better luck with your next job :)

If you want to learn the system from scratch, the best way will be writing your own little init system from scratch, so you can understand how the boot sequence works. And as you make use of more and more of the advanced features of Linux, your init system will get more and more complex, and will start to resemble systemd.

If you only learn about sysvinit and stop there, you are missing large parts of how a modern Linux distro boots and manages services.

> and will start to resemble systemd

That's the point on which people differ. Even if we take as given that rc/svinit/runit/etc is not good enough (and I don't think that's been established), there are lots of directions you can go from there, with systemd just one of them.

sure is nice to be paid for staying out of the way.

i think i am an expertise on not getting into other people's business. can someone pay me?

nothing stopping them from developing on Linux workstations, cross-compiling to Windows, and testing with Wine/Proton. saves them Windows license fees too.

The incentives are not there, as it is, they work as usual, and Valve is the one that has to make it work.

there will be incentives once windows becomes shit enough.

Nah, regular people buy what is on shopping mall computer stores, they don't go online ordering from Tuxedo.

They are more likely to move to PlayStation and Switch than SteamDeck, the amount of sales already show that.

They don't need to beat valve. The contribution made by valve is going to benefit GOG too. That's the power of open source.

If we care about the future of computing, the future of consumer rights, we need to MAKE THEM GIVE A SHIT.

Cory Doctorow is doing a very good job of that, but there is only one Cory Doctorow.

Very true. If you really want to see rail lines materialise out of thin air, go to any major cities in China.

iirc the cause of context menu delay was there is an invisible animation I think.

The system is animating the menu opening, except there's no animation. So it just waits for a while doing nothing then the menu pops open.

What a privilege, what a luxury, to be able to turn a blind eye to all the injustice that's currently happening in the world...

Sure, do what you want, ignore news if that makes you feel better, but do realise for many, they are not afforded this kind of luxury.

I hear you, but spending an hour to research every name on the ballot come election time will make you better informed than most people.

If you want to do more, you can find some protests to participate in. Or do something other than protest like clean a local park or feed hungry people.

If I spend 3 hours on a random Tuesday consuming the news, that doesn't help anyone. It does the opposite; it makes me less able to focus, and makes me have less personal power and discipline to affect change in the world.

The consequences are exactly the same, unless you hold an enormously influential platform.

Maybe, but some groups are banking on you having "news fatigue". So maybe they don't feel that way. And doing it in spite of them is something that balances out my anxiety for me.

So the third party gets annoyed either way? Gee I wonder why we see posts like this

What good is awareness without action?

What good is awareness without action? Things happening across the ocean are just out of scope.

I keep reading this point of view, that not being glued to the news is "privilege".

I completely disagree.

Refreshing your feed all day long, getting angry at all the news, does not make someone superior. I'm not going to travel to support the iranian uprising, or going hide illegal immigrants in a Minneapolis basement, and it is likely that neither are you. So the end result is the same, except the person consuming and reacting to the news is wasting more time. Worst, they become radicalized and are now part of the extremism that keep being pushed.

I research policy and vote when asked. In between, there's too much going on in my life to spend it with daily news

Billionaires and/or other oligarchic dictators love it when the zone is flooded, consent is manufactured, the people are divided and conquered, and the people no longer pay attention to meaningful signals nor travesties. This gives them maximum power when the people ignore everything and obey in advance or suffer from learned helplessness.