You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.

No, see the reasoning why distros switched, e.g. Debian or Arch. TL;DR: technical merit, no good alternatives existed at the time, as evidence by how the Arch maintainer paraphrased the average systemd critic:

I think there might be this other project that possibly is doing something similar. I don’t really know anything about it, but I’m pretty sure it is better than systemd.

Would the landscape be more diverse if other people would have built someone when Poettering first announced systemd? Probably! Did anyone do it? No! OpenRC wasn’t a fully fledged alternative back then, Upstart had fundamental design flaws.

But does anyone regret adopting systemd? Also no! Everybody is happy. It’s robust, it works, it makes admin lives easier. Users no longer have to deal with zombies, slow boots, and unnecessary services running.

Here we go again with the conspiracy bullshit

Radioactive waste storage.

I do think that goal power plants need to be turned off before nuclear ones, but neither is sustainable.

Analog, and what really matters for analog signal is if the wire carries load or not.

Like a phono cable from a record player or a analog signal cable from an old sound card matters, but it doesn’t matter how you send the amplified signal to the passive speakers.

This means if you have a HDMI cable going into a decent AVR and speaker cables coming out, you basically can’t do anything wrong.

Probably just people trying to buy in early to the new meme meta

Numbing kind of, but it more feels like vibration or “buzzing”, it’s hard to describe

There’s also menthol and whatever compound is in Szechuan pepper.

OMG, now I’m craving Mapo Tofu.

That’s because I don’t know or care if he did something.

All I’m saying that asking for abuse to happen would make one complicit in it happening no matter how actively one could participate in the abuse afterwards.

It’s quite a simple concept really. It’s while charges starting with “conspiracy to …” exist.

I’m not implying anything specific, I’m saying that if he wanted, he could have done a lot of things by meeting people who would make it happen for him.

Lol, way to demonstrate your ignorance.

He cheated on his wife with his nurse, that’s why they separated.

Needing support for it doesn’t mean you won’t be able to hurt people.

Probably more like it automatically installs is when you install the system but yeah.

This isn’t Debian. It has a live image that comes with Nvidia drivers so you can have these from the start too.

Well, Bazzite has it pre-installed, but that’s the experience for other stuff lol.

I don’t recommend mint for newbies because it comes with X11 even still.

Same for my partner’s old gaming PC: she used Windows 10 until recently, and Bluetooth as well as the steam overlay didn’t work properly.

Now on Bazzite they do.

Ooo what an amazing idea!

EVERYTHING is GONE!

I literally got banned from the “awfulsystems” Lemmy instance for suggesting that Firefox isn’t horrible. No exaggeration, there was nothing else to my comment than a polite suggestion that Firefox is pretty good actually.

If that ban isn’t driven by hate, I don’t want to see how real hate looks like.

This shows how unhinged the whole recent hate on Firefox is. Turning off GenAI is literally one single setting AND Mozilla is doing things infinitely better than others (e.g. the translation feature is completely local, and having a chatbot in the sidebar is opt-in)

Not if you interpret it as “sufficient but not necessary”.

anyone I’m into is a woman, but there are also women in not into

Set theory yo

The USA continues to baffle me. You people still have paper checks? I haven’t seen one in at least 30 years in Europe (before that I was too little to care about such things, so I might never have seen one)