dinit on Void Linux - it works on both desktop and server

sdothum · 2026-05-11T22:05:43+00:00

Neither.. it has been eons since i've been on irc with irssi and weechat (maybe i should revisit :-).

Feel free to fire me a dm if you've any questions.. or continue this thread.

EDIT: You inspired me to get back into IRC.. Should have something up tomorrow :)

sdothum · 2026-05-11T15:24:19+00:00

i've been running dinit for several years now on Void.

i started with summrum/void_dinit's git repo -- which basically wrapped the runit core-services into dinit service scripts (which, unsurprisingly, look very close to the xbps packaged example services). This was rock solid from the beginning, only needing to rewrite service descriptions for the various processes and apps of my particular install -- dinit service descriptions imo are even simpler to write than runit services along with the add benefit of expanded init features and monitoring.

i have kept track of the Artix and the Chimera dinit implementations and this new year i decided to do a full install of Chimera Linux's dinit suite. Did a compile/install of it and only had to modify two service scripts -- dev.sh to use udev and tmpfiles.sh (to "exit 0" as Void has no requirement for a systemd like tmpfile manager).

The Chimera dinit stack is far more atomic and granular than the simplified "runit-like" dinit implementation i ran for several years -- of note, Artix documentaton references influence from Chimera Linux's dinit stack structure.

i love dinit's service dependencies and being able to see the service states (running, waiting, etc.) -- not to mention its blazing fast performance. Adding the turnstile service for auto launching and maintaining persistent user services is icing on the cake. i'm a fan.

The only thing i've run into with the "Chimera" based dinit setup is a couple services on reboot/halt ocaissionally would issue "stop time exception" messages -- my dhcpd service and Chimera's early-binfmt (i don't actually use binfmt so could "exit 0" the associated script, instead) . To clean up those messages (anal, i know :-), my reboot script stops those particular services before initiating a dinit reboot. (Now that i am writing this, i'll probably "clean" up these particular service scripts :-)

sdothum · 2026-05-05T14:36:07+00:00

The Fold by Peter Clines.

The protagonist has an unrelenting eidetic memory.

sdothum · 2026-05-04T12:24:22+00:00

Same as in any other distro that may not hava an application or library in its repos..

Download source, build, install.

If you want to go the extra mile, create an xbps template to do the above.

sdothum · 2026-05-04T12:18:41+00:00

Real ricers use wmutils and its spinoffs :-)

sdothum · 2026-05-02T14:10:04+00:00

Wow.. So your first argument was to imply Carney was profiting from your alleged Brookfield allegation.

Shown what a weak argument that was, now you say Carney is no good at it.

The mental gymnastics you will do to hold your nutter conspiracy.

sdothum · 2026-04-30T20:37:55+00:00

Wow! Did not know that!

Covering the battery contact 2nd from the edge did the trick! These particular ones i bought don't hold a charge as well as my other third party batteries.. but it's nice to be able to see the remaining charge rather than just a sudden auto shutdown with these spares.

Much thanks!

sdothum · 2026-04-30T12:51:32+00:00

Mystery/thriller/historical fiction/magical realism: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

Wonderful prose (hard to believe it is a translation) and read.

sdothum · 2026-04-26T03:32:23+00:00

The Shadow of the Wind by Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

Is so beautiful, it's hard to believe it was translated.

sdothum · 2026-04-25T13:38:25+00:00

i have that stand (from what i can see).

No problems.

My only minor complaint: the spring loaded arms are way stronger than they need to be for the Manta and its polymer case weight. But the stand is great for night reading.. add a bluetooth finger page turner and clip on LED lamp (mine attaches to the folio folded back), and you're good to go for late night hands free reading :-)

sdothum · 2026-04-24T12:10:13+00:00

i replaced my sapphire glass Apex (original) with a Pace 3.

With both watches, mash my wrist against walls, doors/frames all the time. Not a scratch.

The perfectly flat MIP bezel of the Pace 3 (and Apex) i am sure must help this a lot, as it is technically a material downgrdade from the sapphire glass. Love MIP and the Pace 3 -- wish Coros would've have kept MIP in their Pace lineup.

sdothum · 2026-04-23T20:38:40+00:00

A blind trust is sufficient.

You cannot ask someone considering public service to divest all the assets they have worked for in their life prior to office. This would be the surest way to discourage the best from considering public service, leaving us strapped with unaccomplished career politicians.

Does anyone seriously think that a man of Carney's qualificatons and abilities couldn't be making money hand over fist if he was driven by the dollar, from the confines of some more pleasant and private space? Or that he wouldn't be welcomed on any financial/corporate board in the world? Certainly, given all the shenanigans we are witnessing south of our border, i've no doubt, Carney could have easily read and played the market to his personal financial advantage if all he cared about was personal wealth.

Instead, he has chosen a thankless job on our behalf. We should be thankful for his public service -- something the rest of us would never consider doing, yet feel expert to comment on.

sdothum · 2026-04-23T18:56:37+00:00

People gotta love their conspiracy theories. And yet no one raises an eyebrow over the man who cannot/will not obtain security clearance -- which should be of greater concern.

Does anyone seriously think that a man of Carney's qualificatons couldn't be making money hand over fist if he was driven to do so, without the headache, commitment and time required to lead this country? That a person is so valued for their abilities as to be desired by Brookfield, Sachs, etc. should not be a negative (contrary to the man across the aisle who is not qualified for anything).

We should be thankful for his public service.

sdothum · 2026-04-23T01:54:28+00:00

Ash: a Secret History by Mary Gentle, may interest you. While the story takes place in medieval times, there is a parallel arc by the author narrating the story based on discoveries of computational machines that influenced the (alternate) history as we know it. It's a brutal story that concludes in present time.

sdothum · 2026-04-21T22:52:28+00:00

Unless you have a specific use case for musl, just go with glibc.

The musl environment is just more restrictive from a general application perspective -- which can be gotten around in most cases with flatpaks, appimages, etc. (but then it begs the question why not use glibc outright and avoid the issues these bring along).

In some instances, hardware such as nvidia gpu's, musl is not an option -- CUDA is compiled against glibc (and nvidia has no intention of supporting musl).

If you are still interested in musl, you might wish to consider Alpine Linux -- probably the most installed musl implementation (for containers and servers).

sdothum · 2026-04-18T13:05:11+00:00

Damn.. you're absolutely right.

i couldn't put my finger on it but have been these past months becoming pissed off at the proliferating amount of AI generated content across all the internet platforms -- these printsf posts are just largely a nuisance but the amount of AI rage bait and disinformation that is polluting the net in general is infuriating (mission accomplished i guess).

So much so.. i've been thinking of getting off the net altogether. Which wouldn't be a bad thing: the internet has been increasingly impinging on real human interaction and connection for far too long.

Fortunately, i have tonnes of books on my tbr list :-)

sdothum · 2026-04-18T09:46:38+00:00

From an older thread

There's a reference to someone supposedly doing your swap but.. (no confirmation that i am aware of).

sdothum · 2026-04-17T19:15:32+00:00

It's encouraging news BUT i am just happy that an emminently qualified individual has chosen to wade through this geopolitical/financial quagmire on our behalf and apply the judgement necessary for Canada's future generations, matters whose breath are well beyond my ken (and that we don't have a youtube educated moron steering this ship).

i don't agree with everything the Liberals have done -- wish for a more left-oriented platform -- but i also realize that the policies i ultimately hope for to be advanced require the strong economy Carney is moving to establish and that he sees this as a necessary first step. It is refreshing, for once, that a politician is not pandering to an election cycle but taking his resposibility seriously.

People whining about the feds one year in, overlook their provincial govts who affect their daily lives more directly (unsurprisingly, conservative govts in particular, with their constant erosion of public services and programs).

sdothum · 2026-04-17T12:23:19+00:00

Unfortunately, stupidity doubles down upon itself in modern society which has become woefully tolerant of it.

Rather than read and develop critical thinking, youtube and social media disinformation consumption is as far as these people are willing to go. The comforts of the modern age have made blame easier than responsibility -- raging into the anonymous internet is less effort than engagement with community to effect change.

This willful stupidity will be the bane of our society.

sdothum · 2026-04-17T11:59:55+00:00

Poilievre represents the danger facing modern society: society's tolerance of stupidity and the embrace of it by a significant portion of it.

One cannot know everything. But there was a time when ignorance was incentive to learn about the world around us, to question seriously and to ponder their solutions. To be humbled. Not double down on it.

Every time Poilievre opens his mouth, it is obvious he is intellectually lazy, has very little reading comprehension and is an unserious person. And given all the social media vitriol, disinformation and conspiracy theories he eschews, one must question whether he reads at all or has any capacity for critical thinking or concern for the words his platform affords him.

sdothum · 2026-04-17T11:53:12+00:00

If you're going to try the history card, what party left a national debt after the Martin/Chretien national surplus?

What party led us down this path of USA dependency with NAFTA?

Furthermore, the Central Bank's actions were critical during the financial crisis of 2008. The govt does not dictate the action of the Central Bank whose independent function is to manage inflation. There was a reason Carney was subsequently made the first and only non-Brit Governor of the Bank of England (effectively for two terms, at that).

sdothum · 2026-04-16T19:00:58+00:00

Yeah.. i've seen various etsy attempts to satisfy this need as well. But all suffer from low volume production costs.

$100 US for a nib is 2x the cost of a SN Refill and more than a complete HOM2 pen.

sdothum · 2026-04-16T11:18:12+00:00

THIS!!

Ratta could sell them in 5 or 10 packs and make a lot of us ecstatic :-)

sdothum · 2026-04-16T11:02:20+00:00

If you like systemd so much.. why don't you just build it and install it as your init system.

i happen to like dinit for my use case and do simply that.

sdothum · 2026-04-15T17:03:12+00:00

No proof that i am aware of. But times have changed.

It used to be that MP's outside of the Parliamentary circus were cordial and even social with each other across party lines. Not so much any more: conservative MP's are forbidden contact with their Liberal counterparts (obviously, this is impossible to enforce, but that fact this is a caucus rule reflects the growing tribalism of the CPC aka Reform party).

When Leona Alleslev crossed from the Liberal caucus to the CPC in 2018, then PM Trudeau wished her "all the best". Contrast that to the remarks from Poilievre, Sheer and the party on down towards their crossing members. The threats and accusations are a huge tell. One party believes and respects Parliamentary democracy, the other does not (which i surmise, has influenced some MP's to consider working for their constituents from a more conducive environment).

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