zectl VS systemd

I came across zectl (https://github.com/johnramsden/zectl/blob/master/README.md) but found the docs quite sparse.

I've been trying to install it on ZFS root with systemd-boot but also have something like zectl for picking snapshots at boot time, so far no luck, seems hella complicated

You'll have to give up GRUB to use zectl . I believe it only works with systemd-boot. I don't know how well it supports multiple operating systems on the same pool. I don't know if your pool can be encrypted.

If you use a tool such as zectl for boot environments, then datasets that don't hold system data like rpool/ must be out of rpool/ROOT.

Anyone using this? https://github.com/johnramsden/zectl

If that doesn't appeal to you, you might want to consider zectl or bieaz. I know zectl has an AUR package, at least.

Hey I also have the pocket 4, the screen rotation issue should be fixed soon (slash already fixed): https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/41036

> Honestly, I hate Pam. It's one of the few pieces of software on Linux that desperately needs a replacement that isn't just a clone of the original.

There were some discussions in systemd[1] that would in future possibly provide a replacement for it if you are interested. Discussions have stalled and I am unsure why, but the thoughts do exist.

[1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/39855

> Systemd-appd gives applications an identifier and stores their permissions

Soon systemd will sniff more data - such as the age:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954#issuecomment-4...

And the usual copium aka this is very harmless, nothing evil is done, nothing

Debian did not link OpenSSH with a 1.5 million-line library, because one doesn't exist. The library is libsystemd, which is comparatively tiny, and it is tiny so that sane things like Type=notify services get supported in more places with less pushback.

Yes, it could be smaller, broken up to remove compression support [0], what have you. But you should criticize the things that are actually problems, not some made-up bullshit about the whole of systemd being linked into everything that talks to it.

0: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/32028

The technical case for Podman is real: rootless by default (not opt-in like Docker's 20.10 mode), no dockerd running as root, no $9–15/user/month for Docker Desktop, and Quadlet (5.0, 2025) for native systemd integration. These are genuine architectural wins.

systemd upstream discussion for confext design context: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24864

Not long ago, California rushed forward to force age sniffing, aka age verification. See systemd riding along the wave: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

3D printing is also on a current hype run; I think a lot of this has to do with how cheap it is to print some things. So naturally some companies with overpriced shit, get nervous. So suddenly, California AGAIN, wants to censor and restrict people here.

Now - I think this will fail, 3D printing already won (IMO). It is similar to the right to repair movement. Though at an earlier stage. I am getting tired of all those lobbyists being active in California. And this is a problem that happens a LOT in the USA. This kind of lobbyism needs to go.

It is time to look at which folks act as lobbyists here, at the least at the surface level. All their communication with other organisations or companies, must be made open, so that people can look whether they are lobbyists or not. (This will not cover all lobbyists, but it will cover about 95% of them, because most lobbyists are stupid - see how EU OLAF caught some stupid EU lobbyists here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_th... - so the EU is similar to the USA here, all built by lobbyists. See also how Meta bribed people for age-sniffing and similar spying tools or Jeff Grey from honor your oath point at the problem of non-stop monitoring of everyone in cars at all times)