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He does not have to “offset the tariffs”. Tariffs are a tax paid by the ones doing the importing. Americans will pay the tariffs.

He just has to resist lowering his prices to help his customers out. This can be hard sometimes but, right now, it should be pretty easy to point the finger at Trump and say there is nothing you can do.

His customers will pay more. He will make the same as before ( assuming demand does not drop ).

I regret not getting back to this sooner. Still, I want to extend my hand in solidarity. I too am enraged.

Um, yes. I would rather ally with Ukraine, regardless of who else my friends and enemies are.

Our telcos would block it for sure

RISC-V is the “new” CPU architecture

No. The kernel does not care about X11 vs Wayland. Or rather, both X11 and Wayland use KMS ( Kernel Mode Setting ) and DRM ( Direct Rendering ) these days. That is, both X11 and Wayland call on the same kernel features.

Not a fork of course but there is Redox

https://www.redox-os.org/

Yes. Thank you. My question (or point) was how you know that the package needs to be updated? As you point out, I need to do that for dependencies as well.

You are certainly correct though. You can pull AUR packages and build them without yay or paru.

I was thinking mostly of iso images I guess. You are talking about package updates.

First, fair point.

That said, for package updates, are there not Alpine mirrors? You do not need much bandwidth to feed out to the mirrors.

But I agree that, ultimately, they are going to have to find a home for the package repos if they want to directly feed their install base.

As for “the other costs”, those do not seem to have anything to do with their hosting going away.

Um. Ya, I guess. Ok.

First, how do you keep that package up to date?

Real question though is, do you really think that is better than “yay -S AURpackagehere” or even “paru AURpackagehere”?

I still have one of those! Works flawlessly.

I currently have Linux on:

• two MacBook Airs
• two MacBook Pros
• two iMacs
• one 2013 Mac Pro ( Proxmoxx )

So, you could say that I like Linux on Apple hardware. All of the above is older kit by the way.

I also have Dell and Thinkpad machines but the Apple units are by far my favourite to use.

One thing that certainly sucks though is the soldered on RAM. I have a 2012 MacBook with 16 gigs of RAM (upgraded). My much newer units will never have more than 8.

If you are worried that the script will be malicious, Distrobox does not help.

However, if your main concern is that it is going to make a mess, Distrobox is the perfect solution.

This is the way

I am a massive Distrobox fan. I do not use it for security though.

• create environments for specific purposes: dev, testing, cybersecurity work, video, AI, etc
• access to the full app library of any distro
• isolation of multiple large apps for easy and complete removal when you are done with them
• use Glibc apps on your MUSL distro
• install apps easily on an immutable distro
• total compatibility ( eg. Legally install a real RHEL9 Distrobox for free )
• ”try out” an unfamiliar distro without a VM
• experiment and break things without messing up your main system
• separate your distro base from your userland ( eg. Minimal Debian Stable install with pretty much all apps coming from an Arch Linux Distrobox ). Rock solid stability of the base system paired with a massive ecosystem of up-to-date packages.

Use Slackware to Linux like it is 1993. Nothing wrong with that.

Ya. Ok. But pacman does not let you use the AUR. Using the AUR is one did the primary reasons to choose Arch.

So, if you want to use the AUR, you need to use something like yay or paru. And, if you do, you no longer need to use pacman.

To be clear to the newbies, pacman -Syu updates your entire system ( except packages from the AUR ). yay -Syu updates your entire system, including packages from the AUR.

If you just ran yay -Syu, running pacman -Syu will report that there is “nothing to do” since your system will already be up to date.

The same is true if you sub paru for yay above.

Paru is a yay alternative. You can use either one. Just pointing this out since yay is mentioned in a lot of the other comments. I am not saying not to use paru. I am just pointing out that it is not something different. You can use paru instead of hay in any of the other comments in this thread. Or use yay instead of paru in this one.

You are better off using -Ss with yay than pacman. If you use pacman, it only searches the Arch repos. If you use yay, it also searches the AUR.

The only thing I have ever installed using Flatpak on Arch is pgAdmin. Inkscape from the repos works fine for me.