How do people find this convincing? Is it a new fashion?

It's all to grow profitable luxury food.

They are indeed. The average planet busting Gamma Ray Burst is just a Vogon trying to "get the whole family in".

Basic users just want a web browser and need instructions for anything else anyway.

Hardcore geeks have tried everything going and have no problems with Cisco IOS.

It's the folk in the middle who struggle.

Just kidding about Cisco: it sucks.

That's not something to mock people for; it's a problem to apply your mind to and fix.

And I just removed the delay using my method. Perhaps try checking something yourself?

That's it. You didn't link to any issue and the weird mistakes and justifications you're making feels like arguing with an LLM.

You obviously can't run unix_chkpwd against a local account without root.

The code you linked to isn't the code for a wrong password. It's a check to make sure you're using a TTY. That code isn't to prevent brute force. The delay there is 10 seconds.

The 2 second delay is in support.c at https://github.com/pibara/pam_unix/blob/5727103caa9404f03ef0...

It only runs if "nodelay" is not set. But you might have another pam module setting its own delay. I have pam_faildelay.so set in /etc/pam.d/login

Change both the config files and you can remove the delay if you want.

That's the ludicrous propaganda that you've been fed but you really should be intelligent enough to dismiss it.

The world would get along just fine without you overpaying for your drugs. You pay for marketing costs.

Yes, you only get a continuous glucose monitor for free if you really need it on the NHS. If you want one otherwise you need to spend $100. It's not going to bankrupt you.