There's nothing in Linux that demands you use SystemD.
That depends on your definition of "Linux". On my Gentoo desktop [OpenRC + MATE], TigerVNC no longer works, because recent versions require Gnome and Gnome requires SystemD.
There was definitely some bullshit in the arguments. One was that systemd could bring up network interfaces much faster, but when you dig into it, that speed "improvement" was largely due to not running the "arping" command to check for duplicate devices already on the network.
Volume seems to choose when to work. I don't touch the volume so it's not that I lowered it.
Volume is definitely an issue. I went from a Pixel 4a to a 9a and now I can't get the volume loud enough on Bluetooth headphones. When walking, traffic noise is enough to overwhelm my headphones so that I can't hear a podcast or phone call. I have read that this is a deliberate choice to stop people damaging their hearing, but I don't think it is going to be loud enough for use on a plane.
It's so bad that there are apps to increase volume:
https://play.google.com/store/...
The reason may be even more stupid
As in, the justification for the lower speed limit, enforced by the average speed cameras, is bullshit.
The cameras are there to drive traffic onto the M6 Toll, not for safety.
Fortunately in the UK we have average speed checks over long distances so arseholes find a hole in their bank account and maybe points on their driving license too.
Some of these are bullshit. For example, the A446 sprouted an average speed check after the M6 Toll opened with a stretch parallel to the A446.
You have to stop people swapping lanes, because that has a dramatic effect on highway capacity. Thus, slowing down the traffic in all lanes to a value that is slower than most drivers would normally go at keeps all the lanes identical, reducing the motivation to swap lanes.
That book must have sent waves of panic in the secret parts of the UK government. During WWII, a highly secret site built early computers to break the German Lorentz cipher. The existence of these was kept secret until the mid '70s.
That someone would write a book about a fictional computer called "Colossus" would have lots of people wondering if the name was a coincidence, of if there had been a leak.
Email as a protocol needs to die. The stuff we do by email can be done PROPERLY AND BETTER by just basing the same top layers on something else that actually works and does the end-to-end encryption, domain verification, signing, authnetication etc. for you anway).
That something else does not exist and will never exist, because the big Internet companies won't let it exist. SMTP email exists and can be used outside the control of the big companies.
Protocols like Jabber would suffer from the same issues that you claim email has if it were adopted as a replacement for SMTP. .
What you are really proposing is, in effect, that instead of email, people should just use the plethora of proprietary messaging services.
It's all stupid. With more support, this war would have been over shortly after it began.
A quick win for Ukraine would not have weakened Russia the way the current war has.
What about Micron?
It's just like the gold rush. The profits were made by those selling equipment and supplies, not those panning for gold.
CIA deals with external threats (from outside the country)
CIA is supposed to deal with external threats. Is this rule rigidly adhered to? Given what we have seen from the Wyden Siren, I seriously doubt that the CIA is holding to this rule.
Unfortunately, the people with enough money to maintain and promote a credible browser make most of that money from advertising, tracking and other malware
Google makes money by selling adverts and information. It's not actually in Google's interests to allow random websites to mine their customers' data.
The referenced Washington Post article is based on US government statistics, and if you believe those statistics, I have a bridge to sell you. The
Civil servants have been fired for delivering "bad" numbers. You think the remaining staffers are going to look for things that might make the numbers look bad?
One more thing this administration has corrupted: economic statistics.
Charging for Gmail is unthinkable, that would have so many knock-on effects.
Google already charges for Gmail, if you go over your storage quota.
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