Post #726428

2024-06-18 13:01 UTC

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112637213238431183 A friend of mine joked when this came to light the other day that we should start the timer to see how long it would be before some SystemD person crawled out of the woodwork to say that was expected behavior and you&#39;re an idiot for using it wrong. And we laughed to ourselves, wouldn&#39;t that would be funny, that really is the reputation they have now isn&#39;t it. Well, jokes on us, because that&#39;s the first fucking comment on the bug. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33349

Replies (3)

@mhoye@mastodon.social 2024-06-18 13:08

Tired: ignoring usability problems. Wired: ignoring that words mean things.

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@mhoye@mastodon.social 2024-06-18 13:18

Look, "/home is a tempfile" isn't just a footgun, or a bug. It's an explicit ideological attack on the whole idea of what Linux is and who Linux is for. If /home is just a tempfile to be purged when drivespace pressure hits some arbitrary threshold then Linux is a corporate-owned SAAS shim, and that's all it is. It's not just "breaking userspace", it's abandoning the idea that the people using that space and the stuff they've made there matter at all.

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@gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org 2024-06-18 13:08

@mhoye ugh, that's one nasty footgun and "RTFM" is a really shitty response when the reporter politely and extensively explained that the description in the fine manual is quite confusing.

Open ##1394318