Came here intending to say just exactly that; Thank you =^_^=

Whatever you’re trying to achieve: You’re decidedly approaching it from the wrong angle.

No shit. “More” is technically correct. “A metric fuckton more” conveys the appropriate scale. It’s not like systemd added a handful small features, it has subsumed nearly everything between kernel and userland. (Note that proponents usually point this out as a good thing; It’s uncontested, you just seem blissfully unaware)

Have you considered that we don’t think any of those are “good points” worthy of comment?

Nope, but “more” doesn’t adequately capture the scale of it. Given that you talk about a predecessor (singular) I presume systems programming is not your specialty?

Ahem, it does a ton more than merely “initiate booting” (logging, time, user management, device management, the list is long and it is really hard to find a piece of basic system functionality it hasn’t subsumed), please don’t spread misinformation.

Come on, that’s pure ragebait… It’s not like it"s hard to search for all the different reasons… https://nosystemd.org/ collects a few in semi-coherent form. The short answer is: It combines a lot of previously independent systems responsibilities under one umbrella organization that holds decidedly strong opinions and is not exactly open to criticism.

Well, I’m married to one (and I only “celebrate” in the sense that it’s a gotta-visit-your-parents-once-a-year-anyway-at least-it-doesn’t-cost-vacation-days opportunity, no presents or anything). Their parents tried “if you don’t go to church then there’ll be no presents either” and, well, not a good tactic when dealing with a stubborn aspie ;-)

I agree, but then I’m one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)

EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so…

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/

(Though, of course, that’s alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )

Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?

rustles papers

Oh.

It’s essentially an ad sigh

In my experience (Germany, during the naughties) it was almost the opposite… All these folk that had been told “Go into CS, they make loads of money!”, while having near zero actual inclination for tech, were quite happy to let others write the code and then contribute mostly fluff (it’s not like they were enthusiastic about the reports either) otherwise… I’ve been filtering them out during interviews all the time and I guess they must be the enthusiastic users of LLMs for coding nowadays :-P

Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.

Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…

“Its social network”? Ewwww…

That’s what tou get for not asking permission to touch first. Always squat, extend a hand, and let them sniff and approve first! Consent matters =^_=

Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country did it, even making it a point during the Trial ;-)

plonk

SSH certs signed by your own central CA (Most people aren’t aware of it, but OpenSSH can use CA certs), I usually set things up for ansible that way, but, of course, it works just fine for actual users, too (Why no ansible, though? It’s an extremely lightweight option that simply reduces common mistakes).