Re: So, let's suppose for second
In the topsy-turvy land that America has become, anything is possible.
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With FM radio you get the advance warning of increasing background noise before the signal actually fails, so if you're moving and really want to hear something (breaking news?) you'll usually just lose the odd word or two, and there's no catch-up/re-initialise issue. DAB just throws the toys out of the pram.
Tried devuan ascii on my latest machine and am very pleased with it indeed. I made a donation immediately. You have to do that straight away, before other more 'important' things get in the way.
Also, for a few years I've been the main (but not very experienced) dev for the Yoshimi soft-synth, and once I got my feet under the table I did two things I thought important insurances. The first was to mirror it on github (as sourceforge was getting flaky) and the second was to give two other trusted devs full access to the repositories.
If the proverbial bus comes to get me, the project should be safe.
Red Hat have definitely taken a lurch to the dark side in recent years. It seems to be the way businesses go.
They start off providing a service to customers.
As they grow the customers become users.
Once they reach a certain point the users become consumers, and at this point it is the 'consumers' that provide a service for the business.
SystemD is just a symptom of this regression.
Clearly they have no idea at all how to run a survey. Either that, or they tailored it to give the result they wanted. They sort of mashed quite disparate ideas in to give one overall impression, ignoring the fact that half of this required the use of software that some people either couldn't or objected to downloading.
These situations can actually be made very rewarding.
I started out as a humble in-the-home TV repairman (yes it was that long ago) and soon learned to make soothing commiserating noises. Once things had calmed down, I'd quietly ask what they would like me to put on the job ticket. So, "Not switched on" became "Loss of power". This almost always worked like a charm, and on repeat calls I even had customers saying they'd wait if I wasn't available on that day.
I carried that policy on when I moved into industrial electronics (where you also needed to quickly establish who was really in charge), and have made some good friends over the years. Also, your name gets known. It's amusing when you get a puzzled look from your boss, as a new customer calls up and and gruffly says says "Can you send Will - he seems to know what he's doing."
The thing that concerns me is that it is getting progressively harder to buy any goods that aren't stuffed with this crap. I don't want it, and never will, but what do I do when I want a new car and all of them are splurting reams of data (that I can't block) to anything that's listening?
You can't even block GPS tracking - it's all part of the entertainment/ car controls interface.