alt Hacker Newssystemd-as-pid1 is good. I have to admit that. I will not go back to syvinit unless a good reason comes up.
However absolutely fuck all the metastasis surrounding systemd and the shit inside, timers included.
> we need strong and good
Yeah this is true.
Problem is, this technology will absolutely be used for limiting your access to the internet from a distribution that was modified. Thus leading to locked down personal computers.
> However absolutely fuck all the metastasis surrounding systemd and the shit inside, timers included.
Meh. systemctl list-timers is orders of magnitude better than trying to wade through /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,monthly,weekly,yearly} and whatever else non-Debian distributions come up with, and cron's arcane syntax is a mess on its own on top of that. Especially if you try to run a cronjob as not-root.
> Problem is, this technology will absolutely be used for limiting your access to the internet from a distribution that was modified. Thus leading to locked down personal computers.
That's a hypothetical threat IMHO. DRM and Cloudflare Turnstile [1] are actual threats that are far bigger in practical usage.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345840