Rebel against it. They only push shit like this when they know people will passively accept it.

If you must own a smart phone, pick one that doesn't do this. Choice is there, you just have to show some character.

That's exactly where he belongs to.

Offtopic but maybe helpful to somebody that would never expect systemd to do this.... and yet another argument against what systemd stands for.

So I had this raid device, it had some problems and it had to be rebuilt. All done, created a FS on it, it synced all good.
Tried mounting it, mount command exits successfully, i type in df -h... nothing. Partition not mounted, nothing in dmesg... all checks out fine.
After few more attempts to figure out what's wrong, out of disbelief that after 25 years of working exclusively on desktop and on servers running linux, i cannot figure out how to mount a filesystem, i turned to google and run into THIS

Apparently:
"The most likely reason is that file system is mounted, as the mount commands reports, but then systemd thinks it knows better and unmounts it before you can see it."

That is some windows grade stuff. Not allowing root user to do what he wants to do, and instead override him and "UMOUNT" the god damn filesystem with 0 notifications of any kind. This egomaniac Pottering knows better than everybody else, and so does his systemd.

I'm not saying that linux does not need something better than it had before, but damn init system should not arbitrarily decide to umount partitions, resolve dns, and do 200 other things it's doing.

As Linus said few years ago:
"And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why."

Somewhat unrelated, but seeing how many comments are complaints about misbehaving dogs, I think I should say it...

Dogs are not cats, nor are they cuddly toys and/or replacement for babies. They need an owner who knows how to handle an animal, not just for the sake of other people, and other pets, but for their sake as well. People dress up these dogs as cute toys, and reinforce negative behavior and cause psychological distress to them, unknowingly, all the time. These dogs end up biting, jumping, eating stuff, barking and even attacking kids, eventually.

By all means, get a dog, but know the breed, know what you getting, and what it needs in terms of exercise, food and training.

If you can't learn how to handle animals, you should not have a dog legally, like you shouldn't drive a car if you don't know how. It's best case annoying to other people, and worst case, it can cost somebody their life.

> Not vaccinating your children is at the very least aggravated child abuse.

How about feeding them the "Standard American Diet"? Is that at the very least aggrevated child abuse?

Addicting kids to excessive amounts of carbohydrates, to the point were 65% of people are not even fat anymore, they are obese, with no discipline, willpower, or actual desire to be healthy, but embrace "management" of disease, and of course by trying to change cultural norms around what "health" actually means.

All you lot over there in the states, got vaccinated, and then on the way back home stuffed yourself with donuts and KFC, of course, chasing it down with Coca Cola.

After which, of course, you get on social media and spew verbal diarrhea about health.

Actually, I think you deserve the right to condemn your kid to life of suffering by teaching them to eat garbage. Your kid, your responsibility, my kid, my responsibility.

The machine provides caffeine for you, for free, so you can wake up earlier than you should and still function. Debt?

Don't worry about debt... debt is good!

> this is how the bad guys in Die Hard 2 crashed those planes!
 
... they crashed them by changing ground level by few meters. That's not interference. That's more insidious. Interference can be detected, and they could've landed the plane manually if they suspected the altimeter doesn't work properly.

They would like nothing more than to lock it all down again and play rock super stars.

Especially the fear porn media. Which is pretty much every single channel.

On a desktop system, I don't want to mess around with anything. I just want to use it as it is. I've been working exclusively with linux on servers and desktops since 1998, and at this point in life I don't want to tinker with anything that I don't need. In early 2000s you had to tinker with your desktop to make it work, servers were ok, and that was fun. Now it's just a drag.

Anyway, they did not just add code... they added half a million lines of code (not improvements or features, but DRM) and that's considerable. That's the problem.

I use Linux as my main OS, meaning I need graphics with appropriate drivers to get the max out of the hardware I'm using. No option to not use this.

> Musk has promised to open source the algorithm. Seems reasonable to me. He wants to rid Twitter of bots. Seems reasonable to me. He wants to encourage lively discussion rather than blocking or banning the accounts of people that don't necessarily agree with you. Seems reasonable to me.

The people that complain about Musk do not want any of these reasonable points. They do not want alternative opinions, or challenge to official narrative which they share.

It's their worst nightmare, because current twitter silences (by shadow banning, or banning) people that oppose the current narrative, and they are on that side.

Musk is a threat to modern day book burners, censors and elitists on both sides of the discussion. Just look at the comments above, not ONE mention of any of the points he said. It's all about how he's stupid, loose money, destroy twitter, or who is censored more, the left or the right.... not one discussion about open sourcing twitter. Just that fact alone is intriguing, so we don't have to speculate anymore who gets shadow banned and/or why.

Bots, human verification, all that... not one discussion about any of that, and it's revolutionary. It's the way to go. Transparency. Not an elite ruling class.

If he actually gonna do any of that... remains to be seen. It's just strange that people wish him to fail, because he wants to verify humans, stop spam bots, and open source twitter. Very strange times we live in, and I'm sure it's going to be written about in history books 500 years from now as a example how NOT to be. Like we read about witch burning, future humans will read about us.

Crappy fake food in crap packaging...with seed oil deep fried "fries". Chase it down with half a liter of cola.

My god people. What are you doing to your bodies? Its a tragedy that these places even exist.

> So who is going to answer for catastrophic economic damage that ended up pointless? Also, what else were they wrong about (that discussing gets you banned on all social media) ?

You know who should? The people that accepted it all in the first place.
  Same people that would gladly exchange a bit of freedom, privacy or whatever else for illusion of security and safety, and that would no doubt comment here how freedom is bullshit conservative/republican idea (wtf????), and how the lockdowns had to be done (although they achieved NOTHING)... just you wait, for the book burners and fascists in disguise to rear their ugly head. Those are the ones that should answer, but unfortunately, they will not, because those people take responsibility for nothing. They will blame the politicians.

So I get few free tv shows with ads? (Actually I don't, since I'm not in the US).

Ok then. I'll just torrent them since they're free anyway...and I'm not in the US.

It's illegal to leave Ukraine, if you're a man.

A woman can freely leave, but men == army.

> This is a declaration of war by Russia against the EU and NATO. Imposing a no-fly zone and free-fire bombing of all Russian troop columns should commence as soon as possible. Then bomb Putin's bunkers until he has no where to hide.

And you think you can just bomb and impose your will on Russia as you did on smaller countries that cannot defend themselves?

Good thing you're not in charge of making these decisions... otherwise I guess we would truly be in WW3. Though, looking at the state of the world right now, a correction seems to be needed to weed out lunatics like you and Putin.