You seem to have expertly missed the point.
Who cares? If you don't take computer security seriously, you won't be computing much longer. Before it's over with, mine will be the only opinion still in existence. It's called "natural selection."
I don't want or need popup permission prompts. If something needs to run as root, I run it as root from the console, as God intended. In the process I am assuredly avoiding all sorts of potential security…
You're part of the second group I mentioned: the one that won't be computing much longer. > Computer security really isn't THAT much of a nightmare for an average user. "Average user" and "common idiot" are one and the…
Some programs can be configured to run without it. Others require patching to remove it. Some patches are trivial, others not so much. I've done a lot of patching, with still more required to get other applications…
Has bugs, is way too complex for the given functionality, and is completely unneeded in the first place--yes, get rid of the damn thing. Unless of course you enjoy getting "your" system OWNED and dominated by bad…
I've seen enough of this crowd to not be surprised at any ridiculous thing that happens here. Like having a 50 page Very Serious argument back and forth about some minor, irrelevant detail, possibly having nothing at…
I read your comment profile, and know exactly what you mean about the "cancel culture." This is the first profile I've had here where I've actually managed to get a little positive 'karma' built up and avoid immediately…
Yes, this is exactly why I don't run any of this crap on my distro. No dbus, no polkit, no systemd, nothing. Computer security is already enough of a nightmare without all this crap added on and linked in to everything.
It was a joke. Obviously. Jesus, this place is so humorless.
Hmmm...how about the fact that I don't engorge my piehole with mass quantities of junk food, become obese, then make pitiful and pathetic excuses for my lack of self control? How about the fact that at 41 years old, I…
The real problem here is self-control and self-discipline, or the total lack thereof. It's just like the people I see on here who have some bad habit, like browsing Facebook or HN all day when they should be doing…
Luck has nothing to do with it. It's your diet, full stop. You are eating junk, and/or simply eating TOO MUCH, guaranteed.
Here is my own experience and advice about health and physical fitness, shared in hopes it will encourage and help people who are living unhealthy lives, because they have been misled by society. I'm typing this on a…
In my experience, yes. Try discussing in an impassioned manner something of importance to the human race, or of life and death importance to the human you are speaking to, and watch how quickly people will change the…
> I genuinely don't see what's so complex about a service unit file It't not the unit file that's the problem, it's the mountains of junk, low quality C code written by an obnoxious, arrogant twit named "Linux…
Maybe he's just tired of people who offer ignorant opinions and argue based on conjecture and not actual knowledge.
On my desktop I run with no swap, overcommit disabled, and earlyoom. I frequently do heavy work with it including such things as Chromium builds and it's trouble free. See above for the tweaks I've made to ensure…
For a long time after creating my own Linux distro, I had the same kind of problems also. It turns out the Linux kernel is horribly tuned by default. After a number of tweaks and adjustments, I finally got all those…
You seem to have expertly missed the point.
Who cares? If you don't take computer security seriously, you won't be computing much longer. Before it's over with, mine will be the only opinion still in existence. It's called "natural selection."
I don't want or need popup permission prompts. If something needs to run as root, I run it as root from the console, as God intended. In the process I am assuredly avoiding all sorts of potential security…
You're part of the second group I mentioned: the one that won't be computing much longer. > Computer security really isn't THAT much of a nightmare for an average user. "Average user" and "common idiot" are one and the…
Some programs can be configured to run without it. Others require patching to remove it. Some patches are trivial, others not so much. I've done a lot of patching, with still more required to get other applications…
Has bugs, is way too complex for the given functionality, and is completely unneeded in the first place--yes, get rid of the damn thing. Unless of course you enjoy getting "your" system OWNED and dominated by bad…
I've seen enough of this crowd to not be surprised at any ridiculous thing that happens here. Like having a 50 page Very Serious argument back and forth about some minor, irrelevant detail, possibly having nothing at…
I read your comment profile, and know exactly what you mean about the "cancel culture." This is the first profile I've had here where I've actually managed to get a little positive 'karma' built up and avoid immediately…
Yes, this is exactly why I don't run any of this crap on my distro. No dbus, no polkit, no systemd, nothing. Computer security is already enough of a nightmare without all this crap added on and linked in to everything.
It was a joke. Obviously. Jesus, this place is so humorless.
Hmmm...how about the fact that I don't engorge my piehole with mass quantities of junk food, become obese, then make pitiful and pathetic excuses for my lack of self control? How about the fact that at 41 years old, I…
The real problem here is self-control and self-discipline, or the total lack thereof. It's just like the people I see on here who have some bad habit, like browsing Facebook or HN all day when they should be doing…
Luck has nothing to do with it. It's your diet, full stop. You are eating junk, and/or simply eating TOO MUCH, guaranteed.
Here is my own experience and advice about health and physical fitness, shared in hopes it will encourage and help people who are living unhealthy lives, because they have been misled by society. I'm typing this on a…
In my experience, yes. Try discussing in an impassioned manner something of importance to the human race, or of life and death importance to the human you are speaking to, and watch how quickly people will change the…
> I genuinely don't see what's so complex about a service unit file It't not the unit file that's the problem, it's the mountains of junk, low quality C code written by an obnoxious, arrogant twit named "Linux…
Maybe he's just tired of people who offer ignorant opinions and argue based on conjecture and not actual knowledge.
On my desktop I run with no swap, overcommit disabled, and earlyoom. I frequently do heavy work with it including such things as Chromium builds and it's trouble free. See above for the tweaks I've made to ensure…
For a long time after creating my own Linux distro, I had the same kind of problems also. It turns out the Linux kernel is horribly tuned by default. After a number of tweaks and adjustments, I finally got all those…