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Because to you it’s virtually meaningless other than some weird nostalgia

responding to my comment. I didn’t take any side, let alone argued from with nostalgia; where does the “you” come from?

Can you not put words into my mouth?

Nobody knows what a “gimp” is supposed to be.

How is arguing for one side of the issue “not seeing the value of anyone else’s opinion”.

It’s even more ironic: the palantiri were built as communication devices, to be used for good by the right people. Then Sauron came to power and immediately used them to corrupt and spy on the rulers using them.

So they are dangerous tools that are just one bad government away from being used for horrible things. WHY DID THEY BUILD THEM THEN?

They’ve always done it “for the children”. Same wrapper.

Yeah, these people never do their research. Its very easy to find the discussions and reasoning the devs had at the time.

That especially disqualifies the conspiracy idiots who come up with myths about Red Hat or Poettering or Microsoft or so puppeteering Linux into its dooooom

Nah, the issue is accidental corruption, different parsers doing things differently, stuff like that. Happens often with “mostly text but actually some structured data also” formats, doesn’t happen with formats that have well specified framing.

Because most people prefer it. Again: having a minority taste doesn’t mean you’re oppressed when there’s an option to have what you want.

For many, it makes them require lube in situations where they would otherwise need none.

For some, it makes things painful some or all the time.

Read. I’m saying that you lied, not that your preferences are bad.

Systemd doesn’t force you to use binlogs.

Can you add more fields? Is there no ambiguity in context switching? No breakage around whitespace?

If so, sure, that’s fine then.

WTF. Saying “it uses binlogs” as if that wasn’t a choice is just a lie. I called it out. Deal with it.

Right, that happened to me too.

And it’s a problem 100% unrelated to systemd, so I wouldn’t count it here.

That old load of bullshit again. You could swap out the logs if you want a shittier, less searchable (but text based) logging system. The rest can be countered in a similarly conclusive way, and has been repeatedly in the last decade or so.

Inform yourself before copy-pasting misinformation and misleading propaganda.

Eh, it exists to make fun of the Gen-AI image Trump posted, so I’ll allow it.

That’s tautological. Of course “doing X in relationship model where X isn’t considered cheating” is not considered cheating

And don’t forget that those payment tiers are heavily subsidized.

Technically correct, but not really:

The desire among Americans to move abroad is reaching record numbers: One in five say that, ideally, they would like to emigrate if given an opportunity, according to a 2025 Gallup poll

If they’d used “expat” or some shit, you’d have a point.

It’s not just careers on the line here. And that to say something just so all the people who need to hear it immediately get back into the brainwash machine again 5 minutes later to listen to thousands of hours of billionaire-controlled media? That’s worth it?