Sigh. Because people can’t think critically, they’re easily brainwashed by these companies. After all, YOLO (you only live once). It’s materialism at its finest. People are not content with what they have. They always want more to fill the void, but that void cannot be filled with material things.

I’m just ranting about the capitalist world of today.

I had long covid for 3 years after that. But I’m feeling better nowadays, thanks.

Basically, you’re lazy.

Temporary becomes permanent. When I was experiencing severe long-term symptoms of Covid, I bought a refurbished computer to use as a NAS with Jellyfin, Sonarr, and indexers. I kept the installed Windows 10 because I simply did not have the energy to do more. Then, when I felt better, I told myself, “Let me add more services.”

Now, it’s a Frankenstein computer where Windows 10 acts as the hypervisor, running Caddy as my reverse proxy. Crowdsec protects my services, and my Flint 2’s firewall acts as the Crowdsec bouncer. A VirtualBox VM runs in Windows 10 and hosts most of my Docker containers. Stablebits DrivePool manages my drive pool.

I’ve been running this setup for over a year, and I haven’t had any issues. I know I should switch to Linux, but since it’s been working great and I’m busy, I’ve been procrastinating.

I see in the article that Canada and Mexico are fairing better than the US. Makes sense as who wants to travel to the US under the current administration…

It seems watches like Garmin Watches are not affected by this:

Two things that aren’t changing: every Strava athlete can still access and download their data for free, at any time – and wearable and device integrations are not affected .

It’s a matter of political philosophy and historical context. Back then, before we had TV, the internet or even the radio, communities were more tightly knit and your world was your community. You elected your MP to represent you and didn’t care how they did it.

Nowadays, people’s horizons have expanded and their community is the world, so people don’t vote for their MP, but for the party and/or prime minister. Therefore, our Westminster system is no longer aligned with its original goal of representing its constituents above all else.

I host searXNG on my home server. It’s heaven. I get better results Google.

And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

Get yourself an Apple TV and use your TV as a dumb terminal.

I hope you were sarcastic… Because Microsoft’s new business model is AI. So Windows will continue to be their portal toward AI.

In what way?

Sources?

I hear you and I respect your opinion.

By basically forking Gnome, sure.

Changing to another init requires major re-engineering and it’s not easy.

That was in 2010. We’re now in 2026, more and more components depend on systemd. For example: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/gnome-to-have-stronger-dependency-on-systemd.98260/

This like comes from distrowatch. Yes means the distro is using systemd:

• 1 CachyOS: Yes
• 2 Linux Mint: Yes
• 3 MX Linux: Optional
• 4 Pop!_OS: Yes
• 5 Debian: Yes
• 6 Zorin OS Yes
• 7 EndeavourOS: Yes
• 8 Manjaro: Yes
• 9 Fedora: Yes
• 10 Ubuntu: Yes
• 11 AnduinOS: Yes
• 12 openSUSE: Yes
• 13 Bazzite: Yes
• 14 Nobara: Yes
• 15 Arch Linux: Yes
• 16 elementary OS: Yes
• 17 antiX: No
• 18 NixOS: Yes

As we can see, the major popular distros use systemd.

Sure, if you choose a distro like Artix that doesn’t use systemd, then yes. However, the major distros use systemd and will continue to do so because it is a critical component of Linux. Once the Linux kernel has finished loading into memory, systemd takes over in user space. Major distros cannot simply switch to a fork on a whim because they need to be completely sure that it is stable and will not cause any compatibility issues.

Let’s not forget that Ubuntu, SUSE and Red Hat are used in professional settings, so they won’t change to a fork.

Let’s be realistic. All these forks will get us nowhere because systemd has become a platform on which major components of the Linux system depend. KDE’s new login depends on systemd, as does Gnome.

These forks are just a reaction to the latest addition. They will fizzle out.