KeithD

u/KeithD@lemmy.nz
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I think Karl and Ian had a falling out over Ian's desire to avoid politics, not over his politics per se. I haven't seen anything lately than suggests they ever hang out anymore. Ian still goes to shooting events Karl is involved in, I think, so it can't be too acrimonious.

It’s a vote for status-quo when the status quo is going to kill us in a few generations.

It's a vote of "killing us in a few generations" vs "killing us next week". There's a reason people refer to it as voting for the lesser of two evils.

But a general election isn't the place for a protest vote - if you try electing someone actually good in the primaries instead you may have better options in the general.

For adding a quick thing to make something happen at a specific time, I can add a cron job in a couple of minutes. To add a timer takes creating a couple of files with syntax that took me a while to look up last time I needed it, and running a command. Then debugging. Sure, the timer has benefits, but cron jobs are still simpler.

On the bright side, there's actually a "crontab -t" command that apparently can be used to generate timer files from a crontab line, which I hadn't known of before today.

As someone who's created a timer, cron is much more straightforward.

Systemd has its good points, but most of that is the core functionality as a sysvinit replacement in my opinion. And it's entirely likely that at least one of the newer alternatives is a better option for that.