DON'T PANIC

systemd-less OS is possible. One such example is Alpine Linux. I would even recommend going one step further and learn about daemontools (made by DJB) and in turn to have a look at runsvdir which is part of busybox and is kind of reimplementation of the original idea.

Once you get to live systemd-less, you will realize how easy it is to tame any distro. Even Debian or Ubuntu work very nicely without systemd.

Bock to the roots! All the best!

Yes. The reason I switched to Arch many years ago was to get rid of all that wrappers of wrappers which are used in Debian since long time ago.

Read man pacman and that is the most Arch that can run into your way (not counting systemd, which is not Arch's fault, but the fact they switched to it in 2012 was their decision — so some have switched from Arch as well).

girls might WORK in theme restaurants , if her face is older looking, but in Harajuku, Tokyo, dressing up and visiting Harajuku, Tokyo from hours away is a big deal on weekends for teenage girls.

Harajuku, Tokyo, especially near Jingu Bridge, especially on a Sunday

A Beginner’s Guide to Harajuku’s Lolita Fashion:

https://savvytokyo.com/a-beginners-guide-to-harajukus-lolita-fashion/

Cosplayers are people who dress up as anime, manga and cartoon characters, in specific dresses or as members of popular bands. Lolita fashion is also popular in Harajuku, ranging from a wide range of genres including gothic lolita, fairy lolita, punk lolita, and the classic lolita

from https://jpninfo.com/5912

Court's own website is bugged with Google tracking bullshit.

In 2015 it was fashionable, because Google also gave your site a slight bump in searches on google lookup priority.

In 2021 its retarded to use Google tracking bullshit.

On my most important sites I lifted from bottom 200 to NUMBER ONE SEARCH ENGINE GOOGLE RESULT (meat space retail), I did NOT use any google web track bugs, just lots and lots of various normal SEO tricks, many of my own design.

The best part? I bragged I could bring the bottom 200 site to the top 10, and after one year and number one spot, the manager called me and complained his phones never ever stop ringing from people all over the world calling him, and is there any way I could make only people from his state or county call him!

HAH!

No need to use google web tracking to uplift a retail web site from bottom 200 to number one search result. NO NEED FOR GOOGLE SPY BUGS

If that court page used a paid web designer in 2014... 80% likely they would have got a google tracker slapped on it so the web designer could study his results.

Everyone should rip out google.

Everything is pretty much a cost-benefit ratio....in this case, convenience vs inconvenience. I have no problem logging into sites in order to maintain a cookie-free PC. Well, so far as I can make it cookie-free. There is only so much Self-Destructing Cookies, BleachBit, and CCleaner will do.

As said, I've been using XP Pro for three years now, and hence relegated to using Mypal, Centaury and Firefox 52.9.0 browsers. As both the OS is long ago EOL/EOS, and the browsers are equally outdated, I'm not impressed with that malarkey.

I would think 'proof of vaccination' could be more easily forged than a passport, and therefore cheaper on the Darknet, but I've not actually looked. I don't do airplanes, and not too inclined to go outside the USA anyway, so not something I'd likely need. Mexico (Tijuana) is as far as I've been, or likely to go, and since I got a lifetime supply of Mercurochrome last time, and since the Mexican Mafia seems in control of Tijuana, I doubt I'll be returning.

Search Engines - which one to choose? (onion service mirror) (eepsite mirror) - DigDeeper website

WARNING regarding :

"guess it could be pick of the litter"

Spooks claim any VPN that well run, domiciled that close to USA shores, is run by the Chinese military via paid proxies.

That rumor is spread by jew Mossad, US LEA, and others, and its a 10% chance that ExpressVPN makes most of its real money from the pension fund of the Chinese Military... but no proof.

The only proof is:

"Express VPN is just too good"

At least though, for a non-chinese citizen and those not planning to visit China, that 10% chance is not dire.

90% of all legacy VPNs are run by nation states (CIA in the mid 2000s in terror war), just like 90% of high speed Tor exit points are run y nation states.

so 10% chance that ExpressVPN is chinese government is no big shock if true.

Just do not use ExpressVPN to undermine china, and use other vpns if needed, and you are fine.

A new-hire Hong Kong VICE PRESIDENT of ExpressVPN "Harold Li" a famous Freedom Fighter, does speak perfect Chinese and ExpressVPN was third largest VPN in China, but the chinese that run ExpressVPN is not proof that the Chinese government pays to run ExpressVPN

https://profiles.forbes.com/members/tech/profile/Harold-Li-Vice-President-ExpressVPN/9fa5774b-54e2-4388-bafb-df66714ce2a1

There are others based outside 14-Eyes, but ExpressVPN ticks more boxes than them, so I guess it could be pick of the litter.

I don't think divorce is bad, it's what the feminazis have mutated it into...basically a State sanctioned get-rich-quick scheme for golddiggers!

I would disagree. Those women should of divorced their guy who was obviously way too good for them, and by doing so, the freed guys now have a chance to learn from their mistake, and make better choices in the future. The bitches now have a chance to marry (or just breed with) thugboys...who will treat them as shitty as they treated the ex....a mutually abusive relationship is exactly what such gals deserve.

For every rule there is always an exception. Good job! Whenever I go out (seldom lately) I see idiots with pocketphones constantly yapping or texting. Or them that answer a call, put it back in their pocket, a minute later its back in hand, then back in the pocket, then back in hand, over and over. I think it's like smoking pot...some of us can limit use to before bedtime, while addictive personalities have to stay high 24/7.

Not bloated at all.

In fact Steve Jobs put the entire MASSIVE Macintosh Operating System (OS X) and much of its gui libraries on the first 2008 iPhone.

People claimed (almost 99% of computer experts) that the iPhone would never sell even 2 million phones, and the giant huge OS (vastly larger than android OS) was insane to put in a Phone..

Steve Jobs merely responded... "You are wrong. No Compromises. Technology will keep up and its the FUTURE we are building for. The FUTURE"

APPLE over 2 TRILLION DOLLAR MARKET CAP from its "Bloat" ! Proof tonight!

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/

See? Market cap of all Stock over 2 Trillion dollars, and the biggest stock holder is Apple, followed by lucky Warren Buffet (5.04% as of last week).

2 Trillion from using Systemd (Launchd)

avoiding the future will never be a wise strategy in technology world.

98% of all running lunix desktops and servers now use awesome systemd.... for 100 great technical reasons. All 100 together are called bloat by you, and thats just crazy. If it had 49,000 new technologies, it might be bloat, but 100 new technologies to modernize Linux and keep up with Apple, is NOT BLOAT.

Apple did not tell Linux to copy its open source designs and put them into Linux... Linux distros all wisely took Apple Systemd (Launchd) and ported it to all the linux distributions used (98% in volume surveys).

Hurray for Systemd! It Won!

I do admit apple currentloy did NOT put its entire massive OS X (BSD unix) into the womans iWatch. The tiny iWatch needed space for autonomous cell phone chip , wifi, heart beat monitor, fall injury monitor (saved people plummeting off mountains already), auto 911 dialing, speaker voice monitoring, and links to nearby apple devices. No room in 2016 for all that. The Next iWatch may have the entire gigantic glorious 2 trillion dollar market cap operating system shoved into t the womans iWatch.

Apple iWatch has a built-in feature that calls emergency services when it detects its user has experienced a hard fall: https://people.com/human-interest/apple-watch-calls-for-help-man-falls-off-cliff/

iWatch to have entire massive gigantic macintosh OS and a working cell phone, all on a womans watch!

The final giant iWatch OS update for older watches, before going 100% iPhone OS in 2022 , internally has countless features in it including 24 hour Siri AI voice assistant even if no cell towers and no wifi and no blu tooth connection to another apple device :

https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/watchos-8-release-date-3800809/

Wow! All those things on a little watch!

3 Trillion market cap for Apple is their next Target (50% stock increase from now)

And Apple thanks Systemd (Launchd) for much of that current 2 trillion dollars.

In fact, 98% of the linux engineering experts now in 2021 lauch at the luddites and halfwits screeching against the glorious systemd with their emotions instead of facts.

The smear word "bloat" without logical argument, is laughed at the same way Steve jobs laughed when selling the iPhone in 2008 with entire giant mac operating system inside it.

NO COMPROMISES. Its not Bloat, its the FUTURE.

I prefer the electric chair....much more painful, doesn't always kill on the first try, and watching sparks shoot out the eyeballs is way more entertaining than a rolling head.

Oh joy...Mozilla has figured out how to do what 'Self-Destructing Cookies' addon was brilliantly doing for years, before they sabotaged the addons en masse? Well ain't that special!

Try MX Linux:

https://mxlinux.org/manuals/

https://forum.mxlinux.org/

https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=FFrG7FAeQ-A

I found it to have slightly more intuitive layout than Linux Mint, which required less searching to find what I needed. For example, I was easily able to figure out how to ditch the gawd-awful Firefox, and replace it with Waterfox...I have yet to successfully do the same in Linux Mint.

https://nosystemd.org/

https://www.slant.co/topics/18348/~linux-distros-that-don-t-use-systemd

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-replace-systemd-with-sysv-init-on-debian-linux#h4-difficulty

All these 'improvements' were done (and done better) via "Self-Destructing Cookies' addon, and 'Flush Flash' app. I don't know if Firefox/Mozilla is any better than Chrome/Google, but if there is a difference, it ain't much of one. Rather like trying to decide which TLA is the least obnoxious. Mozilla has a long and nasty history:

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html

Considering Reddit is now a den of commies, socialists and leftist-libtards...I applaud any move to make their lives a little more bleak....whether that grief comes from within or without.

The nerve of Google (read this carefully):

The judge demanded an explanation “about what exactly Google does,” while voicing concern that visitors to the court’s website are unwittingly disclosing information to the company. “I want a declaration from Google on what information they’re collecting on users to the court’s website, and what that’s used for,” Koh told the company’s lawyers. The case is Brown v. Google, 20-cv-03664, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).

---> cause the Court's own website is bugged with Google tracking bullshit.

Okay, so why do they dress this way?

(not that I am complaining)

I have one... and not real thrilled that I do. Smartyfone that is.

I mainly have it just for text / secure messaging and keeping track of of things (read monitoring, security, shipments, etc.).

It mainly lives on wifi only.

More and more I am dividing into two devices though. One that does the internet connecting and 4G... and one that is free of the overt spyware and only wifi... Might opt for something like a rooted Asus Transformer model tablet for this.

Only time I am face glued is in limited sips in the day... infrequent... Winding down pre sleep, yeah, transition from workstation to putzing around via phone.

I really try to use the portable devices for productive things. I swear.

With all the easily available info floating around on all the ways pocketphones invade your privacy (and basically violate your rights), I'm at a loss to explain why nearly everybody has one superglued to his/her paw....an adult pacifier for Peter Pans?

I have never had one; don't expect I ever will. Not being on a short leash when I leave home is no big detriment, but not having a answering machine to screen calls would be. Having to wait til I get home to make calls or return call is no inconvenience. I guess from what I've seen, its an effective little pocket-toy to waste time with, but given the high price (money, privacy, and nuisance of constantly being yapped at) I'd say the cost far outweighs the benefit.

(popcorn)

Ya'all are too damn bright to go the ad hominem attack route.

Just saying. Merits to both sides and reason to have distros with and without certain things.

Won't catch me near Windows. If I could get it all out of my LAN I gladly would :)

Left using it back in the XP days. Quite an ugly and counter-intuitive OS on desktop. Probably same boring Windows on the Server side though.