DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]

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.

It’s an understandable position to hold for someone who hasn’t gotten over the hump of understanding that these issues are structural to capitalism. If you feel that reform is a possibility then UBI makes a lot of sense, because from the ideals that liberal democracies tout it seems like a win-win: workers get money to live off of as automation and outsourcing put them out of work, and capitalists get a more consistent flow of money through the economy to stimulate growth that offsets the cost of UBI itself.

The issue is that capitalists aren’t interested in the long-term vision required to build factories that take 30+ years to pay for themselves, they want maximum returns right now and don’t care if that tanks the economy in the long term because they’ll already be fantastically wealthy and insulated from the effects. They also will not, under any circumstances except having no other option, ever give concessions to the working class, because if people start remembering that’s an option they’re liable to remember they outnumber the people in charge 1000:1 and might push for more.

That’s why the US will not reindustrialize and why UBI will not happen; they’d rather pump-and-dump another AI/real estate/micro financing loans bubble than build anything of real value. When all that matters is the accumulation of wealth society fundamentally breaks.

Because the money for UBI fundamentally has to come from the upper echelon of capitalists, and they don’t want it because it both reduces their hoards of capital as well as relieves the structural stress on the working class that keeps them desperate enough to work for dogshit wages in order to continue surviving, and we do not live in a democracy that cares that 95% of the population would be better off for it because those same capitalists own all major forms of information dissemination, lobbying, and campaign funding.

Which just circles back to the core problem of UBI: if you somehow managed to unite enough people willing to buck the current system to get it instituted against the wishes of the ruling class, then you’ve also reached the threshold to end capitalism outright and bypass the half-step of making the ultra wealthy give back a tiny percentage of their ill-gotten gains in the form of UBI in favor of just building a society where the collective wealth generated by the workers is spread among the workers.

While this is a positive, the US is still held by the balls by plastic usage which drives fossil fuel extraction and there is no market force driving that to stop anytime soon.

Shutting down fossil fuels at a macro level requires systematic government-driven economic planning and also not putting billion% tariffs on Chinese EVs and solar panels, neither of which the US government is ever going to do.

For what you’re spending on this, I would highly recommend throwing in a 1440p monitor. The difference from 1080p is night and day. The 7900XT will have zero issues with it, and you can find a solid 27" one for cheap nowadays so long as you’re not trying to find an OLED or something with a stupid high refresh rate.

That’s about the only feedback I have here though, the rest of this build looks good!

It might be; I’ve only ever used in on Wayland to make up for Discord using its ancient version of Electron. If the canary branch Discord works for you though I’d stick to that, I was just offering another option for either yourself or people reading the post!

Related to the Discord Canary comment, Vesktop is a third-party Discord client that’s properly supported Wayland for quite some time now. I’ve been using it ever since swapping to Linux full-time to make sure streaming works correctly.

It was 100% because the existing Electron version they were using was ancient, a giant pain in the ass to update, and represents exactly zero revenue for them so they hadn’t bothered putting anyone on fixing it. Every tech company has the ticking time bomb in the corner like that.

He is a finn, what do you expect from him?

Continued use of the swastika in his military and a stubborn refusal to acknowledge how many Soviets the Finns starved to death in Leningrad while working with the Third Reich, presumably.

While I wouldn’t put it past Google/YouTube to do something as shitty as this, I think people are far too quick to assume foul play over the much more likely possibility that the world’s largest video platform occasionally shits itself.

I nearly had a heart attack until I read the word “ARM” at the end.

It seems like ARM Arch is doomed for whatever reason.

There’s a top surgery joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.

If you want to support your favorite artists, buy their merch while at one of their live shows. That’ll put literal orders of magnitude more cash in their pocket than streaming their music ever would, and you get a dope ass t-shirt out of it.

Games have to talk to your operating system to have it tell your GPU to draw lots of funny pictures that come together to make up the graphical portions of the game. Game developers do not want to do this directly, because talking directly to the OS is hard. As such, games talk to graphical APIs like Vulkan or DirectX to do the hard bit for them.

For years almost all games used DirectX, which is made by Microsoft. This gave Windows a virtual monopoly on PC gaming because they weren’t about to let their competitors use their API. Then Vulkan came out, which was designed from the beginning to be OS-agnostic, sending us to the promised land of games that could (with some other efforts) run on any machine, anywhere.