But those Arc cards actually look good (for the low budget segment they are in that is…) and are mainly held back by lackluster drivers. So I get the decision.

Where’s the Porsche?

As many as are driving the correspondig vehicle legally on streets.

Would be nice if this was the only (or one of just a few) Realtek chips that are a fucking mess…

There might a common problem with those Realtek devices but I fail to find it. 😅

I would assume people running a modern kernel on an orignal 32-bit first generation Pentium machine don’t need such an excuse as they have to do it constantly already…

I’m pretty sure the unmodified/-optimized kernel doesn’t even fit the RAM of 1990’s Thinkpads.

EVs are inherently cheaper that CE-based alternatives.

So unless this is about stopping the 24/7 propaganda of fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s just some useless PR stunt.

You noble Machine Spirit is someone else’s Abominable Intelligence…

Oh, I actually fully believe that they can’t live without it. That’s simply what happens with drug-induced brain-damage…

While it’s much better than the brain-rotting alternative, this move comes much too late. And I’m not talking about the fact that screens are already everywhere, that’s a totally different topic… but to late for their kids (middle school here…) in particular.

Screens instead of pen, paper and other tools (as well as movement in general) are even more damaging in the earlier years when fine motor control, perception skills and abstract thinking is in full development.

“Teams” is what came to mind for him first when he thought of online meetings. To me that suggests […]

People who haven’t touched Google with a ten-foot pole for years still “google” stuff in general conversation because that’s what people generally understand. People who never used Twitter (or that modern renamed far-right bot paradise) talk about stuff that got “tweeted”.

So no… associating colloquial use of terms with actual habits doesn’t work well.

Trust the slob! Learn to love the slob! Slob is life!!

We just need to create that one single ultimate community for good linux jokes.

Former president and failed candidate in the 2020 presidential election Donald Trump…

Strictly speaking both statements are correct, so why now?

Here’s where it’s going:

We are talking about 40k here, so dying will probably be the nice outcome you hope for…

it’s getting more prevalent as more stuff (especially servers) run on Linux […] Linux’s days of living in “security through obscurity” are over"

Servers are primarily running Linux for decades. So any security through obscurity would be gone for as long, if it even existed ever…

though I’ll admit to not having tested that sort of thing with Wine/Proton installed

The more primitive the better the chances. And there are some really primitive cases of ransonware perfectly happy with running through Wine and encrypting your files. So limiting Wine’s file access (or better running it as a separate unpriviledged user with no access to anything but your games) is always a good idea.

and in some cases anti-ICE activists

So it’s only a matter of time until they just fake those violent anti-ICE activists they always hallucinate about to justify their insane behavior.

Sadly the people that refused to pay to get informed and love to rage about imaginary stories they got from reading headlines only, don’t deserve any better. They killed journalism despite massive amounts of warnings and now have to live with the idiot circus that replaced journalism.

If history is any indication ICE will sadly have to first become bigger, more influental and have a leadership developing their own ambitions before the “dropping them like a bad habit” happens… alongside awarding lots of Ernst-Röhm-Memorial-Awards.

pacman -S vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers

Which will then probably tell you that it conflicts with vulkan-mesa-device-select and asks if you want to replace it. Which might either work or just get you another conflict because vulkan-mesa-device-select is required by some other package.

Btw… pacman -Qi <package name> usually tells you anything you need to know about a package. In this context mainly why it was installed (as a requirement for which package) and which other packages are required as a dependency.

So maybe you should take one step back first. Check why 'vulkan-mesa-device-select` was installed in the first place. If it’s not dependency of something else you can either remove it (or replace it) alongside its lib32 version.