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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • “To make my computer do as I wish I simply need to lie about my country of residence. I am very technically adept.”

    TBF I do find that confusing. I’m used to human-readable conf files that persist across updates. But I can see how non-technical users might think understanding a collection of tricks is knowledge of their OS.







  • The dual booting problems are enraging. I somehow have the opposite problem, that it will always boot from the SD if the SD is present during power on. How hard is it to make an alternative boot method button?

    I wish I had known this beforehand, I’m sure there are other SBCs with sane booting. I am never buying an Orange Pi again.











  • The kernel is already monolithic enough without adding another piece of monolithic software that everything depends on. IMO the Unix philosophy means we should have interchangeable parts.

    There’s some amount of user error here but when I did use systemd I had a hard time turning off services I didn’t want because they were in the wants-to-have entry of other services. It’s like a separate config area to maintain with a specific maintenance tool software instead of flat files.

    I’m unfortunately using distros with systemd now tho.