PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]

Hexbear’s resident machinist, absentee mastodon landlord, jack of all trades

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • I currently run systemd (on Gentoo, one of the few distros where you can actually choose an alternative). Been using Linux since before systemd existed, so I’ve used various kinds of SysV-style init systems before. I generally like systemd. Though it might be over-engineered for some use cases, desktop / laptop OSes are among the most complex, having to deal with events like lids closing, batteries draining, suspend / hibernate, etc. Parallelization and socket activation are very nice features.

    I would like to try GNU Shepherd (and the whole GUIX System Distribution in general) but I could never get it to boot on my machine (volume inside encrypted LVM)





  • I don’t even think their thought process is that developed. They don’t recognize the systemic violence of the police state and carceral machine as authoritarian. This is fully abstract to them. When abuses of power are so egregious that they actually make the news, they consider it incidental. As far as Liberals are concerned, the purpose of a system is not what it does, but what it’s charter says. You could have death camps scattered all across the country, but as long as it is done under the aegis of “the department of justice,” they will be more concerned that the image of all these crematoria are undermining the institution’s mission.