It’s open if your country doesn’t suck

I used Void Linux for a long time. I put it on my laptop more than 10 years ago and it worked fine. If I ever had a complaint for it, it’s that there is no straightforward way to get a mainstream DE like GNOME or KDE running. You have to set the graphical environment manually. I was using i3 so it wasn’t a problem for me but it makes Void (like Arch) a difficult choice for new users.

After Nvidia support became stable for Wayland, I wanted to switch to a Wayland based environment. But I was not in the mood to set up a desktop from scratch. I looked around and thought I might give CachyOS a try. I liked its installed. It sets up zfs on root automatically and has an option to preconfigured KDE. It worked alright for the most part but I bounced off it eventually for two reasons. One, the pace of updates is just silly. I know that Arch and its derivatives are bleeding edge but having to download a gigabyte of packages after four days of not updating is not something that seems like good practice to me. Once an update broke SDDM but that kind of stuff can just be bad luck. Two, some software just doesn’t work. scanmem and Darktable didn’t work because of segfault and out of bounds memory access respectively. That’s not very rainbow rhythm so I moved on.

Right now I am using Fedora on my laptop and it has been fairly pleasant. I am using Niri with dank material shell and have been liking the experience so far except for inconsistent theming of GTK 3 and 4 and Qt 5 and 6. I was annoyed at first but I am not using graphical applications much these days. All the software works, updates are not as rapid. I also was not able to set up zfs on root because I was not able to find an image with zfs kernel modules included and I wasn’t able to compile the DKMS module in the live image. So I am using the standard btrfs with LUKS encryption setup. It feels good to use a filesystem with first class linux support.

All this while I had been trying out several distros on my Steam Deck as well. I tried cachyos and bazzite but didn’t see much value in using them and came back to SteamOS eventually. My main motivation for trying out third party distros was that I want to be bound by SteamOS’ immutability. But the loss of stability is not worth it because debugging problems in a handheld console without keyboard and mouse is an awful experience. For example, one day in CachyOS the power button stopped working in game mode until an update fixed the problem. SteamOS updates slowly which is perfect for not breaking stuff. The problem I had with SteamOS’ immutability was that it makes it hard to install software. But I have resorted to installing stuff using appimages and statically compiled binaries and it has been great. I am enjoying the stability.

Just realised this mf doesn’t know what raison d’etre means

Edit: Also brilliant logic. If an arsonist wants to torch your home, give em a financial stake in it.

https://archive.is/lsAS6

The ceasefire is likely a scam so that America and Israel can load up on baby-killing ordinances. Iran operating a toll booth without being interfered with does not seem to be a stable and tenable situation with the rabies-addled zionist entity at its door.

after the war, Tehran should pivot into a financial mechanism that serves its long-term interests. Iran should not deepen its dependency on Chinese financial infrastructure. It should rejoin the global economic system on terms that give it stability and credibility. That means U.S. dollars.

Yes. Collect toll in a currency they cannot use. That will give them stability and credibility.

Wish this guy just popped an artery already. It is exhausting having to live in a world shaped by his shenanigans.

Iranian diaspora are some of the most unhinged.

Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards

Words you never thought would be uttered by anyone, let alone the president of Amerikkka.

This does make me concerned about brutal bombing campaigns though.

Apparently thousands of Iranian civilians with rifles tried to thwart the rescue operation. Just like how the founding fathers envisioned.

Apparently this toilet was a milestone for spacecrafts: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/

I wonder if it is still better than the previous provisions despite these problems

The nighttime strikes penetrated a secure part of the embassy where several hundred people would have been working in the day

Incredible restraint

Poor you. Got downvoted for a joke.

Not saying they are not influential but the look we given of them from the outside does not tell the whole story. Every story about DPRK from our media is about Kim Jong Un or, on rare occasions, about Kim Yo Jong. Taking them at face value you would think that there are no more than two people in the entire damn country but the reality is obviously not that.

As to why Kim family is influential is simple. They led the resistances against Japanese and American invasions.

There’s https://cryptpad.org/

Nice baby

Alright I’ll take care of this tomorrow. Thanks.

Since the communities are not active there isn’t much sense in making one official. If you would like to post something India related, for now just pick one that seems to you to be the best choice and post there. If a community ends up gaining traction then we can deal with the fragmentation issue.

when i am in power

Ok bud

Because of woke you can’t press R2 to zoom into the cleavage during cutscenes anymore

Yeah pretty much. There is a squad of four bosses in MGS4 comprised entirely of extremely sexy women who are extremely mentally unwell due to extreme childhood trauma, each with an exaggerated coping mechanism of her own. It is strange design.

I was thinking they probably still allow generating videos with AI and it is just that social media app that lets you give yourself brain damage by viewing a neverending stream of videoslop that is being discontinued. But no. I was wrong. They killed the whole thing:

OpenAI has shut down Sora and ended its $1 billion Disney deal, shifting focus away from AI video tools to robotics and task-based AI systems.

OpenAI has officially shut down Sora, its high-profile video-generation tool, and has also ended its reported $1 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company. The move signals a clear change in strategy as the company redirects its focus toward other AI areas.