I use Linux because it is free and good enough to do most stuff I want to do on a computer.

I use windows at work because I get paid - so from my perspective it is cheaper than free. It makes it frustrating to do the stuff I’m supposed to do but my employers are fucking idiots so it doesn’t really matter.

I already assumed aur was riddled with stuff like that.

Use a condom when fucking around in there.

Haha, Don’t offer people windows 11 , even in jest. It’s clearly the opposite of “being excellent” to them ( rule 3).

Gotta love mods.

Who is this mythical average user I keep hearing about?

I’ve never had a problem forcing people at work - even those with very limited IT knowledge - to run things from cli in windows.

For years in one place I worked the IT support first line solution was to tell all users to force a gp update from the windows cli. They’d point to a nice little how to guide with screenshots and everything. I don’t know if any of the thousands of people working there were the all important average user either though, probably not.

Surely that can be OPs choice.

If a user has a large number of programmes they might not want to hand hold updates of all of them each time.

If they choose only the handful they want from arch repo or aur then they might have a quicker update and find it easier to stay awake.

I’d think it should be up to them if they want to trade off bloat vs the burden of an update.

I find, especially for AUR stuff the update can become vexatious.

Would a flatpak would survive this update? I do use arch on some computers but with several flatpaks for some applications that I feel will be safer - but i don’t really know.

Maybe i just update and see what happens.

Sounds like some deliberately obscure concentrations of power.

The fear bit is really problematic though as scared people are not ideal decision makers.

There’s been investment bubbles, overshooting and disingenuous rent seeking in many economies before. It was temporarily reduced in many western economies by various FDR type policies in the '30s-'60s. The '70s and '80s were just the banks wresting back their freedom to implement market “rationality”. And we get the benefits ever since.

People do keep voting for it though so it is hard to argue they’re not satisfied. Even the ones who protest vote don’t seem to see the “investment” markets as any part of the problem; or as important at all. That’s either some pretty effective demagoguery, or some dumb fucking electorate.

That is tolerable, so long as they don’t besmirch the “btw”.

They could also say summit like: " i am a colossal doric"

The “btw” is insincere if they didn’t do it manually, they should be prohibited from using it.

Arch’s tag to neatly summarise the aloof snobbery must be preserved. If archintall script users can say it; how long until “I use manjaro btw”, or “i use endeavouros btw”. At which point it just has no value - I don’t believe these people are genuinely considering themselves superior to other users - as reflected in several other comments here.

Archinstall script should be modified to install a keylogger that will bork the system if ever “arch btw” is detected.

Some useful stuff for some laptops - worth checking if you’re buying one for linux:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Category:Laptops

Also this - i guess this is the inverse question though:

https://linux-hardware.org/

That PSU sounds good enough to me.

Could be worth a motherboard firmware update?
and i would double check all the power cables.

It looks ike mangohud is an application to monitor stuff. I’ve never used it but you could give that a go - see if you’re ever getting close to the 750W.

I’ve experienced random stuff like that in past - not exactly the same though and not that chip.

I’d suspect power issue, either cpu and/or gpu causing a spike that results in some voltage rail to go unstable. More likely GPU, unless your applications are really thrashing all cpu cores.

How old PSU? how much headroom? how good brand of PSU? Might also be a motherboard power management issue.

Also - it might not hurt just to unplug and reseat every power cable.

It is probably just a video he’s making about how to self-host a 3GW nuclear power station, so that you can self-host a hundred million raspberry pi cluster.

All of the sweet, sweet gross domestic product statistics. Mmm I love GDPness.

I was thinking about blendOS at some point - it seemed like a decent proposition the best way to stick with arch, but have the declarative and atomic bits, without going to a new nix thing that sound like a more extreme nerd cult.

But I never did, I’m still mainly on Arch+XFCE or arch+kde, or debian+kde, or debian+xfce in my house.

I think I didn’t do it because I’ve never really heard of BlendOS , no established track record. No one ever recommends it. So it might not still be there in 5 years, so I’d have to be sure it’d all still work if the project ended. Meh, too much bother to figure that out.

If this promised deluge of PCs comes along soon i’ll maybe try it on a spare machine.

I think most people will say go fedora due to track record - but i never liked it when i last used it - a long time ago.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-building-with-signs-of-the-window-tax-st-johns-wood-london-15294634.html

Yep I remember the black snot days in the late 90s.

Red Ken ftw! Good luck to NYC with their CC too.

By all accounts, it was even worse the 60s though before clean air acts, gas central heating and when all those art galleries were power stations. I don’t think Alec Guiness actually did blackface, he probably just walked around in the smog for a few hours (/jk).

Things really have got better if you look long enough.

Yeah.

China does hydro too - which is the best by far. In the west we’re far to precious about landowners.

We have a whole area in my country called the lake district used for nothing but tourism and a few sheep, and lots of godawful poetry. (plus maybe one coppermine).

We really need to make it live up to it’s name, flood the whole thing into one giant lake and run the worlds largest hydro off it. Stop pissing around with piddly little windmills, and putting solar panels over perfectly good arable land in s country where we have a lot of cloud cover.

Hmmn, as far as I can tell they’ve not presenrted any de-rated capacity data. I much prefer de-rated capacity for planning electricity supply. Unless you’re doing detailed half-hourly despatch simulations. It’s probably still a large share but I doubt the exagerated growth shown here. Solar in particular needs to be scaled down in relation to say hydro and nuclear for planning purposes.

That’s why the green bit in this supply chart most likely won’t grow as sharply as the OP graph. (Ok it’s change in stocks vs total flows too.) https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply

Hydro and nuclear and geothermal will scale near 1:1 from capacity to output. So they are a lot better. Solar will only average 4:1 and wind at about 3:1 from memory.

Here in the UK where there is a lot of wind gen they’re already runnung some pumped storage motors into effectively operating as inertial stabilisation most of the time. It is very interesting that the grid is preferring frequency stabilisation instead of the “battery” function that pumped storage is really designed for. We really need more hydro and pumped storage capacity a lot more than wind and solar. If you only like uplifting news please don’t lookup the recent news about Cruachan power station.