Apparently you can use "strings /run/journal/..." But journald lacks way more than simple text files. I tried to "mute" a process and redirect output to a file

Apparently you can use "strings /run/journal/..." But journald lacks way more than simple text files. I tried to "mute" a process and redirect output to a file, because it was counting in the maximum journal size, and found it to be impossible "by design". Had to use an actually good log daemon, but it seems quite hard to just disable journald and not lose any log.