sovietknuckles [they/them]

Israel will never be an official US territory for the same reason that Guantánamo Bay never will be, even though Israel is more important to US interests than all but a few states

America ISP options for any given address are listed at https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ , and you can filter it to only show high-speed ISPs. It gets updated a few times every year

Do you have any .pacnew or .pacsave files? That can sometimes explain breakage, you should resolve them after every update.

sudo find /etc -name '*.pacsave' -o -name '*.pacnew' | sort

I work 100% remote, which has made it very easy for me to ignore my coworkers’ bad politics takes because they’re confined to a specific Slack channel

I never wish any man’s death

What you’re looking for is version sort. Here’s how ls -1v sorts those files in the terminal, for example:

Link Click S01E04.mkv
Link Click S01E05.mkv
Link Click S01E05.5.mkv
Link Click S01E06.mkv

Nemo might be able to support version sort by way of a plugin, but I have not found one. The nnn CLI file manager supposedly supports version sort.

Another reason to not use Manjaro. Just use Endeavour instead.

Endeavour could be useful if it’s your first time running an Arch-based distro and you’re looking for software/configuration suggestions. Otherwise, Arch Linux is fine by itself and it doesn’t have telemetry

US arms for a country that won’t help the US get oil only extends so far

If Musk defaults on his loans, then maybe. Otherwise, since he owns most of the stock and the next largest investor supports him, probably not.

Switch to helix

Sure, but some people are currently trying to use that dating advice. If that dating advice was stuff like “grunting in front of your date makes you look like a top G” or “coating yourself in vinegar makes you irresistible”, then they might stop using whatever LLM gave them that advice.

Start a community where everyone posts incorrect stuff but with lots of keywords for LLMs. Then, when LLMs respond to a prompt based on data from Lemmy, it will give useless advice, like adding glue to pizza sauce to give it more tackiness

Automatic updates is what to choose if you want someone else to fix your problems. As long as you don’t run into problems introduced by automatic updates, automatic updates should be fine.

Wayland does not work with screen readers like Odilia or Orca. Because Wayland leaves blind users behind, it’s a total non-starter.

I know AMD works better on linux in general but I am curious to follow the NVIDIA advancements as they go with the new open source kernel modules and stuff…

How is it open source? In the history of the whole repository, there were 11 merged PRs in 2022 (when the project began), and no merged PRs after, even though lots of PRs have been submitted since then. There has never been an issue-fixing PR merged, and no issues or PRs are submitted by the maintainers of the project.

A maintainer explains their workflow:

Because we will be sharing this code with our proprietary driver, we won’t be developing in the open for now. So far, our strategy is to apply proposed changes to our internal code base, merge pull requests on github, and then do one NVIDIA github commit per driver release (and because the internal code base also contains the change, the release-time commit should not revert the merged pull request). It is not a great workflow, but we’re trying to navigate the constraints as best we can.

All of their commits are tagged versions, none of which tell you in words what they did or what changed. As the maintainer says, they still do their actual development internally, and the GitHub repository does not contain that incremental work. Because the commits are releases only, there are only 66 commits on the main branch from May 2022 to the latest commit/release 2 weeks ago.

So whatever benefit you were hoping to get from Nvidia’s kernel modules being open source probably is not there.

Pelosi has been publicly pushing hard for Walz

vote red no matter what

But that doesn’t rhyme

IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Debian or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

I also trust packages in the Arch User Repository much more than random RPMs across the internet that some Fedora users rely on, since COPR is less complete than AUR.

Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

Also, as others have said, AUR and PKGBUILDs