John Richard

Such a security risk though, but still better than curling scripts into sudo

Now Drew Devault can finally work on PizzaHut.

Sysv didn’t have to have a lot of documentation. It was simple to understand what it did, and the underlying system was mostly shell scripting. It didn’t try to be and do everything.

I don’t hate systemd. I prefer it now for the most part. I really do think Lennart Poettering is incredibly skilled and intelligent. I am just frustrated that so much gets pushed without adequate resources and support to weigh what is production-ready, and what is bleeding edge. I’ve already had systemd bite me in the ass at least once where they made a significant unannounced change to systemd-cryptsetup. I had to go find answers by reading through pull request and GitHub issue comments, and it wasn’t easy to find either. The community acted like it wasn’t a big deal that it caused systems to no longer boot. Move fast & break things isn’t the message that will win over larger companies.

Lennart Poettering is no doubt smart, but learning all the ins and outs of systemd with terrible documentation and half-baked solutions, and just “trusting” it to do everything from UEFI booting, immutable partitions, system imaging, networking, home directory and resource management, init and daemon processes, sockets, etc. using “INI-like” files… hmm, I’d almost prefer another global outage.

When the Sims see a major incoming market crash before humans.

This is what NameCheap does too. It’s freaking stupid. Domain registrations should not be managed by corporations.

Windows permissions can be tricky… I’ll give them that. A lot of the tools Microsoft provides are not very straightforward.

However, PowerShell and tools from Sysinternals suite, or open source tools as well, make it a lot easier.

Managing permissions on Linux, especially if doing the ACL thing, can be complicated too. I’ve really never ran into many permission issues myself. psexec has been helpful too when needing to access things as the SYSTEM user and not get those stupid prompts asking me to change permissions for protected folders.

Andrew is not very smart. Windows isn’t very good, but he is very clueless. There are legitimate things to complain about, but Andrew just complains.

It means that questioning decisions or problems is seen as negative in the community generally and that everyone else must be wrong for not using NixOS.

As I used to say. The Nix community acts more like a cult of people willing to support flat earth.

Am I the only one that pays for YouTube Premium? I get not wanting to pay for things. I don’t feel bad for Google here, but I also don’t understand what people expect. The government happily subsidizes Musk to litter outerspace. Maybe the government should be subsidizing YouTube?

So… Biden could target SCOTUS as being treasonous & appoint new justices under immunity with the three remaining liberal justices quickly ruling he has executive privilege to do so?

I shit on JavaScript for years… but Deno (built around Rust) is honestly one of the most pleasant tools I’ve used for development, and you get all the completion in VS Code.

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Tax the churches now!

I use Hyrpland, and so there are times where I need to use GTK or Qt tools. I generally don’t like KDE-based tools though because they are dependency-heavy.

They already have, and they can do it in secret and hold people without trial. Once you give someone power, it’s hard to take it away.

So does many of the GTK tools though… so, again… why use Qt at all if you want to save memory.

I like some of LXQt tools, but at one point do you decide if you’re going to use Qt… why not just go all out and use KDE?

Why is it that it seems like Gnome seems to be implementing Windows bad practices? The last thing Linux needs is a Windows registry. One of the greatest benefits of Linux IMO is the ability to configure applications in config files… not having to use some custom tool to manage the configuration.