When i left my ex-communist country for greener pastures, many years ago, one of the biggest shocks was learning about “lobbying”.

What we backward peasants from communism considered plain corruption, was perfectly legal and normal in the USA. Less so in Western Europe, though. Not only normal but seems to be one of core means of getting into power (and holding onto it), whether it is business or politics. Mind you, I never lived in the USA but based on everything I see/hear that is absolutely the case.

I am still flabbergasted by it…

Did they hire Mark Zuckerberg’s twin brother or something?

Right. I am dumb 😕🤗

Not really interested in debating with average “I run arch btw” user. We are not in the same universe, things I have to audit and maintain are not in the same universe with things you do, so having such a smart advice coming from you is not a surprise at all. I could, after all, just roll out my own distro if I am not happy, amirite?

I run systemd machines because I don’t have a choice. It doesn’t make it any less of a shit. Simple as that.

But hey, tell me some more about systemd, I am really new to all this 🤔

“Just avoid places that sysadmins and security guys frequent and get your opinions on systemd from memes and people running arch on home machine”. Great plan.

Systemd is absolute and utter shit, especially from security perspective.

Noone was asking security guys but package maintainers.

My favorite systemd thing is booting up a box with 6 NICs where only 1 was configured during the initial setup. Second favorite is betting on whether it will hang on reboot/shutdown.

Great tool, 10/10.

“Journalists” still love Twitter because they don’t need to do any real investigative work anymore, they just report on “he said, she said” idiocy. Instant drama and source of clicks.

So much of news these days seem to be “someone said something (on Twitter)”.

Gossip generation…

Oh dear, “both sides are the same”, amirite?

You are missing the point.

That’s what MAGA assumes.

And Walz is there to prove their assumptions wrong.

I can also tell you that most military personnel I met in my life were not ‘manly’ people in any way. Just normal and decent people.

It’s MAGA mongoloids that link military to manhood. Or guns. Or football. Or beer.

Edit: and what is really amusing to me is that zi am not American, nor life there, but I did get excited about Walz. Because he seems like a normal human being. Imagine how crazy the world is when we get excited about (apparently) a normal human being in politics.

Of course they didn’t.

Bands like that exist for a very, very long time, mostly on ‘manly’ watches (for outdoor, pilot watches, etc).

But in this context, yeah they seem to be just copying what Apple did, probably looking at it as a safe bet. So silly.

Do not forget “art”.

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Do you actually require help breathing or you manage it on your own?

Oh, another iteration of “both sides are the same” idiocy.

What a shocker.

Before the Internet, I knew there were dumb fucks in this world. I could just never, ever imagine how many of them there are.

Thanks to the Internet, now I know.

Rogue engineer strikes again.

Irony is, most likely escaping you…