Both the Linux kernel and systemd now contain slop or are open to adding slop.

[msk@mastodon.xy-space.de]

@thomholwerda refurbished/recycled hardware, and software from the year 2020 are good enough for _me_ The greatest, not the latest... maybe hat fits. or let's go back to nature. Nature we can trust, as long as it is there...

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

Honestly, why am I even Linux at this point? I use it to get away from proprietary garbage, but once you open the floodgates to slop, I fear the garbage will find a way.

I might as well just switch back to Windows and not deal with the gaming headaches Linux still presents. ‍️

[sassdawe@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda I'm planning to go outside and stay there

[praetor@mstdn.social]

@thomholwerda The MacBook Neo is getting rave reviews. I use macOS. It has the best of both worlds.

[mustardfacial@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda *sigh*
*Dejectedly fires up FreeBSD box*

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

As for BSD... Time to make some people real mad: NetBSD is amazing but too limited for me, FreeBSD is entirely okay with letting fascist X forks in, which leaves OpenBSD, which I love and enjoy, but does come with serious limitations.

I want to want BSD, but I'm not sure I'm going to.

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

@praetor I'd rather rip my own fingernails off than use macOS. Trashfire doesn't even begin to describe it.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda ThomOS when?

[ouij@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda the only real gaming headache on Linux for me any more is kernel-level anti-cheat--which is not really an issue for me as I don't play any of those games.

I like using Linux because I can set it up more or less how I want, and then change it.

[ouij@mastodon.social]

@praetor @thomholwerda Macbook Neo would be my default recommendation for a normie that does not game and just needs *laptop* for *laptop stuff.* A lot of the pain points are for nerds like me and not really relevant or even discoverable by a lot of users. At the price point, it's a no-brainer.

[hp@mastodon.tmm.cx]

@thomholwerda I think with Linux we still get the option to fork if quality falls due to slop.

For me, personally, Linux still seems like the only sane option.

I trust Linus to not let slop into the kernel, and people will fork systemd I'm sure.

But I don't like it either.

[abraxas3d@mastodon.radio]

@thomholwerda what do you mean, when you say now contains slop?Do you have a particular sloppy PR in mind?

What part of systemd is broken?

More importantly - does an objectionable origin of the code, regardless of quality, mean rejecting the entire OS?

This isn't an idle question. Horrific misogynists donated code that worked ok in Linux. Did you and millions of others stop using it because sex pests wrote it?

Is AI generated code worse than sexist weirdos writing source?