be able to support the current population and our streets would still be covered with horse shit.
Myself, I just bought an Arc B50 Pro GPU with the intent of getting LLAMA up and running on it.
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'Art Smash with Cream and Tails'
A watercolor and watercolor crayon painting of Cream and Tails making winter collages in their own version of 'Art Attack.'
Scattered on the table are various pieces of construction paper with bits cut out of them, cotton balls which are used for clouds and for snow on Cream's trees, and scissors and glue.
Cheese and Chocola also joined in to pose for the fictional camera.
The background is an 'Art Attack'-style set with various art supply props posed on it.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #tails #creamtherabbit #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #sonicart #watercolors #watercolorcrayons #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'Cream, Tails, and the Chao Twins' Silly String Fight'
An oil pastel drawing of Cream, Tails, Cheese, and Chocola giggling at each other after having a silly string fight in Cream's playroom. Scattered all over the ground are silly string cans which have been opened, and bits of silly string in varying colors.
In the background is artwork consisting of a painting of Cheese and Chocola holding hands in a field, a handprint canvas made by Cream and Vanilla, a painting of Tails on a beach, and a handprint canvas made by Tails.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #tails #creamtherabbit #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #oilpastels #oilpastelart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
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Here's some more old art of mine.
This is another old charcoal drawing that I drew over a decade ago of a hamster holding an egg.
#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #hamsters #hamsterart #charcoal #charcoalart #traditionalart
An old charcoal sketch of classic Sonic that I drew over a decade ago.
So, this is a charcoal sketch of classic Sonic that I drew back in 2015; just a bit over a decade ago.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #charcoal #charcoalart #traditionalart
'Cream, Cheese, and Chocola's Stepping Stones'
A crayon drawing of Cream, Cheese, and Chocola making stepping stones in their back yard. Cream is making a handprint stepping stone while Cheese and Chocola make a heart-shaped stepping stone with their heads and a plus sign drawn in it. Tails also came by to visit and helped Cheese and Chocola with their stepping stone.
In the background is Cheese and Chocola's mud puddle.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #chao #creamtherabbit #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #tails #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
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This is making it sound like Musk *wanted* this to happen.
So, the way Twitter is trying to cover up the Grok CSAM thing makes it sound like that was intentional, unless it's just me.
'Cheese and Chocola's Mud Playday'
A chalk drawing of Cheese and Chocola playing in a mud puddle that Cream and Vanilla prepared for them in their backyard.
Cheese is making mudpies while Chocola is splashing about, and flanking the mud puddle are a handprint stepping stone that Cream made and a heart-shapped stepping stone that Cheese and Chocola made with their heads and a plus sign drawn in it.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #chao #chaoart #sonic #sonicart #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
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'Cream, Cheese, and Chocola's Chalk Portrait'
A chalk portrait of Cream, Cheese, and Chocola in a snowy setting.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #creamtherabbit #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'Snow Day with Cream, Cheese, and Chocola'
A chalk drawing of Cream, Cheese, and Chocola playing in the snow. Cream and Cheese are building snowmen while Chocola is making snow angels.
This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 native-mount manual prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #creamtherabbit #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
'Chao Marker Portrait'
A marker drawing of a Chao posing at the Chao Garden in front of the pond.
This was drawn with Crayola markers and blended with a brush pen filled with water, and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap, no-name 35mm f1.6 manual, native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #chao #chaoart #sonic #sonicart #crayola #crayolamarkers #markerart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
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Unknown parent • • •blegh! this type of dependency on something that should be totally independent is a sign of structural failure, i suppose..
i've been a debian fanby for the longest time but maybe it's time to look into other distros. can anyone recommend me which are the most "mainstream"/well-maintained non-systemd distros?
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in reply to surely bazkie 👩🏼💻 • • •@bazkie @nazokiyoubinbou Devuan is Debian with an alternative init.
Antix provides multiple init implementations.
FreeBSD is not hard if you are used to Debian.
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I'm most worried about debut of AGENTS.md file and what says about judgment of project leaders and maintainers, and who they allow to touch codebase. millions of folks de facto need to trust every frickin commit into systemd since its on the critical path on tons of Linux hosts by now. I saw one individual in particular, working on one key subsystem who I would not trust on a system this critical, esp if that individ is also "using AI" and also gets to blame any malware-enabling commits "on some AI" rather than their own brain/hand. they could be setting us up
I'm a fan of Lennart Poettering in general but I worry he's gotten distracted by spinning up his startup Amutable
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in reply to gjerma • • •I still think politics should be done by groups like eff and fsf. The indicidual projects should just ask for direction from them. If that isnt possible, making some kind of union for foss workers or collectives could work. I still think code specialists and politucs specialists are seldom the same person which is the root of the problem imo.
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in reply to Marco • •No, GNOME hard-requires systemd now, and I'm worried KDE *might* once they start to phase out SDDM.
If you want GNOME without systemd, Cinnamon and MATE are two good alternatives on that front.
Also, since you're on Arch, I'm going to recommend Artix as a relatively low-friction alt-init distro to move to.
Although, on Artix, you're going to run into some dependency problems with certain packages, such as steam-native-runtime, unless you enable Arch's [extra] and [multilib] repos.
Finally, just for convenience's sake since this repo makes AUR usage easier by offering most of the AUR as precompiled binaries, I'm going to recommend enabling [chaotic-aur] on Arch distros in general, and I also recommend installing yay for a pacman wrapper.
Addendum: Artix dropped GNOME a while ago due to its hard systemd dependency.
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in reply to DistroWatch • • •@distrowatch @bazkie @nazokiyoubinbou I've had an excellent experience with MX, which recently reinstated their classic dual-init support: mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-dual-in…
Now it's dual-init by default. My favorite Debian-based distro.
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •glad Slackware stays out of this 😀 different approaches are fine, but I still prefer simple rc scripts and small tools over one big system doing everything.
#slackware
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in reply to Nazo • • •The distro supports both. As you can see in the linked post you can easily remove either, but you can also pick and choose at every boot, for any purpose (troubleshooting, dev, debug, etc). MX is a decidedly pro-user distro.
In the same vein, you can use flatpaks, snaps, appimages, debs, containers, whatever, if you so choose. It's quite flexible but not (IMO) overwhelming.
Still, of course, not everything for everyone, it might not be for you.
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Unknown parent • • •Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
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This is almost entirely the problem at my end. I also have spent many years on various distros from Mandriva, to Magiea, to Ubuntu, to Garuda.
To the best of my knowledge all of those that still exist are systemd houses.
If I want to move away from systemd, it seems I have to go with off-band distros, but I still want my KDE desktop!
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Very interesting, thank you. I've bookmarked that to look at perhaps tomorrow afternoon. I'll certainly try it out in a VM, if that is doable.
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Currently struggling to find an actual installable ISO. If it's simply a framework that needs a distro around it, then that's outside of my skill-level, I suspect.
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in reply to Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈 • • •@bytebro @bazkie In installation under images: devuan.org/os/documentation/in…
You probably want desktop or netinstall.
Devuan Excalibur Install Guide | Devuan GNU+Linux Free Operating System
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in reply to DistroWatch • • •I don't see how though. That's why I was asking of course. Just if both are installed and both are running then you get the leanness of sysv and the bloat of systemd... Which means just that much more instead of less....
In other words it's not just "best of both worlds" but literally straight up "both worlds," meaning best, worst, and a combination of the two all in one.
I just don't see how you can have 1+2 and not get 3 instead of 1.
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Got it, thanks!
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Devuan ftw!
#devuan #cultOfDevuan
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Snap packages make sense for IoT devices which can cause catastrophes if unpatched, due to their auto updating.
Drove me off Ubuntu as a desktop
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •I like Systemd
I hated the idea, at first. But once I started to use it, I liked it
The init script ecosystem was a, is a, tragic mess of many different approaches. Systemd is consistent and has good tooling.
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Unknown parent • • •@jenesuispersonne KDE is only enforcing systemd on their login manager, not the desktop. One of their contributors cleared this up.
reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1r68…
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Sorry, but there is no logical reason for systemd to need details that specific and precise for any purpose other than age verification.
If it were for birthday lookups for 'well wishers', it would be held in the calendar app. If it were for parental control, it would be under that heading, and only as a toggle of yes/no, on access to XYZ.
To think that it has a place in systemd at all leads to a question of why any PPI data is necessary in ANY subsystem. It's not.
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in reply to Cyberspice • •It's in systemd to push it across the majority of the ecosystem by force. Next step for systemd if Amutable actually happens will be Android-style attestation, and then the majority of the Linux ecosystem will be as locked down as Android in terms of what you're allowed and not allowed to install and run.
Here's the Lemmy post talking about Amutable.
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •it was written by someone who works at microslop... er microshaft?
Uhhhh tinypenis, wait.... My crow soft
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Is systemd as bad as boycott systemd is trying to make it? | LinuxBSDos.com
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in reply to surely bazkie 👩🏼💻 • • •@bazkie
"can anyone recommend me which are the most "mainstream"/well-maintained non-systemd distros?"
I have been using PCLinuxOS for nearly two years.
It is a rolling distro and is often behind the latest software releases but it is rock solid.
It uses synaptic package manager with RPMs.
fdr
in reply to surely bazkie 👩🏼💻 • • •GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •an actual bus
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in reply to surely bazkie 👩🏼💻 • • •Radek 🐧
in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •In systemd the age verification has been finally reverted
github.com/systemd/systemd/pul…
Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (#40954)" by paramazo · Pull Request #41179 · systemd/systemd
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •When I first heared of systemd, I thought 'huh, replicating the mistakes made in Windows?'
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Unknown parent • • •surely bazkie 👩🏼💻
in reply to Kingsley Bugarin PLY OAM 🇦🇺 • • •thanks!
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •Here systemd evolves an existing schema in userdb to make it consistent across distros. The benefit is that if this stupid law sticks, distros can choose to comply easily. Moreover, it's a totally optional component.
Consistency and the ability to manage a system in a dynamic env with solid dependency management (versus static init.d scripts) is something systemd is brilliant at. I use Linux since 1995 and honestly, I find systemd is a big win.
John Smith
in reply to Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈 • • •@bytebro @nazokiyoubinbou @bazkie
agelesslinux.org/distros.html
Heres some options. I'm personally looking into Artix. Multiple DEs and KDE is one of them.
Ageless Linux — Distro Compliance Tracker
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in reply to Snosrapkungfu (They/them) • • •@snosrapkungfu @nazokiyoubinbou @bazkie
agelesslinux.org/distros.html
It also comes with a list of options
Ageless Linux — Distro Compliance Tracker
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in reply to nixCraft 🐧 • • •nieuemma
Unknown parent • • •Nazo
in reply to nieuemma • • •@nieuemma @snosrapkungfu @bazkie From what little I can tell it doesn't change a lot. It sets the userdb birthdate and keeps changing it and it sets the ID to its name as you said. It also throws in an arbitrary script that just simply says something to the effect of "error, unable to determine age" or whatever in a folder of its own that nothing would ever call. 😆
Basically every single part of it is more just for show than anything else. The one and only thing it does seriously I'm pretty sure people can manually do if this script can do it — without the potential breakage of the system identifying itself differently.
They also plan to do a "flatpak store for children" with stuff like an app that prints the text "peepee" really big. Like I said, it's all for show...
surely bazkie 👩🏼💻
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @sab38 well a few years back when it was a heated debate I remember it being pretty 50/50!
BUT I bet a lot of people at this point realize the anti systemd people were right and have jumped that sinking ship
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Unknown parent • • •Nazo
Unknown parent • • •Ok, coming back to this, I tried Devuan and immediately saw issues like simply not being able to use pipewire-pulse at all. I had assumed they would have built workarounds for stuff like that, but it kind of looks like they haven't.
So now I'm looking at MX Linux again and still trying to wrap my head fully around its setup. It seems their KDE iso is systemd only, but also their XFCE4 option includes one for newer systems with a newer kernel, so I went ahead and installed that second XFCE4 option. It at no point asked me which init to use, but it seems to have systemd installed but not running or working.
Is it safe to assume this one will be the best compatibility balance without age-gate crap or will systemd's direction still infect it?
DistroWatch
in reply to Nazo • • •@nazokiyoubinbou @jandi @bazkie MX Linux gives you the choice of which init to run at boot time. You select which one you want from the boot menu.
As for your second question: it's too soon to tell. You would have better luck asking the MX Linux developers what their plans are.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Installed it in a Gnome-Boxes VM and not impressed with the WE. It doesn't automagically recognise my screen size on boot, unlike Ubuntu, Mint, Cachy, Tuxedo, Garuda, etc, do. And the best resolutions available in the Settings screen are not even close to what is needed.
I think this one goes down as a 'work-in-progress' for now.
@bazkie @nixCraft
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Downloading MX as we speak. I'll play tomorrow, perhaps.
@bazkie @nixCraft
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Devuan still refuses to, or is unable to, sort out a wide-screen on boot - according to my notes this should be about 3440x1440, and it doesn't seem to be able to handle that. Hey-ho, we'll look for other alternatives.
@bazkie @nixCraft
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Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
I get that, but many other distros seem to be able to work that out at the time of install. And no 'obvious' route post-install to make it work as it should. Obvs, currently, not a fan!
@bazkie @nixCraft
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
I tell you what - this has all been within Gnome-Boxes. Next time I'm bored and sober, I'll have ago at installing it on VirtualBox, which I believe I still have on here...!
@bazkie @nixCraft
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in reply to Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Hah! Well that was interesting - I fired up VirtualBox for the first time in a long time, then told it to create a Devuan VM, with essentially the same config that the Gnome-Boxes one had. It crashed whilst booting the ISO, so didn't even get to a Live login! Colour me as 'less than comfortable' with it, right now.
@bazkie @nixCraft
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
Stable? Sure. It's a 2.5yr old Tuxedo laptop with 32GbRAM and 1Tb of SDD.
For each VM, I've given 16Gb of virtual RAM and 40GB of virtual HDD. The Gnome-Boxes one works, but has no clue about my graphics capabilities, and the VirtualBox one simply fails even to boot the ISO.
Most odd.
@bazkie @nixCraft
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Unknown parent • • •Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
in reply to Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
BTW, to save me a lot of searching, do we know what distro (if any) MX might be derived from? Some of the VM managers like to try and guess stuff based on the base distro...
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
OK, as far as the graphics thing goes, I'm not sure about that - what I saw was in the System Settings, then Display, I could opt to change the screen resolution, but not a single available option actually came close to my screen. As I think I said, several other distros have just gone - 'oo that's a big screen, here you go!' or similar either at start-up or after log-in 🙂
Also as I'm (almost!) about to try MX, I'll remember the Debian roots when Gnome-Boxes asks me, thanks.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
in reply to Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈 • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
OMG - this is fun!
MX (under Gnome-Boxes) has a choice in the grub menu for sysvinit or systemd, which is excellent. And it instantly picked up my screen configuration, which is even better.
I can see me playing with this over the next few day, for sure.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
Unknown parent • • •@nazokiyoubinbou
It's installing as we speak. I'll sleep then play tomorrow, I think!