I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior of a feature people were using for years already. They re-purposed an existing sleep mode and changed it entirely to mean something else. Originally you would set a timeout that your laptop would suspend and then hibernate. They changed it to mean that your laptop suspends until your battery hits 5% and then hibernates. As if people want to open their laptop the next morning only to have no battery left.
Ironically, the stated reason for this change was to "prevent data loss". Guess what they did? They introduced a bug in this "fix" that guaranteed your laptop would not wake from hibernate. You had to reboot the damn laptop each time you woke from hibernate because it would get stuck on a black screen, thus "losing" your data. I "lost" more data from their stupid fix than anything else.
They admit the original feature was broken because it didn't take into consideration for battery percent. Fine. But there was absolutely no reason to change the behavior. You can do both! The only reason I can think of is you just like being an incredible asshole to people. Which is obvious from that thread. Do they even use a laptop? Why would I want a dead battery next time I open the lid???
> I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior of a feature people were using for years already.
As a fellow (though not lately very active there) systemd maintainer, reading his comments in that issue is a real bummer.
I'm not sure I'd call it "gaslighting", I don't think he was even bothering to grok what people were asking for. Not until it became a pile-on of additional systemd members @yuwata and @DaanDeMeyer.
Maybe he's checked out a bit with all the drama going on over at BlueHat?
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25269
I'm still livid at this Luca guy gaslighting people on the "correct" behavior of a feature people were using for years already. They re-purposed an existing sleep mode and changed it entirely to mean something else. Originally you would set a timeout that your laptop would suspend and then hibernate. They changed it to mean that your laptop suspends until your battery hits 5% and then hibernates. As if people want to open their laptop the next morning only to have no battery left.
Ironically, the stated reason for this change was to "prevent data loss". Guess what they did? They introduced a bug in this "fix" that guaranteed your laptop would not wake from hibernate. You had to reboot the damn laptop each time you woke from hibernate because it would get stuck on a black screen, thus "losing" your data. I "lost" more data from their stupid fix than anything else.
They admit the original feature was broken because it didn't take into consideration for battery percent. Fine. But there was absolutely no reason to change the behavior. You can do both! The only reason I can think of is you just like being an incredible asshole to people. Which is obvious from that thread. Do they even use a laptop? Why would I want a dead battery next time I open the lid???