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KDE Daemon System Notification Helper annoyances
Quoting: KDE Daemon System Notification Helper annoyances —
Three different places to tell the system not to bother you. This is, because, Linux is not a product but an amalgamation of disparate parts, somehow joined together, and every piece doings its own thing in complete and utter nerdy isolation. Kubuntu is also to blame, and Plasma, too, for reinventing the update wheel with a different UI. The worst part is not the updates - it's how difficult it is to manage them, and of course, the stupid torrent of popups. That annoys me the most. Not the fact it's one gentle prompt. No, it's two minutes of crap while you're doing important things. Randomly.
I so hate how modern systems are designed for some sort of Utopian scenario. You don't boot your machine for a few days? As soon as you log in, update services are running, wasting your bandwidth. Services that compete with each other no less. Check the process table, and you'll find three or four different instances of apt running there. There'll be python3 scripts, there'll be daemons, there'll be scheduled jobs, everything. Noise and ignorance. An assumption that bandwidth is limitless, and that people have nothing better to do than administer their systems. Especially since the risk of not doing updates right away is practically low. Nothing at all will happen on the desktop if you don't update for a day or five. Ubuntu/Kubuntu has no open ports. It's about as safe as it gets. And, most importantly, my home ain't a data center somewhere. This ain't corpo stuff. But yeah, this is server stuff blindly implemented, and the concept of philosophical enjoyment does not exist. We're done here. Take care.