Hey, honestly, thanks for being mature and real about this. I 100% am going to be migrating away from systemd after seeing how quickly this happened at the project and yhat Microsoft can basically decide they want code added to it; but I’m not gonna drag this random junior dev… I’m gonna choose to direct my hate at Microsoft instead. If they orchestrated these changes, that is the story here. When did that corporation get its fingers into the cookie jar, and how do I now make sure my entire software stack is free from projects where Microsoft can have this level of influence? That’s the tactical picture that matters.

It depends. Is there a voicemail box I can wait for? Around 5-6 rings, I start hoping to hear that so I can hang up and try again (or in rare cases, I might leave an actual voicemail - i know ao many people who don’t check theirs though…)

If there is none, and I really wanna get through to someone, then I’ll let their phone ring off the hook, especially at work where our users have landlines at their desk. Hey, if you put a phone number on a ticket and then come back and have your boss contact my boss to escalate the ticket, then you better answer your phone when I have follow-up questions about your poorly-written ticket. After ~10 rings, I’ll put my phone on speaker and turn the volume down as I turn back to my computer and resume working, the ring barely audible in the background…

The comment alluded to Transracial identities as a (very cherry-picked and extreme) example. I do really, genuinely wonder whether we should uncritically accept the validity of people who identify as transracial, especially people who benefit from whiteness but self-identify as a member of a marginalized race. What is the instances stance on transracial identities? Another question- do you have racially marginalized mods, and how do they feel about the subject?

Oh Gods, I learned the hard way to never roll back a package unless you really know what you’re doing. And I learned that lesson way back in 2013 or 2014, when I’d only been using Linux for a year or two full-time. Now I’m on a rolling distro and have everything as purely the latest version, and if I come across some weird thing that involves rolling back a package to an older version, I will simply not do that and will look for other solutions instead. Sometimes it’s as simple as creating a symlink so that when a program looks for libWhatever2.1.5 it gets quietly redirected to libWhatever2.6.0

Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the “All” tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.