Rusty Shackleford

is the price of sovereignty too high?

No. It’s not. I say this as a natural-born U.S. citizen.

It’s academic at this point, and probably doesn’t need to be said on a social media site like Lemmy, but free and open societies cannot trust the United States government anymore. It is now, and has been since 2016, firmly in the category of every other authoritarian pariah aggressor state on this shithole planet.

Until my fellow citizens and I conduct a 2nd American Revolution to depose the christo-fascist techno-feudalists, the U. S. A. should be considered an existential threat to your country wherever you are, just like the CCP, Putin’s regime, the Kim dynasty of dictators of the DPRK, the Islamo-fascists in Iran, the Saudi royal family, <insertAuthoritarianDouchebagsHere>, etc.

No state on Earth is an individual’s “friend”, to be clear; the pariah states will likely seek to kill you faster and more unscrupulously.

So they call their middle managers “POs”

A. k. a., “Pieces Of shit”.)

opposing the system is not worth the cost

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Nah. It’s underlying assumptions are wrong.

This meme is ass.

Personally, I love that series. I guess whoever made this meme thinks people who watch the show are trying to implement their code examples in production.

Who tf is Bob Martin?

~I know I can just search for him, but I don’t want to go down a rabbit hole on the internet.~

The verbiage of the first sentence is very telling.

We sincerely apologize for drawing so much attention…

…which to me reads as…

We’re sorry to our shareholders that we got caught with our pants down.

Yes, you are, but you’re also correct.

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“Leftists” who love the CCP, Vladimir Putin, Mao Zedong, <insertAuthoritarianBullyHere>, etc.

The denizens of HexBear are temporarily inconvenienced dictators in waiting.

There’s an aversion to LLMs for a lot of good reasons here on Lemmy, but I thought Gemini Flash 2.5 did a decent job of summarizing the “Why CachyOS” page on their website tailored for my system specifically. Below are my current specs of my main workstation:

Operating System: Kubuntu 25.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.0-8-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.2 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Manufacturer: ASUS

Gemini’s Explanation:

Switching from Kubuntu 25.10 to CachyOS on a powerhouse like your Ryzen 9 5950X (16-core, 32-thread) and RTX 3090 is a move from a “general-purpose” OS to one specifically “hand-crafted” for your hardware. While Kubuntu is a great all-rounder, CachyOS focuses on latency (how fast it reacts) and throughput (how much work it does at once). Here is the breakdown of what you can expect.

1. Performance & Throughput Gains With your specific 32-thread CPU, the gains are most visible when the system is under heavy load.

• System Responsiveness: Even if you are rendering a video or compiling code in the background, your desktop will feel as if the CPU is idle. This is where CachyOS shines—eliminating that “heavy” feeling during multitasking.
• Gaming Latency: You will see a significant improvement in 1% Lows (minimum framerates). This translates to a smoother experience with fewer micro-stutters, especially in CPU-bound games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, or Cyberpunk 2077.
• Massive Throughput: In specific tasks like file compression, encryption, or code compilation, you can see a 5% to 20% speedup simply because the software is written in a “language” your 5950X understands better than the generic version used by Kubuntu.

2. Kernel Optimizations (Layman’s Terms) The “BORE” Scheduler (The Intelligent Traffic Controller) Think of your 32 threads as 32 lanes on a highway.

• Kubuntu (Standard Linux): Treats every car (task) the same. If a massive slow truck (a background task) gets in the fast lane, your game or mouse movement has to wait behind it.
• BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer): It identifies “bursty” tasks (like you clicking a menu or moving your mouse) and gives them instant priority. It keeps the “trucks” in the slow lanes, ensuring your high-refresh-rate monitor always feels fluid. x86-64-v3 & v4 (The Modern Language) Standard Linux distros are built to run on CPUs from 15 years ago. They use “Basic English” so everyone understands.
• CachyOS: Uses “Advanced Technical English” (x86-64-v3/v4). Your 5950X supports these advanced instructions (like AVX2). Instead of your CPU taking five steps to solve a math problem, CachyOS gives it a single instruction to do it in one step.
• Result: Every single part of the OS, from the calculator to the desktop interface, is “pre-optimized” specifically for modern chips like yours. AutoFDO & Propeller (The “GPS” for your Code) CachyOS uses a technique where it “watches” how the software runs and then rebuilds it to be faster.
• It’s like a GPS that learns which roads have the most traffic and then redesigns the city layout so the most-used routes are the shortest. This reduces “stalling” inside the CPU.

3. Benefits for Your High-End Specs

Is it worth it?

Since you are already on Kubuntu 25.10 (a very new, “short-term” release), you clearly like having the latest features. CachyOS will give you those same features but with a noticeable “snappiness” that a generic distro cannot match.

I have reached the acceptance stage of being a pariah in the community for rejecting thinkpads, stickers on my laptop, the thigh-high socks, and tattoos.

I present as normie, but work colleagues have no idea I used to play in a hardcore thrash band and consumed large heroic doses of LSD and psilocybin throughout my 20s and 30s. Little bit of ketamine and MDMA from time to time as well.

Anyway, may you find the flair you’re looking for.

The poor nice ones get beaten by the naughty rich ones.

I don’t know what’s so hard to understand about “you’re not allowed to put your hands on someone unless they put their hands on you first”, but go off, I guess.

I’m not defending this guy, and yes, as I stated laws can be changed to account for new technologies and new definitions of public spaces and privacy rights.

The point I’m making is that people shouldn’t start altercations that may have permanent consequences over their anger control problems, including the woman in question.

You can’t put your hands on people unless they put their hands on you first, tough guy.

Are we talking about the hypothetical being posed or a different one?

TLDR: The law and it’s philosophical/moral foundation and practical application doesn’t run on what you think, and society is better for it.

Once again, the law says you aren’t protected from being recorded in a public space, attractive or not. There’s a plethora of ways to legally record people overtly and covertly in public. The law also says you can’t grab other people’s stuff and destroy it to prevent being recorded.

If the guy was assaulting her or disturbing the peace, she’d be justified in using violence to defend herself. She also had the option to talk to a cop and accuse this guy of harassment, which he was doing and others may have recorded evidence of that. But one is not morally or legally justified in starting fights, only finishing them as self-defense. The amount of force legally acceptable falls under the umbrella of the concept of “reasonable application of force” within what’s commonly known as a “force escalation continuum”.

So, no “creeps” shouldn’t be allowed to record women as that would constitute harassment, but it’s better to go through proper legal channels than pretend to be a tough-guy/girl and start an altercation that may have permanent consequences.

The Corporatist Oligarchy wants him in the presidency (for now).

I can see an angle when refusal is going to escalate things badly for reasons that could be understood.

Whatever “angle” you see is your mind trying to justify forcefully grabbing someone’s property to destroy it.

I don’t like surveillance either.

But you can’t go around forcefully breaking other people’s stuff unless it threatens your well being at that moment.