My single biggest objection to systemd isn't the way it does any one task, even if that way is different -- it's that no one project should ever have that much control over the architecture of the system as a whole. It's anti-Unix design. Break the project up into dozens of separate ones that distros can use individually on a case by case basis, and there's probably some good stuff to be found.

UUCP over DHT over TCP/IP - no DNS needed, easy routing to systems with dynamic IP addresses using a DHT ring - interesting idea or no?

There are, fundamentally, three computing worlds. There is the world of computers-as-tools, where the tool obeys the user and exists for the user's benefit. There is the world of computers-as-marketing, where the tool might benefit the user, but exists primarily to sell the user more stuff. There is the world of computers-as-data-extractors, where the tool pretends to benefit the user, while extracting as much usable training data from the user as possible. These three worlds cannot coexist in peace. Two must die.

Here's a question for someone smarter than I am: How do you know you're in denial? How do you tell the difference between what you know about yourself and what you only think you know?

GNUstep could look like this, but I'm lazy and busy and chronically depressed so it's hard to get the energy to work on it. (I really want to find the time and energy to get back to this. It's one of the ones that really matters to me.)

Every Linux desktop out there in some way apes the aesthetics of macOS, but not one of them gets the single most critical detail right. The sine qua non of Mac usability is right here in this screenshot: the global menubar. Not just making menus appear across the top of the screen, the menubar is actually shared by all windows in an application -- that is, when you make your app, you give it a single menubar, and you disable whatever isn't relevant. This is an aid to memory. The human interface guidelines specify how the menus are to be arranged, again to help user memory. GNOME is the worst offender -- they abandoned the menubar concept entirely.

It just comes down to I don't trust the contents of an SSD to still be there in 10 years, 20 years, to say nothing of whatever service I downloaded something from. Long-lasting physical media is more trustworthy. Nothing is perfect, stuff breaks, but my CDs are still here, still playing. That said, I still maintain we need a prosumer-level LTO backup tape standard.

In my lifetime. When I was a kid, HIV was beyond "scary". It was the red claw of Death himself. Every queer kid back then knew someone infected or dead from HIV, if they weren't positive themselves. We would have cheerfully committed many crimes to have this back then.

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Capitalism's final form seems to be renting everything, and being constantly monitored to rent you more stuff. I'm fucking over it. If I don't own it, I'm not interested in it. House? Owned. Clothes? Owned. Food? Owned. Entertainment? Owned. Tools? Owned.

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