Unfortunately for you, Torvalds understands more about systemd that you do. You need to read and comprehend a little more, stop relying on trolls that also don't know what systemd is or isn't. 90% of those items listed are optional but are part of the "systemd project" and not part of the systemd binary, you can choose to use any of them over the current offerings if you wish, its not compulsory.

"Not exactly a positive endorsement on the quality of the systemd code." - how on earth do you get that understanding from what he said? its called "grasping at straws"

they did one fork.. Devuan. but it doesn't seem to have made many headlines lately

"The people who are most against systemd are the serious, professional, often long-time Linux system administrators who have to provision and maintain production Linux systems." - can you point to the proof of that statement and the others you make?

yep, i glad i've just upgraded to a blackberry passport, i now get upto 4 days before charging. but i'm not an app addict, just use the phone, email, contact, calendar, browser, camera.

is that why you've got a chip on your shoulder about it?

Have you ever installed libreoffice on windows with chocolatey? The windows native install is slooooooow but on linux its fast so if it can do it nearly as fast as linux then it wouldn't be a bad proposition.

my girlfriends HP laptop takes at least 15 minutes from boot up before the desktop is usable. the disk thrashes around like a beast and task manager shows nothing is running. and if you try and run chrome or the new opera during this period, don't . i've given up trying to keep up with windows configuration but i've been thru msconfig and unticked as much shit that starts up on boot as possible and yet, a lot of it shows as still running later on. how many places to you have to visit to unconfigure short of uninstalling. Installing/uninstalling is another slow slow process - when are they going to sort that shit out? I can install over a thousand packages (including downloading) on opensuse quicker than i can install something on windows.

"Vows that include the phrase "as long as we both shall live" should mean something, dammit!" - i'm sure the NRA can help on that score

the problem with that is you probably paid over the odds anyway because its a Mac

" I mean why the hell would we expect "[e]xperts in materials science at MIT" to be able to accurately calculate the manufacturing and production costs (and thus savings) for a novel battery technology? They are experts in material science, not process engineering or manufacturing."

perhaps you need to actually RTFA, I'll save you the pain of a mouse click

"We’ve reinvented the process,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a co-founder of 24M (and previously a co-founder of battery company A123). The existing process for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries, he says, has hardly changed in the two decades since the technology was invented, and is inefficient, with more steps and components than are really needed. The new process is based on a concept developed five years ago by Chiang and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. In this so-called “flow battery,” the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid and pumped through various compartments of the battery. The new battery design is a hybrid between flow batteries and conventional solid ones: In this version, while the electrode material does not flow, it is composed of a similar semisolid, colloidal suspension of particles. Chiang and Carter refer to this as a “semisolid battery.”

"And yet it has 1/3 the emissions of an electric car."

i presume he is only talking about the manufacturing process or he has already inhaled too many fumes from his car

I've got into the habit of putting angry-based emails into draft until i calm down and redo them.

I don't use twitter but it should have something like this if it doesn't already.

its a very funny analogy, homeopathy is completely appropriate for the gullible and placebo effect

they are also called pharmacists in the uk, chemist is a very old general term for the shop a pharmacist works in (and its easier to pronounce :o) ) .