I for one welcome our systemd overlords! To me, systemd is a solution looking for a problem. Let's not go there.

It is good that Google states that it can be turned off, but how can we trust that promise? After all, Google claims that you can turn off location tracking, a claim which turns out to be untrue.

I live in Sweden, and yes, it's been a few years since the papers here wrote that we had much less 'net than the US, and france, and ... then things changed. But not everywhere: I live 22 km from one of Swedens larger cities, and the only broadband service available there is ... ADSL at 500kbps DL/400 kpbs UL.