I love this bit from the article:

To a request for comment, X only sent Ars an auto-response, saying, “Busy now, please check back later.” (To be fair, in this case “check back later” is a good summary of what happened.)

Don’t worry, it’s just a Team Fortress 2 reference: https://youtu.be/PLmrdZVvtT8?si=CpKmRpdGU-l3aDa1

“How to be a good human owner”

Here you go:

HELP IM TRAPPED IN A DILDO FACTORY

Yeah exactly. It does have some features that require integration with the init system, which systemd obviously supports, but it could be used independently of systemd quite happily, and other init systems could easily support those integrations.

Is the bottom picture AI upscaled? It looks way crisper than I remembee that meme ever looking

It’s not, it’s based on an old meme.