Ahhh the old fix something the maintainer should have fixed so that next time zfs gets a slight update my fix breaks and I go through the frustration yet again trick.

Editing an init script is never the solution to a problem unless you ARE the maintainer of the distribution. Your fix is just as likely to reoccur and result in a debugging session with init as it is with systemd.

Oh hate to double post but I have to say if your definition of arcane is "something I didn't grow up and become an expert in" then the argument falls flat on its face. Any UNIX admin should be perfectly comfortable with having to learn a few new commands. Especially since your idea of arcane is:

journalctl ---vs--- tail /var/log/*
journalctl -u apache.service ---vs--- tail /var/log/apache/* that is if apache has put it's logs there, otherwise you can have fun in the world of pipes and greps digging for apache entries in the general clusterfuck that is Linux text logs.

I do. The minimal standard Ubuntu Server release is simple, clean, CLI driven, and for all intents and purposes looks and acts no different than any other distribution that uses apt for package management.

Oh and getting things working is really well documented. Fixing complex problems is better left to the arch wiki, but for the basics of trying to do something on a server you're almost guaranteed to find an Ubuntu specific guide somewhere.

Far more importantly in like 6 months when the LTS release comes out.

Never underestimate the reaction from an industry who perceives itself as under threat. Producers and publishers definitely DO want this.

The same treatment as DivX players? You mean that everyone in the world now has a player that is capable of playing them?

Also I think you have a strange view of the minds of the general populace. The majority of Americans don't side with Snowden and don't give a shit about spying. It's a sad reality for those caring about content freedom. All your same things were said about Bluray players which promised the absolute earth DRM wise including the ability to nuke players from orbit in people's living room.

We all still bought them.

Since when does an attempt to save a life through transplants equate to losing medical licenses or prison?

I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's effectively no different in China than it is in the west. Yes there are people who are locked behind technology, just like there are Americans who only ever watch Fox News. Maybe it's representative of where in China I was staying, or the class of people who I worked with, but all of them had some form of service to get around the great firewall. Even if they don't at home or on their phone (I realised this when people constantly showed me stuff on Google Maps which is blocked) then if these people work for an international corporation they nearly always have some form of corporate VPN too.

The people are well and truly clued in on what their government is doing.

Well yes they are actually. Earthquakes are the result of underground movement due to stresses at faults overcoming the forces holding the ground in place. If you lubricate joints to reduce the forces holding them in place the net energy caused by underground movements remain the same, the only difference is the release is small and often vs large and rare.

The problem is that everytime someone does something that would make them guilty of that they are usually legally covered by a size 1 font disclaimer in the cover of the book or at the bottom of their website with the colour code #FEFEFE that says this is not a medical opinion and to seek a doctor.

Heck you should have seen the backlash against one of the stupid fuckwit paleo chefs in Australia by the medical profession. They had to move mountains to get Pete Evan's book withdrawn as it contains recipes potentially dangerous to newborns and they only did that by directly lobbying the publisher to stop working with him.

Yes and no. It needs to stop being put on the insane pedestal that it currently sits on, but it definitely shouldn't die. There's stuff to be said about not doing the stupid shit we currently do, such as colour oranges orange to make them look more like oranges instead of the natural oranges that grow on trees. Or coat Apples in wax. Or load everything with ludicrous amounts of preservatives to that they last for 4 years.

It's like the global warming debate. People who thing that global warming isn't man made are typically caught suddenly off guard when I start giving them other reasons we should stop polluting the world like something as simple as making the city smell nicer.

Actually you are very wrong about that. See the many cases where people were locked up because they knew they had diseases and spread them around by not taking basic precautions. Someone already linked you to Typoid Mary, but what about the constant cases of people being jailed for unsafe sex while knowingly carrying HIV.

We have a right not be infected due to stupidity / malicious intent; anti-vaxxers fall under both.

Indeed. That it's a penny pinching problem puts us in even more of an agreement.

That's not "not clear", that's just an engineering problem. Heck every digital device on the market has a "local oscillator" many devices have multiple local oscillators. Getting a passive receiver complaint with any kind of standards is orders of magnitude easier in both requirements and solving engineering problems than a transmitting device, and even those are quite easy; case in point: every mobile phone or $30 UHF radio.

That and the fact that it's a known engineering problem with a known engineering solution which has been implemented many times before. The Galaxy S had FM, so did the S2, so did my old Saegem dumb phone, so did my not iPod, and my Sony Walkman. Oh and so does my $30 UHF radio.

It is not a problem, the only reason these devices aren't used because there's very little market for it. Heck even in my car I use Pandora via phone instead of FM. Most of commercial radio is a joke, and for the odd occasion when I do tune in I use a digital radio which gives me a far wider option for radio stations locally then the usual shit (40+ stations instead of the 10 or so local ones). FM in the phone is dead because people in general don't want it.

What makes you think the modern dumb TV will last any longer?

We apparently have a smart TV. I don't know exactly I've never actually pushed the button that starts the supposed smart bit, but to me the smarts in a TV is like a centre console in the car. It's just part of some cars, I never use it, and I couldn't care less if the car has it or not.