Ok buddy...

Find a source you like

Literally all media in the region is funded by the government and/or EU/USA. So, can you guess who is going to expose corruption in the government, and who is prohibited from doing that?

yet the agreement is for some reason written in English. I'm calling bullshit.

This is some funny looking English. Besides that, why wouldn't a fake company, that takes away passports from it's workers on arrival, also have parts of the contract in a foreign language? It's not like it stands out from the whole human trafficker vibe... Funny how they're now being accused of the same thing by Indian workers.

It's interesting you skipped the part about imported prison labour building the most expensive highways. Or did I misinterpret the situation when I saw Asian dudes dressed in rags milling about in a fenced camp surrounded by armed guards? Maybe it's just how Chinese workers feel at home, same as not washing from fall to spring.

IMO too much "Tutorial", not enough Review. For example:

The spectrwm workflow is unique. It took me awhile to become acquainted with the standard flow and gain comfort in using it. I did have to bend, fold, and spindle the environment a bit

You haven't written a single word on how it's different from any tiling manager, nor what and why you changed.

Generally the article feels like the first comment in unixporn, where you list out your relevant dotfiles. The only extra information is that you like it, and a list of dependencies for your config.

My optimism ends at China being good for China. For the rest of us third worlders, they're just the newest foreign exploiter (that might maybe turn good at some point).

For example the Export–Import Bank of China loves giving out loans with minimum spending oversight, at higher interest rates than the competition. Our politicians (organized criminals) take out a loan, and hire a Chinese company to build a highway. The Chinese company imports prisoners as free labor, and builds the highway for extravagant prices. Since they're spending practically no money on the labor, as they don't even have access to hot water for showering, I'm guessing the profits are split between the parties. All of those deals smell worse than Chinese prison camps in winter, and you can smell those long before you see them.

In the last 10 years the debt of my country to China has multiplied 12 times, and is now 2x the debt to the European Investment Bank. Xi and other high party officials are always happy with our deepening friendship and cooperation, and he even came to check stuff out before it really ramped up.

Meanwhile, literally every factory and project they're involved in is an ecological disaster, surrounded by armed guards to prevent any journalist or NGO from peeking in. And when they for example manage to prove that a factory is releasing toxic sewage directly into a river that feeds a national reserve with endangered endemic species, our minister of ecology responds by essentially telling the assembled journalists to fuck off and mind their own business. The same factory was initially built by a couple hundred Vietnamese workers living in inhumane conditions, whose passports were taken away as soon as they entered the country. (more China fun times in the Balkans)

Thanks for giving me research topics

Is it the same system that created omnipresent and blatant corruption Xi's been purging locally for the last decade?

I say locally because exploitation and cultivation of corruption is still the basis for their relations with developing countries.

If you're running unstable system packages, immutability won't really save your stability.

So don't complicate it, and just use Debian with nix and home-manager. That way you have a stable base, and you can create a list of bleeding edge packages that should be installed. In any case it should be essentially only docker + whatever can't be dockerised.

Nice, thanks

That’s a really hacky method and should not be in the manual tbh.

That's why I'm asking, it seemed really odd.

home-manager

Thanks, this makes a lot more sense. Any good resources besides the wiki? Is there a way to break down home.packages into smaller chunks for modularity?

As for flakes: No, you don’t require them to do any of this. They solve an entirely different problem.

So they're just to ensure reproducibility?

Like, okay, even if I BLATANTLY ran it I can't even justify 200 fucking dollars for it.

In my third world country that would cost you at least twice as much, and you'd also lose your licence for at least 3 months.

But on the other hand the traffic cams won't record you unless all 4 of your wheels were in front of the traffic lights when they turned red.

I can't open the later one, the image fails to load.

UN supervision, now that's a horrific idea.

I like this one, Yugoslavia strong! Any non-aligned type of alliances?

I'd include both completely, but would have to think real hard about Bulgaria

Don't leave Istra out of Yugoslavia. They were really big on antifascism. It's not right to let them continue suffering for it. At that point you might as well include the Dalmatian coastline and islands. Amazing for the economy, and very low nationalistic tendencies, especially on the islands. And let's not forget regions of Krajina that weren't completely ethnically cleansed.

Think about Republika Srpska. Literally today Stuart Peach came out to say that it can't be independent. Shit's really heating up

Check out if KDE connect works for you. You can launch any scripts you make, and control the input from your phone.

If it does, any stable distro like Debian should work fine for that purpose.

Auto launch depends on the DE

I could maybe get Bulgaria, but Albania... Now that's just not going to end well

The fuck is going on in the Balkan, you setting up the new Balkan wars?

The whole Kosovo thing was about creating military bases on Kosovo and smuggling Afghan heroin from Turkey into Europe. They slowly started pulling out of Kosovo after they pulled out of Afghanistan, but Albanians took that as an opportunity to even more blatantly break treaties, and Serbs started getting riled up because on top of all the bullshit they're also occasionally getting shot at in the streets. So now USA is sending in some NATO big shots to do something (probably prove that shooting at Serbs is genocide against Albanians or some other bs).

Article on the war in Ukraine

First two paragraphs are about how Serbians kill children

I guess we know where NATO wants to go next...

The first time I installed Fedora after like a decade I updated to new minor version -> sudo reboot because I was already in the terminal -> reinstalled because it wouldn't boot anymore

stable

without issues

Arch

Go north a bit and there are 2 competing criteria to get free university education:

• you're in top % of your class

• you've collected a certain number of points by passing courses

I've seen both in action, and the top student model is pretty shit because it encourages backstabbing instead of solidarity. Even if there's no direct backstabbing, people are less likely to help their colleagues because it can negatively impact them.