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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I hope they succeed. Given Alphabet/Google’s recent moves to try and lock Android’s app ecosystem down and them just generally becoming more Evil every day, GrapheneOS and LineageOS etc. may be living on borrowed time.

    I watched a video reviewing some phones smuggled out of North Korea a few days ago and it’s truly scary what the endgame of locked mobile phones looks like and given the trends worldwide towards authoritarianism, we’re frogs being boiled slowly toward the same situation.




  • Wait one god-damned minute. If this is true, and I have no reason to think it is not, why is this not another prominent arrow in the quiver of everyone who constantly has to point out how psychotic Gates and billionaires like him truly are? Jeebus Cripes, what an asshole Bill Gates was/is:

    Bill’s face changes. And in just a matter of five minutes he’s losing it.

    And he’s screaming at me, “YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM!” Spit — I’m not making this up — Spit is coming across the conference room table and landing on my glasses as he’s like, “YOU FUCKED HIM!” I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about

    There are many accounts of how unhinged and abusive Gates was in Microsoft meetings, but this is just off the scale. Speechless.






  • Holy hell, wasn’t expecting that many downvotes. Wow. I wonder who I pissed off more, systemd or Wayland folks? :P

    That’s fine, this is why Linux distros should always be diverse, to allow users to build their system using the tools of their choice. And why one project should never be in a position to unilaterally obsolete entire subsystems by fiat. Which is what I fear is being attempted here – that was my point.

    Debian has a lot of sway, but if they make moves some of us don’t agree with, we have the freedom to go elsewhere. Thank you, Devuan maintainers, for what you’ve done so far.

    Sad though, as I was an OG Debian fanboy, using it since the late 90’s.


  • Yup, guess I am :) … for now.

    I have tried Wayland a few times over the past few years, probably bad luck on my part with what systems/chipsets I’ve had every time, that it hasn’t been a great experience. But I have read it’s getting there, so I expect someday I’ll just switch and not really notice the difference there.

    As for systemd… yeah I’ll be “a wierdo” for the foreseeable future I suppose. Good ol’ sysV init scripts, or openrc, have always, and still do, work well enough for me.