I wouldn’t consider it entirely emotional. There are a great many reasons why the willing inclusion of AI-generated code is a bad thing. While the move to ditch systemd is something of a knee-jerk reaction for me, it’s backed by logic.

Also, I’m already aware of the situation with Linux. Unfortunately, it would be quite impossible for me to daily-drive NetBSD, illumos, RISC OS, AROS, or Haiku at the moment – especially on my Raspberry Pi. As such, I’m only defenestrating the parts of my stack that have viable alternatives or that I can do without.

That said, I do have another machine that will be running NetBSD some time in the next few weeks.

Well, I do have two displays. I meant the image itself is fuzzy (at least, on my end).

Well, I also run it on x86_64. On my laptop, I used the ZFSBootMenu instructions and it’s been running smoothly for over a week now (although I don’t have any swap, as ZFS doesn’t support it or something). I have had issues before, but I assume I must have skipped a step somewhere or fat-fingered an important command. This installation, however, is perfect. I also got Secure Boot to work, which was nice.

As for the Pi, it also seems to be going well, but it’s only been installed for a few hours at this point. This installation was a lot simpler: I just wrote the image to my NVMe drive, shrank the root partition, and created a third partition for use as an encrypted /home. fsck sometimes gets annoyed, as it uses a weird block size, but apart from that it works just fine. Performance is good, LabWC is straightforward, runit is simple, and XBPS is awesome. Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser don’t exist on Linux aarch64 yet, but there’s an unofficial Librewolf repo that I’m using.

If you were wondering about systemd, well, they have a permissive AI policy and a few changes made by Claude, which doesn’t sit right with me. Maybe I’m overreacting, but regardless it does no harm to use alternatives.

(I have no idea why the resolution is messed up; apologies)

TIL Sir Paul McCartney is on Reddit.