@sophieactual yeah. I liked upstart tbh, that plus a separate syslog system was clean and fast and easy to reason about. but given desktop envs are also tied into NetworkManager now, which is tied into systemd, I haven't found a way to ditch systemd on desktop systems. it's so annoying.
Oh well. at least I know I can live without their resolver relatively easily.
death to systemd Afficher plus
disabled it and started using dnsmasq instead like before, problem has disappeared. systemd's codebase is so weirdly buggy in ways there's no visibility into, I just don't trust it.