#are there distributions without it?

[sl33py-g4m3r]

some newbie questions I'm thinking about and trying to figure out~~ cause even though I've been a linux user off and on for a bit I still consider myself a newbie.

what is systemd? should I avoid it? why all the hate?

cause "it doesn't follow the unix philosophy/is bloated/etc"

should I find a distribution that doesn't use it and install it and give it a whirl?

or should I try to install freebsd and give that a shot? I've thought about that for a while too but worry I'm not smart enough to get it to work....

and scared I'll break something and not be able to fix it~~ :(

anxiety go brrr

surely there are linux distributions that don't use systemd~~ and hopefully they're just as easy to use as linux mint~~ but I've also tangled w fedora way back when..... so hopefully I'll get a handle on stuff and normalize it fast~~~

down the unix/linux/bsd rabbit hole~~~ lol

a very sleepy post

[problemduetest4life]

idgaf I need nora to bring back slurs and cracker dust in TGR

[calamarispiderart]

magical girls, generally, have something they fight against. this holds true in hms mg:ljga!.

heart, mind and soul fight 'Shadows', abstracted manifestations of consciousness and circumstance that have a tendency to mirror (or 'shadow') their individual and group situations. they often carry repetitive motifs or themes, functioning as tangible metaphors that must be 'resolved', much like any conflict.

the way in which a shadow is resolved varies. itd be wrong to say that there is ever one true or 'correct' resolution. rather, its a matter of what the group (or the individual,) sees as a proper ending to the matter. often, they default to violence.

it works well (or well enough...) for most shadows, as far as they can tell. its certainly easier than trying to talk it out...

[tosya-quartz]

"Who's hiding in (my) crawl tunnel?"

idk what to post and have nothing yet, so here are some simple raw sketches of the first meeting of little Redacted and my angelsona Gongdao

Based partly on this answer:

I don't have Dao's character sheet yet, which is sad, but I'll definitely make one........ some day. 🥹when I have energy

[jackfrostimposter]

genuinely why is there so much misinformation about the guardians of childhood book series?

[housenp]

every time you blame one of wilsons ex wives for their failed marriages 10000 puppies get run over by a semi truck

[hippo-pot]

really needed this one 😭 the bill doesn't affect me directly but it does affect my friend, plus I really needed to hear that Republicans can stand up to weird unpopular garbage from on high

"The bill now heads to the governor's desk, and Kissinger said its overwhelming bipartisan support in both the Texas House and Senate could bode well for the measure.

"[We] would be pretty surprised if he didn't actually sign it," he said."

[crustaceousfaggot]

On one hand my phone is my bestest friend who protects me and shows me so many beautiful wonders. On the other hand I wanna throw this fucking lump of metal into the sun before it can erode my brain any more than it already has. Do you understand.

[juney-blues]

the anarchist position isn't a principled stance against unjustifiable hierarchies, it's just a lawless state where everyone sits around doing whatever they want and there is no more infrastructure or manufacturing of anything. when left to their own devices, people famously just completely lose all motivation to do anything, and dismantling the state, the entity that enforces law through violence, would be akin to loading up a game of The Sims and just leaving it running idly with no input, the titular sims wandering around aimlessly until they starve.

without a central authority maintaining law and order through threat of violence, society completely collapses! no one has ever or will ever do anything for anyone without the implict threat of jackbooted thugs shooting them in the head if they don't. there is no conceivable mode of society where this *isn't* the case.

"how would this part of society be run without a small group of people exerting their unquestionable will over a large group of people?" is a question you need to constantly ask to remind anarchists that their worldview just doesn't make sense!

if you can't *make* someone do something, then there's just no way to get them to do it!

asking nicely? using convincing arguments to persuade? just accepting "no" for an answer? (because if someone just doesn't wanna do something, they're probably being lazy, there's never any good reason for them to not wanna do it) all entirely unheard of. How will we govern if we are all equal?!?!

[starpros-sunshine]

We should bring the old model of advertising back where an ad was still an annoying corporate slip piece of garbage but at least they didn't pretend to be hip and with the kids and manipulate you into buying into their tactics by fancy corporate speak and pop psychology. Can advertisements go back to just being annoying instead of malicious? Actually can advertisements just go back? As a whole? Can they leave? I don't want them ans neither does anyone else I'm sure

[moongothic]

Not really into IRL AUs but if Crocodile existed in our world he would be running a sand mafia and you can't convince me otherwise

[butchscientist]

"media literacy is dead" was it ever alive though?? are people today actually worse at interpreting media than they were in the past, or is it perhaps a matter of people being exposed to far more media than ever before (thus having more opportunities to misinterpret media) as well as a variety of platforms to share their interpretations. were people in the 1970s better at media literacy or are you comparing preserved 1970s media interpretation (largely things written by professional critics, journalists and academics) to bad takes 17 year olds have on twitter

[c4tto626]

when i got annoyed with how awkward shopping bags fully of groceries are to carry i thought "hey a foldable backpack would be perfect i wonder if that exists" and it does exist so i got one! when i got annoyed with tipping over open tea mugs or cat hair getting into my tea i thought "hey a big mug with a lid would be perfect i wonder if that exists" and it does exist and i got one! i guess the lesson here is if i think of something that would make my life easier i should just check if it exists because someone else probably already had similar ideas!

[orphiicheartd]

Bruh, I am prolly slow on the uptake, but I'm realizing that, considering their magic is heavily influenced by imagination, it's no WONDER Kalim's magic, especially his defensive magic, is so weak.

Because he's always had everything handed to him or done for him by others, especially Jamil, of course his imagination would never compare. Bc he's never HAD to long for anything, never had to think of anything for himself besides what he was told/given, outside certain circumstances!

Is it a wonder he was able to manifest his magic at an age when Jamil was attending another school away from him? When Kalim himself WANTED to and tried so HARD at something, likely for the first time in his life, to manifest his magic to be JUST LIKE Jamil?

Tbh, the best thing that ever happened to Kalim was not really Jamil. Bc incidentally, the way they were raised, it only served to limit Kalim both in life experiences and magic, having Jamil do everything for Kalim. He never needed to work on honing his magic when Jamil could take care of potions, when Jamil could defend him and take the brunt of the grunt work.

Thus, the best possible thing to have happened to Kalim really having to make his own friends outside of him at Night Raven. Like when he used Oasis Maker to entertain Crowley with excellent control and skill ( likely something he learned to do for shows with the Pop Music Club, I bet! ). Or how when he had to make a party without Jamil's help, Ruggie let him learn how to cook with only using magic and the food STILL turned out to be a hit despite it being Kalim's first shot at it! Or how he was able to surprise Jamil by making the river to bring Octavinelle, himself and Yuu'n Grim back to Scarabia after the boy'd dismissed his Signature Spell as useless.

[miss-floral-thief]

Well glad this skirt still fits

[aspirant1598]