That’s not really systemd’s fault though.

Oh, but it is. Upstart and sysV will both assassinate everything after a point. This bullshit is entirely new, either by Systemd sucking, or Systemd allowing this shit (thus, sucking), where neither thing happened beforehand.

I admit I rage when it’s starting or stopping and can’t win for all the losing – especially because “startup time” was the the main (unfounded) feature on the banner they waved around.

I work with sysV and Systemd and shut each down on a. Regular basis, via tooling, for stuff like patching, so it’s often a horse-race to offline. The difference is often negligible, for new machines or established boxes with apps, and the main difference is sometimes Systemd fails its YOU HAD ONE job from time to intermittent time.

I work in a team where Unix and Linux is ~15 very experienced admins, so don’t fret over the skills and experience question or the scale question.

Tech companies hoping to keep certifications that allow them to get customers do not “move fast and break things”. This kind of ghetto process should definitely hurt business.

For instance: at my day job where I tech-whore to big ents and govs, about 10% of our time is spent only in meetings where we review what’s happening and how: and that kind of transfer would have a schedule, stakeholder sign-off and listed processes to follow and review. There’s post-incident reviews and follow-ups in case of the slightest deviation or surprise, and the process is refined each time. That kind of sloppy work wouldn’t survive.

Nice catch. I read it as “was sued” vs “has sued” without noticing. I should read more carefully.

No no, it’s the BSA here too. They’ll probably sue the same way.

Truth never supports conservatives, any more than basic economics does. That’s not the CBC’ s fault though.

Yes. I’m doing that with a 7040mff right now.

Wrecking

Wracking?

I see you’re using logic, here. That kind of talk will NOT fly in Edmonton, you realize.

If those guys win, we all lose. Have they met America?

You want a thank-you card for being so noble in addition to always being exceptional? If you need any more emotional support, just let a Canadian know.

since endeavour is very close to arch I hope I’ll find some solutions in that realm.

Smart thinking. I don’t use arch (btw) either, so I’m merely a cheerleader at this point. Yes, I’d downgrade the kernel for the sake of Science. Find a popular stable kernel, jump to that and see if it behaves better.

(That may be my bias: I only really do enterprise linux, so after 28 years since I moved from slackware I’m really risk-averse!)

That is why we need to tax them.

We really gotta start putting embassadors into timeout for shitty comments.

“7 day suspension of entry permit. Go home.”

Yeah so grub can see the disk but then the kernel can’t. Efi and other tricks aren’t involved.

I think your route is to find out why the kernel hates your ass. Probably an upd pulled a driver … But who removes the SATA or nvme stuff?

Either way, it’s in the kernel and not the boot or the core apps. I don’t use endeavour, where I could provide better help, but I think the kernel is your best suspect for this crime.

a repeater magnet mounted to the roof.

What’s a repeater magnet?

That’s the joy of open source though: you can stop it. You are free to use another init system, fork projects

That and a big company looking to manufacture a perceived advantage by aggreasively pushing their shit into the mainstream - good fit to be taken over by IBM - who can bankroll the slapdash dev and bully ISVs, and you’re set.

your favorite thing is being ruined and you can’t stop it,

Hardly a ‘favourite thing’; it’s like making a water slide out of a river : Wantonly wrecking something simple, effective and usable for this mishmash isn’t ruining something sacred as much as it is destroying something for no reason to dramatically create something lesser the world didn’t need. Except with more hype, payola, ageism, strong-arm adoption and cult worship.

the virulently anti-systemd crowd are among the ones that baffle me the most.

Tell me you need to learn more about scope creep, Unix and system design using different words.

Is that where spelling goes to die? People were ‘maxing’ their caffeine decades before whatever vapid influencerati re-coined the badly-written version. I still am not sure it was spelled wrong knowingly.

Absolutely this. I only came here to say this very thing; just, not as well.

Datacenters using water for cooling are a bit of a rarity outside the dotcoms, I think.