Systemd has simplified my life on a few occasions, and it seems to be reliable from what I can tell. At the end of the day if I can get the OS to do what I want in a relatively simple matter, that's all I care about.
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I don't know what systemd is but this is pretty much how I picture all linux users.
Systemd is fine.
Journald is fine.
But someone pass me a mace I can beat systemd-resolved and systemd-logind to death with
EDIT: Oh come on 
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I fully agree. I am a user with a bit of technical background, but not a lot of detailled knowledge about the inner workings of an operating system (i know boolean logic and basic programming structures - in Pascal lol - from the 90's, what a transistor does and stuff, how to build my own PCs and handle filesystems and troubleshooting).
With init scripts, i hit a wall pretty fast.
With Systemd i know how to start, stop and configure services, and the suite built around it uses the same conventions everywhere, making the everyday life with Linux for someone like me so much easier and more transparent than ever before.
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Well, now I do.
Rule 34:
If there's a user base, there's buttplug.io support...
Error: That number is already picked for a different rule. Please select a different number.
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Let's hope the user base is flared.
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I don't get the systemd hate. The most common complaint I see is that it's too bloated, but Arch uses it, so what gives? Is it just that people dislike change? Like Wayland hate (not Wayland frustration)?
Generally I see a few:
- People wanting the highly deterministic, but slower behavior of the rc scripts.
- People liking the fact that the rc startup was generally almost entirely defined in plain script files
- Some folks criticizing certain opinionated things in systemd, as systemd delves deeper into things like capabilities and users.
- Systemd can sometimes be a bit weird about how it does/does not capture stdout/stderr as one might guess in some situations.
- Some folks not liking the journald angle of binary-only files
Mainly the last point is the only one I personally find potentially aggravating, but since I never really am in a broken system without journalctl I'm not too bothered by it. I have saved myself some effort thanks to systemd including stuff that the daemons used to provide for themselves.
People wanting the highly deterministic, but slower behavior of the rc scripts.
This is literally it for me. I got to work on an alpine system and it was like a breath of fresh air - I could edit the service script files directly. So easy, so little abstraction
I'm more frustrated with GNOME devs sabotaging Wayland.
I'm more frustrated with GNOME devs...
Say no more!
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The other day I wrote I like snaps and shot more rope than Spiderman.
Flatpak is amazing especially with storage being so cheap these days.
OK, Satan.
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My biggest complaint with systemd....
Service xxx stop/start/restart is so much easier than
Systemctl stop/start/restart xxx
It fucking annoys me
I mean, you could write a shell function or script to just wrap it if it bothered you that much?
I'd rather complain
Understandable, have a nice day
alias service="systemctl"
Or even
alias s="systemctl"
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I dislike systemd less than I dislike sysvinit, so it has that going for it.
I still don't get what you guys have against Windows. Bill Gates has done so much good for the world.
(My body is ready.)
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Have one extra buzz from me as well. Screw RedHat and everything it does.
Okay, so, this place IS filled with furries. Cool.
Linux wouldn't work without furries
Every online space is filled with furries, especially the most furry-hostile spaces!
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Systemd is the greatest innovation that Linux has ever seen bar none.
Since I started actually doing system administration and actually interacting directly with SystemD all of the hate for it I'd soaked up from enthusiast forums melted away. I've never used any of the other init systems so maybe I'm missing out, but I do appreciate SystemD for what it does
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I don't know if I like how you're characterizing furries. Not all of us do this, and I don't do it... often.
This must be why my post saying Linux made me gay got so many up votes.
Please tell me your phone has a flared base?
Listen, we've all done it.
We all have bash or fish or zsh aliases to do it in command.
We all love the feeling of a pulsing phone in our asses.
But we don't talk about it.
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Must your climax be fueled by our frustrations? Vibrators are cheap, you know.
Must your climax be fueled by our frustrations?
Maybe that's exactly what gets him off.
Frankly, this should be implemented with something like a combination of:
https://github.com/QazCetelic/lemmy-know
Lemmy Know (let me know) is a lightweight CLI application / Docker service that monitors Lemmy for reports on posts and comments and sends notification. These can be sent to a Discord channel with a webhook or as MQTT messages (schema), which is useful for more complex setups with e.g., Node-RED.
https://www.home-assistant.io/
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/
MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or โInternet of Thingsโ connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.
https://github.com/DevelopmentalOctopus/ha-buttplug
Buttplug.io Integration for Home Assistant
Intifaceยฎ Central is an open-source, cross-platform application that acts as a hub for intimate haptics/sensor hardware access
Some collection of hardware devices from:
That'd permit for, say, having message events drive a state machine to control devices or something like that.
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I just like being able to use things I learn across Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and RHEL.
Also prefixing a command with systemd-cat and having the logs go to the journal is pretty nice. Then I don't have to worry about rotating them.
Good boy.
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