My hobby: randomly blaming Lennart Poettering for any Linux problems I have, regardless of systemd proximity.

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@ryanc

Narrator: the traffic light controller runs embedded Linux and uses systemd

[jbaggs@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc I need to print up a "Lennart Poettering broke my car" T shirt.

[scy@chaos.social]

@ryanc So, bullying. Your hobby is bullying.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@scy You clearly have a very different definition of "bullying" than I do.

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean The Thomas Midgley of Linux.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@ryanc ::likes and subscribes::

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@ryanc Today I learned how to deal with userland services in a system on sysvinit (or anything init really) because screw all that.

I can still say it's Poettering's fault because guess why I'm having to switch to sysvinit? It wasn't just because I randomly wanted to see what it would be like...

[jbc@mathstodon.xyz]

@ryanc Truly the Theresa May of GNU/Linux

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@ryanc

SystemD gave my cat fleas

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@vonxylofon @david_chisnall @waltman @xabean that is an incredible burn

[elfin@mstdn.social]

@ryanc And PulseAudio ...

I approve of you hobby.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@nazokiyoubinbou consider runit

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@ryanc I mean, if I had a choice I'd lean towards OpenRC, but right now I need the least effort thing closest to a base distro, which is probably MX Linux which lets you choose sysvinit and has a lot of stuff (like Pipewire-Pulse) fixed to work with it.

But really, the biggest problem is just distros in general need to stop relying on systemd. Like even if they continue to use it, packages shouldn't be built to explicitly call it a dependency, should also support init, etc. That seems basic, but it just doesn't even occur to most to do such a minimal thing. So if one switches from systemd, a lot of stuff uninstalls and/or breaks on most distros.

[elfin@mstdn.social]

@ryanc When I lived in Redmond I used to pray that I ran into Pottering in a pub/cafe/dark alley.

Alas, it was not to be. Damnit.

[gourd@indiepocalypse.social]

@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean hell, between that and LLM bullshit in general it's got me considering switching to Gentoo O_o

[gourd@indiepocalypse.social]

@david_chisnall @waltman @ryanc @xabean There are things I can find to admire about Gentoo. The time investment to figure out what those are and maintain them is very, very steep.

[drscriptt@oldbytes.space]

@ryanc after overcoming kernel issues I was / will be dealing with net booting RHEL installer and using an NFS root without using an initrd at work.

Weird memory thing on an IBM Power 10 server which still has the 256 MB memory region not able to hold kernel and initrd in memory.

Something about Power 10 changes the way memory is allocated. Seems as if the kernel needs to negotiate more memory. But GRUB doesn’t do that.

IBM’s answer is to change a frame configuration setting. But that requires a full frame outage. And there are production LPARs on this frame.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@david_chisnall
> Some are caused by his other projects.

Ah, the good, ol' `systemd-fault-proxy`.

@waltman @ryanc @xabean

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@ryanc
The problem being you'll be usually right…

<sad trumpet>

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@dzwiedziu @waltman @ryanc @xabean

His project before systemd was pulseaudio. Pipewire has largely undone the damage it did, but it drove a lot of people to FreeBSD before then.