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  I love how his main company is named after the suspicious crystal balls that are believed to be connected with agents of the physical manifestation of evil and discord, and specifically warned against using lest you be doomed. I think he may know he's the villain.

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  Bro I'm not making a single claim about the merits or flaws of systemd. I'm talking about the huge infighting and strong arming that went on back when it came out. I had an LTS server back then and just had my popcorn out to watch, since I don't have the programming expertise to weigh the pros and cons of init systems at a philosophical level.

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  Couldn't happen to a nicer pack of jackals.

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  I don't really agree that is conceptually okay. TVs and computers have drastically different life cycles. That TV will still be kicking probably a decade after the internal Smart TV computer is uselessly underpowered. This same problem is arguably even worse with cars.

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  Sure, but if they can be demonstrated to _ever_ plagiarize without attribution, and the default user behavior is to pencil-whip the output, which it is, then it becomes statistically certain that users are unwittingly plagiarizing other works. Its like using a tool that usually bakes cookies, but every once in a great while, it knocks over the building its in. It almost never does that, though.