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I’m using Boost and I can hide posts so that I don’t see them again, but I can’t hide comments. So I saw that cursed picture again today…

They did the monster math!!! Thank you red bull of juarez! 🙏🙏🙏

That’s a good point! I also want to know how they calculated that humans ate only 6 monkeys in 2025…

This is deeper than it might seem!

Well that’s actually useful! Then we could backup archive.org, Wikipedia and all the good stuff. I don’t know how much you need for that though.

But on a more funny note? You can store so many cat pictures in it!

mind = blown

You can store so much pornography in it!

I thought people asked questions when they didn’t know something… So, yeah? Had they known, they wouldn’t have asked.

By the way, I want to know as well.

I was just like you when I was a kid. Especially the things about religion.

There was a nun in my school to teach Catholicism (let’s not talk about why I attended because that’s another story). Everyone hated the nun because she was mean and unlikeable.

I used to go to her with a bible, with some passages underlined. I then asked some loaded questions. She would answer in a very predictable way. Then I’d say “but in this other passage it says … which is a contradiction! You don’t know very much do you?” and she always would get angry but also defeated and I loved it.

Not exactly true:

Because the GNU kernel—Hurd—is not production-ready , GNU is usually used with the Linux kernel. There was an Arch-based distribution called Arch Hurd, which is inactive. Hurd package last update was in 2019.

Arch Linux is such a GNU/Linux distribution, using GNU software such as the Bash shell, the GNU core utilities —coreutils, the GNU toolchain and numerous other utilities and libraries.

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU

you’re at least 10 years too late for present continuous.

I didn’t expect to laugh so much in this thread! 💯

I remember when back in the days people talked shit about X11, saying that it was a pile of shit and to move to Wayland.

Then Wayland became mainstream and you start to see the X11 nostalgics talking shit about Wayland.

I’m so fed up with all of this. People, use what works! There will never be the perfect software, the perfect OS, the perfect library, the perfect programming language, the perfect file system, the perfect database, the perfect protocol, the perfect shell (or the perfect forum).

Good for you!

That means that you indeed have options! Systemd isn’t limiting your freedom! If anything, it’s limiting your easiness of choice. And for that I understand your feelings, but you really can’t do anything about it. Except maybe become a developer for a competing init system, so that it becomes better than systemd. Because the systemd is here to stay, until something better comes to replace it :)

Do you trust random strangers on the internet, then? You don’t need systemd to get a backdoor on your system. Xz is enough and fortunately it was caught.

It’s not the software provider’s duty to support every platform. Mullvad officially only supports Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

Their obligation ends there. By using any other distro, even a systemd one, you’re taking responsibility to make it work in your system. That’s the freedom that linux offers you! The ability to do whatever weird shit you want, at your risk and without any warranty explicit or implied.

Become a package maintainer for your distro to add support for mullvad and stop complaining.

The idea of Linux isn’t just about running big software, it’s about the ability to compose a system from independent parts.

This is just false. The idea of Linux is having a copyleft operating system, free as in beer and as in freedom. Full stop.

Again, yes. But it’s not like there’s a big conspiracy to push systemd in your systems. People (developers, distro mainteners, system maintainers, …) are using it because for them it has value. It makes it easier, more reliable, whatever.

Many OSS projects require gcc, or glib. And can work with alternative compilers or libraries, but maybe you’ll encounter some issues. By the same logic, would you say that GCC and Glib are reducing your freedom?

And by the way I’m not saying that the premise is false. It’s true that it somewhat reduces your options. But you still have options.

And I think that having a somewhat standardized environment is a good thing. But if you don’t, use another distro. Heck, use OpenBSD!

(I’m using “you” but I’m not referring to you in particular, it’s an impersonal you)