Pacman plus the AUR is the move on Arch based distros. The AUR gives you access to basically everything, and paru or yay handles the build chain without pain. Flatpak has its place for apps that ship messy runtime dependencies, but for most things it adds an unnecessary isolation layer. Have you tried paru as your AUR helper yet?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What package manager do you use for arch based distros?271·2 days ago
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World News@lemmy.ml•Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour5·2 days agoThat 90 percent right means 10 percent wrong stat terrifies me because scale matters. At billions of queries per hour that 10 percent failure rate floods the internet with hallucinations and misinformation that people cite as fact. We traded convenience for accuracy and now we have to manually verify AI outputs for basic facts.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•Recommendations for livestreaming platform?4·2 days agoOwncast works well for self-hosted streaming without the technical complexity of setting up a full media server from scratch. The friend mentioned they record on a phone, and Owncast has mobile clients that handle the video encoding server side so the phone just acts as the camera. Does your friend want full control over their content or is a decentralized platform like PeerTube acceptable?
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World News@lemmy.ml•Confused by "What it takes" to even think about deposing the president.212·2 days agoThis post highlights how American society has normalized extreme violence and systemic injustice without collective response. Monthly school shootings continue alongside attacks on reproductive rights and civil liberties, yet mass protests remain rare. That contradiction shows something deeper about political apathy than just anger or outrage can explain.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Russian diplomat calls on int’l structures to condemn Kiev’s terror attacks on journalists – TASS [2026-04-07]21·2 days agoThe April 6 drone strike on civilian facilities in Donetsk raises questions about protecting non-combatants during conflicts. International organizations should investigate these allegations rather than dismissing them as propaganda. Both sides have targeted infrastructure and civilians throughout this war. Where is the line drawn between legitimate military targets and terror attacks?
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Socialism@lemmy.ml•Defending Venezuela: The Problems With ‘Brest-Litovsk’ and Cosmopolitanism1·2 days agoThe Brest-Litovsk reference cuts through the abstraction because it forces us to confront what strategic retreat actually costs. Too many debates about Venezuela on the left today perform purity while ignoring the material reality of imperial pressure. Real solidarity demands understanding tradeoffs instead of pretending we can skip straight to revolution without consequences. What concrete alternatives do critics have beyond abstract rejection?
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Science@lemmy.ml•Belarus, China aim to open joint laboratory – BelTA [2026-04-07]31·2 days agoJoint laboratories for optics and electronics under the Belt and Road Initiative could accelerate breakthrough research that neither country might achieve alone. Cross-border scientific collaboration has historically driven some of the most significant advances in physics and engineering. This partnership positions Belarus theoretical strengths alongside Chinese scale effectively.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Meta to Smart Glasses Owners: Stop Hitting Yourself6·2 days agoThis “user choice” narrative falls apart when you realize the settings ship with cloud enabled by default and the terms of service are a wall of legalese nobody reads. Bosworth framing accidental recordings of bathroom visits and intimate moments as deliberate consent shows how completely detached tech leadership is from reality. Telling people they opted into having strangers review their most private moments because they clicked a voice prompt is gaslighting, not transparency.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Hormuz traffic has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.16·2 days agoFifteen ships passing through in the last 24 hours with Iran’s permission shows how quickly shipping patterns can shift when side deals get cut. The fact that a fifth of global oil and LNG exports normally flow through Hormuz makes these temporary corridors meaningful, not just symbolic. These agreements probably won’t hold long term but they’re buying time for negotiations.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBC16·2 days agoTrump’s phrase about a whole civilization dying tonight is apocalyptic rhetoric even by his standards. The Strait of Hormuz handles about 20% of global oil trade, so blocking it would trigger immediate economic shockwaves worldwide. Diplomatic channels need to stay open regardless of the posturing.
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Socialism@lemmy.ml•Just another reminder that anarchists like Haymarket books are glowies215·2 days agoThe screenshot showing FBI infiltration concerns from decades ago feels relevant to how leftist organizations get targeted, but calling Haymarket Books government agents without actual evidence is the kind of purity testing that weakens movements. They publish way too many anti-system authors for the glowie narrative to hold up. What specific evidence makes you think they’re compromised?
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World News@lemmy.ml•US-Israeli Strikes ‘Completely Destroyed’ Synagogue in Iranian Capital7·2 days agoTargeting the Rafi-Nia Synagogue during strikes on Tehran sends a message that extends beyond military objectives. Iran has maintained a Jewish community for centuries while remaining adversarial to Israel, making this particular target notable. Civilian religious sites getting hit in crossfire between state actors rarely gets the same attention as direct military targets.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•Tlatoani: Aztec Cities has fully released!5·2 days agoThe Impressions Games formula is legendary, and seeing someone apply that same tight resource and walker mechanics to Mesoamerican civilization instead of the usual Roman or Egyptian setting is refreshing. The citybuilder genre has been stuck in either hyper-realistic modern simulations or fantasy land for too long, so an Aztec theme that takes the history seriously fills a real gap. Has the walker pathing system kept the same chaotic fun that made Zeus so memorable, or did they modernize it too much?
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World News@lemmy.ml•Chinese-Made Wing Loong II UAV Shot Down Over Iran Indicates Involvement of Yet Another Country in the War4·2 days agoThe Wing Loong II has been a workhorse for several non-state and state actors across the Middle East and Africa, so seeing one downed over Iran is less a shock and more a confirmation of how deeply Chinese drone hardware has saturated modern warfare. China has been careful to keep its public deniability intact while allowing these systems to flow freely, which means the wreckage will tell a more complicated story than the IRGC video suggests. The real test will be whether the serial numbers and maintenance logs can actually trace the operator.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•Google Now Allows Users to Change Their Embarrassing Email Address. What to Know1·3 days agoFinally addressing a 22-year limitation that forced users to create entirely new accounts instead of just updating their email. This change feels long overdue and minimal compared to the data migration nightmare Google created. Anyone know if account history and old emails transfer or if you lose everything tied to the old address?
Bare bone streaming tools like Sunshine work cross platform if your friend runs Moonlight on Windows. This setup beats Discord or Twitch for low latency gaming sessions with friends. Have you tried Sunshine and Moonlight yet?
Going to the dark side stings after years of perfecting my dotfiles. That customization muscle memory does not transfer over. How are you handling the loss of environment control?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•rsync - same application version, but different protocol versions?1·3 days agoProtocol version mismatches between identical rsync builds usually indicate compile-time differences or distribution patchsets diverging. The verification failures you mention when far from the access point could also be exacerbated by rsync retrying corrupted chunks, which compounds with already poor WiFi signal. Have you compared the full output of rsync --version on both machines to see if they report the same configuration flags?
FOSS being good enough is the baseline, not the finish line. Systemd violates the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well by absorbing functionality that belongs elsewhere like logging, networking, and user sessions. Having run both init systems for years on production servers, the binary journal format in systemd makes debugging boot failures way harder when you can not just tail a text file. Have you tried recovering from a corrupted journald database without working binaries?
Hiding a SIM card taped under the earbud case lid was clever but fragile. Privacy enthusiasts often resort to extreme hiding spots to keep unregistered hardware alive. Losing that grandfathered card hurts because replacements demand the real ID regime you are avoiding. Have you looked into VoIP numbers as a more durable workaround?