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Seriously? You're invoking argumentum ad popularum (which is a logical fallacy to begin with) in a discussion of linux technical details? That's so illogical I can't even.

systemd is a monolith in practice, despite what its advocates like to claim. You can't run just a part of it under another init without doing extra patch-up work (see elogind). Whereas you can run just one GNU utility on top of, or even alongside, someone else's implementation of that or other utilities (for instance, in parallel with a rust implementation that isn't quite ready for the big time yet).

systemd also won't work on anything except Linux. Older solutions also worked on BSD. That matters to some people.

And the issue was never just Poettering's employers. He had a bad reputation in parts of the Linux community long before systemd—he was also the main force behind pulseaudio, which was shipped long before it was ready for actual use in the real world and remained in a semi-broken state for quite a long time afterwards. And he often comes across as personally obnoxious. Nothing like telling someone "I'm not interested in fixing your issues with my project" (except less politely) to get them to adopt your code.

It's kind of like the OS version of putting Doom on everything and anything.

So it's not serving the bottom-feeder market for effectively disposable Windows laptops.

Why should it need to? Serving a niche interest is perfectly valid as long as you're making enough money at it to be self-supporting. Despite what the line-go-up-at-all-costs advocates think.

Long anime series are treated a bit differently than North American live action productions. One Piece will most likely continue being made as long as there's manga to adapt. (Whether the mangaka will finish the story, drop it abruptly to do something else, or die of old age with it still incomplete is another question.) The only other thing that might kill it is if the studio making it folds, but as far as I know Toei is relatively healthy.

At ~1170 episodes, One Piece isn't even close to being the longest-running anime series airing in Japan today. I don't think it's even in the top five.

With Linux, in the worst case, you can probably find a dev who's willing to take your money to maintain a feature. Might not even be that much money, depending. Windows? Not a chance.

this seems like an intentional way to make sure that people can’t make things without paying the oligarchs. I think the fact that we are getting close to being able to make 90s level tech in garages is scaring the tech bros.

Nah, I suspect it's a way for the politicians to look like they're doing something about gun violence without, y'know, actually doing anything about gun violence. Or just generally to distract from what they're doing on other issues. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" stuff.

Well, we did put all available engineering capacity into improving ICE vehicles for around a century. I'm sure the next century will see considerable improvement in EVs, if humanity survives that long.

If I recall correctly, that's consistent with the other scrolls from that library that have been deciphered by different methods, so at least some of the text is likely to be correct.

After a quick skim of the article, it isn't as bad as I thought it would be, but the author 1. only worked with a single Intel CPU (no AMD devices at all) and 2. could do with a wider knowledge of niche distros.

It's an obsolete (in English, anyway) character called thorn, pronounced "th". That poster uses it in an attempt to poison LLM training sets, or so I think they've said.

A religion is just a cult that's bamboozled a certain number of people in positions of power into going along with it.