> the problem is largely that linus is being a little bitch hiding behind beurocracy and bcache man is being a retard not accepting how the release schedule works and nobody is actually interested in keeping the goddamn system functioning
turns out what we actually need is a conflict resolution team, not gen alpha sensitivity fetuses.
it could be said that america has a long history of going into rich places and bombing them.... back in the day it started with imf loans and sancti (-cut oic)
Indeed. Although my DEFCON 2/1 essay about that isn't going to get written soon, needs some more evidence than what Overstreet is saying about general issues in how Linux quality is today. And I'm already sufficiently convinced, we know how this game almost always goes (but see FreeBSD pulling back from the brink of Airport's Law), and Linux is just too important and prominent a target to avoid the Eye of Soros.
And I should really have an alternative to point to. OpenBSD's toy nature for other than appliances due to its ancient filesystem has been covered, and I'm now giving FreeBSD a look.
One big correction to my impression about its health is that its moving from what was "OpenZFS" back in the day to ZFS on Linux (ZoL) was not due to FreeBSD losing manpower as I guessed but to ZoL not contributing upstream while fixing many bugs (are we surprised?). And in 2020 per Wikipedia and matching my impressions as a happy Debian bookworm ZFS user ZoL and OpenZFS were merged, taking the name of the latter.
Time frame is always hard to guess when you're in the first part of "gradually, then suddenly," and as a Debian stable user I don't have to care until June 2006 the earliest as long as I have a browser solution and OpenZFS compatibility isn't (deliberately) broken (that alone is a reason to look else where for me). DEFCON 2 is a deceleration of vigilance and looking for an off ramp.
That browser solution ... bleah; mine has been for some time Brave plus extra security for JavaScript etc. Which Manifest V3 is of course making a nightmare, even if Brave will continue supporting MV2 as long as is practical for them, with a particular focus on five or so most important extensions including NoScript.
First uMatrix, but that is no longer maintained because of MV3, now NoScript is a nightmare as it moves to only using MV3, but the "legacy, unsupported by Google but proven and stable" MV2 version is still available for manual install:
I didn't do anything special except make a direct reply to your comment for the first posting, because it was the best jumping off point in the semi-hell thread. Maybe that also had an effect on this new subthread ... this post from you I am replying to is is well down stream of the new semi-start.
Will (try to remember to) remove you from any future posts. Qualifier because I may not return to this topic for a while.