Pup Biru

no i’m saying that insurance has nothing to do with what i’m saying… government provided healthcare follows a whole different set of rules: i keep pushing back on that point and you keep bringing up insurance, which i agree would show absolutely nothing

however anything that has the government paying for it has has to pass significant hurdles before it gets added to the list of approved treatments - scientific hurdles; not just hand wavy nonsense

chiro might be unregulated where you are, but in australia it is regulated as a medical profession: https://www.chiropracticboard.gov.au/ which is part of AHPRA - the australian health practitioner regulation agency: https://www.ahpra.gov.au/

australia’s notes all have tiny signatures of the governor of the reserve bank, and the secretary to the treasury and have for at least as long as i can remember… i don’t think it’s a vanity thing in that case

that seems… unlikely, just because of the labour cost to change the batteries compared to a DC power supply and plugging the shelves in

afaik there was somewhere that was suggesting having these labels adjust with who was in front of the item: track you through the store, link that to their internal profile of you, charge more if they think you can afford it/figure your susceptible to certain sales/etc

codeberg seems to be the new hotness

you install a distro because of all the software it includes and how they interact out of the box

you’re completely right that systemd is a background service that most people don’t care about, but it does make the whole system more reliable, and much easier to administer for servers or workstations (enterprise management; not personal)

you certainly do want an init system… even sysv-init is an init system: you need something that runs as pid 1 that triggers other services. systemd starts services, and also ensures they’re in the correct security contexts, running as the correct users, makes sure they’re healthy, tracks dependencies (not just order; this speeds things up because it can be parallel, ensures failures don’t cascade, and means there’s far less jank in random bash scripts)

this isn’t a big political statement: this is an acknowledgment that linux users - not all, but some - will want/require something like this… and systemd user database is the place where that information is stored on modern linux systems

waiting for california would be us-centrism… california isn’t the only place in the world that exists; it was just the trigger

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they’ve said “we speak for the widest used extended user service in linux”… because… that’s what they are

to say they “speak for the distros” is ridiculous: in that case, every time they merge a feature they “speak for the distros”… they speak for their own software, which is implemented by distros precisely because they implement things like this

i agree… the fact that public health care does, given the rigorous structures that are in place to follow medical advice, does though

and i agree for things covered by health insurance alone: we have similar… you can get private health insurance in australia that covers crap like homeopathy too, and they also cover a huge amount more chiro than the government does

because theyre being pragmatic… laws are starting to be introduced around the globe for parental controls - whatever that means in each jurisdiction. given that, there needs to be options available to people wanting to, or required to comply with said laws… the best place to do that is in a user record, as an optional field… extensible user records, in modern linux, are stored in systemd

it needs it in a similar manner to how it needs location, email, real name, etc: it doesn’t functionally need it, but it’s a place to store the metadata associated with a user such that other applications can use it

because whilst systemd-initd is the part that everyone is generally aware of, that’s linked to systemd-logind so that processes can be started as different users… process init, session management, and user management are intertwined

they don’t have to be for sure - sysv init proves that - but in modern linux, they are and that comes with a load of benefits

https://deepwiki.com/systemd/systemd/6-user-and-session-management

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD/

good thing it’s entirely optional then!

or just don’t set it

tell me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected without telling me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected

don’t write it off completely… yes there’s a bunch of bullshit, but it’s also not entirely quack shit

australia’s healthcare system covers chiropractic in limited circumstances, and our system is generally very good at evidence-based health (you’re allowed to get private health insurance to cover alternative medicines if you want but stuff the government pays for is well supported by evidence)

with a GP referral and chronic condition management plan (written by your GP: this is an offical well defined thing) you get up to 5 total visits to “allied health” professionals which includes chiro, physio, dieticians, etc

idk about the US but in australia most ceiling fans plug into standard outlets in the roof, so a smart plug is usually all you need

i have a humidity sensor in the bathroom that turns the ceiling fan on, and the way that works is that it compares the bathroom humidity to humidity in other areas of the house, so it takes into account humid/dry days automatically

it must be miserable mistrusting people for no reason at all