I was surprised as well. I found the instructions at debian.org somewhat confusing, and I’m not sure if they’re completely comprehensive or accurate — but they were the most useful reference I found and provide a good idea of what it’s like.

Coincidentally, today I removed systemd from my laptop (Debian Trixie.) It was reasonably easy. I booted from a USB drive into a shell through debian’s “rescue” mode and typed plausible-looking apt commands until it worked. For some reason it didn’t create /etc/inittab and I made a typo when I tried to do it myself, but other than that no problems. Differences noticed so far that a normal user would care about: none. If nothing goes wrong I guess I’ll do the same on my desktop at home this weekend, because why not.

Nothing against systemd, but I think it’s valuable to continue having other options and it was fun to see that it’s still pretty easy to use them (maybe harder if you’re a GNOME user, idk.)

Inequality is bad for quality.

Personally identifying information here, but I don’t mind telling you all that my exact time of birth was 1970-01-01-00:00:00.000000.

Most likely they are pointing out that you lack a certain subtlety of understanding and have made a mistake.

Based on everything I learned about history from watching Blackadder, probably not.

I have some doubts about the Russian minister’s understanding of the tenets of Satanism.

the government doesn’t want to put limits on tech companies, that’s so fucking backwards.

/s ?

Mild surprise at the suggestion that “evidence” or “science” has anything to do with it.

Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.

True, there aren’t many old drivers who are honking the horn and giving everyone the finger — most of those people die young I guess.

rational used to just mean "possible to express as a ratio before it got co-opted by the academic-industrial complex- "

Hmmm… when you say “academic” do you mean the Academy of ancient Greece? Because I’m guessing that’s around when that mix-up first happened.

Right, I’m aware of this and see nothing wrong with it.

If you feel that it’s unfortunate, why take their side? I’ve found that no confusion is caused by using it the correct way. If any might be, it is at least in service of a noble cause.

I may be a little amused by it, but not verily surprised.

The word you’re looking for is “literally.”

Probably. All modern web browsers continue to be a disaster for security. It remains the case that if someone gets access to your user account through a browser rce or any other route you have to assume they can probably install a rootkit as well.

That is exactly wrong. It has always relatively much easier to get root if you have local user access, compared to getting local user access when you’re not meant to have it. Not just on Linux, but on most systems in general.

If you’re running a water treatment control system, now might be a good time to check if its UI is exposed to the Internet with nothing but the secret password 11111 protecting it.