The Linux Advantage: It does exactly what you tell it to
The Linux Disadvantage: It does exactly what you tell it to
@brandon That was only true until systemd came into the frame tbh.
@arcans I'm not sure what you mean
@brandon Since systemd has come on my Debian, I sometimes notice things happening I never asked for and that keeps happening despite me trying everything I can find to tell that dumb thing to stop doing it.
@arcans Is possible that you're not looking in ALL the right places?
What is it specifically you're referring to in this instance that's being done without your desire?
@brandon Then again, maybe it is just that systemd is out of the reach of my technical skills, or even that I am too much of an idiot to get how to use systemd, but in the end my feeling is that since it has come on my system, I have loss part of the control I have on it.
I will get a new laptop in the following months and will go for Void Linux or Devuan rather than Debian for that reason.
@arcans
The apt package was updated or apt automatically updated or checked for updates automatically?
@brandon I was something on startup. After looking around a little, it seemed that it was apt.systemd.daily. My research about how to disable it weren’t really conclusive. It seemed the only solution was to completely remove it…
Granted, I think I realized that a morning and had to go to work, so I did not spent countless hours on it — why would need that for a personal system anyway?
@brandon It is indeed possible although before systemd, I always ended up finding a solution, but now I have to give up.
The last occurence I can think of is already fuzzy, but I remember noticing some sort of autoupdate of apt a few weeks ago that I did not want to happen, as I never asked for it (I felt like I was using Windows!), but all I could find generally ended up being posts of people saying than it couldn’t be disable in systemd, or something like that.