ProtonBadger

The unique problems for me with dogs is not just that they're evolved to interact better with us, it's that in many places where they eat them it's believed that it tastes better if it was terrified and in pain when killed. So you can imagine how they're treated when getting prepared to slaughter. No easy life or death for food dogs.

Then there's several places in Peru where it's believed cats taste better if drowned.

Not that we treat our livestock great in the west but some cultures take it to a horrifying level due to tradition.

systemd does have one problem that also existed before: sometimes services come with buggy unit files (or copy/pasted from something else and modified), similar to how there were all kinds of buggy scripts before. Unit files are much simpler than scripts and it should be easier to get right but when the author sometimes doesn't consider dependencies or test fail scenarios...

Well yes, if you don't provide intelligible arguments it doesn't deserve better. And a lot of the arguments really are like that: "systemd bad" or "is monolithic blob" (which it isn't).

Just to avoid misunderstandings: it's not a monotolithic blob, it is thought so because its first project was a system daemon that manages system services. It is described as "a software suite that provides an array of system components for Linux operating systems.", it is highly modular and offer many optional components that each have their own purpose.

They don't hate it, they use it extensively in their operating systems and sometimes publish open source projects like Darwin and Swift. They also have some large open source areas on Github and there is the opensource.apple.com website.

It would be more correct to say they pick the license (open or not) for their projects depending upon what they think their business needs, most often it's closed source but not always. They also use a lot of open source code themselves and sometimes contribute back. Also they tend to avoid GPL/LGPL type licenses though and prefer Apache/MIT/etc.

It has been fine for me but I've only used it for ~6 months (Endeavour OS==Arch). I did install it on a Btrfs root with snapper/btrfs-assistant) so I can revert to an old snapshot in btrfs-assistant and reboot in a minute. It tested that it works but haven't needed it so far.

I update whenever with Yay which takes snapshots each time. I don't read mailing lists.

I've used Linux in various ways since the nineties and know it intimately but I don't want to fiddle with an install. When I got my new laptop this year I appreciated being able to plug in an EndavourOS flash drive, click on a couple of things and then let it install a sane default with prop NV driver already setup while I made coffee. I was ready to play games from my old Steam lib SSD in 20 min.

I don't know if the Arch installer is like that but EOS is slick.

In case it helps: At install time I created a swap partition the same size as my RAM and a Btrfs root partition. Then after install I ran
"yay -S snapper-support btrfs-assistant btrfmaintenance"

Then after install I enabled the maintenance scripts with defaults in the btrfs-assistant GUI and that was it. It takes snapshots when installing stuff and I can do a roolback to a snapshot in btrfs-assistant GUI or Cli (requires an immediate reboot).

One snag: If you installed it with Grub instead of systemd-boot it will show booteable snapshots in Grub but I don't know how roll back permanently if I've booted into one as it uses some sort of overlayfs. So I don't use this feature.

I wish EOS did all this as an install option though.

I've been back and forth between Android and iOS several times, I'm happy with either these days.

I use services that work on both platforms like GMail/Cal/Contacts, Dropbox free (10GB)/oneDrive + Cryptomator, Bitwarden, 2FAS, Signal/WhatsApp, etc. There's no lock-in on either platform as far as I'm concerned and I can switch over in half an hour and keep going.

I charge my phones with an ancient 7W Qi pad, batteries usually last 3-4 years before any degradation is mildly noticeable, at which time getting a store to replace it is trivial or I sell the old phone and buy a new one - Apple/Samsung/Google, whatever takes my fancy.

The Blues Brothers is one of my all time favorite movies. I got some beefy speakers and the neighbours have been enjoying this movie with me many times.

Somewhat unusually I enjoy BB 2000 as well, it would be unfair to expect it to be as good but it's a nice movie, except for the ridiculous zombie playoff part.

It's possible, is there any actual data published on age distribution?

Yeah, I don't see this at all, maybe I subscribe to very different communities.