Don't see why, it's a relatively good video on a RISC-V desktop.

This post is crap though.

I wonder if old BIOS are vulnerable...

I'd really like to do some personal projects, both to learn new stuff and scratch my digital itches.

The bitch is that ⅓ of the day goes to sleeping, ⅓ to work (where i do what i like but not how i like it because management) and the other ⅓ is for groceries, workout, friends & family, chores etc... and after a mentally-exhausting day at work i can't really motivate myself to work on a project... i'd rather just be dumb in front of online video frivolities for a while and hit the hay 'cos tomorrow's another (work) day.

Burnout's a dirty word for be 'cos the only people i've seen using it are managers who don't deserve the air they breathe.

DBeaver is multi-platform and multi-db, which is why i use it, haven't had any major issues with it but don't use it for overcomplicated stuff either, just running queries. Does rely on java, though...

Big spoiler there.

I don't think systemd is the epitome of technological evolution, but that's another rant. The fact that it's not just another init system is at the center of it, though.

Because it's not, any distro that chooses to use it is, in fact, adopting a whole ecosystem. Some apps that predate systemd are even hard-depending on it for... reasons. Can you use GNOME without it? Why most distros adopted it as default instead of an alternative i can only speculate. At least Slackware hasn't adopted it so far and Gentoo took, to me, the sanest approach: you can choose your init system, including systemd if you so prefer.

Devuan is the response to Debian choosing systemd. It's its raison d'être, to be Debian without systemd.

I was unaware of Kicksecure, who their founder is and when they decided to adopt systemd, so i may be at fault here.

With this i agree:

It’s troublesome if distros and/or DEs rely so heavily on systemd to do their bidding. So much so, that some combinations of distro + DE don’t allow any differentiation in init or make it very cumbersome and unwieldy at best.

With this, i don't:

systemd has become so good that even opponents can’t deny its merits and continue to make use of it

And this is where i think you've contradicted yourself. IMO, the only reason opponents use it is not because it's so great but because it's so entrenched in whichever distro they're using.

Fine, i'll bite, i'm bored.

Interestingly, while Madaidan discourages the use of systemd in that guide, it’s still heavily relied on in Kicksecure; one of the distros he works on.

While you didn't explicitly state it, it's a distro that's based on Debian, so, has to be based on systemd.

I think this is a perfect illustration of how systemd has become so good that even opponents can’t deny its merits and continue to make use of it for the time being out of necessity.

No, not at all. You said it yourself:

It’s troublesome if distros and/or DEs rely so heavily on systemd to do their bidding. So much so, that some combinations of distro + DE don’t allow any differentiation in init or make it very cumbersome and unwieldy at best.

So trying to use Kicksecure without systemd would be very cumbersome and unwieldy at best. Perhaps Madaidan should've used Devuan as a starting point instead.

Gentoo took the (imo) correct approach by providing users choice as well.

So much so, that some combinations of distro + DE don’t allow any differentiation in init or make it very cumbersome and unwieldy at best.

it’s still heavily relied on in Kicksecure; one of the distros he works on. [..] this is a perfect illustration of how systemd has become so good

Considering Kicksecure is based on Debian, aren't you contradicting yourself?

I'm pretty sure you can have a minimal slack and choose xfce in the installer.

So Slackware? If you can cross-compile then maybe gentoo. I'm not sure if Raspberry Pi Desktop is x86.

Haven't had a google account on Android for ages.

rsync, syncthing, nfs mounts, zfs snapshots... YMMV

I liked computers in general since highschool, felt natural.

Didn't think that much about the money there or now and IT is slowly becoming bluecolar anyway.

The RedHat and Canonical oligarchs are well underway in achieving their windows-like linux desktop through systemd and flatpaks and what not, so we may see a small but highly deployed number of immutable distros becoming the forced de-facto standard.

Microsoft continues their new approach at EEEing linux through WSL Azure, and everyone's happy about it.

Torvalds will eventually die, as will Stallman, so all that'll be left are the communities, which unfortunately don't have that much strength/voice.

They tried something similar in Munich, i think, dropping M$ and going full Debian. A few years later they reversed that 'cos the lusers couldn't handle it.

Can't upvote this enough.

libcurl is awesome. The fact it's over 20 years old, is used by a gazillion projects and runs on two planets is proof of its quality.

So the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish continues....

Tech content is passable, wish he'd stick to that. Been losing points with politics, cheap merch and lazying out with what basically amounts to reaction videos.

Any other recommendations for tech content? Seytonic and The new oil are nice.

s/IRC/XMPP/ or maybe mattermost instead of a mailing list?