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I love the DW TV channel. Solid documentaries. Nice special formats on all kind of topics. Competent journalists and interesting and prolific guests in interview formats. Broadcasts in HD without a Pay-TV subscription. My default TV channel. Highly recommended.

Markus Frohnmaier looks evil AF. According to his Wikipedia he is. Mind you he is not from the AfD infested ex-GDR but from the southern Germany state Baden-Württemberg. Let's dissect his Wikipedia entry a bit:

• Born in Romania (lol) and never got to know his natural parents. First he wasn't scheduled for adoption because of his weak constiution but was subsequently adopted by a german couple.

• Got an economy high school diploma but dropped out of college.

• Married to a Russian journalist previously working for the state affiliated Iswestija owned by Gazprom-Media.

• Member of the parliament since 2017. Chairman of the far-right AfD regional association in Baden-Württemberg.

• Employed multiple persons from the far-right-extremist spectrum. His own positions are openly far-right-extremist and xenophopic.

• Media investigations found out that the Russian Federation supported him to influence German election campaigns in the parliament elections 2017. In a strategy paper that was obtained by the SPIEGEL, ZDF, BBC and La Repubblica, Wladimir Putin called him a "member of parliament under absolut control".

• The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution concluded 2019 that Frohnmaier legitimizes "Attacks on the state monopoly on the use of force", has connections "to far-right-extremist publishers" and "to the anti-islam German Defence League" (which is also associated with the violent hooligan scene and is observed by Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution). Frohmaier demands after AfD's takeover of power that the Federal Constitutional Court will be stacked with judges loyal to the party.

• He was a chairman of the "Junge Alternative für Deutschland", the youth organisation of the AfD which was deemed safe far-right-extreme by German federal judges and dissolved 2025.

• In a speech in Erfurt he said: "To those left ideological terrorists, that party cronyism: When we take over we'll clean up and throw out the manure. Then politics will be made for the people and only for the people - because we are the people, dear friends".

• He welcomed the Annexation of the Krim by Russia.

• He met with the spokesperson Martin Sellner of the austrian Identitarian movement who's got an entry ban to multiple countries and was the initiator of a meeting of AfD, CDU and entrepreneurs in 2024, notably in the vicinity of the first Wannseekonference, in which the massdeportation after an AfD takeover was discussed.

• After Joe Biden was elected he wrote "No gratulations for the globalistic election fraudster Joe Biden."

• He met with Alexander Dugin and published on his rightwing-intellectual site Katechon

• He met with pro-russian separatists in Donezk in 2016.

• He founded the "German center for Eurasian Studies" together with a polish citizen who was deemed a chinese and russian agent by the state prosecutors office.

• In 2019 he became a member of the "Yalta International Economic Forum" controlled by the FSB.

He suffered a heart attack at the age of 27.

I don't eat plant based cheese also I ate quite a lot of the real deal in the past. Maybe when I'm making Pizza or plant based circular shaped pellets within some buns but that's very seldom. I just looked up what's in violife and it's got an equally short ingredient list:

Water, coconut oil (23%), modified starch, starch, sea salt, cheddar flavor, olive extract, colorings (paprika extract, beta-carotene), vitamin B12.

But yeah apart from the ominous cheddar flavor it seems very basic, too. Coconut oil should be consumed sparsely because it is "92% saturated fat and therefore raises cholesterol levels similar to animal fats (butter, lard). However, it contains a unique type of medium chain saturated fat called lauric acid that research shows raises HDL or 'good' cholesterol levels, which may lower overall heart disease risk."

Yeah I mostly cook whole food but I just need those convenience meat replacements with my dinners. TVP, tofu- or seitan based burgers or sausages, chickpea-, lentil- and buckwheat-noodles and protein powders make it so much easier to get loads of protein than just lentils, peas and rice and keep me way more satiated. Oh sorry I called them burgers and sausages. I didn't want to confuse the reader. I meant plant based protein sticks and circular shaped pellets ofc.

Don't know about the place you're living but in Germany the ingredient lists of most vegan convenience products don't need much research to understand. Some examples:

Seitan Wild West Burger

1 cup (227 g)

Protein 60 g, Calories 553 kcal

• 54% seitan
• 26% wheat protein texturate
• sunflower oil
• onions
• soysauce
• yeast extract
• spices
• rocksalt
• riceflour
• carob bean gum

Cordon Bleu

This products naming seems already proactively adjusted to the EU policy as it once was called "Schnitzel Cordon Bleu"

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 526 kcal, Protein 20 g

• Drinking water
• canola oil
• wheat flour
• soy protein
• wheat gluten
• starch
• oat straw fibers
• iodized table salt [table salt, potassium iodate (in very small amounts in iodized salt, it is considered safe and beneficial)]
• thickener: methylcellulose (natural fiber from plants), corn flour, natural flavoring, wheat starch, spirit vinegar, spices, sugar, herbs, potato protein, psyllium husks, tomato powder, yeast, table salt
• coloring foods: concentrates of radish, carrot

Planted Steak

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 413 kcal, Protein 38 g

• water
• soyprotein
• canola oil
• rice- and beanflour
• beetroot concentrate
• yeast extract
• cultures (?!)
• cane sugar
• salt
• vitamin B12

Seitan Sausage Chorizo

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 560 kcal, Protein 65 g

• seitan 64%
• bell pepper
• coconut fat
• onions
• yeast extract
• spices
• rocksalt
• carob bean gum
• beech wood smoke

Oh you probably meant the Orwellian undertone, right?

I have quite some faith in them keeping their word regarding the ethical side considering their track-record on their FOSS stance. The Nextcloud "CEO" Frank Karlitschek has a very hard stance regarding privacy and also spares no words regarding the situation in the US. Don't even know if this specific AI thing will go upstream as it's very domain specific. I consider the government of the state of SH as one of better ones in Germany though I live in another state. I haven't lost all faith in the Green party and their minister president seems a bit more progressive than most other CDU politicians.

Don't know about the monetary side but I read in an interview with someone from the Green-party who's in charge in SH (ironically with the conservative CDU) that they'll operate under a "upstream-only" strategy which means they won't create forks of projects but contribute their changes directly into the original repos, e.g. they're working on AI solutions with Nextcloud to accelerate buerocratic processes within the public sector (with a focus on the ethical aspect).

Thanks. Seems you're correct and Sunshine profits from CUDA when using this NVFBC but it doesn't seem to explicitly depend on it to run. I tried it pretty soon after installing EOS and can't imagine having installed CUDA so early. Last time I explicitly did it was for Ollama.

I just looked on that EOS machine on which Sunshine worked right from the start and no CUDA package is installed but nevertheless nvidia-smi shows CUDA Version 13. This seems to be because the nvidia driver brings the CUDA runtime with it which differs from the big CUDA toolkit. I'll try CachyOS again when I eventually buy an AMD GPU.

I think you meant Cachy when you pointed out Limine is an option while doing automatic partitioning. And yes this worked very good. I meant that Endeavour doesn't offer it at that point in install.

Have a nice week.

Don't want to diss CachyOS. They're sure doing tremendous work for the gaming community and all the default themes for the different WMs and DEs look enticing. I'm sure this was a case of PEBKAC.

Yes AFAIK it is in the extra repo, which I'd always prefer to the AUR. Thing is, I tried Apollo beforehand, as I wanted clipboard support, which was probably only available in the AUR. Maybe that borked something with the install. I could install Sunshine though but Moonlight from my main Endeavor install couldn't make any connection even with opening all the wanted ports in the firewall.

Recently tried CachyOS on my HTPC. Couldn't get Sunshine to run. It looked beautiful though and the docs seemed really in-depth. Endeavour (thanks to Arch, I know) is just so stable and fast. Just the right amount of pre-installed stuff like reflector, yay, the firewall-config app for firewalld with sane defaults, nice BTRFS subvolume layout, correct NVidia drivers. Would be nice to have Limine (for BTRFS snapshots) as an option besides SystemD boot and Grub in Calamares but I installed it in addition to SystemD boot. Gaming works tremendously good. Everything else too.

I really can't recall the last time an update went wrong. On both of my machines (one Intel, one AMD, both NVidia).