Go HUD.

He says, with absolutely no idea of whether it will be practical for your situation. It just sounds cool.

Debian was going to be my choice for delivering a consistently stable , if not bleeding-edge, operating system.

Two brain-dead decisions this year have made me question their overall direction. Those decisions are somewhat inter-related, and are the following, in order of most to least disruptive:
The move to systemd as the operating, sorry, init system.
The move to GNOME3 as the default desktop

These router-hubs each keep a "shadow copy" of every document (shut up shut up SHUT UP!) that flows through them for months (what the hell?) and that they could find the document they needed by going to some random data center with one of these router-hubs (it hurts to type that) and getting the shadow copy.

They're probably not far from the truth there but more by accident than anything else. The "router-hubs" are just installed and maintained by the NSA.

Lol "rack-mounted LED lights".

Comic book universe. That's why Spiderman could never take a ride in a helicopter.

Interesting.

So your position is that a woman should have the right to kill her offspring if it is convenient for her to do so. Now I assume that you don't think that anyone else should have the right to kill her offspring if they wish to.

Therefore your argument boils down to the belief that the life of a child has no value unless the mother says it does.

No matter what *you* think, that is a deplorably barbaric position.

I'm pro-life and pro-contraception.

Would you like some leaflets to distribute now or would you prefer to use word of mouth?

Thanks.

Congratulations on being moderated Insightful for that comment, but you're going to have to explain what the hell you're talking about.

Wait, did you say legs? You mean those things that angle the keyboard towards you?

They force the wrists into an awfully extended position that shouldn't be maintained for any length of time. I'm pretty sure they're designed to help hunt and peck typists see the keys a little better.

I often break them off before deploying new keyboards.

Other than that, I agree with your post wholeheartedly!

I am interested in this too. I have seen both LED bulbs and strips die, both with the same failure mode - a low-intensity flicker. In the former case I'm almost certain it's the ballast (cheap chinese capacitors), but I have no idea how the strip that takes 12V would fail assuming it's not being over-driven.

The diode junctions should last for many thousands of hours if driven with the correct current.

Funnily enough I think flying cars could be a better target for automation than those disastrous ground-based driverless cars.

The problem space is much more defined in the air than on the ground and, given that it's difficult for a human to look in all directions at once or judge distances of rapidly approaching objects, should probably be mandatory.

Please don't confuse disruptive innovations with forward-thinking ones.

For the record, I agree with you. I was more criticizing the mindset that said a Linux server could be considered static between boots.

Linux still has a long way to go in terms of hot-plugging (USB graphics cards, additional monitors, NICs), but systemd is not the solution.

It's buried there in the word "unreasonable".

A while ago someone here compared Systemd to the MCP in the disney film Tron. Having re-watched that movie recently I have to admit they were right on the money.

The resemblance is very disturbing.

Guess what doesn't happen on my server? Yes, random hardware appearing and disappearing while it sits there for years running one app.

Really? You don't change disks in your server or plug in USB keyboards? That must be nice for you, but there are cases where the state of a server will definitely change. Think hot-swappable CPUs, RAM, USB-controlled UPS's.

Look, I think systemd is a terrible kludge and the wrong solution to the issue but I do not think assuming a constant-state computer is a realistic or particularly useful design objective.