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Before that, there were unicorns

Would be really cool to see it somehow integrated with India’s RuPay, our alternative to Mastercard and Visa. RuPay has been pretty successful domestically lately, especially with support for UPI. International payments are supported via the Discover network but coverage isn’t great because Discover isn’t widely accepted.

It’s been interesting to see just how far ahead India’s consumer banking is. I can’t think of any country that comes close. It’s also interesting to see Europe moving in roughly the same direction. With the FTA and all, I hope these attempts at sovereignty turn into new ways to collaborate, rather than just isolate. Cooperation without dependence would be cool.

Minor correction. Islam is the religion. Islamism is, essentially, the attempted application of said religion into politics or state law.

You know what annoys me about the people defending Epic’s lawsuit? The fact that there are actually legitimate issues with Valve and somehow they’re hyper-fixated on the non-issues. If they were instead talking about CS2 gambling, lootboxes, etc, I would be in support of it. But no, it’s about how they’re a “monopoly” because they’re one of only two stores that seem to care about their customers…

What’s being recommended is LibreTranslate, which isn’t the same. LibreTranslate is server software. On Android, you can use “Translate You”. I co-maintain Dialect, which is an app for Linux. We host a server at https://lt.dialectapp.org/ , so feel free to make use of it.

So it’s Microoft

Ah yes, cron, why didn’t I think of that?

Idk why I clicked that…

That would indeed be very silly

You sound like you’re left handed

Yeah, I don’t really care as long as it’s not the author starting a death cult, but it was an interesting read

Oh wow… I liked Methods of Rationality… Didn’t know it spawned a death cult somehow…

Wait really? That’s hilarious

GTK4 apps and libadwaita apps are different though. You can theme both as well.

Regarding Wayland, I wonder why features still vary so wildly, even with projects like wlroots. Do WMs just not care enough?

Scrolling in Qt apps in general isn’t great. Still no inertial scrolling for example.

You made out in the woods?

For installing Flatpaks via GUI, if you’re using GNOME, you can use Bazaar or GNOME Software and if you’re on KDE, you can use Discover. I’ll always recommend staying away from Manjaro though. Holding packages for 2 weeks breaks AUR compatibility often and as a former AUR package maintainer, I’m not a fan of that. They sometimes end up delaying important fixes too and they have a history of neglecting security. I’d definitely recommend cachyOS over Manjaro. CachyOS also has a very friendly forum if you end up needing help. For something more similar to Manjaro and closer to Arch (without all the performance patching and stuff), EndeavourOS is a great option. Ah well, basically, anything other than Manjaro.

I’d say, don’t bother. For me, I was already on Arch, as I’ve been for years, so switching package repositories isn’t a big deal and I could just as easily switch back. So when I noticed some minor performance issues with Arkham Knight on base arch, I thought “why not”. There’s also the fact that Bazzite can’t work for me because of its immutable nature. If you’re happy with how things are going right now, I don’t think there’s a reason to switch. Of course, there’s always the “why not” factor for everyone :)

But wait… If you haven’t had any issues, why bother trying something else?

To clarify, I use cachyOS packages on arch. So, I can’t give a review of the distro itself. But the packages do work really well for gaming, especially their kernel and their proton variant. I use GNOME and force Proton to use Wayland and FSR4. So far, so good.

The thing is, I game. And I’ve found CachyOS to be performing better on games than Windows. In fact, I’m running Expedition 33 with forced FSR4 on a Navi 2 GPU (which isn’t supposed to support FSR4) and it performs better than with FSR3 on Windows. That honestly surprised me. Unfortunate that FSR is becoming a requirement for so many modern games (thanks UE5). And then there’s anticheat…