Worst part, you can only screw a community so many times before they just decide not to play ball anymore.

At that point, its almost impossible to restore the status quo - which is likely bad for everyone using MS kit at that point.

Does DNS over HTTPS (aka Private DNS) not fix this issue?

You mean, pull social media out of Australia?

Yes please!

```
# systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 16.145s (firmware) + 1.093s (loader) + 860ms (kernel) + 6.285s (initrd) + 3.888s (userspace) = 28.273s
```

16 seconds in the BIOS, the rest actually doing things...

If this is what it is, I don't want it... Anywhere...

Please. He'd have to not be high for a moment to consider something like that...

Don't worry - at the pace the Gnome development team comes up with and removes APIs, no extension will be accepted ever again.

Given I haven't used Firefox for that long now, do they finally have the ability to select input and output devices for audio?

I use speakers for normal audio, but Teams / Discord etc on a headset only.

Yet the feature request to be able to select audio streams has been around for at least a decade and never implemented... I gave up caring in waiting for an outbreak of common sense - but you wanted to know what 'tech' is missing...

Don't worry - they'll claw back the expense of the free periods by increasing charges outside of these hours...

No such thing as a free lunch...

We've seen what Americans will vote for.

They've proven they don't deserve a say in the matter...

When companies like Rockstar refuse to do basic actions like tick a checkbox to allow linux and steamdeck players to play GTA V online, there's the complete malicious angle as well...

Same. Got two sets - both connected via SPDIF optical. Worked very well for many years now.

I did however replace the LCD on the volume control because it faded beyond readable. Was a whole $20 or so to fix.

Honestly? Your post just screams of "I don't ever want anything to change".

Continue to live in a dumpster if you want, but systemd has been a net positive - but your attitude is exactly why Debian hasn't reached its potential.

systemd won. It's that simple.

This is what the numbers look like:

https://trends.builtwith.com/S...

Sadly, it seems the quality of Fedora is going down the gurgler too.

If they ever finish debian to use a single init system and actually have some consistency, it'd be soooo much nicer to use. I've been saying that the last 5-6 versions though.

That's the problem with debian - there's no central leadership for anything - so it only really seems to get 80% of the way there. If they could just get that extra 20% completed, it'd be a complete, hands-down, no brainer to use for just about everything.

Exactly this.

The fact its even being mentioned is a complete farce.

It's stupid on so many levels that it isn't even funny.

However, while we're distracted, mega-corps continue to rape our environment of the stuff actual humans require to survive.