Show threadAndrew2d ago

Don’t be like me and spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out how to run a #runit service as a user. I guess #kanatakbd uses `cmd` to run another program (`wtype`), but permissions still interfere… 🤷 at this point I gave up.

What you *should* do is to create a user-level service: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/user-services.html Then it’s simple: make a dir, put a `run` in it (`log/run` optional), and you’re done. Is it a service or a #nushell script? Both! Runit is great!

#NotFullyLiveVoidPosting

Per-User Services - The Void Linux Handbook

Γιανίρης4d ago

Systemd is preparing for age verification

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

> Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
> in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1ryptnu/systemd_is_preparing_for_age_verification/

#joborun #sysdfree #nosystemd #skarnet #runit #s6 #66 #openrc #obarun #artix #void #antiX #alpine

userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd

Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

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ΓιανίρηςMar 27

#krita 6 based on Qt6 and many new KDE dependencies seems to need systemd indirectly to function. To build a non-systemd version would take many K-pkgs being rebuilt.

KDE/plasma/Qt platform is so involved in providing a linux-Windows alternative, just like Gnome, that are becoming just a theme alternative to IBM/RH-Windows replacing MS

There are a few Gui projects that totally neglect that there is linux without systemd

"There is so much hate and envy against those that choose NOT to use systemd" Why?

#linux #nosystemd #sysdfree #freeofsystemd #s6 #skarnet #runit #openrc #antiX #void #obarun #alpine #foss

NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real NerdsMar 22

antiX 26 Linux distribution skips systemd and packs five init systems into a tiny Debian base

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/antix-26-systemd-free-linux/

Luis FalconMar 22
Age verification compliance is another aberration of systemd. Luckily, there are alternative init systems and GNU/Linux distributions that care about your privacy.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
#systemd #privacy #runit #openRC
Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux

The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

It's FOSS
Really Lazy Bear Mar 19

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/116255862979155448

Good thing I've tried pretty much every other init out there last year so I can just move to any distro regardless of init.

They're honestly not that hard. I'm liking Void Linux's runit rn and dinit feels like systemd. Sysv's kinda ok but I'll get the hang of it.

I'm not gonna migrate out of systemd distros like Fedora, Debian, Arch and sum of their derivatives though, but if I ever see a window that asks for my birth day, I'm O-U-T, out!

#voidlinux #runit #systemd #archlinux #fedora #debian

Show threadReally Lazy Bear Mar 15

Now I see why some people shit on systemd. For simple things, it's needlessly complex haha. I mean I already did something like this last year where I tried out other inits and I'd say sysvinit is one of the most complicated inits I've ever used when I played around with it.

It's WAY older than me. I'm only 23 years old and that thing is like 30+ years old

#voidlinux #runit #systemd #archlinux #cachyos #void #linux #freesoftware #opensource #sysvinit

Really Lazy Bear Mar 15

Moved back to regular linux kernel on my arch rig and I've moved some of my operations from cachyos vm to voidlinux vm.

I also discovered how simple it was to make a service file on Void Linux. I was about to write a service file for zramen cos it was honestly just a matter of making a shell script but yeah I didn't know there's already a service file for that one, lol.

#archlinux #cachyos #voidlinux #linux #void #runit #systemd #freesoftware #opensource

BundesligatrainerMar 15
Ein #Atommüllendlager soll einige 10tausend Jahre sicher betrieben werden können.
Hier wird eindrücklich ein Fall geschildert, wo schon nach etwa 30 Jahren das Wissen über vormals durchgeführte Atombombentests nicht mehr vorhanden war.
Damals wurde auf #Runit - Teil der #Marshallinseln - nach den Tests eine Nuklearmüllhalde gebaut und nur notdürftig mit Beton versiegelt. Jetzt: Steigender Meerespiegel, Wassereintritt, Verseuchung der Umgebung.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/cracks-appear-in-runit-dome-amid-sea-level-rise/106423684
#Atomrenaissance #Atomkraft
Cracks appear in Pacific nuclear tomb as sea levels rise

Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests. 

Really Lazy Bear Mar 9

While watching Brodie Robertson's reaction to LTT trying Linux again, I installed Void Linux. I picked the musl base live image and after install I had to manually install xfce and sum stuffs.

I'll be doing the stuff I've been doing in the cachyos vm here.

#voidlinux #xfce #linux #freesoftware #opensource #runit #musl #amd #qemu #kvm #microsoft #windows10 #windows11 #microslop #linustechtips #ltt #cachyos #archlinux