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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWhat eternity feels like
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    7 hours ago

    systemctl is trying to do the right thing

    I love how this comment suggests every fucking alternative doesn’t or wouldn’t. That’s just bloody arrogance.

    Systemd’s entire existence is against best coding practice. Famously, when called out just on the ability to work with others, the systemd team represented trends ably.

    Never have I raged at a machine and demanded it tell me what the flying flaming fuck it was actually doing now than when systemd was trying to do what I’m charitably deciding is the right thing.

    Why would be doing the right thing now? It honestly only does a thing through luck and race conditions anyway.













    1. I run with a preferred name instead of a Rupert J Farnsworth III name (actually it sounds like another name of a criminal; not as bad as my buddy Chuck Manson’s name, but someone says ‘hyuk hyuk’ a few times a year).
    2. I don’t have a phone number that will ring and get me. My personal phone is set up as a tablet and has no usable number and can’t receive calls or text messages.

    Guess that and the lack of a good app means I can’t sell anything on the play store.


  • My old employer used to have people on staff just for technical writing. Some of that writing became the man pages you know, and some of it was ‘just’ documentation for commercial products - ID management and the like.

    Then we sued IBM for breach of contract, and if you ask anyone about it they’ll parrot the IBM PR themes exactly, as their PR work was brutal. People in Usenet and Forums were very mean, and the company decided to stop offering much of the stuff that it was for free. It was very ‘f this’.

    If man pages needed a volunteer to maintain, I know why ours tapered off.