Hello! I've got a new Arch install that I'm in the process of setting up, however I wanted to do things differently this time around for the goal of getting this system as stable as possible without sacrificing features. So, the AUR...
I've used yay
extensively and paru
briefly before, but this time to achieve that goal I wanted to try aurutils
with a local repository. I'm in the process of setting that up and using the command:
repo-add aur-local.db.tar
which gives the output:
==> No changes made to package database.
In all the guides I've gotten open in all these tabs, the output I should be getting starts with this:
==> Creating updated database file...
When I run the command, for a microsecond I get a file appear in Thunar but then disappears. Running pacman -Syy
fails as the repo's database file obviously doesn't exist. No matter what I search I can't find anyone else with this problem nor a solution.
My system is a manual Arch installation, no archinstall
, using the XFCE desktop. My shell is fish
and, I can't see this having any influence whatsoever but my DM is ly
.
My pacman.conf
: Gitea
My pacman.d/aur-local.conf
: Gitea
Hi! I'm currently using XFCE on my laptop, I was previously using Compify as my compositor (XFWM is quite rough), but stopped when I noticed I could no longer get through the day on one charge. My battery life doubled when switching back to XFWM. So I was wondering if anyone knows of any X compositors that have a focus on energy efficiency?
To declare the elephant in the room, I would use Wayland if the only two desktops that properly support it weren't trying to be entire operating systems themselves. I can't use standalone compositors like Sway or River because I need this laptop for school, I can't be configuring it constantly, I simply don't have the time.
I'm aware that XFCE is working on Wayland support, and I'm patient enough to wait if there are no compositors like I'm describing. XFWM isn't the end of the world.
Thanks for your time :)
Hi all, I'm working on a Solarpunk world building project and I want to know your thoughts on one of the main features of my world. To preface all this and provide some context, my world is an alternate-history with a divergence point sometime in the 2020s. The divergence was caused by a vocal and technically-skilled group of Green-Anarchists that labelled themselves as "Dawn".
Dawn did a whole host of things to ween people off of Capitalism and into my Solarpunk world, I've gone into immense detail on this but I doubt it's relevancy to my question so I'll omit all those details, but there was a tipping-point in which Capitalism crumbled and gave into Dawn's Anarcho-Solar world.
To make sure the world stayed Solarpunk and to give people stress-free lifestyles, they developed 1 AI and 1 AGI. The AGI manages all Dawn technology, such as Dawn power generation, carbon-capture, a global hyper-loop etc and the AI makes sure no one tampers with the AGI (For those unaware, AGI is Artificial General Intelligence, so for example Skynet is an AGI since it can think and do many things, but ChatGPT is an AI because it can only do text).
Most people in my world wont ever have to think about the AI and AGI, it is taught in my education system to make people aware in case of catastrophe but it mostly manages itself and is monitored by the longest-serving Dawn members.
I simply want to know if machines like this can exist in Solarpunk with it remaining Solarpunk, and if people like the idea or not. If you want to know more about my world building then feel free to ask! Thanks for your time in advance :)
P.S. I should mention that AI and AGI are mirrored across 8 different instances and for the most part work independently of each other, meeting only when strictly necessary. This is to give even more defense against tampering and error.
Edit 1: Changed title from Overlord to Background, Overlord implies oppression which the system doesn't do.
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