Inflation is like acceleration, prices are like speed. If you’re in a space ship moving at a fixed speed, you are* moving* in a direction. Acceleration means your speed is increasing. You’re moving in a direction, faster than before. If you stop accelerating, you’re still moving and you keep all the speed you gained from when you were accelerating. The only way to slow down is to decelerate-- put energy into moving the opposite direction. That would be equivalent to deflation, which has historically been very bad for the economy.

Try systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse

I really don’t understand dbus.

I think systemd targets work opposite to your expectation. The Wants in [unit] define the things that that unit needs to already be available. For instance, you might add Wants=network.target to the unit for nginx so that it won’t try to start until the network is available. When I wrote a unit to start my company’s application, I also had Wants=postgresql.service to ensure that the database came up before the application. Remember that sysyemd tries to run as many things in parallel as it can. This is one thing that makes it much faster than classic sysvinit which started things sequentially. But it means race conditions can occur. You use Wants to break those races where necessary. The targets that you’d specify in WantedBy in [install] more closely resemble SysV runlevels. You might want to read how runlevels used to work in SysV, in order to understand systemd targets.

Every user can enable services from /etc/systemd/user for their account. If the user doesn’t log in, their instance of the service won’t start. There is a way to have user services launch without logging in, but that would obviously be nonsensical for desktop services.

I don’t think systemd would find units in /etc/systemd/user/KDE. Look at the mess that is /usr/lib/systemd/system. Organization doesn’t seem to be a thing.

For your unit files, you have Wants in the [Install] section. That is not correct. Wants belong in the [Unit] section. The [Install] section is where you define WantedBys. You may want to read the man page for systemd.unit.

To interact with user services, you do have to always use systemctl --user.

If you put your user unit files in /etc/systemd/user, they’re accessible to all users. If a particular user wants to enable the service, they can run systemctl --user enable $service. Defining the unit in ~/.config/systemd will mean only the one user will be able to start the service. Defining the unit in /etc/systemd/system indicates it is not a user service but a system service.

Deposing one king so the regicide might sit upon his throne is not the same as abolishing monarchy. That isn’t bothesidesism, it’s just fact.

Chinese hegemony might be in opposition to American hegemony, but it’s still hegemony.

Do you think he’s tired of winning, yet?

A progressive, democratic Iran would have been such a better ally for the United States over the past seventy years than the Saudis (or even the Israelis) have been. But instead, we made them an enemy by toppling their democratic government. We really need to stop manufacturing enemies for the next war.

It’s always someone else’s fault in the Party of Personal Responsiblity

Confusion to the enemies of democracy!

It’s also worth asking whether the GOP is irredeemably lost. Just 20 years ago, the Republican zeitgeist was about “compassionate conservatism” and “spreading democracy.” Times change, and pendulums swing back and forth (at least, we can hope they do).

Just 20 years ago, the Republican party’s mask of respectability was firmly in place. They used euphemisms like “compassionate conservatism” to make their contempt for the poor seem less than absolute. And “spreading democracy” was only ever an excuse to expand the military-industrial complex. The author hasn’t accepted that whatever good he believes is worth saving in the Republican party is just the bamboozle.

I mean, has self-policing ever worked for anything? I’ve always assumed it’s tantamount to corruption.

If you win a conflict decisively, then the conflict is over and weapon sales dry up. Continuous, low-level, indecisive battles are what keep the weapon dealers in business.