I wouldn’t consider it entirely emotional. There are a great many reasons why the willing inclusion of AI-generated code is a bad thing. While the move to ditch systemd is something of a knee-jerk reaction for me, it’s backed by logic.

Also, I’m already aware of the situation with Linux. Unfortunately, it would be quite impossible for me to daily-drive NetBSD, illumos, RISC OS, AROS, or Haiku at the moment – especially on my Raspberry Pi. As such, I’m only defenestrating the parts of my stack that have viable alternatives or that I can do without.

That said, I do have another machine that will be running NetBSD some time in the next few weeks.

Well, I do have two displays. I meant the image itself is fuzzy (at least, on my end).

Well, I also run it on x86_64. On my laptop, I used the ZFSBootMenu instructions and it’s been running smoothly for over a week now (although I don’t have any swap, as ZFS doesn’t support it or something). I have had issues before, but I assume I must have skipped a step somewhere or fat-fingered an important command. This installation, however, is perfect. I also got Secure Boot to work, which was nice.

As for the Pi, it also seems to be going well, but it’s only been installed for a few hours at this point. This installation was a lot simpler: I just wrote the image to my NVMe drive, shrank the root partition, and created a third partition for use as an encrypted /home. fsck sometimes gets annoyed, as it uses a weird block size, but apart from that it works just fine. Performance is good, LabWC is straightforward, runit is simple, and XBPS is awesome. Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser don’t exist on Linux aarch64 yet, but there’s an unofficial Librewolf repo that I’m using.

If you were wondering about systemd, well, they have a permissive AI policy and a few changes made by Claude, which doesn’t sit right with me. Maybe I’m overreacting, but regardless it does no harm to use alternatives.

(I have no idea why the resolution is messed up; apologies)

Well, you can’t beat Oxford and Cambrige. If you want an online dictionary, though, I prefer Wiktionary.

I use Evolution and FairEmail. A fork is all well and good, but if you want out of the bullshit you have to get out of the ecosystem.

Rule-wise, this seems fair.

Regardless, if AI usage continues to increase in this manner, I’ll likely be driving NetBSD, AROS, and FreeDOS by the end of the decade.

Maybe even a little TempleOS or ZealOS, for flavour.

Man, I may have grown up with 64-bit PCs and Arduinos, but the ol’ Apple II is still surprisingly usable (though obviously don’t expect it to be able to run Crysis).

I have a friend IRL called Kit, who also happens to use they/them pronouns.

Nobody sees me getting up every morning, eating well, doing my coursework, applying for placements; because I do none of those things. Not yet, anyway.

As soon as I conquer the depression, sleep disorder, financial trouble, and generalised anxiety, it’s over for you hoes.

Ah, but the conversation has moved past your initial question.

Did I say anything about a subculture?

I do not. What I am talking about is people (women included) who are generally loud, boisterous, admittedly a little threatening (though this stems from my past experiences), and who act with little to no regard for the feelings or wellbeing of anyone other than themselves. These aren’t hard and fast rules, of course.

When I see roadmen around the city I now live in, they’re never causing any trouble: just hanging around, usually vaping, and that’s okay. The idea that everyone matching this description is a violent criminal is bullshit drummed up by the tabloids in order to scare old folk and distance them from young people. However, when I was in middle/high school, any dickhead who decided to be cruel to me or my brother for any reason would match this description every time — with the exceptions of two specific boys, who were posh twats. At the same time, many of my friends then and now either fit this description or have the lifestyle usually attributed to the stereotype.

The clothing is just a correlation.

If it’s a caricature then how have I met so many of them?