Both upsides were already easily solvable. Most distro's rc scripts already call a function to start a daemon. That could easily have called a helper program to set up the cgroup and register on dbus to act as a controller for the group.

Meanwhile, at least Debian's rc scripts already had dependencies listed in their headers that could be used to compute a start order. It could as easily be used to compute a makefile to start in parallel.

The problem is, now that the init process will be such a hairball of dependencies, it becomes harder to implement such solutions without seemingly unrelated bits breaking. For example, no reasonable person expects the GUI desktop to break if you switch out init. (and no reasonable person creates such a dependency)

Oh, wait, no that's us.

This is not, nor has it ever been a central tenet of Islam. This cannot be viewed in political or historical isolation.

"Convert to Christianity under Papal authority or die by red-hot poker" was a governing principal of church and state - at the center of Europe's most powerful empire, for nearly 200 years. It was never the message of Jesus, regardless of your belief in Christianity. But scripture and political expropriation of pseudo-theology made that it seem so.

I hope someday you have a daughter who marries a an African Muslim. You might be forced to reconsider many of the things that you "know" so assuredly.

It's so much EASIER than THINKING!

"But thus far, the logitech harmony series is the only thing I've found that actually gets that job done at all and therefore is the best by default."

Try the real stuff. Control 4, Crestron and AMX all blow the harmony remote out of the water so badly it is not funny. Hell even the URC programmable remotes make a harmony look like a joke.

No, but you are required to start printing out advertisements form online and mailing them to your neighbors.

"and I'm not letting water nor fire run when I'm not home "

I do as well as million of home owners do. Fire is in my furnace and it's running right now with me not home. And my sprinkler system was running at 8am a full hour after I had left for work. Many times I will start a load of laundry on my way out of the house and let that run, million of people do this.

Dude, get over your paranoia.

Only a fool would be OK with cloud based control and automation. If all the processing and control is not done on the local LAN then the product is 100% crap.

And yes I am calling most of this consumer "smart home" products utter crap.

Being paid to do anything by definition makes you a professional. Professional does not mean 'better', it just carries the connotation since frequently someone who cannot get paid for their work where another can is due to things that lack. In coding, sometimes being 'professional' versus 'amatuer' really boils down to being loud enough to get taken seriously.

People have reported corrupt log files. The result is all the data is unrecoverable. The complaints have been answered 'as designed'.

When things are right, it works as intended. When things are bad, it can go far off the rails. Considering it is the system log used to debug what is wrong when things are off the rails, a full binary log is a dubious proposition.

There are benefits to binary log, but they could have been done to varying degrees with structured text and/or external binary metadata, rather than a corruptable binary blob.

Intentionally used.

It happens when someone in management or preliminary design fucks up in the early conceptual stage. So fear and panic are used to keep everyone's head down instead of looking around, asking who made these shitty design decisions.