It’s a new pre-configured hyprland/arch distro, that raised $15 million dollars somehow. The founder of Omarchy is DHH, the creator of Ruby-on-rails.

The distro is probably AI/vibe-coding, setup to give LLM agents easy access to the system. Some of the previously mentioned $15 million is actually in the form of donated AI credits to code the distro with.

The distro has some controversial decisions like bundling Spotify and Zoom into the install, when Linux (and especially arch) is known for low bloat and user choice.

Some of the money they’ve raised is going to Vaxry the dev of Hyprland. There are various opinions on this, a lot of people like hyprland but Vaxry is kinda insane polish dude obsessed with anime porn.

Overall I think most people care because it’s a lot of money raised for a distro, especially when people disagree with the developmental decisions and goals. People would rather see that money go to other places, and are questioning why so many companies were willing to sponsor Omarchy specifically.

If running a windows game through wine, there are some risks if the game contains a virus.

The biggest risk is that wine typically makes your Linux user files available by having them mounted as the z: drive. If you run an exe that’s actually ransomware, it can possibly encrypt some of your userfiles if permissions allow. This isn’t an issue if you run the games through steam, because it runs windows programs in containers.

There’s also a risk of keyloggers, but they should only work for things running inside the same wine session.

Hyprland, specifically with the end4 illogical impulse desktop.

It’s pretty and I really like how functional it is, but some recent updates have changed how some of the config files work requiring changes. It’s an inconvenience I’m willing to put up with though.

It also led to mass protests across Pakistan, after a policeman questioned why the woman had been out late on her own.

The day after the attack, a senior police official in Lahore, Umer Sheikh, appeared in front of the media and implied the woman was partly to blame.

He questioned why she had not taken a busier road, given that she was alone with her young children.

Man what a terrible take. Her car broke down, she had the doors locked, and they broke the windows and dragged her out before raping her at gunpoint. She was also a foreign tourist, and can’t be expected to know all the good/bad parts of town imo.

The man was specifically allowed to have a ceremonial dagger due to being a Sikh. The Sikh claimed he had been attacked over racial motives, which led the police to discount what the student was saying. So multiple parts of this were very much based on the man being Sikh. You couldn’t properly cover the story without mentioning the fact, so it’s not surprising it’s in the headline

Here’s the original source: Perry Bible Fellowship - Endgame

PBF comics don’t update regularly anymore, but they’re pretty great. It’s worth your time to check out the backlog if you never have.

Debian is generalist, with it’s strongest strength being it’s stability. That said, I’m not sure who I would recommend it to. Zorin or Mint would be better for new linux users, and Debian’s slower updates mean it will fall behind other distros for anyone wanting games. Also the rise of immutable distros means that it’s stability isn’t as much of a selling point as it used to be, if I’m worried about a kid messing up the install an immutable distro would be better than Debian probably.

I have a lot of respect for Debian, but the main people I hear using it these days are more experienced linux users who want to settle down (done distro hopping) and just have a reliable computer for non-gaming stuff.

Android open source project. It’s the base behind every android variation, but it has pretty generic software (although sometimes better than the alternatives companies choose to ship instead).

Yes, the horse isn’t an ideal shape for straight flight (such as an arrow or bullet) so the trajectory tends to curve

There’s multiple parts.

First there was a massive pandemic relief fraud. A bunch of people exploited programs meant to feed kids, because those programs had relaxed checks during the pandemic. The main organization here is “Feeding our Future” who helped various individuals fraud the government.

Basically they claimed to be serving millions of meals to kids, with fabricated invoices/etc.

In exchange for Feeding our Future helping individuals with the fraud, they required kickbacks from the individuals. A lot of this money was used to buy real estate, especially in Kenya and Turkey (which makes it very difficult to recover the money).

Not everyone involved was Somali, be the majority of the people charged were part of the same Somali-american community.

Recently it was found out that some similar fraud was happening with Somali run daycares. They were getting millions in subsides, while having few to no children present at the daycares.

Tim Walz and the Department of Education are being criticized over various parts of how they handled it. The Minnesota Department of Education had warnings about the fraud as early as 2018, but ignored them. Later on they asked the Feeding Our Future to investigate themselves for fraud (which obviously didn’t work).

When the pandemic meal fraud was discovered in 2021, the MDE decided to continue payments to the fraudsters because they claimed they didn’t have enough evidence to win in court. Tim Walz later claimed a judge forced them to continue payments, but the Judge released a statement saying that was a lie. There’s some speculation that Walz was originally trying to avoid it going to court to avoid it being a big scandal.

Finally when Walz did announce the fraud, he framed it as a success that they caught these people, even though it had gone on for years and huge amounts of money had already been stolen.

Part of it is that minor changes can be incredibly disruptive to our personal lives, while having no meaningful effect on the bigger picture.

There was a movie (About Time I think) where this lineage of guys can time travel as some inhereted ability. They have a strong rule within the family though to never time travel to before one of their children is born, because the smallest change can result in a different sperm/etc and finding they have completely different child when they return to the present.

That’s such a big thing with puzzles in general. It’s easy to look for a solution if one exists, but during real matches you can’t waste a bunch of time looking for an ideal move that isn’t actually there.

I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.

Alternatively you might need to decide between sliding or moving. Often chess requires two turns to take a piece (you move a piece into attack range, opponent has a turn to react, and then you can take the piece). Being able to do two actions at once (slide tile and move a piece on the same turn) would allow you to take pieces that weren’t previously threatened. It would even allow you to position to take the enemy king, where you put him in check by sliding the board and then are able to take him on the following action.

Wine is a compatibility layer, it works as a translator to let windows programs run on linux. You can think of it like having a translator who allows two people with different languages to talk to each other and work together.

WinBoat is completely different, this is actually running full windows in the background, and then only displaying the apps you want from it. There will be significantly more system resources used, and you won’t be able to run windows apps until the windows VM has started in the background, adding a startup delay. However the advantage is that it will support more software than wine does, with fewer issues.

Wine will always be the better option when it works, but for stuff that doesn’t work this is a decent option.

Unfortunately I haven’t used it either, so I can’t answer your questions on this. I don’t have a personal need for any windows apps on my machines, outside of steam games.

WinBoat or WinApps might work for you. They’re very similar in function afaik, they both run a windows vm hidden in the background and integrate the windows apps alongside your Linux programs. It’s supposed to be fully compatible with all windows program except kernel anti-cheat.

WinBoat is newer and I think offers a nicer interface and a lot easier setup, WinApps is older so may be easier to find support/documentation on. I’d probably recommend starting with WinBoat first.

That’s pretty good. Also I’m pretty sure authleft still has “kings”, they’re just safely off the board while the peasants kill each other.

Trench gun is well on it’s way to a bigger bayon

The joke I’ve always heard is that you insert the bayonet into the enemy to align your shots.

At least at the beginning of video game competitions, a lot of the kids are just fans of the game and aren’t bad to play against.

Running into a kid later in a tournament is humbling though.