Just sharing my personal experience with this:
I used Gemini multiple times and it worked great. I have some weird symptoms that I described to Gemini, and it came up with a few possibilities, most likely being “Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome”.
My doctor had never heard of it, and only through showing them the articles Gemini linked as sources, would my doctor even consider allowing a CT scan.
Turns out Gemini was right.
Ventrilo was awful, having huge delay. Also no persistent chat.
TeamSpeak is proprietary and required a license for more than 8 users iirc. Chat might have been persistent?
Mumble was/is king in terms of voice chat. Open source, fully featured, strong certificate based security, best latency. It’s used as backend in many big games, too. No persistent chat, though.
We used IRC for chat and Mumble for voice like 10 years ago when I played Eve Online. Works great!
I like Gemini a lot and use it often, but I did disable it for web search.
Of course it’s his choice, it’s his system.
The general advice is that handpicking updates from main repos is a big no-no. There are only a couple of reasons you would ever need that, like updating archlinux-keyring on a very outdated system.
Even on my 13 year old install with many thousands of packages, it’s not hard to spot if anything is out of the ordinary when doing huge upgrades. You should pay attention.
That being said, I often just do pacman -Syu --noconfirm && poweroff these days. It’s so rare that anything breaks and I can very easily fix it if it does.
Just look at their principles.
If your upgrade says anything out of the ordinary, which it most definitely did here, that should probably trigger something in you. This is the case for any distro.
Same, my desktop PC had Arch installed in 2012 lol
Arch is definitely not “an experimental distro”. It doesn’t just break, and all the software in their repos is considered stable.
If you have been using Arch for any meaningful amount of time, the massive output from OPs upgrade should be glaring.
The whole point of the update is to avoid the silly Windows-like mentality of flatpack. It splits the package up so you can choose what you want instead of installing a bunch of crap you won’t ever use. If OP had been awake while doing a full upgrade on his bleeding edge system, he would have noticed.
Yeah I can’t believe he’s been using Arch for 5 years and didn’t even bat an eye over the massive pacman output
When an upgrade spits out that much text, you should bat an eye.
My group of friends pay €5.50 each for premium.
Spotify is €14.61.
There’s no way YouTube is a profitable business.
With YouTube Family it’s €5.50 for me and my friends.
I’ve had it for years with a group of friends and even with the price increase, it’s still well worth it (maybe $6 converted).
It’s the only media subscription I have and I use it every single day.
I don’t get this extreme hatred for asking money for such a massive service. YouTube streams unfathomable amounts of video and there’s no way it’s a profitable business to begin with.
It’s obviously based purely on my own (admittedly vast) experience on the internet.
I think the average age here is much higher than on reddit, for what it’s worth. Playing lots of video games, though, has taught me that at least half of the adults act like children anyway.
Not my first language, sorry
In my mind, some edgy-looking anime dude is very different from anime booba.
While both remove validity of argumentation, the former probably means you’re a minor, and the ladder means you will never have a social life outside the internet.
Actually, the apple climbs up the tree and claims it made it
Sure, but it would be illegal for a human to coerce/encourage a mentally ill person to commit crime (or worse).
So who’s responsible? Caretaker? Government?