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KDE Devs, I Love You, But Please Remove This Feature

I cannot explain how much I do not want to see this green dot and “New!” text in my application launcher.

^{KDE Discuss}

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AnitaAmandaHuginskis

in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • 2 mesi fa • •

It's open source, you can remove it yourself BTW

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corsicanguppy

in reply to AnitaAmandaHuginskis • 2 mesi fa • •

"Go edit the source" is starting to look like the new "let them eat cake".

How quickly you trivialize the work of the experienced kde devs that some pedestrian can wander in and mod a large project without fear.

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Aristotelis

in reply to OsrsNeedsF2P • 2 mesi fa • •

Are you trying to bribe the devs to remove a harmless feature that can get turned off with two clicks?! Seriously??

How to instantly tell a DM is from a scammer (In 2 Easy Steps)

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Xenny

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AI "artists" out there in droves trying to make commissions with slop

weighing BRICS

the latest BRICS summit recently completed

#memes

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nebulaone

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Sandouq_Dyatha

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

I'll give you 100$, then give it back to me, now we'll make 200$ of GDP

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nebulaone

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • 2 mesi fa • •

Yes, that's right, you have figured out what all international elite spies couldn't. You, some random guy, have undeniable proof that every country you don't like manipulates their GDP.

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Horse {they/them}

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

posts gdp chart
doesn't know what gdp is or how it's measured
mocks person who does know what gdp is

average worlder

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I'm going with @Sandouq_Dyatha here and say that you are not all international elite spies.
And it's not that "countries I don't like manipulate their GDP".
It's more that GDP measurements, including the PPP kind, are fundementally flawed and that's by design.
China is around 2.5 times the economy of the US at this moment by looking how much they are manufacturing
and how much electricity they use, surpassing the EU per person.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Lemmy.world blocks Lemmygrad.ml, unfortunately, so they can't see Horse's comment.

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folaht

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

My bad, I meant @Sandouq_Dyatha
Aren't we on Lemmy.ml?

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Horse is a Lemmygrad.ml account. Their comments arw invisible when viewing this post from Lemmy.world, thanks to Lemmy.world censorship.

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Sandouq_Dyatha

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

I am not a guy

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Semperverus

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm not a pal, buddy

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Sandouq_Dyatha

in reply to Semperverus • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm not a I am not a man, I don't identify as a man, I am not a "guy"

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Semperverus

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • 2 mesi fa • •

You missed the reference. I tee'd you or someone else up to reply with "I'm not your buddy, friend!"

Reference: youtu.be/zuQK6t2Esng

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

^youtu.be

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Sandouq_Dyatha

in reply to Semperverus • 2 mesi fa • •

Do I look like an American gen x edgelord to know a south park reference?

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Semperverus

in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • 2 mesi fa • •

Yes, you 100% do.

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Fidel_Cashflow

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

incredibly funny post, thank you

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nebulaone

in reply to Fidel_Cashflow • 2 mesi fa • •

Notice how everyone has given up on any discussion with you guys? I am the one dumbass who still occasionally shows up to get shat on. So be happy you still got me, otherwise you'd just be jerking each other off. Here I'll even help you guys out and downvote myself.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

GDP is a terrible measure of genuine economic output, especially considering that it doesn't center production, but transaction and currency. A system highly financialized like the US, in reality, produces far less than China does, yet the US GDP is larger due to the dollar.

Plus, people still show up to argue all the time.

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

Neither system is perfect. Physical goods (except resources, food and medicine) can become obsolete, demand may drop significantly (especially for luxury products), can be boycotted if you piss off citizens of a rival country enough and they are subject to tariffs, which is obviously relevant with the arrogant dickhead in the white house.

Edit: I think it's still fair to say that GDP is certainly good rough indication of how well a country is doing economically. Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?

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culprit

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?

Capitalism trying to convince people it is still relevant and viable.

scientificamerican.com/article…

These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance. The growth in GDP before 2008 was not sustainable, and it was not sustained. The increase in bank profits that seemed to fuel GDP in the years before the crisis was not only at the expense of the well-being of the many people whom the financial sector exploited but also at the expense of GDP in later years. The increase in inequality was by any measure hurting our society, but GDP was celebrating the banks' successes. If there ever was an event that drove home the need for new ways of measuring economic performance and societal progress, the 2008 crisis was it.

GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters

It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability

^{Joseph E. Stiglitz (Scientific American)}

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Political Economy is complex. What GDP aims to measure is overall production, it's an explanation of wealth, however it paints a very uneven picture as it overvalues financial transactions and undervalues raw productive capacity. As a consequence, imperialist countries are overvalued (like the US), while production-focused countries are under-represented.

GDP is often pushed by liberal, western countries as it makes them look good. A more honest look, however, is multi-faceted and takes into account other metrics like social services, which often run into negative "profitability" or break even, as they aren't producing for profit. There's also the fact that the US doesn't outproduce in non-physical goods either. The US certainly has popular media and software, but it doesn't have overwhelming productive capacity in these areas.

The point of focusing on BRICS is because if you remove the financialized, almost ficticious look at capital as displayed by GDP, BRICS is more economically strong and significant, and this better reflects the real world, not just US-based self-perception.

Imperialism - ProleWiki

Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...

^ProleWiki

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle. Germany for example has a lot of social services (universal healthcare, unemployment securities, etc.) and is still doing exceptionally well.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Germany is also imperialist. The countries that rely on imperialism have higher metrics by plundering the global south. It's kinda like looking at life expectancy of the rich vs the poor in any one country, the better metrics of the top come at the expense of the bottom.

Imperialism - ProleWiki

Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...

^ProleWiki

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

Well, thank god China and Russia don't do this.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

They don't, really. Russia has like 6 of the world's top 500 companies, it couldn't rely on the same financial expropriation even if it wanted to simply because it utterly lacks the financial capital to do so. China is a production-focused economy, and the large firms and key industries are state owned. Even if we took the ideological aspects of Marxism-Leninism completely out of the picture, China is more economically incentivized to build up multilateralism so it can sell its products to the global south, and not rely so much on the US to offload its production to, as the US is constantly unreliable due to it wanting more capital penetration into Chinese markets (which the state rejects).

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

And this is the point where any further discussion makes no sense. Goodbye.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Can you explain why? I think I made a pretty clear-cut case, is there something you take issue with?

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

Fundamentally disagreeing on facts.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

What facts did I disagree with? Are you operating with a different concept of what imperialism means, ie a semantical difference but not a logical one? Or am I wrong about Russia having relatively small financial capital and thus lacking the capacity to practice imperialism in the same way western countries do? Or am I wrong about China's large and key industries being state owned, and their economy incentivizing multilateralism in order to sell more?

The first would be a semantical difference, not a disagreement with facts, the latter 2 would be if you could provide evidence to the contrary sufficient to outweigh what I said.

Imperialism - ProleWiki

Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...

^ProleWiki

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

This is just going to result in me pulling up a source that you don't deem reputable, only for you to pull up a source that I don't deem reputable.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Maybe, but that would be better than just saying I "disagree with facts" while being cagey about what those "facts" are. That's just ad hominem (and I mean that genuinely, you're trying to discredit me through insult, not just insult me).

Either way, ultimately, this topic has shifted entirely from the base of the conversation, which is trying to find a good measure of economic productivity, and how focusing on financialized capital masked by GDP obscures actual productivity. It's why imperialist countries are declining, and why the PRC is rising. I don't think we disagree that western countries are going downhill and that the PRC is improving, so identifying why is productive.

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

I think we have come to some kind of a conclusion that neither of us is willing to part from. Maybe I am the idiot and wrong, but I'm good on this for now. Maybe I'll have some more energy another day.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

Fair enough. I recommend reading the ProleWiki page on imperialism I linked, it's much shorter than reading Lenin (though you absolutely should) and can help get you to look at the problems (presumably) we both experience in decaying western countries, and how we can chart a course for a better world. You can't find solutions without proper analysis of the underlying problems.

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nebulaone

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 2 mesi fa • •

Seems like a very unbiased encyclopedia. If a methodology of analysis is skewed towards presenting what the author intended it is pretty much useless. I haven't read it yet, this is just a gut feeling, maybe I'll check it out tomorrow.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to nebulaone • 2 mesi fa • •

It's openly biased towards communism, it's a Marxist-Leninist encyclopedia. Wikipedia is also biased towards a western, liberal viewpoint. Truth is underlying and independent of interpretation, but how truth is presented is where bias shines through, and shine it does no matter where you find your source, as every source is biased. ProleWiki is nice because it includes its sources, even though it's a work in progress, and more importantly the article on imperialism is an explanation of the concept and how it exists in reality from the Marxist-Leninist point of view.

If someone has a different definition of imperialism, you can still read the ProleWiki article and appreciate it, just substitute "imperialism" with "Leninist imperialism," and read the article with that in mind. Saying a country does or doesn't meet the Leninist definition of imperialism doesn't mean it necessarily fits or doesn't fit other definitions of imperialism. The Leninist interpretation is widespread, however, because it's useful, and as such serves as an excellent explanation for how capitalism in developed countries functions and why it's simultaneously wealthy and declining rapidly.

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eldavi

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i like how you use the incel mascot; never seen a freudian slip as a comment before.

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nebulaone

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You are confidently wrong, pepe the frog is originally from a stoner comic. Besides, I am married, so the whole incel thing doesn't exactly check out.

Edit: Very revealing how absolutely everything I post is downvoted by default, despite this comment being irrefutable fact.

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eldavi

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i'm referring to its notoriety, not its origin.

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Fidel_Cashflow

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so much for centrism being about nuance and critically questioning everything, huh?

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nebulaone

in reply to Fidel_Cashflow • 2 mesi fa • •

What do you respond to "Fuck X" , if thats what you're talking about? Otherwise I have stated my reasoning. If one side isn't willing to give up anything, it isn't really a discussion

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BrainInABox

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I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.

Centrism is a religion

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nebulaone

in reply to BrainInABox • 2 mesi fa • •

Centrism is rejection of political extremes. It is nuance and critically questioning everything. It means criticizing your own side. Contrary to popular belief It is the opposite of being a coward, because everyone will hate you.

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BrainInABox

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No, centrism is the uncritical acceptance of the political extreme that is currently in power. It rejects nuance on and critical questioning, because that might lead to believes other than the current status quo.

It is the certainly not the opposite to being a coward, and it is synonymous with being intellectually lazy; like relying on thought terminating cliches such as "the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle"

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Rejecting political extremes on the basis of being extreme, and not the merits of the positions (or lack thereof), is the opposite of nuance. It's substituting critical thought for a rejection of the idea that one can both differ from the median viewpoint and be correct, which is logically absurd.

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Mrkawfee

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It's all fun and games until people stop using your currency to buy oil.

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m532

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What does this chart measure? Tons of US$ owned? Coins or paper?

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Thats just a scratch

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HiddenLayer555

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Once I was crossing a signalised intersection in Canada while the pedestrian light was on, and some jackass turning left on red (which is the most illegal way to run a red light btw) almost hit me and had to slam on the brakes, but what shocked me the most was that the driver behind them, also intending to turn left on red, fucking honked at the first driver for having the audacity to stop and get in their way instead of running me over.

I've also had multiple instances where I was about to cross an uncontrolled intersection and a driver (who's usually speeding to the point where I could tell with just my eyes) honks at me to get back on the sidewalk because they don't intend on stopping for me when the laws require them to. Also seen drivers turning right on red (which is legal here in BC for some reason) honking at pedestrians crossing with the light and demanding to go first when the laws say you're definitely supposed to wait until the cross walk clears.

This is why I hate drivers. They call cyclists and pedestrians entitled while doing shit like this.

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scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

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Traffic fatalities in both countries, Predestians 🚶: 💀

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Russia and Belarus plan to create AI model based on “traditional values”

Russia and Belarus intend to develop their own artificial intelligence model built on “traditional values” that would be “understandable” to citizens of both countries.

Russia and Belarus plan to create AI model based on "traditional values"

^{VALENTYNA ROMANENKO (Ukrainska Pravda)}

#technology

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U.S.-Installed Regime in Syria is Terrorizing the Country’s Christians - CovertAction Magazine

In late June, Syrians experienced the worst attack on a Christian church since 1860 On June 29, 2025, I attended a church service at St. Moses the Black Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. St.

^{Daniel Kovalik (CovertAction Magazine)}

#Worldnews

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davel

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But they told me that these CIA/MI6/Mossad-backed Salafi Jihadists were moderate rebels. At least that terrible, horrible no good, very bad Bashar al-Assad is gone, though!

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mlg

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Choice between chemical weapons dictator or literally a former Al-Qaeda member.

Poor Syria

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Bloomcole

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chemical weapons were done by the terrorists and the other a hoax.
Proven by the OPCW factfinding mission evidence where the report was doctored higher up

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Maeve

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I feel like people should flood DC hotline to report discrimination against Christians in Syria.

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Video| Zionist Drone Raids Car in South Lebanon, Claims One Martyr

One Lebanese citizen embraced martyrdom after an Israeli drone raided his (Rapid) car with two missiles in Deir Kifa town, South Lebanon.

In the context of the Israeli attacks on the border area since this dawn, at approximately 6:30 a.m., an enemy Israeli reconnaissance aircraft dropped a sound bomb near a fishing boat off the coast of Ras Al-Naqoura.

An enemy reconnaissance aircraft also dropped a sound bomb in the vicinity of a destroyed house in the outskirts of the town of Dhahira, before later dropping a second bomb in the same town.

In a related development, enemy bulldozers established a new, small site near the newly established “Al-Hamames” site inside Lebanese territory, opposite the city of Khiyam. Furthermore, during the pre-dawn hours, Israeli bulldozers paved a 200-meter dirt road inside Lebanese territory in the town of Kfar Kila, extending from the wall toward the road leading to the “Shalhoub” station.

The occupying forces also dropped an incendiary bomb in the woods of the town of Sheheen, sparking a fire in the wooded area.

Israeli warplanes intensified their assaults last night, launching an airstrike on the rugged outskirts of Bodai in western Baalbek District, then conducting two more strikes on the highland areas near Flawi in the same region.

These attacks come in the context of Israeli violations of the ceasefire signed in November of last year, as Israel blatantly disregards all relevant international agreements and laws.

Video| Two Martyrs in Zionist Drone Raids on South Lebanon

One Lebanese citizen embraced martyrdom after an Israeli drone raided his (Rapid) car with two missi...

^{Al-Manar TV Lebanon}

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War with Israeli enhanced Iran’s position in region: poll

TEHRAN, Jul. 07 (MNA) – A new opinion poll indicates that a majority of Iranians believe that the country came out stronger from a recent war of aggression with the Israeli regime.

^{Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (Mehr News Agency)}

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China helps Cuba fight blackouts, strengthen power grid

Cuba may slowly ease its crippling blackouts and strengthen the electricity grid as it begins building seven solar parks with the first batch of equipment from China.

^{www.chinadaily.com.cn}

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Good to see solidarity between socialist nations. Hopefully Cuba's contemporary struggles post-COVID can be overcome and they can get back on their feet, steadily progressing.

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reagansrottencorpse

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How does the illegal US embargo and blockade work, do some countries just ignore it?

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US takes Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham organization off terrorist list — secretary of state

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US takes Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham organization off terrorist list — secretary of state

The revocation goes into effect upon publication, with the publication date being July 8

^TASS

#Worldnews

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Pistcow

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I'm not familiar with this group, but by this action, I have to assume they're super terroristy?

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Avatar of Vengeance

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It's rebranded ISIS. People think because they have infighting with other parts of rebranded ISIS they aren't. They're

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Mrkawfee

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Yes it's Isis with new PR.

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wurzelgummidge

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The United States has made the decision to revoke the foreign terrorist organization designation of the Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia)

Probably because the US plans to arm them and use them as pawns in their fight for global domination. What could go wrong?

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Police detain over 500 protestors in Kenya

It would be so cool if there was a large chunk of Africa without any low-grade war

Police detain over 500 protestors in Kenya

Earlier reports put the number of detainees at 37

^TASS

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Hamas Deals Major Blow to Netanyahu before Trump Meeting: 6 Israeli Soldiers Dead, 10 Wounded in Firm Ambush North of Gaza

Disclaimer: casualty counts have already risen since Al-Manar published this

Six Israeli soldiers were killed, and 10 others were injured in a complex ambush carried out by the Palestinian resistance late Monday in northern Gaza, according to Zionist media outlets which underlined the loss of a soldier as well.

The southern command of Israeli Army started an immediate investigation into one of the hardest security incidents that faced the occupation forces in Gaza. Hospitals were prepared to receive the casualties, and the Zionist social media websites were filled with moaning and groaning over the harsh account.

According to the latest reports circulated by the Zionist media outlets, six soldiers were killed, and 10 others were injured in a firm ambush carried out by Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, late Monday.

The incident occurred when resistance fighters detonated an explosive device against an armored vehicle carrying soldiers and then targeted a robot loaded with tons of ammunition by an anti-tank missile while it was being prepared.

The resistance also targeted the Israeli rescue force that rushed into the scene. Residents of Ashkelon heard the sound of a “huge explosion,” according to Israeli news websites, which reported that one of the wounded was a senior officer.

“The recent incident in northern Gaza is still ongoing—intense fire belts and major chaos on the ground. One soldier remains missing, vehicles are burning, and all had entered areas rigged with explosive devices and were hit with RPG rounds,” the Zionist media reported.

Israeli media added that several Israeli soldiers were burned in northern Gaza.

Wounded soldiers are being evacuated from northern Gaza via military helicopters to five hospitals: Assuta Hospital in Ashdod, Soroka Hospital in Bersheba, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Tel HaShomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, and Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, according to the Zionist media.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, due to meet the US President Donald Trumpat the White House, has been briefed on a major ambush of Israeli [...]

Hamas Deals Major Blow to Netanyahu before Trump Meeting: 6 Israeli Soldiers Dead, 10 Wounded in Firm Ambush North of Gaza

Six Israeli soldiers were killed, and 10 others were injured in a complex ambush carried out by the ...

^{Al-Manar TV Lebanon}

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Taiwan says it detected 11 Chinese aircraft, 7 naval vessels, 1 ship as it prepares to resist China's invasion

On July 12, Taiwan's military began deploying one of its newest and most precise strike weapons as part of intensifying drills meant to showcase the island's determination to resist any Chinese invasion.

Archived version: archive.is/20250713054917/live…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

#globalnews

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Family of US-Palestinian beaten to death in West Bank seeks State Department probe

The family of a US-Palestinian man beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank called for a US State Department investigation into the killing on Saturday. Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat was attacked on Friday in the village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/france24.com…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Family of US-Palestinian beaten to death in West Bank seeks State Department probe

^{FRANCE 24}

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POTOOOOOOOO via Linux

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POTOOOOOOOO
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Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?

Also why does everyone seem to hate on Ubuntu?

#linux

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TwiddleTwaddle

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

The shortest answer -

Arch has really good documentation and a release style that works for a lot of people.

Ubuntu is coorporitized and less reliable Debian with features that many people dont need or want.

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POTOOOOOOOO

in reply to TwiddleTwaddle • 2 mesi fa • •

Can you elaborate a bit on don't need or want software?

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hexagonwin

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

like forcing snap or amazon search ads back in the day

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non_burglar

in reply to hexagonwin • 2 mesi fa • •

Or mir, or pulseaudio before it was ready, or deprecating ffmpeg for half a year... Etc etc

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anon5621

in reply to non_burglar • 2 mesi fa • •

In some release they removed gdebi package installer so it made unavailable to install deb files with gui

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caseyweederman

in reply to non_burglar • 2 mesi fa • •

They pushed systemd really early too, right?

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non_burglar

in reply to caseyweederman • 2 mesi fa • •

I think so. I lost count of the little things, it really was death by a thousand paper cuts.

I was a pretty rabid fan of Ubuntu, still have an x86 and ppc CD of 5.04 somewhere.

But by the time snaps started appearing, and then Ubuntu pro, Ubuntu decided to revert some of my customized configs in /etc after an upgrade, I had had enough. When snaps were reinstalled after an upgrade in 2021, I just flipped over to Debian, which has come a long way in being usable out of the box.

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fartsparkles

in reply to caseyweederman • 2 mesi fa • •

They pushed their own init system, Upstart, before jumping onto the systems bandwagon.

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sudo

in reply to non_burglar • 2 mesi fa • •

deprecating ffmpeg for half a year

wut

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non_burglar

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

It's true, and it was a huge pain in the ass:

answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+…

Question #223855 “Why is ffmpeg obsolete?” : Questions : Ubuntu

I have been using ffmpeg to convert audio files to MP3 format for my commercial web service and have found out that ffmpeg is no longer available in my version (12.

^Launchpad

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sudo

in reply to non_burglar • 2 mesi fa • •

Interesting read. It sounds like that issue came upstream from Debian not Ubuntu though.

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non_burglar

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

At the time, canonical was throwing its weight around and essentially bullying Debian upstream repos. Around this time, there was a mass exodus of the Debian leadership over this kind of thing.

The old guard of Debian wasn't as... enthusiastic about systemd either, but look what they use now.

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webghost0101

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

“Bloat” the less system there is (while still working as a modern system) the better. If i need something i can install it myself.

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Sina

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

These days it's mainly snap and how you can type apt install and the system will do snap install instead, for firefox for example.

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caseyweederman

in reply to Sina • 2 mesi fa • •

Firefox has instructions on their website for adding their PPA and pinning it over Ubuntu's. I find it interesting that they made an official response that seems to say "yeah nonconsensual snaps are bad, here's another option"

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fmstrat

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

The biggest one: Snaps.

I switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and it's basically the same thing, just faster since it uses native packages instead of Snaps. Ubuntu might as well run all it's apps in Docker containers.

You could rebrand Debian to Ubuntu and most users wouldn't even notice.

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Papamousse

in reply to fmstrat • 2 mesi fa • •

I agree, I switched from Ubuntu to MX Linux in 2016 or so, MX is based on Debian, always up to date, just works, Xfce, .deb, no snap, etc

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UsoSaito

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't know about Arch itself on its own but I use CachyOS that is built off it and everything just works for me.

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Tim_Bisley

in reply to UsoSaito • 2 mesi fa • •

I've been enjoying CachyOS as well. I haven't gone digging into documentation too much but when I search I typically end up on Arch related forums. Chatgpt helps a lot too.

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UsoSaito

in reply to Tim_Bisley • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah, most of my questions all lead to Arch related stuff, which oftentimes the wiki has answers for.

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Chewy

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch requires reading the manual to install it, so installing it successfully is an accomplishment.

It's rolling release with a large repo which fits perfectly for regularly used systems which require up-to-date drivers. In that sense it's quite unique as e.g. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has less packages.

It has basically any desktop available without any preference or customisations by default.

They have a great short name and solid logo.

Arch is community-based and is quite pragmatic when it comes to packaging. E.g. they don't remove proprietary codecs like e.g. Fedora.

Ubuntu is made by a company and Canonical wants to shape their OS and user experience as they think is best. This makes them develop things like snap to work for them (as it's their project) instead of using e.g. flatpak (which is only an alternative for a subset of snaps features). This corporate mindset clashes with the terminally online Linux desktop community.

Also, they seem to focus more on their enterprise server experience, as that is where their income stream comes from.

But like always, people with strong opinions are those voicing them loudly. Most Linux users don't care and use what works best for them. For that crowd Ubuntu is a good default without any major downsides.

Edit: A major advantage of Ubuntu are their extended security updates not found on any other distro (others simply do not patch them). Those are locked behind a subscription for companies and a free account for a few devices for personal use.

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POTOOOOOOOO

in reply to Chewy • 2 mesi fa • •

Great write up, thank you!

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Aatube

in reply to Chewy • 2 mesi fa • •

installing it successfully is an accomplishment

Not really with archiinstall, but indeed as you say reading the manual is an expectation. Their philosophy is "creating an environment that is straightforward and relatively easy for the user to understand directly, rather than providing polished point-and-click style management tools", as well-summarized by Wikipedia.

wants to shape their OS and user experience as they think is best

tbh that goes for every distro. It's just that Canonical is more hands-on with its approach. The major complaint with Snap besides performance issues is Canonical making it so that only the Snap versions of popular apps (most famously, the bundled Firefox) are available by default.

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VoidJuiceConcentrate

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't know about everyone else, but the last couple of years has had the most unstable Ubuntu releases, with the most unrecoverable releases when issues happen.

I've since moved to Fedora for desktop and straight Debian for server.

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POTOOOOOOOO

in reply to VoidJuiceConcentrate • 2 mesi fa • •

I like Fedora. Can't tell yoh why I rolled with it though.

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VoidJuiceConcentrate

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I used it a little way back in 2005-2006ish, and decided to give it a try again after a third reinstall of ubuntu within a year last year.

though, I'm about to get a "new" laptop and may toy around with Arch on the old one. I had previously tried setting up Arch in a VM but that's not supported and ended poorly.

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aim_at_me

in reply to VoidJuiceConcentrate • 2 mesi fa • •

My Ubuntu LTS installs have been rock solid.

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AnUnusualRelic

in reply to VoidJuiceConcentrate • 2 mesi fa • •

I've always found Ubuntu to be fairly brittle. I used it briefly after Mandrake but never liked it much.

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VoidJuiceConcentrate

in reply to AnUnusualRelic • 2 mesi fa • •

I thought it was a fairly solid OS up until about 20.04, then it started getting wiggy.

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Paid_in_cheese

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I can't speak to Arch but I use Ubuntu every day. I hate on Ubuntu because I use it every day. They make terrible choices. They've got common, serious issues people have reported at least as far back as 2009 with no acknowledgement or plan to address. I'm on LTS and they push through multiple reboot requiring sets of updates a week, heedless of the impacts.

I don't feel like learning a totally new environment so I'll be switching my main computer to Mint whenever I get the time. So I can deal with someone else's annoying decisions for a while.

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jimerson

in reply to Paid_in_cheese • 2 mesi fa • •

I feel your pain with Ubuntu, though last time I used it was about a decade ago. As bad as it is (relative to some other distros), it's still miles ahead of Windows. So, you've got that going for you!

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non_burglar

in reply to Paid_in_cheese • 2 mesi fa • •

I was at this point until about 3 years ago. Switched to debian, wont look back.

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Feyd

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I like arch because:
- it is rolling release and I like having up to date software and not having to deal with distro upgrades breaking things
- it is community run and not beholden to a company
- packages are mostly unmodified from their upstream
- the wiki and forums are the best of any distro

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webghost0101

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 :: Searching AUR for notes...

 -> Missing AUR Packages: SideNote

 there is nothing to read

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folaht

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the wiki ~~and forums~~ are the best of any distro

If you don't participate in it that is.
If you veer only a little off of their strict rules,
then Arch forum will ban you and they won't allow you to even read the forum.

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audaxdreik

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't really have a concise answer, but allow me to ramble from personal experience for a bit:

I'm a sysadmin that was VERY heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. It was all I worked with professionally and really all I had ever used personally as well. I grew up with Windows 3.1 and just kept on from there, although I did mess with Linux from time to time.

Microsoft continues to enshittify Windows in many well-documented ways. From small things like not letting you customize the Start menu and task bar, to things like microstuttering from all the data it's trying to load over the web, to the ads it keeps trying to shove into various corners. A million little splinters that add up over time. Still, I considered myself a power user, someone able to make registry tweaks and PowerShell scripts to suit my needs.

Arch isn't particularly difficult for anyone who is comfortable with OSes and has excellent documentation. After installation it is extremely minimal, coming with a relatively bare set of applications to keep it functioning. Using the documentation to make small decisions for yourself like which photo viewer or paint app to install feels empowering. Having all those splinters from Windows disappear at once and be replaced with a system that feels both personal and trustworthy does, in a weird way, kind of border on an almost religious experience. You can laugh, but these are the tools that a lot of us live our daily lives on, for both work and play. Removing a bloated corporation from that chain of trust does feel liberating.

As to why particularly Arch? I think it's just that level of control. I admit it's not for everyone, but again, if you're at least somewhat technically inclined, I absolutely believe it can be a great first distro, especially for learning. Ubuntu has made some bad decisions recently, but even before that, I always found myself tinkering with every install until it became some sort of Franken-Debian monster. And I like pacman way better than apt, fight me, nerds.

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krakenfury

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Is it really? I've always understood the cult around it as a joke.

But seriously, RTFM.

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DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch has a very in-depth wiki that's the go-to resource for a lot of Linux users, and it offers a community-driven way to have access to literally anything that's ever landed on Linux ever through the AUR. It's also nice to have an OS that you never have to reinstall (assuming all things go well).

Why that turned into such a cult-meme is anyone's guess though.

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paequ2

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because it's awesome. Join us... join us... join us...

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sudo

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

About 10 years ago it was The Distro for first time linux users to prove they were a True Linux Enjoyer. Think a bunch of channers bragging about how they are the true linux master race because they edited a grub config.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo. Since then that role has transitioned to NixOS who aren't nearly as toxic but still culty. "Way of the future" etc.

All three of have high bars of entry so everyone has to take pride in the effort they put in to learn how to install their distro. Like getting hazed into a frat except you actually learn something.

The Ubuntu hatred is completely unrelated. That has to do with them being a corporate distro that keep making bad design decisions. And their ubiquity means everyone has to deal with their bad decisions. (snap bad)

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NotSteve_

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

This is it mostly for sure. I used to be that True Linux Enjoyer. I still install arch sometimes but I only ever use an arch-derived distribution now that comes with an installer. I already feel like there’s not enough time in the day without having to manually copy files off a USB stick

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exu

in reply to NotSteve_ • 2 mesi fa • •

None of the usual installers can do what I want unfortunately, so I'm stuck doing it myself.

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FrederikNJS

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

I gotta ask, what is it you want that the installer doesn't provide?

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sudo

in reply to FrederikNJS • 2 mesi fa • •

Not them but for me its LUKS on LVM for desktops. For laptops, archinstall with LVM on LUKS is sufficient.

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typhoon

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

I have a similar need for a "niche" install. I need Arch for it. I'm doing a laptop installation with LUKS2, TPM2, Secure Boot, systemd-boot with UKI, BTFRS, Apparmor and it has a Oculink eGPU dock station.

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exu

in reply to FrederikNJS • 2 mesi fa • •

BTRFS with LUKS (OpenSUSE gets close), but using rEFInd as bootloader. Snapper snapshots, Zram.

I'm actually thinking about switching to systemd-boot with Secure Boot, TPM2 and stuff, so even further from mainstream installers.

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FrederikNJS

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

Last time I used EndeavourOS, I managed to get the graphical installer to install BTRFS on LUKS, it did require custom partitioning in the graphical installer, snapper just worked after that.

Zram (or was it Zswap?) was pretty easy to enable after installatiok

The bootloader might be beyond what the graphical installer can do though... I never really bothered switching...

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MimicJar

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo.

To add, before the change the Gentoo wiki was a top resource when it came to Linux questions. Even if you didn't use Gentoo you could find detailed information on how various parts of Linux worked.

One day the Gentoo wiki died. It got temporary mirrors quickly, but it took a long time to get up and working again. This left a huge opening for another wiki, the Arch wiki, to become the new top resource.

I suspect, for a number of reasons, Arch was always going to replace Gentoo as the "True Linux Explorer", but the wiki outage accelerated it.

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ColeSloth

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

And here I am, just planning on going to Mint or something whenever win 10 support finally actually ends. I had Ubuntu like 15 years ago for a while, but I'm at a point where I want to do less learning about my operating system.

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to ColeSloth • 2 mesi fa • •

Mint is honestly perfect. I've distro hopped a lot and can tell you none are more refined as mint. Go for it!

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to sudo • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah shit. I use NIX 😂

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sudo

in reply to OhVenus_Baby • 2 mesi fa • •

*btw

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Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I just think its good.

The way I see it, you can have an OS that breaks less often and is hard to fix, or an OS that breaks a little more often that is easy to fix. I choose the latter. 99/100 times, when something breaks with an update, it's on the front page of archlinux.org with a fix.

The problems I've faced with other distros or windows is the solution is often "reinstall, lol", which is like a 3 hour session of nails on a chalkboard for me.

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Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Linux is supposed to be hard and for nerds. Arch is the hardest and most for nerds, and ubuntu is the least. At least that's what I've seen.

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folaht

in reply to Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them] • 2 mesi fa • •

No, Gentoo is the hardest.

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segfault11 [any]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

How user friendly is the installation process? I've never tried, so I don't know. I'm curious now; just based on how people talk about it, I always perceived it as as distro that requires a lot of technical knowledge to use like Gentoo, which I unsuccessfully tried to install way back in 2010. I'm more knowledgeable and patient these days, so I may be able to work with arch.

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Ms. ArmoredThirteen

in reply to segfault11 [any] • 2 mesi fa • •

You can use archinstall and it is dummy simple. Just have another computer or phone around to look things up and go down the menu like a checklist. My admittedly limited arch experience has so far been "run archinstall, use pacman to install tools as I run into things I'd like to have". I have a Framework 16 with the built in GPU, I imagine some hardware complicates this process but just look stuff up it's all out there unless you're on some really wild hardware. Even without archinstall you can follow the arch wiki and you're basically replicating what the tool does but using the wiki as your checklist and needing to type more

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Chump [he/him]

in reply to Ms. ArmoredThirteen • 2 mesi fa • •

To be fair, doesn’t framework work to ensure Linux driver compatibility? Must make things easier (plus they look dope)

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the_q

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

The same reason people brag about working 80 hour weeks.

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m532

in reply to the_q • 2 mesi fa • •

But arch is less work, not more

Ubuntu = breaking update every 2 years

Arch = breaking update never

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oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Well, Ubuntu uses Snap, which is a rather poor packaging solution that basically no other distro has adopted. By default it's a little bloated, it's made some controversial decisions (rust coreutils), and other distros just do what Ubuntu does better (like Mint)

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lordnikon

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

People that got into Linux when most of the main distributions were easier to install than windows in most cases. Some people wanted to show off that they can install a Linux like it was when we did it back in the 90s for some reason I still don't understand till this day. I do like their wiki though. Works great for debian as well as arch.

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muusemuuse

in reply to lordnikon • 2 mesi fa • •

That wiki is by far the best part of arch.

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downhomechunk

in reply to lordnikon • 2 mesi fa • •

I've been a slackware user since the late 90s. I take for granted how easy it is to install today. I've been tinkering with a socket 7 build, and nothing is easy. Installing slackware 8 is a pain in the ass. I can't even get half my hardware working on win95! It's not like riding a bicycle.

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underscores

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I use Ubuntu professionally and Arch at home

Anything that's not Windows is my preference.

I love arch because I know what's in it and how to fix it and what to expect, the community is mostly very nice and open to help

AUR is great and using pacman feels lovely

I also care about learning and understanding the system I'm using beyond just using a GUI that does everything for me

Ubuntu is not bad it's probably one of the most used distros by far

Linux motto is: Use what you like and customize it how you like because there is no company forcing you to do things their way

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muusemuuse

in reply to underscores • 2 mesi fa • •

there is no company forcing you to do things their way

IBM would like to do have a few words.

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ikidd

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because Arch requires human sacrifice.

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四眼心理医生

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

arch is slop for normies pretending to be chads, real chads use gentoo and openbsd

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TankieTanuki [he/him]

in reply to 四眼心理医生 • 2 mesi fa • •

Linux From Scratch

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Fizz

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because the logo looks cool

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deafboy

in reply to Fizz • 2 mesi fa • •

For real. The new logo was the reason I switched back then. It was a tough experience, but worth it.

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kylian0087

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch Being cult like is stereotypical. Far from reality.

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disco

in reply to kylian0087 • 2 mesi fa • •

"oh no I took the memes literal"

This ain't 2010 anymore. Community is great.

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idefix

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

It's funny because I see the same cult behavior, but for Fedora. I've never understood the point of this distribution that has never worked well for me.

I'm on Manjaro by the way, because I love everything about Arch except the release style.

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WFH

in reply to idefix • 2 mesi fa • •

Funnily enough, I feel the opposite. Manjaro never worked reliably for me, but Fedora works great for my use case. Is it perfect? Fuck if I know. But it's a good, no-nonsense, extremely low maintenance, super reliable distro that I use daily with zero issues.

Also, they pioneered the atomic distro concept that has amazing use cases, and some fantastic projects are based on this technology. My gaming PC runs Bazzite for a zero-maintenance, immediate gaming experience. My dads laptop runs Bluefin and he hasn't broken it yet, and he's capable of breaking every single OS.

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timbuck2themoon

in reply to WFH • 2 mesi fa • •

Same.

That said, never heard of fedora being a cult at all. Hell I feel it gets far less recognition than it should honestly for being cutting edge and stable.

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exu

in reply to idefix • 2 mesi fa • •

The Manjaro release style is holding back everything (yes, also critical security updates) for two weeks. How is that better than getting the updates?

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idefix

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm not a fan of getting updates every single day, sometimes breaking little things. I prefer less frequent homogeneous and tested releases.

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exu

in reply to idefix • 2 mesi fa • •

But you're still getting updates every day, just two weeks later than Arch. The "testing" is just two other branches somewhat closer to the Arch package releases.

wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Swi…

Switching Branches

^Manjaro

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idefix

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

Usually, the stable branch is updated every 2 weeks or so. Look at the past releases: forum.manjaro.org/c/announceme…

Stable Updates

Enjoy the simplicity

^{Manjaro Linux Forum}

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AnUnusualRelic

in reply to exu • 2 mesi fa • •

Just update weekly. It's an easy fix.

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to idefix • 2 mesi fa • •

This must be why you also chose the Lemmy shit just works instance lol

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POTOOOOOOOO

in reply to idefix • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm using Fedora, but I'm not going to say it's my favorite. I liked MX and OpenSUSE a lot. Just had a hard time with running them on a computer. Fedora just worked out the box.

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Mactan

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

a reputation more than 10 years out of date

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bmrd

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

vocal peope on social media ≠ everyone

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TankieTanuki [he/him]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I just think it's neat.

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m532

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

When I got fed up with windows 8.1 (and windows update bricked it), I first used ubuntu. How well or not it worked depended on the version. In version 19 it got some ugly white message boxes. I searched for how to change their color and found an angry dev saying no you cant change that. This was the final bullshit. Then I switched to arch, which lets me choose how my stuff looks and doesn't have the whole 3/4 versions are buggy thing. It works and ubuntu does not.

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NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch is amazing for what it is, hence the love. It’s what you make of it; by default there’s nothing and you design your own system from scratch. This leads to a very passionate and enthusiastic community who do great work for one another, for everybody’s benefit. Anything under the sun can be found in the AUR, the distro repos are fresh and reliable, and every issue that arises has a hundred people documenting the fix before it’s patched.

Ubuntu has a bad reputation for inconsistency, privacy invasive choices, etc. I don’t think all the hate is deserved, as they corrected course after the Amazon search fiasco, but I still won’t use it because of Snaps. They have a proprietary backend, so even if I wanted to put up with their other strange design decisions I can’t unless I wanted closed source repos. That goes against my whole philosophy and reasoning for being on Linux to begin with, and many feel the same.

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Yozul

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Normal people who use Arch don't bring it up much, because they're all sick of the memes and are really, REALLY tired of immediately being called rude elitist neckbeard cultists every time they mention it.

The Ubuntu hate is because Canonical has a long history of making weird, controversial decisions that split the Linux community for no good reason.

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Zacryon

in reply to Yozul • 2 mesi fa • •

What decisions for example?

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MyNameIsRichard

in reply to Zacryon • 2 mesi fa • •

Amazon, Mir, Unity, Snap etc.

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folaht

in reply to MyNameIsRichard • 2 mesi fa • •

Unity would be the first example, and although Unity was actually a good DE,
it was too bloated and almost non-modifiable.

People jumped ship to Linux Mint that had its priorities straight.

Mir and Snap were bigger issues though
as Wayland and Flatpak were great replacements for
X11 and AppImage and did not need another competitor.

But the privacy issues were the straw that broke the camel's back.
People left windows for linux so they wouldn't have to deal with this
kind of nonsense.

I actually jumped when Ubuntu jumped to Gnome 3.
Gnome 3 was too bloated for me and it looked ugly.

I decided to see what Arch Linux was about
and eventually settled for Manjaro Linux.
Arch + Xfce for the win.

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BunScientist

in reply to folaht • 2 mesi fa • •

I left Ubuntu after Unity, it could have been the greatest thing ever, but Canonical deciding what was best for me felt too much like Microsoft just shoving whatever garbage they wanted to my system.

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undrwater

in reply to MyNameIsRichard • 2 mesi fa • •

I tried Ubuntu on a laptop, and when i saw the Amazon logo, I did a double take. I actually got a bit dizzy, and had to evaluate what I had just done.

Shame on me though, because I installed Ubuntu on a vps, and got spam in my ssh session. "Get Ubuntu pro now!"

Sigh.

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hankthetankie [none/use name]

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm quite experienced in Linux but I wouldn't use either. Arch is great if you like to tinker, Ubuntu sucks for the not so libre approach , corporate ties, telemetry etc. I distrohopped before but today I just install my debian based distro and shit works.. Ubuntu I've installed twice before when I was new to Linux, and have had a major issues every time due to official updates that broke internet drivers and other things, that's a fun one when you only have one PC . Not to mention its so bloated that shitty computers that I like to thinker with it have a hard time catching up. The arch thing is also mostly a kind of meme, targeting the more unbearable nerds. People I hated when I was a noob (they will let you know you are) But they are found everywhere and in general I don't think there's more of those people in arch community than anywhere else. It's more of a stab at elitism than arch specifically.

I see a point in arch but zero in ubuntu.

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juipeltje

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I feel like it isn't really specific to arch, every distro has a following, but some are more "passionate" about it than others. I think arch, NixOS, and gentoo are the most notable.

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Luffy

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch Hits the great spot

It has:
- a great wiki
- many packages, enough for anything you want to do
- its the only distros that is beetween everything done for you and gentoo-like fuck you.
- and the Memes.

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glitching

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

because they used to be special. "I run linux", matrix text on boot, typing shit in the terminal, "I'm in", awe-inspiring shit to an onlooker...

but nowadays, anyone can run ubuntu or mint or whatevs and our hero ain't special no more. so here comes the ultimate delimiter.

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folaht

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch is better because...

pacman, seriously, I don't hear enough of how great pacman is.
Being able to search easily for files within a package is a godsend when some app refuses to work giving you an error message
"lib_obscure.so.1 cannot be found".
I haven't had such issues in a long time, but when I do, I don't have to worry about doing a ten hour search, if I'm lucky, for where this obscure library file is supposed to be located and in what package it should be part of.
rolling release. Non-rolling Ubuntu half-year releases have broken my OS in the past around 33% of the time. And lots of apps in the past had essential updates I needed, but required me to wait 5 months for the OS to catch up.
AUR. Some apps can't be found anywhere but AUR.
Their wiki is the best of all Linuxes

The "cult" is mostly gushing over AUR.

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chellomere

in reply to folaht • 2 mesi fa • •

Hmm, finding what package a file is in is absolutely possible on Ubuntu/Debian too. You can use the online Ubuntu/Debian packages search, or use apt-file.

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Captain Aggravated

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

"I run Arch btw" became a meme because until install scripts became commonplace you had to have a reasonable understanding of the terminal and ability to read and follow instructions to install Arch Linux to a usable state. "Look at my l33t skills."

Dislike of Ubuntu comes from Canonical...well...petting the cat backwards. They go against the grain a lot. They're increasingly corporate, they did a sketchy sponsorship thing with Amazon at one point, around ten years ago they were in the midst of this whole "Not Invented Here" thing; all tech had to be invented in-house, instead of systemd they made and abandoned Upstart, instead of working on Wayland they pissed away time on Mir, instead of Gnome or KDE they made Unity, and instead of APT they decided to build Snap. Which is the one they're still clinging to.

For desktop users there are a lot better distros than Ubuntu these days.

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brax

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I left Ubuntu for Arch because I got sick of Arch having everything I wanted and Ubuntu taking ages to finally get it. I was tired of compiling shit all the time just to keep up to date.

Honestly glad I made the change, too. Arch has been so much better all around. Less bloat and far fewer problems.

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notarobot

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I installed arch before there was the official install script. It's not that is was THAT difficult, but it does provide a great sense of accomplishment, you learn a lot, customize everything, and you literally only install things you know you want. (Fun story: I had to start over twice: the first time I forgot to install sudo, the second I forgot to install the package needed to have an internet connection)

All of this combined mean that the users have a sense of pride for being an arch user so they talk about it more that the rest. There is no pride in clicking your way though an installer that makes all the choices for you

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disco

in reply to notarobot • 2 mesi fa • •

Endeavour OS installer provides a smidge of pride LOL

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notarobot

in reply to disco • 2 mesi fa • •

Fedoras too. But for the wrong reasons. I've never been so confused by an installer

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blob42

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

IMO Despite some unjustified rumors Arch is a very stable distro. For me it feels the same as Debian stability wise while still being on the cutting edge side. The Arch wiki is the second most important reason.

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Raccoonn

in reply to blob42 • 2 mesi fa • •

Personally for me Arch on my system has been more stable & faster than both Debian & Fedora....

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disco

in reply to Raccoonn • 2 mesi fa • •

Apt just loves to break or remove stuff

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Yozul

in reply to blob42 • 2 mesi fa • •

The problem there is that stable vs unstable distro uses a slightly different meaning of the word stable than you would use to talk about a stable vs unstable system.

In distro speak, a stable distro is one that changes very little over time, and an unstable one is one that changes constantly. That's sort of tangentially related to reliability, in that if your system is reliable and doesn't change then it's likely to stay that way, but it's not the same thing as reliability.

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Mordikan

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I think Arch is so popular because its considered a middle of the road distro. Even if not exactly true, Ubuntu is seen as more of a pre-packaged distro. Arch would be more al a carte with what you are actually running. I started with Slackware back in the day when everything was a lot more complicated to get setup, and there was even then this notation that ease of access and customization were separate and you can't have both. Either the OS controls everything and its easy or you control everything and its hard. To some extent that's always going to be true, but there's no reason you can't or shouldn't try to strike a balance between the two. I think Arch fits nicely into that space.

I also wouldn't use the term "cultists" as much as "aholes". If you've ever been on the Arch forums you know what I'm talking about. There is a certain kind of dickish behavior that occurs there, but it somewhat is understandable. A lot of problems are vaguely posted (several times over) with no backing logs or info to determine anything. Just "Something just happened. Tell me how to fix it?". And on top of that, those asking for help refuse to read the wiki or participate in the problem solving. They just want an online PC repair shop basically.

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小莱卡

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

People making the things they consume their whole personality, not a rare thing tbh.

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Dessalines

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I'm not sure either. I think arch used to be one of the less popular distros (because of the more involved install process, solved now by the arch-based distros with friendly installers), despite having some of the best features, so it required more "evangelism", that's unecessary now. Arch-based distros are now some of the most popular ones, so its not necessary.

Others have commented on why its so great, but the AUR + Rolling releases + stability means that arch is one of the "stable end states". You might hop around a lot, but its one of the ones you end up landing on, and have no reason to change from.

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DigitalDilemma

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

No idea, but ArchWiki has some of the best linux documentation around.

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dino

in reply to DigitalDilemma • 2 mesi fa • •

It is the gold standard.

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Kitty Jynx

in reply to DigitalDilemma • 2 mesi fa • •

That is the main reason I use Arch. I am not a Linux expert but I am able to solve most of my problems reading the wiki. I used to use Ubuntu and Mint but those ended with me copy pasting stuff into the terminal and not really learning anything. When I switched back to Linux this time I went with Arch.

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thenextguy

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because there are still people who have not yet seen the light. Once everyone has joined the fold they will not be able to remember why anyone resisted in the first place.

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obsoleteacct

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

There are a lot of different reasons that people hate Ubuntu. Most of them Not great reasons.

Ubuntu became popular by making desktop Linux approachable to normal people. Some of the abnormal people already using Linux hated this.

In November 2010, Ubuntu switched from GNOME as their default desktop to Unity. This made many users furious.

Then in 2017, Ubuntu switched from Unity to Gnome. This made many users furious.

There's also a graveyard of products and services that infuriated users when canonical started them, then infuriated users when they discontinued them.

And the Amazon "scandal".

And then there's the telemetry stuff.

Meanwhile. Arch has always been the bad boy that dares you to love him... unapproachable and edgy.

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Helix 🧬

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

In my experience the Arch people are the sane ones and the NixOS people are the young cult evangelists nowadays. I use Arch btw

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OhVenus_Baby

in reply to Helix 🧬 • 2 mesi fa • •

Nix is great but not the saving grace I thought it would be. I daily it. Like it. Run cinnamon coming from Mint. But to be fair. It takes real effort and time to setup your config file, comment it thoroughly and then master the system. Once it's fully automated backups and all you can hop machine to machine and it's like you never left your OG machine. There's pros and cons for sure.

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typhoon

in reply to Helix 🧬 • 2 mesi fa • •

What is making NixOS so passionated about it? Is there something very special in NixOS that we are missing in Arch?

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ruffsl

in reply to typhoon • 2 mesi fa • •

If there was a simple Debian based distro that I could declaratively manage via a single config file, I think I'd try it. I.e. not using Puppet or Chef that can only bootstrap a system state, but something to truly manage a system's entire life cycle, including removing packages and anything littering the system file tree. But since there isn't, I'm using NixOS instead.

Having a DSL to declare my entire system install, that I can revision control like any other software project, has been convenient for self documenting my setup and changes/fixes over time. Modularizing that config has been great for managing multiple host machines synchronously, so both my laptop and desktop feel the same without extra admin work.

Nixpkgs also bolsters a lot of bleeding edge releases for the majority of FOSS packages I use, which I'm still getting used to. And because of how the packaging works, it's also trivial to config the packages to build from customer sources or with custom features. E.g. enabling load monitoring for Nvidia GPUs from btop that many distros don't ship by default.

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Marn

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I've started with ubuntu/mint and it was always a matter of time before something broke then i tried everything from then all the major distros and found that I loved being on a rolling release with openSUSE Tubleweed (gaming and most new software works better) and BTRFS on Fedora (BTRFS let's you have boot time snapshots you can go back to if anything breaks).

After some research I found I can get both with arch so installed arch as a learning process via the outstanding wiki and have never looked back.
Nowadays I just install endevourOS because it's just an arch distro with easy BTRFS setup and easy gui installer was almost exactly like my custom arch cofigs and it uses official arch repos so you update just like arch (unlike manjaro). It's been more stable than windows 10 for me.

Tldr: arch let's you pick exactly what you want in a distro and is updated with the latest software something important if you game with nvidia GPU for example.

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loomy

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

it was made by rocky horror picture show

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ohshit604

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

People praising Arch, people hating on Ubuntu, meanwhile me on Debian satisifed with the minimalism.

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dino

in reply to ohshit604 • 2 mesi fa • •

Your opinion is outdated.

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ohshit604

in reply to dino • 2 mesi fa • •

While true, at least I ain’t getting the updates that bloat applications with Ai.. yet

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मुक्त

in reply to ohshit604 • 2 mesi fa • •

Is that happening on Ubuntu?

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shirro

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I had moved from Slackware to Debian but by 2004 the long release cycles of Debian were making it very hard to use any Debian with current hardware or desktop environments. I was using Sid and dealing with the breakages. Ubuntu promised a reskinned Debian with 6 month release cycles synced to Gnome. Then they over delivered with a live cd and easy installation and it was a deserved phenomenon. I very enthusiastically installed Warty Warthog. Even bought some merch.

When Ubuntu launched it was promoted as a community distro, "humanity towards others" etc despite being privately funded. Naked people holding hands. Lots of very good community outreach etc.

The problem for Ubuntu was it wasn't really a community distro at all. It was Canonical building on the hard work of Debian volunteers. Unlike Redhat, Canonical had a bad case of not invented here projects that never got adopted elsewhere like upstart, unity, mir, snaps and leaving their users with half-arsed experiments that then got dropped. Also Mint exists so you can have the Ubuntu usability enhancements of Debian run by a community like Debian. I guess there is a perception now that Ubuntu is a mid corpo-linux stuck between two great community deb-based systems so from the perspective of others in the Linux community a lot of us don't get why people would use it.

Arch would be just another community distro but for a lot of people they got the formula right. Great documentation, reasonably painless rolling release, and very little deviation from upstream. Debian maintainers have a very nasty habit of adding lots of patches even to gold standard security projects from openbsd . They broke ssh key generation. Then they linked ssh with systemd libs making vulnerable to a state actor via the xz backdoor. Arch maintainers don't do this bullshit.

Everything else is stereotypes. Always feeling like you have to justify using arch, which is a very nice stable, pure linux experience, just because it doesn't have a super friendly installer. Or having to justify Ubuntu which just works for a lot of people despite it not really being all that popular with the rest of the linux community.

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outhouseperilous

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

We're not a cult. Come on out to our compound and we'll show you!

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rustyredox

in reply to outhouseperilous • 2 mesi fa • •

Yep, this is it...

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pineapple

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it's just because more people use arch.

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Nibodhika

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Ok, I think I can provide some insight into this that I think it's missed on other replies.

I switched to Arch back when Arch had an installer, yup, that's right, Arch used to have an installer, then they removed it and you had to do most of the process manually (yes, I know pacstrap is technically an installer, but I'm talking about the original ncurses installer here).

After Arch removed its installer it began to attract more purists, and with that the meme was born, people online would be discussing stuff and someone would explain something simple and the other would reply with "I use arch BTW", which meant you didn't need to explain trivial stuff because the person had a good idea on how their system works.

Then Arch started to suffer from being too good of a distro, see those of us that were using it consistently saw posts with people complaining about issues on their distros that never affected us, so a sort of "it doesn't happen on my distro" effect started to grow, putting that together with the excellent wiki that people were linking left and right (even for non Arch users) and lots of people became interested.

This new wave of users was relatively new to Linux, they thought that by following a tutorial and running a couple of command lines when installing arch they had become complete experts in Linux, and they saw the "I use Arch btw" replies and thought they meant "I know more than you because I use Arch", so they started to repeat that. And it became common to see posts with people being L337 H4ck3r5 with no clue whatsoever using "I use Arch btw".

That's when the sort of cult mentality formed, you had experienced people who liked Arch because it was a good distro that didn't break on its own with good documentation to help when you screw up, these people suffered a bit from this and told newbies that they should use Arch. Together with that you had the other group who thought because they installed Arch they were hackers telling people Arch was waaaay too hard, and that only true Linux experts should use it. From the outside this must have felt that we were hiding something, you had several people telling you to come to our side or they couldn't help you, or pointing at documentation that looked specific for their distro, and others saying you weren't cool enough for it probably felt like a cult recruiting.

At the end of the day Arch is a very cool distro, I've tried lots of them but prefer Arch because it's a breeze to maintain in the long run. And the installation process is not something you want to throw at a person who just wants to install Linux to check it out, but it's also not complicated at all. There are experts using Ubuntu or other "noob" distros because at the end of the day it's all the same under the hood, using Arch will not make you better at Linux, it will just force you to learn basic concepts to finish the installation that if you had been using Linux for a while you probably already know them (e.g. fstab or locale).

As for Ubuntu, part of it stems from the same "I use Arch btw" guys dumping on Ubuntu for being "noob", other part is because Canonical has a history of not adoption community stuff and instead try to develop their own thing, also they sent your search queries to Amazon at some point which obviously went very badly for their image in the community.

Average Familiarity

^xkcd

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pasdechance

in reply to Nibodhika • 2 mesi fa • •

Great explanation

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suzucappo

in reply to Nibodhika • 2 mesi fa • •

I used Ubuntu as my first distro out of curiosity sometime around 2006. I've tried others (Mint, Pop OS, Debian, Fedora) but mostly settled with Ubuntu because it was just kind of ok for me and as another user said, there was a lot of articles that helped with getting things working because it became popular.

I had heard of Arch and to your point the it's complicated thing very much kept me away from it even though I have been using computers for around 30 years and was comfortable using a terminal.

The other thing is gaming, I consistently had problems with the nvidia cards that I've had over the years and never really cared to dig into trying to get things to work so Linux was kind of my testing ground for other things and just general learning about how things work.

Then I finally just had enough of Windows a couple of years ago, and with gaming support getting better I went back to Ubuntu and it just didn't feel good, I wanted something different that was setup how I wanted it so I looked into Arch.

I tried a couple of times to manually install it but my attention span (ADHD) kept me from focusing on the documentation enough to actually learn what I was doing. In comes the archinstall script, it was basic enough for me to follow and understand to get my system up and running.

I went through roughly 3-4 installs using it and testing stuff after I had it running and breaking stuff and just doing a fresh install since the script made it very easy. Since then I have learned a good bit more, and honestly don't think I will ever use another distro for my desktop. Just the ability to make it exactly what you want and things just work. Not to mention the documentation is massive and the AUR is awesome.

I do use Pop OS on my wife's laptop since it decided to automatically upgrade to W11 which crippled it and I just wanted something that I could just drop on there that would work with no real configuration since the only thing it needs is Citrix which works ootb and she can use all her office tools through that and has libre office if she wants to do something locally.

I do have a separate drive with W11 on my desktop, its used for one thing, SolidWorks. Which I use enough to merit having windows.

Arch was and still kind of is seen as the "I use Arch BTW" crowd, but it really shouldn't be that way. The install script isn't fancy, but it works. I think that would be one of the biggest barriers to break that mindset and open it to more people that are still fresh to Linux. I think that having even the most basic "GUI" for installing Arch would do wonders.

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Bronstein_Tardigrade

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Slackware users, "Those Arch users are crazy."

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ColdWater

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I use Arch because I don't know how to use Debian based distros, I got lost when trying to use Linux Mint or PopOS.

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pleaaaaaze

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because it just works. I used to love Debian . It had issues with drivers and stuff. Arch just does it for me.

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pasdechance

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't use either now. I have tried both. When I started with Ubuntu i was great; fast, light, all the good stuff. Then it started to get bloated and wouldn't run on my old machine... So I moved to Arch and it saved me and I used it for years.

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catty

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Because of all the programming socks adverts with Arch in the background.

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Magiilaro

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

My way of thinking and working is incompatible with most premade automatism, it utterly confuses me when a system is doing something on its own without me configuring it that way.

That's why I have issues with many of the "easy" distributions like Ubuntu. Those want to be to helpful for my taste.
Don't take me wrong, I am not against automatism or helper tools/functions, not at all.
I just want to have full knowledge and full control of them.

I used Gentoo for years and it was heaven for me, the possibility to turn every knob exactly like I wanted them to be was so great, but in the end was the time spend compiling everything not worth it.

That's why I changed to Arch Linux. The bare bone nature of the base install and the high flexibility of pacman and the AUR are ideal for me. I love that Arch is not easy, that it doesn't try to anticipate what I want to do. If something happens automatically it is because I configured the system do behave that way.

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NewNewAugustEast

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Ubuntu? Its a can't make up its mind what it is trying to be while always becoming a crashy mess. When it first came out I remember trying it and immediately broke it.

The last time I installed it recently it had issues out of the box.

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flynnguy

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

So I love Debian but it prides itself on stability so packages tend to be older. I think this is good for a server but probably not great for a desktop. Ubuntu came along and was like we'll be like Debian but newer packages. Everything was cool for a while but then they started doing shitty things. The first that I can think of was ads in the terminal. This was not great for an open source app. Then when you did apt install firefox it installed Firefox as a snap. WTF?!?!? (apt should install .deb files, not snaps). Because of this, lately I've decided to avoid Ubuntu.

I used Gentoo for a while and it was great but configuring and compiling everything took forever. I'm getting too old for that. Arch seems like a good alternative for people who want to mess with their system. So it's become a way for people to claim they know what they are doing without having to recompile everything. (Note: I haven't used Arch, this is just my perception)

Recently I got a new laptop and I had decided to put Linux on it and had to decide what distro. Arch was in consideration but I ended up going with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it's got the latest but I don't really have to configure anything. If I had more time, I might go with something like Arch but I don't really want to do that much fiddling right now.

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krolden

in reply to flynnguy • 2 mesi fa • •

Run sid

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RattlerSix

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

I wonder if it's just me or if other people who were around before Ubuntu feel the same way but the reason I hate Ubuntu is that it seemed to take over the Linux world.

A lot of the information about how to do something in Linux was drowned out by how to do it in Ubuntu. When searching for information you have to scroll down in the search results for something that sounds unrelated to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu material was often titled "how to do it in Linux" and you thought you had a good long tutorial until you read a few paragraphs in and realized it was for Ubuntu and wouldn't work for you for whatever reason.

Even some software that says it's available on Windows and Linux just means they have a Ubuntu package and if you're really good there's a chance you might be able to figure out how to use it on a non Ubuntu system.

It's like when Ubuntu came out, people just assumed that Linux was Ubuntu. I've never used Ubuntu so a lot of the information I've came across regarding it has just been in the way of me finding useful information.

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krolden

in reply to RattlerSix • 2 mesi fa • •

Askubuntu is a disease

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thedeadwalking4242

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Ubuntu is the windows of the Linux world

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scoobford

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch has a cult like following because it emphasizes simplicity and customizability. If you have the time to fully administer your own system, there is no better choice.

Ubuntu is corporate, frequently out of date, and sometimes incompetent. They got big a long time ago when they were a significantly easier option than their competitors, but I really don't think there's compelling reason for a new user to install Ubuntu today.

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chaoticnumber

in reply to scoobford • 2 mesi fa • •

To add to the arch management, after a while you learn the golden rule - set it and don't fiddle with it too much. Nowadays there is very little maintenance to it. I run an update followed by shutdown. Once every 2-3 months there is some issue, that takes a forum search to fix and once a year it breaks to the level where I need about half an hour to an hour to fix it.

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dink

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Maybe it's masochism, but I like Arch because it forces me to make mistakes and learn. No default DE, several network management choices, lots of configuration for non-defaults. These are all decisions I have to make, and if I try to cut corners I usually get punished for it.

However, I think the real reason I stick with arch is because this paradigm means that I always feel capable of fixing issues. As people solve the issues they face, forum posts and wiki articles (and sometimes big fixes) get pushed out, and knowledge is shared. That sense of community and building on something I feel like Arch promotes.

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Sanctus

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

For me, Ubuntu is ugly as all hell and comes with so much I dont need. It also ran slow on the first machine I ever installed it on. I like Arch because I got my feet wet there. It was my classroom.

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qyron

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

The Arch users being so vocal is more of a trope to me. Never fails to make me smile.

Ubuntu started as a great endeavour. They made Linux much more approachable to the less tech inclined user.

It is an achievement to get a distro capable of basically work out of the box that hides the hard/technical stuff under the hood and delivers a working machine, and they did it and popularized Linux in the process.

Unfortunately, they abused the good faith they garnered. The Amazon partnership, their desktop that nobody really enjoyed, the Snap push. These are the ones I was made aware of but I risk there were more issues.

I was a user of Ubuntu for less than six months. Strange as it may sound, after trying SUSE and Debian, when I actively searched for a more friendly distro, I rolled back to Debian exactly because Ubuntu felt awkward.

Ubuntu is still a strong contributor but unless they grow a spine and actually create a product people will want to pay for, with no unpopular or weird options on the direction the OS "must" take, they won't get much support from the wide user community.

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to POTOOOOOOOO • 2 mesi fa • •

Anything really polarizing can end up with a cult following. Just look at Rust.

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Nate Cox

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 2 mesi fa • •

Rust introduces novel features and makes notable changes from its ancestors.

Arch was just blue Gentoo.

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TheFadingOne

in reply to Nate Cox • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch was just blue Gentoo

I don't know if that ever was true but I definitely disagree with that nowadays because Arch is in my opinion significantly more approachable and easier to daily-drive than Gentoo.

starlight via Privacy

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starlight
2 mesi fa • •

How to make Zoom more private

I have to use Zoom for a online class and I was wondering how I can make my Zoom experience more private? Is there a Zoom client that I can use like how there are privacy-focused Discord clients? What privacy tips would you recommend?

#privacy

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bamboo

in reply to starlight • 2 mesi fa • •

I refuse to use the Zoom client on my computer and instead use the web client. There might not be 1:1 feature parity, but it's never been a problem for me with other people.

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starlight

in reply to bamboo • 2 mesi fa • •

That's what I usually do when I'm forced to use Zoom. Will definitely stick with using the web client.

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anon5621

in reply to starlight • 2 mesi fa • •

The best what u can do,it's run in the browser with addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Zoom Redirector – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Zoom Redirector for Firefox. Zoom Redirector transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client.

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Holeheadou92984 via Privacy

2 mesi fa • •

Holeheadou92984
2 mesi fa • •

island android app have google tracker

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32631305

Analyzed by exodus, island the work profile app have 3 trackers detected
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…
Should I be worried?

Report for com.oasisfeng.island 6.4.2

Known trackers, permissions and informations about this specific version of this application

^εxodus

#privacy

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Holeheadou92984

in reply to iturnedintoanewt • 2 mesi fa • •

yeah but it took a lot effort to set up a new work profile. can't migrate from island to shelter directly

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iturnedintoanewt

in reply to Holeheadou92984 • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah...with any of these work profiles, I'm afraid there's no easy way to transfer them or back them up.

jackeroni via World News

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jackeroni
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National currencies free BRICS from Western pressure – Russian finance minister

Sanctions have accelerated the economic bloc’s push for financial independence, Anton Siluanov has told RT

^RT

#Worldnews

jackeroni via World News

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jackeroni
2 mesi fa • •

West using conflicts to disrupt BRICS rise – Bolivian leader

Western states led by the US provoke wars for profit and to block a multipolar world, Bolivian President Luis Arce has told RT

^RT

#Worldnews

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US | Trump considering sending new funds to Ukraine for first time since taking office, CBS News reports

The funds could come from the $3.85 billion remaining in Presidential Drawdown Authority from the Biden administration or from frozen Russian assets, current and former U.S. officials said.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Trump considering sending new funds to Ukraine for first time since taking office, CBS News reports

^{Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)}

#globalnews

jackeroni via World News

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jackeroni
2 mesi fa • •

Attrition By Inches: Russia’s Multi-Front Push Reshaping The Battlefield

Ukrainian frontlines are pushed by steady but significant advances by Russian forces across multiple directions, with Ukrainian sources acknowledging territorial losses of approximately 170 square kilometers per week. This consistent retreat reflects not just localized setbacks but a broader pattern of systemic pressure, forcing Ukrainian troops to cede ground, deplete reserves, and reorganize under relentless Russian offensives. Notably, Russian sources claim a record territorial gain of 203 square kilometers in the first week of July alone, which is nearly 40% of the total area captured in June.

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lemmebee

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

Special Military Operation merely inches from being over.

jackeroni via Memes

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Just say NO to western propaganda 🇰🇵

#memes

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AVincentInSpace

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

can ml go two goddamn seconds without fellating a dictatorship because they saw "communism" on the sign

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hello_hello [comrade/them]

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

I saw a french documentary where they sent this guy to Italy so he could learn how to make the good pizza and brought experts in to check. mama-miba

It looked like some good ass Italian pizza. Too bad the frenchies were too busy pretending to care about peasants in the countryside to actually be normal and enjoy it. The one woman whose father was born the north was the most normal one, she actually enjoyed her time being there and didn't pretend to wax poetic about poverty.

It is really funny that liberals expect me to believe their genuine concern for the peasant class of Korea when their entire lives are subsidized by the Global South via imperialism.

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jackeroni via World News

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2 mesi fa • •

Starovoit was found dead. Staged, "an officer's act" or "despicable"?

Starovoit was found dead. Staged, "an officer's act" or "despicable"?. Former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit, who was dismissed by Russian President Vladimir Putin today, was found shot dead. Ukrainian propaganda immediately seized...

^{Pravda EN}

#Worldnews

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fittedsyllabi

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

Shot dead? This is considered a natural death in Russia, isn’t it?

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davel

in reply to fittedsyllabi • 2 mesi fa • •

No, you’re thinking of the US.

geneva_convenience via A Boring Dystopia

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geneva_convenience
2 mesi fa • •

It's the thing from the thing

#aboringdystopia

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loomy

in reply to fittedsyllabi • 2 mesi fa • •

arguablly the Jews in Germany in ww2 were not proactively murdering innocent women and children via terrorism before the war, so I think that's one difference.

but it doesn't make what Israel is doing now any less Nazi-like.

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geneva_convenience

in reply to loomy • 2 mesi fa • •

Holy Hasbara batman how does this have upvotes.

jackeroni via World News

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Lavrov Outlines Russia’s Core Stance for Resolving Ukraine Conflict

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview to Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet, discussing Russia’s stance on peace talks with Ukraine, and NATO’s expansion as a pivotal risk to national security.

^{Sputnik International}

#Worldnews

jackeroni via World News

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Lavrov: Ukraine cannot claim the principle of territorial integrity

Lavrov: Ukraine cannot claim the principle of territorial integrity: EADaily

EADaily, July 7th, 2025. The current authorities of Kiev do not represent the population of the Russian-speaking regions of the country, therefore, today's Ukraine, according to international law, cannot claim to apply the principle of territorial in…

^EADaily

#Worldnews

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fittedsyllabi

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

The same can be said about Russia.

jackeroni via World News

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Forget nukes. This is Russia’s new deterrence weapon

Why Russia doesn’t need to go nuclear to make its point – and how Oreshnik makes that clear

^RT

#Worldnews

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solrize

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

Oreshnik hypersonic missile.

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Jax

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

Color me surprised that a post like this is heavily downvoted on ml.

When ya'll get defederated, this kind of shit will be why.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

in reply to Jax • 2 mesi fa • •

I thought you people constantly yap about not liking echo chambers. But when you have rare opportunity to read some of the news from other side, which is banned in your oh so free speech countries, you are shitting and crying yourself (btw OP have some empty accounts following him and downvoting everything). Turns out, you do love echo chambers, but only those that don't expose you to uncomfortable truth that opinions conflicting with yours do exist.

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Jax

in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • 2 mesi fa • •

This post is heavily downvoted because it's posted on .ml . You might want to try pulling your head out of your ass, because .ml is 100% an echo chamber.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Jax • 2 mesi fa • •

Lemmy.ml is more broadly federated than sh.itjust.works, its users get exposed to more broad viewpoints and a more complete vision of the broader Lemmy. Its admins and a large portion of moderators and users may be Marxists, but it's less of an echo chamber than instances that align with western consensus and ban dissent against that consensus.

Most users on Lemmy.ml can't escape the liberal viewpoint even if they tried as hard as they could, while most users on the more liberal instances can comfortably live their lives without ever engaging with Marxism.

I also have no idea why you expect this article to be downvoted because it's on Lemmy.ml, genuinely.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Jax • 2 mesi fa • •

People will defederate from Lemmy.ml because someone posted a news article going over oreshnik? I think if people want to genuinely understand the millitary balance of power in the modern era, a firm understanding of missile production and technology is a key aspect of that. Oreshnik, as the article suggests, blurs the line between ballistic missiles and tactical (not strategic) nukes, without going nuclear, which is why it's significant. Other countries with competent missile programs likely have similar technologies, but we haven't really seen many revealed to the public like oreshnik has been.

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queermunist she/her

in reply to Jax • 2 mesi fa • •

I don't get it. Why do you think this is heavily downvoted?

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NameTaken

in reply to Jax • 2 mesi fa • •

Probably down voted because there is a pattern of Russian state media (look at source) and officials overstating capabilities for domestic and international audiences, sometimes masking technical failures or limited deployment with grandiose announcements.

This can be seen more definively in Ukraine. Had Russia actually had the weapons and technology they claimed then the Ukraine war would have actually been three days and not on going 2+ years later.

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Marbles

in reply to jackeroni • 2 mesi fa • •

RT is a Russian state sponsored and controlled media outlet. Its 100% propaganda and useless to determine actual truth about what is going on.

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JustVik

in reply to Marbles • 2 mesi fa • •

It doesn't have any more propaganda than any of the big Western media.

jackeroni via World News

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Russia winning ammunition race over NATO – Rutte

Russia produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the NATO secretary-general has said

^RT

#Worldnews

geneva_convenience via Local News

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Bee attack leaves dozens of people injured in French town

A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three who were in critical condition but have since improved, according to local authorities.

Passersby were stung over a period of about 30 minutes on Sunday morning, according to the prefecture of Cantal, in south-central France. Firefighters and medical teams treated the victims, while police set up a security perimeter until the bees stopped their attack.

The three people in critical condition were evacuated to a local hospital. Pierre Mathonier, the mayor of Aurillac, told BFM TV on Monday that their condition had improved.

Bee attack leaves dozens of people injured in French town

Three were in critical condition but have since improved after incident in Aurillac, south-central France

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

#localnews

NightOwl via World News

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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

Archive: [ https://archive.is/jrbkO]

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

^{Stephen Foley (Financial Times)}

#Worldnews

geneva_convenience via World News

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Trump to send 12 more tariff letters today, says White House, with more to follow this week

Donald Trump will send foreign leaders more letters notifying them of new tariffs in the days to come, said Karoline Leavitt.

“There will be additional letters in the coming days,” the White House press secretary said, in addition to the 12 he plans to send today and the two already made public, which were to South Korea and Japan’s leaders,

As for why Trump decided to start with the two Asian allies, Leavitt said:

It’s the president’s prerogative and those are the countries he chose.

Trump and Netanyahu meet at White House amid indirect ceasefire talks – as it happened

Israeli leader met US secretary of state and Middle East envoy before arriving at White House

^{Yohannes Lowe (The Guardian)}

#Worldnews

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tehWrapper

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 mesi fa • •

Send back return to sender

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fittedsyllabi

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 mesi fa • •

Can’t wait for him to blinkity-blink-blink again.

geneva_convenience via World News

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Exclusive: Proposal outlines large-scale 'Humanitarian Transit Areas' for Palestinians in Gaza

July 7 (Reuters) - A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population, outlining a vision of "replacing Hamas' control over the population in Gaza."

The $2 billion plan, created sometime after February 11 and carrying the name of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, was submitted to the Trump administration, according to two sources, one of whom said it was recently discussed in the White House.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-backed-aid-group-proposed-human-transit-areas-palestinians-gaza-2025-07-07/

#Worldnews

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rumimevlevi

in reply to geneva_convenience • 2 mesi fa • •

Ethenic cleansing

geneva_convenience via World News

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Houthis claim Sunday attack on commercial ship in Red Sea

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility on Monday for an attack that damaged a commercial vessel in the Red Sea and forced its crew to abandon ship.

The Houthis "targeted the Magic Seas ship... using two unmanned boats, five ballistic and cruise missiles, and three drones" on Sunday, military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a video statement.

He added that the ship was targeted for violating their ban on navigation to "occupied Palestine's ports."

Houthis claim Sunday attack on commercial ship in Red Sea

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree. (File)

^{Roya News}

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davel via World News

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davel
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Türkiye and Azerbaijan Make Their US-Israel-Backed Move Against Russia and Iran

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangezur…

proposed transport corridor between mainland Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan region passing through Armenia

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

#Worldnews

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reagansrottencorpse

in reply to davel • 2 mesi fa • •

"the Armenian prime minister is even offering to show people his penis"

What?

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davel

in reply to reagansrottencorpse • 2 mesi fa • •

Armenia's PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia's leader to reveal his private parts to prove he is a Christian.
Earlier this week, Pashinyan told his 1.1 million followers on Facebook he was prepared to expose himself to the head of the Armenian Church and his spokesman, to prove they were wrong that he had been circumcised.

Armenia's PM Pashinyan offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

The bitter standoff between Nikol Pashinyan and the Church has seen arrests and an alleged coup plot.

^{Rayhan Demytrie (BBC News)}

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fittedsyllabi

in reply to davel • 2 mesi fa • •

Really, Türkiye? Interesting. Maybe worth a watch.

Karna via Linux

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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

The GNOME 49 Alpha '49.alpha' release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September.

^{www.phoronix.com}

#linux

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cmgvd3lw

in reply to Ohh • 2 mesi fa • •

I do that regularly. I am on Gnome 48

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Ohh

in reply to cmgvd3lw • 2 mesi fa • •

1: Open files. You can now use ctrl shift n to make a new folder.

2: Open an application. Click save as.. "files" opens. Now you can not use ctrl shift n. I just tested it again. I am also on gnome 48. This is an old an known limitation.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Canada

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Varcoe: Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list

Varcoe: Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's list of nationally important projects.

^{calgaryherald}

#canada

shrewdcat via Memes

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Summer Heat

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Catoblepas

in reply to shrewdcat • 2 mesi fa • •

Somewhat concerned the wingspan of my balls is insufficient now…

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shrewdcat

in reply to Catoblepas • 2 mesi fa • •

🤣...died!

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Syltti

in reply to Catoblepas • 2 mesi fa • •

Wait...

Shit. Now I'm thinking about it too. Dammit, man, why'd you have to do this to me?!

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Lemmyoutofhere

in reply to Catoblepas • 2 mesi fa • •

And when do claws grow out?

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latenightnoir

in reply to shrewdcat • 2 mesi fa • •

...aerodynamic?

Tywèle [she|her] via Linux

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Tywèle [she|her]
2 mesi fa • •

Canon PIXMA G550 Linux compatibility?

I'm in the process of getting a new printer and since I recently (December 2024) switched to Linux it would be nice if it would be Linux compatible. So far I've decided on the Canon PIXMA G550 printer but I can't find anything about it's compatibility so I figured I would just ask here in the hopes someone might have the same printer or knows someone who has the same printer and can tell me if this printer works with Linux. If all else fails I could still use the printer with my tablet or phone using Canons app but using it with my desktop would be much more comfortable.

#linux

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dblsaiko

in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • 2 mesi fa • •

Anything that supports AirPrint (this one does from what it looks like) will work with CUPS driverless printing on Linux.

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Tywèle [she|her]

in reply to dblsaiko • 2 mesi fa • •

That helps, thanks.

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Coelacanthus

in reply to dblsaiko • 2 mesi fa • •

I think network printer made by big manufacturer recent years should be fine with IPP driverless. They found Printer Working Group of IEEE, this organization maintains IPP standard and IPP Everywhere™ Certification. AirPrint can be treated as Apple version of IPP Everywhere, the difference between them is AirPrint requires Apple Raster but IPP Everywhere requires PWG Raster (and JPEG JFIF file format if color printer).

pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html

IPP Everywhere™ - Printer Working Group

^www.pwg.org

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dblsaiko

in reply to Coelacanthus • 2 mesi fa • •

Ah, so they are actually differences between IPP Everywhere and AirPrint (apart from AirPrint including the whole autodiscovery stuff)? Good to know. The latter is usually more prominently advertised though which is why that’s the one I mentioned.

But yeah, it should be very common for these to be supported with anything remotely recent.

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Coelacanthus

in reply to dblsaiko • 2 mesi fa • •

IPP Everywhere also include full autodiscovery stuff (mDNS and DNS-SD, of course, Apple call this combination as Bonjour). So I said raster is the only difference.
Raster is unimportant in Linux situation because CUPS support both PWG Raster (It's actually a subset of original CUPS Raster) and Apple Raster. Whichever one your device supports, CUPS will work fine.

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ZeStig

in reply to Tywèle [she|her] • 2 mesi fa • •

I have this printer and it works flawlessly using the proprietary drivers.

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PseudoSpock

in reply to ZeStig • 2 mesi fa • •

When you say proprietary drivers, I assume that means they are only available for x86_64 platform... leaving ARM64/aarch64 devices, like Pi's and such, out of luck?

Something I've experienced with similar printer drivers. Hence the ask.

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Tywèle [she|her]

in reply to ZeStig • 2 mesi fa • •

Since you have this printer, can you tell me what volume the ink tanks hold? This info seems impossible to find.

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Trump at NATO Summit | Source: X By Mitchell Plitnick / Mondoweiss U.S. President Donald Trump seems to have largely moved on from Iran and is now setting his sights on instituting a broader new or…

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