Post #1394319

2024-06-18 13:15 UTC

@gabrielesvelto "/home is a tempfile" isn't just a footgun, it's an explicit ideological attack on the whole idea of Linux. I am dead serious when I say that. SystemD has replaced a human-legible init system with a project whose constituency is large scale SAAS deployments, and if the only people who matter to Linux are the people using an Linux as an invisible, unexaminable underpinning of a service platform then there is _no point to Linux at all_. It's just free labor for infracorps.

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@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org 2024-06-18 13:18

@mhoye I can relate to that. The old joke of the year of "Linux on the desktop" has devolved into how long until Linux on the desktop is gone because all the paid-for development is for enterprise-centric use-cases.

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@mathew@universeodon.com 2024-06-18 16:35

@mhoye @gabrielesvelto At least on Fedora, it looks as if tmpfilesd is being used purely to make sure quotas are applied. So there are multiple layers of stupid here: - Using a temporary file management daemon to handle quotas for non-temporary files. - Making quota-management part of a temporary files daemon rather than keeping it as a separate composable utility. - Making --purge purge things that aren't set up to have any cleanup applied. Fun feature for trolls though. "To clean up temporary files and clear space, just run sudo systemd-tmpfiles --purge."

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@alper@rls.social 2025-06-20 18:40

@mhoye @gabrielesvelto You should run macOS as a desktop. It’s feature complete, it’s not going anywhere and Apple is pretty reasonable.

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@jpaskaruk@growers.social 2024-06-18 14:28

@mhoye @gabrielesvelto "Goddamit Lennart. I said /home is a *temple*, not a tempfile. You idiot!"

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