If you’re in the CachyOS Discord and have a lot of patience, this is where I dumped all of my complaints and feedback on the day that I really tried to use it: https://discord.com/channels/862292009423470592/1500254688380063934

Keep in mind I was pretty new to Cachy/Arch and coming from Linux Mint, make of that what you will.

More specifically, this is what raised the alarm for me: https://discord.com/channels/862292009423470592/1500254688380063934/1500507281840668852 and following messages.

Basically, I tried to install openrgb-next-git from AUR using Shelly. The operation failed but was reported as successful. And the Shelly dev I was chatting with didn’t really seem to acknowledge the severity of the issue. After many more attempts, I eventually gave up on Shelly installed the package using paru. I don’t remember if there was any problem during that installation, but it did get installed in the end, which is more than I can say for Shelly.

This exchange was 2 months ago, so it’s possible that things have improved since then, but that’s not enough time for me to give Shelly another chance yet.

What I’m about to say is pure speculation, and I have no concrete evidence, just my gut: I think Shelly, or at least its GUI, is vibe-coded. Too many things about it are half-baked but with the appearance of polish. Windows and dialogs that look pretty but are too small for their contents. No way a human developer would push that if it was tested even once.

A Shelly developer explained to me that it’s not a wrapper for pacman or any other tool, instead they re-implement the functionality provided by pacman using a lower-level library. To this I say: Shelly has not earned my trust in their code to manage packages on my main PC. When it’s more mature, when it has more eyes on it, and when it doesn’t give me the half-baked vibe, I’ll happily give it another chance.

if I see “I wanna be”, the only song I think of is Pokemon.

CachyOS now ships with and recommends Shelly, and just from trying to use it I get the feeling it’s fundamentally flawed (both in the front-end and back-end), but I don’t know enough about package management to know for certain.

Watched Avatar: The Last Airbender with Hebrew subtitles, there were loads of mistranslations. Sometimes stating the exact opposite of what the English original said, other times the transistor just completely doesn’t understand what they’re translating and results in random nonsense statements. Sorry I don’t have any specific examples, but really it’s too common.

Lest you think it’s because it’s a kids show: more recently I’ve been watching Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators with my mom (a British cosy mystery comedy-drama television series, thanks Wikipedia), and mistranslations in the subtitles are just as common.

It really makes me worry about how common similar mistakes could be in e.g. Japanese content (anime, video games) subbed to English. I don’t know any Japanese, so my ONLY source of information is the English sub, and if it’s as flaky as the Hebrew subs for English sources, I really could be missing out :(

@FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world I believe this reply ^ was intended for you

Happy to accidentally be of service :)

When the vehicle weight increases while tire PSI stays the same, the contact patch (area squished flat against the pavement) increases in size.

If the vehicle gets heavier, doesn’t the tire pressure increase?

Note: some flags (like 🇸🇾Syria) were changed recently enough that the emoji could look different depending on your operating system and which app or browser you’re using for Lemmy. Gboard shows me the new flag (green on top, 3 red stars), but Voyager/Android 16 shows the old flag (red on top, 2 green stars). It’s unavoidable when Unicode is used to encode things that can change, like flags. But it’s better than nothing!

The only way around it is to embed pictures of flags, but that takes more effort. And data.

A reply for one that hits too close to home… Israel’s flag, it was our flag long before and I don’t think it necessarily represents the atrocities of the past few years. I definitely hope for (and try to work towards) a “regime change”, by which I mean more of a regime resuscitation as it is kind of a democracy on its death bed, which has always been flawed to some capacity but isn’t unsalvageable. I think. (Honestly though, what do I know about regime change…)

Getting sidetracked, but back to the flag. Israel has flown this flag basically since its first independence, and while it never actually was at peace (welcome to the middle east…), there have been long periods where it actively sought peace and even made great concessions to try to achieve it. It seems wrong to disregard that history, and only associate the flag with what the state has done in recent years. The flag doesn’t need to change for the state’s policy to change. If it did, then it would already have been changed.

As a point of comparison, the flags used by the British Empire are not so tainted by the atrocities of imperialism that they can’t be used today. England has changed, but its flag doesn’t have to. It carries its history, the good and the bad.

Petition for you to add flag emoji to each country mention, e.g. “🇵🇱 Poland”, for those of us (me!) who are vexillologically challenged and don’t remember any flags.

Edit: an attempt, based on gboard’s emoji search functionality and with zero verification:

great post

Let’s make a tierlist sbout how urgent it is for them to change:

S:

• 🇵🇱Poland’s flag is supposedly derived from a white bird against a setting sun. To me it would make sense to include that imagery on the flag, or a historical coat of arms.
• I think places like 🇸🇾Syria, 🇪🇬Egypt, 🇱🇾Libya, 🇮🇶Iraq need to agree on a different colour scheme for themselves. At the moment they’re confusingly similar

A:

• 🇮🇱Israel (changing flag after a hopeful regime change would be prudent because it’s like a symbol of genocide now.)

B:

• 🇱🇺Luxembourg (too similar to 🇳🇱Netherlands),
• 🇨🇳China (i find china’s flag really dull even if it is iconic. They surely want to invoke their historical longevity rather than just Communism. Stars represent the key chinese regions, which seems like a good feature - the red does not.)

F:

• I don’t think i’d change it, but 🇨🇦Canada seems as/more close to britain than 🇦🇺Australia so it makes more sense to give a little 🇬🇧Union Jack in the top left corner.

I know this! https://youtu.be/ztHq1NLEbio?t=9m4s (note the timestamp, 9:04)

Short version: surprisingly, yes!

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After it was announced I was considering it, to replace an old (non-gaming) PC that I still need to use occasionally. But honestly, even if the price was half what it is, I don’t think it would really serve much point in my hands.

The Steam Frame is what I’m really interested in, if I have the cash to splurge on it when it finally releases I’ll probably nab it.

hey chatbot make me a comic whose sole purpose is to enduce rage

Yup, they’re lying. As the other person said, these wipes marketed as “flushable” are directly responsible for a lot of blockages.

What about pubes? They do fall in sometimes, you know.

I’m sure there’s someone out there who needs to be explicitly told that this is toilet paper, not printer paper or newspaper or graphing paper or any other kind. Just toilet paper.

And not any kind of wet wipes either. So-called “flushable” wipes are false advertising, do NOT flush them. They WILL clog the pipes.

I’m probably preaching to the choir, but there’s a chance someone learns this for the first time from this comment.

To the spirit of your question, no.

But to be pedantic, yes. Sometimes I pick up a random small piece of filth off the floor or whatever and the toilet is just right there. And when I mop my floor (once every 1000 years or so), you bet I pour the bucket of dirty water down the toilet, and that’s not technically one of the 3 P’s.

And very rarely, I have a strand of hair that fell from my head (I have long hair) and I just can’t be bothered to fight with the physics of making it fit into the trash bin, so I drop it into the toilet and leave it there until the next flush. It’s probably bad, but it’s a very rare occurrence.

Is there anything I’m missing here? There’s no joke or twist or anything. Is it just world building? (Admittedly I haven’t paid too much attention to your previous Addams Family posts so maybe this is just how they always are)

Yeah, to say the least. A year or so before the October 7th attack that sparked our country’s intentional relations nosedive, there were massive country-wide protests, which I also participated in. You can probably find articles about it (Edit: Here’s a Wikipedia article about it if you want a jumping-off point). It was protesting against certain anti-democratic things the government was doing (I don’t want to get into the weeds here), but it was also fueled by unprecedented distrust of just about everyone in the government, and most of all Netanyahu. This distrust has only gotten worse.

That bastard should be in jail, but as “luck” would have it, he is always so preoccupied with all the wars he started that he can’t attend his court trial where he faces serious criminal charges. What’s that? Conflict of interest? He gains personal benefit from neverending war, so he has no incentive to actually end it (be it through diplomacy or through military victory)? Nah, I’m sure he has the country’s best interests at heart.

That people keep voting for him astounds me. But we’re seeing similar patterns worldwide, most obvious example being USA, so I guess this democracy thing is just failing all over the place this decade.