Only 8 countries? C’mon Europe, you can do much better!

The ‘O’ stands for manipulation…

rolling release (for gaming)

Seriously… after all these years without some pesky version upgrade screwing things up I couldn’t bring myself to install a non-rolling distro on any device I actively use.

Yeah, but -again- that’s not the reality.

We barely see production of standardised equipment by domestic industry (usually under license).

What we see instead is France loving to quit every common project once it’s clear that they don’t have 100% control over every detail (remember that APACHE shitshow that brought us two conceptionally identical cruise missiles, produced by different parts of the same company? Just because Germany’s idea about a bunker-busting warhead was totally stupid… until France could continue development alone and suddenly came to the same conclusion).

Or Norway developing their own anti-air system based on German IRIS-T SL missiles. Because we totally need a second system that does the exact same thing with the same ammunition but developed and build by Kongsberg instead of Diehl.

Or Poland buying two different tanks from outside of Europe. Because it’s all about the tech transfer for the domestic industry while not giving money to that pesky in-Europe competition… so South Korea and US it is.

Or Germany, Netherlands and Belgium actively screwing up their plans for a new frigate class right now. Because they all want something different …build by the same shipyard even, that seems totally unable to manage those different projects on a sane time frame.

(And I could probably continue like this for quite some time…)

Oh, and when countries manage to cooperate while all getting work shares for their domestic industry we get logistical bullshit like the Eurofighter. As in: the exact opposite of independent domestic production of a standard product but everyone producing another part for the same end product for maximised dependency on each project member.

Yeah, sure… Europe is occupied by the US… 🤣

there is even a term for this, “Staaträson,” which refers to unconditional support for Israel

No it doesn’t. “Staatsräson” is just the classic term for national interest.

And there is no unconditional support for Israel. That’s the fairy tale of the same conservative propagandists that convinced you do vote for them or don’t vote at all because tHeY aRe AlL tHe SaMe anyway… The “we unconditionally support Israel” bullshit comes from the same despicable people who spend years learning from their MAGA buddies how to campaign on bullshit and culture wars and who constantly sane-wash every Trumpian brain- (and other) fart. Coincidence?

In reality the only unconditional thing is Israel’s right to exist as a country. Germany, just like the EU, favors a two-state solution (yet both sides are too insane and genocidal to ever agree on anything that could achieve peace…).

And guess what the population thinks about the “Israel has a right to exist” version. It’s not controversial at all. Neither is the opinion that they are all equally insane and not interested in peace…

Then it will never happen because every single country will for economical and political reasons chose domestic producers over alternatives every single time.

How will we replace the 100,000-strong American standing military force, which is the back-bone military force in Europe?

Always this popular fairy tale. In reality they are the backbone of US logistics for operations in Africa and Asia.

Sure… if people constantly vote the same lying and corrupt populists into office it’s some “political caste” that is to blame, not the persistent stupidity of people or the media constantly brain-washing those idiots.

It’s really crazy

You have successfully described the majority of voters.

Wish we could… But we can’t reject the argument because we don’t control the story. The guys getting insanely rich from fossil fuels and buying media (and politicians) do. And the majority of people blindly believes everything if they just hear it often enough.

And I only recently learned that a separate vimdiff command exists (not that it makes a difference over vim -d)…

Arch live ISO gives you arch-chroot which does all the binds automatically

That isn’t neccessary. nvidia-open automatically replaced nvidia (same for nvidia-open-dkms, nvidia-open-utils etc) when 590 hit and installing any of those nvidia-580xx packages will ask to remove them because they conflict.

It should be illegal to use pacman without pacman-contrib installed for checkupdates (no risk of partial upgrades) and for comparing and merging .pacnew-files with pacdiff…

While the distinction can be important, the snapshots from right before the update are exactly what you want in this case over some actual but always somewhat outdated real backup

“Doesn’t help” is a bit unspecific for an actual answer.

I simply installed nvidia-580xx-dkms and nvidia-580xx-utils and that was all. If you did not already use the dkms-driver package before you of course also need <your kernel>-headers and dkms (but the latter should be pulled as a dependency for nvidia-580xx-dkms anyway)…

Which automatically asks for the removal of nvidia-open (the standard package for the base linux kernel) or nvidia-open-dkms and nvidia-open-utils that replaced the earlier nvidia, nvidia-dkms, nvidia-utils packages when 590 hit.

PS: If you still have stuff using 32bit add (you might have guessed the scheme by now…) lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils to replace lib32-nvidia-open-utils

nvidia was automatically replaced with nvidia-open (also nvidia-open-lts, nvidia-open-dkms etc).

Simply installing nvidia-580xx-dkms, nvidia-580xx-utils (and lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils because Steam still needs all that 32bit stuff), which automatically removes the 590-open stuff because of conflicts, should be all you need to do.

PS: And of course your kernel’s header package if you did not use dkms before… (dkms should be pulled as a dependency automatically)

What couldn’t Europe do? They are easily ⅔ of NATO in equipment and soldiers. What the US is bringing is mostly the logistics for force projection over-seas. And they increase the number of nukes from enough to destroy the world a few times to a hundred times. Which is totally irrelevant for Europe defending against a country in Europe (that’s where the relevant parts of Russia are) on European soil.

People have spend to much time soaking up US propaganda about how they are all paying for Europe’s defense. Just the non-US part of NATO is still on a completely different level than Russia. And the few categories where they can somewhat compete still requires to value every single piece of ancient ex-soviet equipment as equal to modern western stuff. They also spend (in today’s war time conditions) a fraction of Europe’s 2020s defense budget.

So an actual war with Europe instead of screaming Russian propagandists telling funny fairy tales about being “at war with NATO” for years now is consequence enough.

I wonder if there is a single country in Europe ready to receive the amount of Shahed drones Ukraine receives almost daily.

Yes, all of them in fact. It’s called deterrence.

Nobody is building systems to constanty destroy hundreds of drones each day. Just like no one (but a few very persistent morons) builds walls to keep attackers away. The actual protection is the consequences for the attacker. Guess what Ukraine would pick between ten thousands of anti-air systems (the amount you would need to protect an actual country, not just some points of strategic interest) and EU-/NATO-membership.