If you have the password for your bios (or your bios doesn’t have a password) then you can put Linux on a USB stick and wipe the disk and install something else.

Mine is 226… Often when writing code people will adhere to max line widths such as 80 or 100. However, if you are writing a script, why not just get the width in the script and render based on that? For example stty size, tput cols or echo "$COLUMNS".

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Aaah the Haruhi background fits well

The rational is systemd has a huge amount of features that normal desktop users will never need. If you use something like OpenRC or Runit the experience is not much (or any) different. All those features will introduce complexity and potential bugs and vulnerabilities.

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing.

Sure it doesn’t add much, but many of the systemd things are ‘not much’. But together it is a lot.

I don’t see the vulnerability, especially considering that you’re comparing it to an SSH vulnerability (which, it should be noted, was caught in testing and never released).

Luckily it was the case, but it was way too close for comfort. It doesn’t change the fact that bloated systems like systemd are what enable these types of attacks. If you use many of its features I’m sure its great, all software has bugs and holes in it. But the point is that if you don’t need the features you don’t need to expose yourself to the extra bulk and risks. Same for things like sudo vs doas. Almost everyone uses sudo but 99.9%+ doesn’t use any features that doas doesn’t have. And then of course systemd invents its own alternative 😅.

And then there is the Unix philosophy. If we need age verification, why does it need to be in the init system? Why not a separate package that can be installed along side any init system / kernel / desktop environment / etc? If it lives in the init system, every init system needs to implement their own version of it.

I doesn’t but the exploit required it.

First Artix made me not vulnerable to the XZ backdoor (requires systemd). Now it saves me from age verification nonsense. Even on Lemmy sentiment seems people who avoid systemd are just cranks. But every time we are right.

I have no clue but I do have a question. If you want to mess about with window managers and ricing them (I like that as well), wouldn’t a non immutable distro be easier? It is “immutable” but it seems you want to mutate all kinds of stuff.

I think that’s because the user can still fuck up their system by doing some stuff to those user files, like not managing their packages correctly. Note that for normal users anything that messes up their user experience equates to messing up “the system”. But I don’t really know, it’s just a guess. I just run a normal distro where you can mess with everything (like god intended lol).

I use Artix btw. Pretty stable, I guess I have to fix something a few times a year.

I have been using Dash for years now as bin/sh. I couldn’t manage to get rid of Bash so it’s still installed (distro is Artix). As an interactive shell I run Fish. Dash is indeed rather terrible as an interactive shell as others have said.

As long as it doesn’t hold you back in your real work you can just keep tweaking because it is fun. Just see it as a hobby where you learn things and potentially improve your workflow for other tasks.

Hopefully other software doesn’t follow this path, otherwise it will be practically impossible to run a distro without systemd.

My nvidia drivers used to break sometimes but I just switched to dkms drivers and I have had a stable experience for years. Only downside is the upgrade takes a bit longer.

I have replaced it and it just clipped in and out of a round little thing it sits in. I happened to have the right battery on hand.

I’ll make sure to replace the CMOS and use disk encryption next time. My sensitive data is encrypted separately so I’ll be fine for now. I thought that with a bios password someone couldn’t just boot from a USB on my system but clearly it only delays such actions by a minute or two.

You’re totally right, it only makes sense. Maybe my brain needs its battery replaced as well.

Thank you, that makes sense. I guess it was almost dead and now it is really dead. I don’t understand how that makes Linux freak out over the login password though.

There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.

Starting to feel like a boomer with st/dmenu on xorg.