compiled new reasons as to why you should hate systemd (with sources!)
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1: accounts now have a field to state their users age, it lacks verification but sets a bad precedent going forward, providing a groundwork for other applications to ask a user for their age and have it impact their entire system ( https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 )
2: system v support has been completely removed from systemd, bringing risk to versions of linux that support systemd alongside other init systems ( https://systemd.io/INCOMPATIBILITIES )
3: systemd now allows ai to be used within the systemd project, ai is being used to write as well as review code ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/systemd/systemd/refs/heads/main/AGENTS.md )
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if you want to avoid systemd and ai entirely, i would motion you in the direction of
chimera linux ( https://gts.chimera-linux.org/@chimera/statuses/01KK78VSB4G5S75STYEY3YTR2H )
and gentoo ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy )
i could mention other projects that have a hard stance against ai and arent reliant on systemd as well, but those are the ones i can actually vouch for myself as being definitively "not shit"