imho the problem is less systemd and more downstream projects assuming systemd is present

like systemctl poweroff can be replaced by writing to a kernel file (I forget which one) and this is the correct way to do it; using systemd is an unnecessary abstraction layer

My main issue is Wayland and Nvidia (sigh) which really limits my choices of distro and desktop if I want good performance. Next time I will put a lot more thought into my hardware before buying.

I already decided it's madness and I know what the experience of Pop OS and Debian will be like already

steamOS

Nope! Might take a look although I really don't use Windows servers.

I need to get round to doing this sometime. I would like a comments section under posts but not sure if it should be a fedi / bluesky feed or if I should self-host Isso. 🤔

Perhaps this children's book could help?

To balance this, it's worth reading AWS's deep dive into the CLOUD act. tl;dr: it's complicated and largely a legal gray area depending on nation-state cooperation with the US

aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

eliatra.com/blog/the-sov...

This article gives a pretty clear answer that the CLOUD act does compel US companies to provide data to the US government regardless of EU actions towards data sovereignty.

aws.amazon.com/compliance/c...

I found this document related to the topic from AWS but I also know that national security stuff often involved getting providers to deny anything happened (until someone whistleblows it)

I'm not even sure if a lawyer could help since Microsoft's public statements were that they respected GDPR until the recent court case in France, where they admitted they don't always.

Some of this may be extralegal / spooky stuff.