• SpikesOtherDog
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    4 days ago

    Criticisms of systemd say it does too much, so maybe every basic animal on the farm is systemd? Orwell is complaining about how the pig is overly complicated for a farm animal.

    If I really break it down, I guess the author is saying that while it could be cool to have talking pigs, they have no place in a production farm. The average Linux admin doesn’t want tools that can do everything, they just need the thing done??

    IDK, feels overly heavy for the delivery.

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          4 days ago

          Orwell, the user, is a supervisord pleb that already understands the limitations of sysinit but their inability to read some man pages results in them writing a long-ass book instead.

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            I have written long-ass reports to try explaining shit, only to find myself understanding the manual. I think it’s part of learning.

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              I was referencing the lengthy screeds against systemd that appear on the internet - those do not strike me as being productive for learning systemd - they appear to me to be justifications against trying to learn the thing. Is this the style of writing that has helped you or were you unaware of what I was referencing?