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Cato Neimoidia 2025-04-17 09:50:00 Expires in 12 hours

techriot@hubzilla.eskimo.com

Jeff Geerling wrote the following post Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:43:15 -0600

I found the (almost) perfect mini NAS for my mini rack.

A short video going over the fits-in-1U 4-NVMe GMKtec Nucbox G9, and why I'm still on the hunt:

Is this the perfect Mini NAS?
by Jeff Geerling on YouTube

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Teth 2025-04-17 14:15:39

Carter Braxton

techriot@hubzilla.eskimo.com

@charliebrownau Yeah? Systemd seems to be working still, doesn't it? Anyway, anyone having problems with systemd can run the few Linux Distors which don't use it, or they can run the BSDs. Many of us don't see systemd as a huge issue, not yet anyway.

How long has it been? Almost twenty years, perhaps, more? Clearly all the anti systemd talk is just that, talk. Which is cheap by the way. I've used all the BSDs for years now and still have boxes running them.

Obviously, I also have boxes running Arch and Debian which use systemd. However, I also daily drive Alpine Linux which doesn't have systemd so it's hardly a valid argument or issue at all.

2025-04-17 16:43:16

csa@diaspora.psyco.fr

I can't see the @charliebrown comments here.

That said, I'm also agin systemd.

a. systemd was forced into place by Redhat (now IBM) over the objections of many developers…

b. People make the argument that systemd is open source, so that anyone can inspect it. * How many people really do? * Where is the last audit of systemd? * Once the scope creep of systemd rolls forward, where it’s hooks are in many other packages, how exactly do you swap out systemd then – if someone/group DOES use it for nefarious reasons?

c. systemd == syshost on Windows. A process that gets into everything and sees everything. I think it is backdoor(s) waiting to happen.

d. No one logically can tell me why systemd needs it’s own login & password. systemd FEELS like the Intel ME minux backdoor, to me.

None of the above speaks to what an #ass that Pottering is to other developers; not to mention passive users of systemd.

Someone like that feels more like a placed agent than a software evangelist, to me. He’s simply there to force in systemd – everyone else be damned.

Teth 2025-04-17 16:49:07

Carter Braxton

techriot@hubzilla.eskimo.com

@csa@diaspora.psyco.fr Yes @charliebrownau is using the ActivityPub protocol which makes him invisible to Diaspora clients right now and vice versa. That being said, I understand the arguments for and against Systemd, however, I'm not forced or compelled to use any distribution that uses it. I'm sure @charliebrownau or you for that matter, don't mind using propriety drivers for a hard to find wifi adapter either.

As I told him, whenever I start having problems with Systemd, I'll move over to any one of the BSD or even Alpine Linux since I already love that distro too and it doesn't have systemd running on it.