I can't hear "Debian" and "sshd" and "disaster" in the same sentence without thinking of https://research.swtch.com/ope... (the OpenSSL bug from September 2006). It really took me a minute to realize you were talking about the xz-utils attack.

Pretty much all of this, yes :D. Not to mention that older init's approach of "yolo I hope this doesn't crash" seems extremely backwards instead of respawning on failures.

s/appointed/slighted/ Can we all agree to hate autocorrect together even if we don't agree on init systems ðY

From a server perspective I get it a little, but all those changes make sense on a Linux desktop/laptop. The reason I'm so passionate about this is the people: I'm an oss developer myself, with lots of friends who work at various enterprise Linux houses -- they all are smart people with reasons for what they do. Many of the anti systemd arguments are couched in conspiracy theories or ideas that something sinister is manipulating things instead of wondering maybe these people know something I don't know? Even more in that direction is that so many major distributions have also accepted these pieces as basic building blocks. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there are alternatives for people who want them (I work on Gentoo and openrc is good), but I just wish folks who like those alternatives wouldn't act like they're being appointed because the free software they've been given isn't exactly to their liking.

By systemd people, do you mean the folks who work full time producing linux distros that utilize systemd? aka the vast majority of professional linux programmers? It's been years. We have systemd. Everyone has systemd. You can use other things if you don't want systemd (deuvan, gentoo w/openrc), but this continued cult-hatred for "systemd people" is completely weird to me. How many decades will it take before folks stop being salty about having to learn a new way of doing things.

It's borderline-trolly to pretend that Ubuntu invented/popularized DEB files, not Debian.

I've not used DTVN, but I find Sling TV + Roku to be vastly superior to any cable box setup I've been subjected to in the past.

To be fair to GP, I bought a new battery (old computer) and had the same thing happen within weeks on my Windows 7 tablet.

$15/mo to Microsoft for a Zune pass.

If my cable company starts charging me too, I'm cancelling and letting MS know why. This is total /bullshit/ and spits in the face of those of us who are trying to go legal.