Sure… green hydrogen which is actually a requirement for decarbonisation of many industry processes is a total scam. Just like solar was a scam not worth supporting in Europe until China had build up a near monopoly. And instead of leveraging that already needed tech for long term storage, too, we should buy more batteries from China…

… until China controls most green hydrogen production that is. Then the people making up your opinion for you will magically change their minds and argue how we totally need to buy green hydrogen from China to save our industry from leaving… to China probably.

And somehow I knew all this before reading your comment just based on the “widespread European deindustrialisation” comment…

It’s an impressive attestation to human stupidity that the most obvious propaganda still seems successful.

Let me guess… DMG Mori Seiki Co. is once again presented as a “German” company supplying Russia because who cares about facts when there is a narrative to push?

because they’re offering more prosperity to the people of their respective countries

No, they don’t. They just lie. And they do so very obviously. Which then brings us back to sovereignity and independence… in the form of media and social media that is either highly corrupt or incompetent (in reality probably different amounts of both) and totally failing in informing us about actual facts over cheap clicks.

They played a decisive role in the past… as a liberal party, or at least while still pretending to be something else than unchecked neoliberals exclusively.

Yet they have turned their backs one every single liberal idea they once represented, to the point that I would argue they have long crossed the line from (more or less corrupt…) party working mainly on behalf of their rich donors to a pure lobbying organisation for just a a few ultra-rich that tries to cosplay as a real party.

And as such they simple don’t deserve anything above ~1%. That’s already much more than the fraction of voters they represent.

What Germany actually needs is a liberal party. But the FDP just isn’t it. Not after the last time in government where they finally betrayed even the last shreds of their former political position and decided to sell out privacy for the usual AI bullshit and to even shit on their beloved free-market for idiotic subsidies that were nothing more than thinly disguised donations for their fossil fuel buddies.

What Germany does not need at all are even more neoliberals.

it’s getting more prevalent as more stuff (especially servers) run on Linux […] Linux’s days of living in “security through obscurity” are over"

Servers are primarily running Linux for decades. So any security through obscurity would be gone for as long, if it even existed ever…

though I’ll admit to not having tested that sort of thing with Wine/Proton installed

The more primitive the better the chances. And there are some really primitive cases of ransonware perfectly happy with running through Wine and encrypting your files. So limiting Wine’s file access (or better running it as a separate unpriviledged user with no access to anything but your games) is always a good idea.

pacman -S vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers

Which will then probably tell you that it conflicts with vulkan-mesa-device-select and asks if you want to replace it. Which might either work or just get you another conflict because vulkan-mesa-device-select is required by some other package.

Btw… pacman -Qi <package name> usually tells you anything you need to know about a package. In this context mainly why it was installed (as a requirement for which package) and which other packages are required as a dependency.

So maybe you should take one step back first. Check why 'vulkan-mesa-device-select` was installed in the first place. If it’s not dependency of something else you can either remove it (or replace it) alongside its lib32 version.

That’s a totally separate error… It can happen that the keyring itself is so out of date that it blocks the update, and with it the upgrade to a newer keyring. For this reason it’s often safer after a long time to do pacman -Syu cachyos-keyring (pretending I guesse right and that’s the name of the package) first to avoid the whole update getting blocked by signature with an out-of-date-key. Yet that should not apply here.

But Ignoring the warnings you get for now… This looks like vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers did not replace vulkan-mesa-device-select but now the 32bit library version lib32-vulkan-mesa-device is supposed to be replaced by cachyos/lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers, which would in turn need vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers as a dependency.

What happens when you answer ‘no’ to that first question? Alternatively, is there anything keeping you from installing vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers (thus replacing vulkan-mesa-device-select)?

Not using CachyOS but Arch… but after a long break from updates you should probably start by checking if your mirror is still up-to-date (doesn’t look like it when you local stuff is newer…).

Again… not my OS but this seems to be the file you could use to manually replace the mirrorlist in your /etc/pacman.d/ directory.

Edit: Also just to be sure… -Syyu will force a refresh of all databases (doubling the u would force “upgrading” even it’s an actual downgrade from your local version). You normally don’t do it because it puts extra load on the mirror, but in case of problems it won’t hurt.

PS: For the future (and although partial upgrades are normally to be avoided)… after a long break in updating the key breaking points are mirrors, then keyfile (they can be so out of date that you can’t start the update; so do them separately first - If CachyOS keeps with its usually sane naming structure the package you should first update, just to be sure, will named cachyos-keyring, but no guarantees there…), then pacman itself…

The latter is very rare but there have been a handful of major changes in pacman’s lifetime that broke down compatibility after a long time. Arch keeps a static pacman version available for these cases, so you can still do a proper update to fix it, but don’t know where CachyOS keeps it’s equivalent.

2nd Edit for sake of completion: A quick searched seems to indicate that CachyOS does not have a separate static pacman. So if everything else fails and it’s an actual problem of pacman itself (and only then, so please don’t try that just now) https://pkgbuild.com/~morganamilo/pacman-static/x86_64/bin/pacman-static has the static standalone version of pacman. So you can download this file, make it executable and run it.

German economy minister fossil fuel lobbyist seeks energy oil and gas deal in Saudi Arabia

Fixed that headline…

Germany doesn’t have an actual economy minister (or any other government positions for that matter), just a bunch of corrupt conservatives running the usual tax breaks for the rich and subsidies for their biggest donors scam.

💀 Manjarno

Calling the choice to get children in a country that officially guarantees access to childcare yet refuses to actually provide it a “life-style” is some intresting framing.

I wonder who is mainly responsible for that constant government failure…

Also: If you look at properly adjusted numbers productivity has massively increase (~+250% GDP per capita) in the last decades, while government spending, social spending, healthcare costs (equally adjusted) mostly stagnated or even went down.

So what’s the problem? Oh, yeah. Taxes and other contributions are tied to stagnating wages, while all that additional money is funneled to the top <1% (and barely taxed of course).

And so they lie: about the lazy workers not doing their part anymore, about imaginary hordes of lazy unemployed refusing to work, about masses of immigrants stealing our tax money, about the greedy pensioneers (adjusted those pensions are -no wonder as they are linked to wages- stagnating, too… but generational wars are just as well as a diversion as culture wars)…

What Merz actually want to say is: We worked very hard for decades to shift all the burden to the working class and constantly reduce taxes for rich people and corporations. But now that those taxes are basically non-existent and can’t be reduced anymore we need another source for “our” constant growth. So the stupid serfs should start to work harder, to pay for everything and make us more money, too.

PS: Oh, and Merz and his party took on a trillion (literally…) in new debt for “investments” into infrastructure and to support the economy. Who wants to take a guess where they spend that money instead?

Because technology is already utilised to constantly increase productivity and growth. Then that growth/productivity flows directly into the pocket of the sub 1%, barely taxed at all. But that’s not something they would ever talk about.

What they want to talk about instead is how workes with their stagnating wages, who also have to finance everything as wages is basically the only thing taxed properly, need to do more to keep the system they intentionally broke to enrich themselves alive.

I did not mention the US (who are just now trying very hard to become a failed state anyway) but was talking about other power production. No one but lobbyists still riding the dead horse that is nuclear power is caring for who dominates in construction of new reactors when that’s a very small fraction of added production capacity, globally as well as in China.

Making yet another story about some “big push for nuclear” when it’s actually just varying levels of stagnation and decline while renewables show exponential growth is either colossally stupid of bullshit propaganda.

Not that those fairy tales about a nuclear future with renewable upbuild collapsing any day now are new as we all should know by now:

Yeah, that’s a very popular story. Interestingly the voices of actual NATO allies working with German soldiers are usually the exact opposite of the media and political narratives.

No, proper storage amounts and planable long-term contracts are needed, so there is enough to sustain while existing manufacturing capacities are upscaled.

Instead we get bullshit actionism.

And in a few years we probably have replaced a lot of soldiers with barely enough ammunition for a few weeks with much more soldiers and ammunition for 2 days. Because actually sane decisions are not flashy enough to impress stupid voters or the media they consume.

All while having wasted billions on shiny new stuff in irrelevant numbers, infrastructure for conscripts not actually needed, and big symbolic projects, simply because idiots are prioritising short-term bullshit to impress morons to get their votes in a few years again.

But loudly talking about building a massive army is so much easier (and more effective to get approval) than actually managing the logistics needed to make the existing army work properly. The old saying that there is no glory in prevention is sadly true for military deterrence, too.

Funny story.

And now give us numbers how those “dominance in nuclear upbuild” compares to power production in general…

Oh no, big country at war has more active soldiers than small countries at peace! Who would have thought?

Oh, and those small EU countries combined already have a bigger army than Russia, massive reserves obviously not counted because … again … they are not at war. And yes, we are also speaking about actually well trained and equiped soldiers, not Russian standards.

Everything starts with political will and vision

… and usually ends with those vision being ignored because someone got paid to.

Because corruption.