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A friend of mine joked when this came to light the other day that we should start the timer to see how long it would be before some SystemD person crawled out of the woodwork to say that was expected behavior and you're an idiot for using it wrong. And we laughed to ourselves, wouldn't that would be funny, that really is the reputation they have now isn't it.

Well, jokes on us, because that's the first fucking comment on the bug.

github.com/systemd/systemd/iss

Look, "/home is a tempfile" isn't just a footgun, or a bug.

It's an explicit ideological attack on the whole idea of what Linux is and who Linux is for.

If /home is just a tempfile to be purged when drivespace pressure hits some arbitrary threshold then Linux is a corporate-owned SAAS shim, and that's all it is. It's not just "breaking userspace", it's abandoning the idea that the people using that space and the stuff they've made there matter at all.

SystemD is for landlords.

The whole system makes sense when your realize that SystemD's only constituency is people who want to rent out computers. Not for people who want to live under a their own roof, maybe in a community, to maybe build something together.

SystemD is software for landlords.

Jules 🍺

@mhoye always reminds me of the ms Windows registry, put all the configuration in one place where it can me bloated and corrupted