If they cared they should have finished sooner

Eh, the only kind of server that I think you absolutely need full networking (address, iptables, routing, maybe even DNS) to be “meaningful” would be a database replica. Anything else, there is full use to partial network configuration: anything small enough that lets in a network connection someone else can use to diagnose (eg.: you can have a server that can spin up a meaningful session with only address and netmask, not routing).

That said, I’ve never seen a server, with or without systemd, set to wait for all possible network interfaces that are present to be fully configured… would me emotional murder with something like wireguard that by necessity has a depends on another interface’s routing. Usually with just lo plus any one available interface, it tends to suffice.

Don’t mask or disable the systemd service.

Edit /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml and add optional: true to any devices that may not always be available.

That’s absolutely systemd’s fault. In any Linux system the only network interface that can (more or less) always trusted to be available and complete a full initialization sequence is lo Absolutely nothing else.

(The worse if you happen to have a WiFi that autoconnects but does it across the same SSID to different endpoints, but that one is wpa_supplicant’s fault if I’m not mistaken. Systemd just makes it worse)

2026

complaining about em-dashes

You are completely ignorant about where do AIs even get their data from, yes?

A free knowledge cookie for you:

The em-dash is the language standard sign in Español for dialogue tags. Literally.

You don’t need a knife to make a knife, and things like OCR are different from AI (or from “AI”).

FUCK IT THEY GOT PAPERLESS-NGX TOOO???

Fedis, what’s the best alternative?

I’m always impressed by the level of differences. Printer drivers were a real hassle with 8 and 8.1, and you never knew in advance which driver was for which.

Eh, that’s fine. I get that people are worried about EOL systems but, honestly, most of the time the concern seems overblown to me: it’s not like you are going to run these Windowses on baremetal and plugged directly into the root DNS gigabit ethernet line. When it comes to Windows, you run them in a VM and under a battery of safety measures such as firewalls and snapshots to begin with. And, once you’re bored with it, you return to Linux and the AUR.

8.1. That’s different. It was also IIRC the last Windows version without any sort of AI, enforced telemetry or any of that crap.

the only sane windows left

Windows 8.1 exists.

Ah, a systemd user I see!

sysvinit and OpenRC are just so much better.