Glad to know they’re using only the best sources

It arrived at the right time with the right promises.

It came up during the SteamOS craze where a lot of people were looking to switch over to Linux, but wanted something easy.

• SteamOS was not yet released for anything but the Steam Deck
• It has an easy installer and good GUI tooling
• It comes with KDE & gaming optimizations, so it’s easy to use for people coming from Windows with no fiddling
• It’s not immutable, so you can actually use your PC for anything, not just gaming
• It has an Arch base and still uses arch repos (apart from their own custom packages), so it’s also familiar to people already using Linux

Unlike other distros, it doesn’t have anti-features, and doesn’t sacrifice anything for the sake of ease-of-use, while providing a very smooth experience (and welcoming to people who never used Linux).

And it came out at the perfect time - it wasn’t an old thing you had to persuade people was “good all along”; it’s a purpose-built distro made to answer the specific use case people were seeking when leaving Windows, at the exact time articles & youtube videos were hammering on Windows & Linux gaming was a huge topic of discussion.

The hype for gaming distros started with Bazzite but Cachy quickly came up & had more hype behind it. Probably because it lets you do more with your OS since it’s not immutable, so it attracts both gamers wanting to switch over to Linux as well as Linux people looking to game.

I was on arch, had a hardware failure, reinstalled my OS as troubleshoot, but went with Cachy. I use it exactly like Arch, except for the updater which is a pacman + flatpak manager (it just runs the CLI commands sequentially)

Honestly it feels more like an arch with tweaks than a full on independent distro. It still uses pacman & arch repos, has the AUR available etc; they have additional repos & custom packages (like the kernel), but for the end user it’s about the same.

If someone didn’t know anything about Linux but wanted to switch over to it, I’d recommend Cachy just because it’s easy to install & properly sets up the OS for high performance without needing to fiddle with it. Also it has GUI update tools (I just use their CLI version instead) which may look more inviting to people scared of the terminal

it might be a failure to read on my part but this reads as unfixed on Debian but fixed on Arch

Edit: Oh, yeah ok, in the security repo it’s fixed, why is the vulnerable version distributed to stable though?

Not only does cachy work perfectly, Debian needs so much fiddling around to get latest software versions it’s a hindrance for a lot of stuff including gaming

There are also temporary mail services which work as inboxes

https://mail.tm/ for example. You never have to give them your email

Yup. European style social democracy is slowly being dismantled, in France & other countries. That’s the root of why protests are erupting there

The bbc are tankies?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

I’m seeing a lot of people saying that, and a lot of articles reporting on people saying that, but none that actually shows data that specifically showcases numbers.

This article shows some far right politicians having low engagement numbers; someone pointed out that even their older posts (which precede the Yandex attacks) had the same low level of engagement. Then they showcase bad responses to Trump’s tweets.

All this is on X which I don’t have an account for, but even then that’s at best annecdotal, but even correctly reported annecdotes would be better than the reporting I’ve seen so far.

The bot traffic in question is indexing crawlers. Yandex is a search engine (among other things), there is nothing suggesting they’re hosting LLMs to run bot accounts

The issue isn’t necessarily that the work could be considered derivative, but rather that the notion of copyright exists only for work authored by a human. If it’s not produced by a human, then the copyright belongs to no one, and no one can license it because no one owns it.

I feel like it’s one of those cases where both the interest & liability is a public issue. This is a perfect case for a public service, and not one for a “go fast and break things” & enshittification economic model

But I fear that both the US (duh) and Europe are way too neoliberal to ever consider this seriously

Or don’t ban it but make the provider fully liable

What’s the issue if you can just block them and not have to deal with them?

Comparison is impossible, the years don’t match and we don’t know how much of the affected SKUs have been manufactured for each brand & model, and they’re kind of separate industries even if they share the same market

Chinese have legally defined retirement ages close to Europe, so even if they have high working hours comparable to the US at least they don’t have to work until death.

They said write access, not read

No I know, I meant that Kazakhstan launches rockets and is partially in Europe, I was surprised to read “first vehicle ever to reach orbit from European soil”

But someone pointed out Baikonur is in Asia, while another comment pointed out Russia does have a space station in Europe anyway, so it’s still not the first.

Social democracy is not socialism by any metric, socialism starts at ownership of the means of production by workers, and a state that works for the proletariat and not capitalists. That’s the starting point, from there you can then add whatever social programs on top, but if you don’t start from there you’re still in a bourgeois democracy