I was reading @superkret@feddit.org and @MaggiWuerze@feddit.org exchange and I found it an interesting - albeit moot - topic. So I went and spent the last hour to download some data and filter it: I will post some numbers with no commentary. I will add my opinions after them in a spoiler.

imf.org GDP, current prices, Billion of U.S. dollars

2023 GDP Nominal
NATO 52392,344
BRICS 27330,345

2024 GDP Nominal (estimates)
NATO 55148,819
BRICS 28442,630

imf.org GDP, current prices, Purchasing power parity; billions of international dollars

2023 GDP PPP
NATO 63996,245
BRICS 66010,889

2024 GDP PPP (estimates)
NATO 66812,821
BRICS 70911,69

imf.org GDP based on PPP, share of world

2023 GDP PPPSH
NATO 34,731
BRICS 35,824

2024 GDP PPPSH (estimates)
NATO 34,339
BRICS 36,446

BRICS

Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates

NATO

Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Republic of Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States

Finally, a relatable story that warms my heart in these trying times!

“Sailor moon eating a crow, while wearing a crow, while riding a crow, and is also a crow.”

That’s a murder for sure

Some Nexus missions are targeted to groups, which makes them tedious to do alone, just for the sheer amount of things to kill/retrieve etc

Aside from that - which is honestly a small optional part of the game - you can disable the multiplayer from the Network options and never think about it

6 months?! That’s geriatric in machine’s years!

Good guys GovCorp, keeping it real

I honestly don’t really remember the main quest progression (I last did it a really long time ago), but I think there were a couple of steps that were time or exploration/research gated…

I can say that the story of Artemis has an ending, you should probably just try go on and research some Archive related things on the Base computer or jump around to new systems

As a general rule, IMHO, to really enjoy it you should treat NMS as a sandbox game that happens to have a story that sometimes pops up

TLDR: They added Fishing

More info here

Honestly? Love it.

If you are talking about Lasagne - the pasta type and not the finished product, you would be right in saying you can find it both with eggs and without, by the article it says it is a north/south thing in Italy. But honestly you can find thousands of variations of them even moving just a few dozens kilometer.

On the contrary to be spaghetti and not something else they need to be - to directly quote - “a special pasta format made exclusively from durum wheat semolina and water, with a long, thin shape and round cross section.”

I’m not sure if it is the same outside of Italy. But at the end just do what makes you happy.

This is getting weird.

If I would generate an image with an AI and then take a photo of it, I could copyright the photo, even if the underlying art is not copyrightable, just like the leaves?

So, in an hypothetical way, I could hold a copyright on the photo of the image, but not on the image itself.

So if someone would find the model, seed, inference engine and prompt they could theoretically redo the image and use it, but until then they would be unable to use my photo for it?

So I would have a copyright to it through obscurity, trying to make it unfeasible to replicate?

This does sound bananas, which - to be fair - is pretty in line with my general impression of copyright laws.

The only two things I can currently think of are:

1. Shut down the PC and try inverting the slot your monitors are plugged in in the graphic card
2. Right click on the Desktop -> Swap the primary Display -> Apply -> Swap it back

Honestly I’m not sure if it will help but I don’t have other ideas aside from purging the configuration, which is probably not the solution and unwarrented.

Another thing to try would be a search on the KDE bugtracker.

I didn’t know about this project, so I took a quick look around.

I didn’t see any mention of Telemetry or Metrics, but I assume they can use this:

After starting Tails and connecting to Tor, Tails Upgrader automatically checks if upgrades are available and then proposes you to upgrade your USB stick. The upgrades are checked for and downloaded through Tor.

https://tails.net/doc/upgrade/index.en.html#automatic

Still, I just gave this a few minutes, so there could be more.

They are on the Odyssey bridge, pointing at the Ori warships passing through the Supergate!

Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television

I’m not sure this is going to directly affect that, because their deal talks mainly about financing for the Control game, and the other news is about movie adaptations, so probably it is going to be another team, lead by the newly re-hired Hector Sanchez, working on that…

But who knows, this kind of things are always hard to follow from the outside

So, I can’t install aur packages via pacman?

Nope, you have to do it manually or using an helper that abstracts the manual work away.

AUR packages, or to be more precise the PKGBUILD files, are recipes to compile or download stuff outside from the official repositories, manage their deps and installing them on the system.

You should always only run PKGBUILD files that you trust, they can do basically anything on your system. Checking the comments of the package in the aur repo is a good practice too.

Also Are you quoting certain nExT gEn gAmE guy?

…maybe

Also in wiki they didn’t mention anything about OpenSSL?

Sorry, that was my bad, I wrote OpenSSL instead of openvpn. That one is probably needed too, but you should not have to pull it manually.

Generally speaking the ArchWiki is one of the best, more structured and well maintained source of information about Linux things even for other distros, but it can too be outdated, so you should always check if the info is valid. In this case it seems so.

In theory you should be able to just install proton-vpn-gtk-app using one of the many AUR helpers and it should Just Work™. Paru and yay are the most commonly used ones - as far as I know - and they wrap around pacman too, so you can use them to do everything packages related. Usually Arch related distro use one of them, for example EndeavourOS have yay already installed.

At worst when you try to start protonvpn the GUI will not appear or immediately crash: if that happens, usually, you can try and run the program from the Shell and see what kind of error it returns and work your way from there. Checking if the deps listed in the wiki are installed is always a great first step.

Reading rorschac’s comment I assume both OpenSSL and wireguard are already installed on CachyOS, or anyway pulled by the aur package.

If you want to make sure you can install them explicitly before protonvpn:

paru openvpn wireguard-tools

or using yay or the vanilla pacman -Syu --needed openvpn wireguard-tools (it will sync and update the system too) or how it is suggested for CachyOS to install packages. I repeat I’ve no direct experience with that one.

If you are scared to mess things up you can always spin up a VM with CachyOS and try to install it inside that. If it all works you can then do the same on your main OS.

As a general advice, only run in your shell commands that you are sure about.

I can attest that this AUR package, which is the one indicated in the wiki, works fine on EndeavourOS, but I had to add the gnome key wallet (IIRC) to handle the VPN keys. I think that was fixed.

I have no experience with CachyOS.

To add to CookieShovel’s answer, that is the character representing the Zhou Dinasty.

From Wikipedia:

The Zhou dynasty ([ʈʂóʊ]; Chinese: 周)[c] was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from c. 1046 BC until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.

That was depressing.