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cannot be achieved without mass surveillance and secret police.

That doesn't apply to countries with a working personal-id system.

There it's just a matter of cancelling the banking account.

Some sieving at the borders, airports, harbors.

Maybe asking around the neighbours, former work where that sucker has gone.

Grabbing, and expedite. And that's it.

Bye, bye!

In Germany that red stuff is applied to all diesel, not only agricultural use.

And it's not the same liquid. From first principles maybe, but not after it has gone through the supply chain until it reaches you.

Anecdotical evidence from decades ago, when I had an oil-fired oven for heating. With a big barrel in the cellar, which you let fill by hose from a truck maybe once a year.

And hand pumped into a can every few days, and carried that up, to fill the tank of the oven. One year I was rather broke, and that barrel empty. And then came winter.

Thought I'd be smart, because it's just the 'same stuff', right?

Walked to the Aral maybe 200 meters away, filled a canister.

That 'same stuff' made the fire drum clog from the inside with the finest carbon, like those mushrooms which grow like disks from the side of trees.

That never happened with just oil. And that was normal Aral diesel, nothing special.

One can also notice a difference in smell with older cars. Just oil stinks more.

Just let it rain extasy pills, fentanyl, and whatnot else instead of bombs. Same for asphyxiation of bunkers, gas them with some airborne aerosolized opiods, like the russians did in a cinema in Moscow during a hostage situation.

Or PCP! HARR!

Why is it not a good interface to strace?

The way I'm using it, somewhat customized from the defaults, showing some more, but mainly still showing the process-tree as the largest field...

... I navigate by either arrow-keys or mouse, mark the process, and apply another view of that process with one keypress, be it the default output of strace for that process, or the default of lsof applied to it.

Why should I have to type more than that, when that's enough in most cases?

The same would apply to netstat/ss for that process if htop would support that.

IMO that's a rather comfortable way around all the pids, p(s)kills and whatnot else.

Call me lazy, but after decades of *nix I really don't care anymore ;->

Somehow this reads like German to me. Because "rz" is a common abbreviation of RechenZentrum, meaning DataCenter.

So in English it would be like "dcadmin". Maybe they outsourced it to someone doing "gute Deutsche Wertarbeit", or it's a leftover from some agency having had their fun, or smoke&mirrors from whomever for whichever reasons.

I have both, and while btop can look nice, has some templates to cycle through, it lacks things I'm using in htop: s for stracing, l for listing open files, and x for which of them are locked.

It also has some templates to cycle through, and can be made to look nice, too. That thing about the resource usage? A few MB more residential? Oh noez! (Maybe depends on compilation options) Only thing coming to mind are too fast updates, compared to btop defaults (Whatever the distro put in there).

Timelines? Don't really care about them in there. Have other means to get them. Seems gimmicky to me in that scope.

Only thing missing in htop is n for netstat/sockstat in htop. That would be nice in addition to s,l,x.

Btop is still installed only to pose sometimes, for some people. Because of the Ooooh Cyber! effect.

But tbh that works with htop too.

No. You meant provisions for simplified automated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis

That aside, does it really matter if one can attach reactions to one text, spanning just one, or several lines, instead of 'reacting' sequentially in the following lines?

Discord, Slack etc. are just conveniences for lazy smombies which find IRC too hardcore, or smth. Like irremovable training wheels on a bicycle. Or mistaking a 'bumper car' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_cars ) for something highway capable.

All of that complaining is equal to the ppl moving into so called gentrified places, only to mourn that the character which made that place interesting has been lost. By too much uptight twats moving in there.

Use it, or lose it!

They already passed everyone as top emitter in an absolute sense.

They also passed everyone as top emitter of produced goods, which almost everyone else has outsourced to there. So what?

Buy less? Buy American? European? More expensive? Reshore?

No Systemd 22 days ago

Pfft. Ever heard of runit or s6(6)?

( https://smarden.org/runit/ https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/ )

While systemd may be convenient, and more than a simple init & supervision,

it's still slow compared to runit/s6(6).

Let's say I have a larger process-tree.

Let's say I give it's top, or any thread sighup, lazily out of htop.

Systemd? Takes seconds to tear it down, and restart.

Runit? In an instant. s6(6)? Same.

Just a flicker in the corner of my eye.

There is nothing brittle about https://github.com/skarnet/execline which is a dependency of s6.

Tested initially on almost obsolete systems.

First noticed with large firefoxen, with many windows and tabs.

But it isn't limited to that, just any larger process-tree suffices for comparison.

Does still apply to current versions and is reproducible on contemporary systems.

Runit and before it DJB's daemon-tools (and derivatives) have been around for a long time.

S6 came later. All rather good stuff, if one knows them, that they exist at all,

and is able to handle them, which isn't really complicated,

because they never had the history of glued together brittle bash-scripts.

Just saying...….

Ahem! Even old unix-users can find success with it, by simply not using/deinstalling the yank and relying on pacman and/or yay in the terminal. Shouldn't be that difficult for someone from another era?

The only things left installed are cachy-os-hello, and the kernel-manager. They are useful, and don't break things. Though one could do, without them too.

There is no single 'upstream'. Furthermore I'd give a shit about intent. That's just their opinion.

The garish themes can be ignored, deinstalled, avoided by choosing an appropriate environment.

The fuming about Shelly? Yah, hrrm. Had some of that, too.

Solution? yay -Rd shelly You are not forced to use it, and it can be deinstalled. The moment it's not optional anymore, I'm gone.

Don't use the community spaces, if you can't handle spoiled brats chasing the latest fads.

Bazzite is bloat (conceptually). Fedora no good. RedHat neither.

Always felt sluggish to me. Haven't tried since years though, but don't intend to either.

Not missing anything from 'there'.

There is a TUI-client called concord for the terminal, where you can disable all the gifs, movies, memes, cat pics, avatars, whatever. That's making it much more bearable :-)