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I assume they didn't mean seasonal as in "can only be used in certain seasons", rather that you occupy it for vacation or summer or whatever. Not sure if you are from a non-mountany or very populated country, but where I come from, mountain "hüttes" are a thing and do not contribute to the housing crisis - or at least not in the usual way I can think of. Some people choose to live in those areas, I am very envious of their courage and peace :) But 99% do not make this choice, just use it for winter/summer long get-aways.

Wow, this map is very interesting and cool! But I must state the obvious: cardinal directions very much lose meaning on this one haha, not even just a little like in some other good candidates :) And yes, we don't need precise latitudes and longitudes anymore in these days for every-day map use - hence it is even possible to talk about changing to a more "fair" projection - , but looking in a school room at this map and trying to identify with children which direction Mexico is to Cuba becomes non-trivial. This is also a form of sacrifice in this context, which of course is up to discussion.

“This discussion is not a political discussion [but] a scientific discussion, because there is scientific proof so we all have to accept the reality,” he said.

Bit of a weird statement, haha. Of course it is political, the scientific reality is you cannot perfectly map a sphere to two dimensions... The political part is what we agree to sacrifice, and - in my opinion completely fairly - they want to take "relative land area" off the list of sacrifices.

You keep linking this URL without any context or explanation, could you please point me to what you are trying to say? All I see is an asshole dev with a toxic discord being a crybaby, not a nazi like in the case of Omarchy...

I read through all the comments here, and at time of writing I kind of don't like that Hyprland and Omarchy are both labelled as nazi software... It is mentioned in multiple comments that being an asshole developer is not the same as being a nazi, yet people still call Hyprland "nazi software". Why? Vaxry is an asshole, but according to this nazi<->asshole categorisation, I don't find it accurate that people here (with many likes on each such comment) rightfully call Omarchy nazi software and give examples why that is true, and then just casually attach Hyprland into the nazi category because... (???) the dev is an asshole?

I think there is quite a wide political spectrum finding your comment distasteful way before we arrive at tankie territory...

I think you misunderstand the CCP part a bit. This guy used to be a minister of foreign affairs, so he had access to critical, secret information from inner circles of the EU. His boss is now Wang Chuanfu, a member of the CCP. Even if you contest the fact of this having any strategical consequences for the EU, I hope we all agree that this pairing is at minimum: awkward :)

Well, I see two categories of langague that are being taken under a single umbrella here:

• Natural every-day language, to which my point still stands. "Lying" definitely falls into this category. I can only repeat here the above, we simply talk like this. You cannot expect human language to be 100% formal precise all the time in this sense.
• More formal definitions. Yes, here I agree a bit that these should be as precise as possible. But when it comes to definitions, I also don't think this is something that affects our ability to talk about it. When a paper or a dictionary defines what a term means, that's the meaning we imply by using the term. Not the parts the term is made up from. There are plenty of latine names for animals and plants that we use, even though the individual parts of the name are not actually true about that animal and come from misdocumentation or a misconception. Nazis are not socialist, despite their name conatining the word. What I do agree with is that the imprecise naming might cause confusion when being new to the term, but once the talking and thinking starts, you would already be at a point where you know what the term means.

I have to be honest, reading this article gave me a bit of a bad mouth taste, but let's see if someone here in the comments sees it otherwise. We anthropomorphise so many things as part of language; not because we think they are human, but simply because it eases the use of language. When I say that a vending machine gave me an error code, I don't literally mean that it handed something to me... Critisizing "AI" as a piece of terminology is not critisizing AI, it is critisizing natural language. Changing language around "probabilistic automation" (the proposed terminology to replace "AI") will not change anything about the moral, ecologic and legal problems that people in this lemmy channel take issue with.

I mean, you are right in this sense I guess. I see this topic from the POV of an arch user in the original sense: I installed the OS myself and made concious decisions about how I built up my OS, I by default read the wiki, I know why and how I do what in my system installation. From my POV it is obvious that there is no problem here. But maybe due to the rise of the user friendly arch-based OS-es (which is an oxymoron in my opinion) the current state of the OS should be reevaluated.

In the end, my opinion still is that if you use tools like yay, you are probably not the target audience, and maybe got lured into using arch due to the memes or stigma. Maybe the entry barrier should be lifted in the sense that for example the AUR and archinstall are split off the project into their separate own thing. Weird situation IMO...

The arch wiki page for the AUR has a big, vibrant red box in the intro section stating:

Warning AUR packages are user-produced content. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

If you have ever installed something through the AUR in the intended way, you would know that it does not involve running the package manager tool until the very last step. You need to git checkout the package recipe, build it. This is clearly what the post you are answering to meant by "not part of the arch linux repositories".

I wouldn't really categorise it as a fuckup. These are unofficial packages from the AUR. You should trust them as much as random install scripts from a no-name website or git repo.