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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: · 5d
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@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: oh, yeah

the fighting is meant to be inspiratory yet hopeless in most good stories, to which i see as a point of no return has been reached and thus we must *not* let it be reached

(i never actually seen bubblegum crisis, i probably should one day)
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: · 5d
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: · 5d
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note1dmqpx...
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@LisPi @nprofile1q...

yeah, unless you’re writing complex bootscripts (which is not ever the case for most people), your scripts will look like this, takend from pipewire-pulse’s user service as a practical example:

#!/sbin/openrc-run

depend() {
need pipewire dbus
}

supervisor=supervise-daemon
command=/usr/bin/pipewire
command_args="-c pipewire-pulse.conf"


and openrc-run does most of the heavy lifting
note1ge2wm...
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@nprofile1q...

> a supervision system (ideally a dependency-based one) can be far nicer, more flexible, more readable, and actually meeting what most people expect out of a computer these days

i mean openrc is both, dependency based, provides supervision, and makes it so the most common init scripts consist of only about 3 variable definitions and nothing else

but it's also a init script under the hood, so if anyone is so inclined, they can go and modify things, replace the default start() with custom logic, or keep the default start and add extra things on start_pre(), stop_post(), whatever

this duality and flexibility is what made me like it so, enough to step up and take maintainership

imo openrc is very much "doing better" while still being shell, though i do appreciate the different directions other init systems went for a lot too
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saying "sideloading programs" in a linux desktop context is wild, please fucking don't

there's not supposed to be one and only "official" loading, where everything else is "side" to it

it's called installing programs
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SuperDicq · 1w
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got to the point where i'm considering buying a discontinued tv panel from a chinese supplier, and pairing it with an aftermarket dumb driver board

just so i can have a tv without any "smart" shit into it
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systemd and xdg-desktop-portal/flatpak jumping the gun to implement age tracking fields is so on character it hurts, rushing it out, despite that

a) system76 folks are trying to give exceptions for open source software
b) afaik, california and colorado laws may only require a field, but alabama, utah, and NY, seem to require full verification, so, how will that be

i hate this timeline
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on "growing up tech literate, and parental controls"

i was allowed to use the computer we had at the house at around 6yo

my dad would install games for me, mom would watch videos with me

but crucially, it was a computer in the living room, anyone going by could see what i was doing there

i had to ask permission to use it, and would be allowed to use it for about 2~4h

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by 13, i got my first personal laptop, a cheap hp 2-in-1, that lasted all the way until i was 17

by then, my dad had already taught me how to install windows, how to pirate games and movies, and i was basically the one fixing people's computer problems on the house

and i already knew how to use the internet, what to look at and what to not

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i believe that a small child, preteen, shouldn't be left alone with an internet enabled device ever, nor be allowed to be glued to it all day

and that a teenager should already have been taught how to use the internet properly, and have at least some notion of viewer discretion

when a kid is already a teenager, there must be trust between parent and child

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then, in my opinion, parental controls is a way to offload some of the parenting responsibility from the parent, to the device

(not much different to how age verification is, in orders of magnitude greater, offloading parental responsibility to the government and companies)

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in an ideal world, parental controls would be just guardrails, for parents that want to be sure nothing bad goes through, that goes away around the time the kid becomes a teenager

but in our non-ideal world, it can and likely is used by abusive parents to control their (teenage) children, to prevent them from doing or seeing things the parents disagrees with (e.g. queer media)

so i cannot be in favor of parental controls on devices