The difference is they test the core packages they release. That’s their selling point. Just downloading old pkgbuilds without vetting anything is called an attack vector.
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The AUR just hosts pkgbuild files, no source or built packages. The pkgbuild can point to arbitrary external sources that could update separately. Manjaro could have their own AUR that hosts old pkgbuilds, but that wouldn’t be foolproof since the external sources could change. Also, if a pkgbuild was updated for security reasons, now Manjaro is putting users at risk by continuing to serve the old version, and now that’s another problem for them to solve.
I used Manjaro up until a couple of years ago. I don’t recommend it now. I switched to endeavor os. I hear cachy os is another popular arch based one these days.
IMO they should have made this the official policy instead of adding optional support for the AUR in pamac.
At the end of the day, the AUR is just a pastebin full of pkgbuild files for people who know what they’re doing. And as a distro aimed more at the average Linux user, rawdogging the AUR probably just shouldn’t be part of the equation.
My friends and I call each other degenerate when we do things that are degenerate. Like playing wow until 6am. Or buying a taco bell burrito with the intention of reheating it the next day. Or binging some garbage reality show. It’s all in good fun.
I wouldn’t take it personally, it’s just a term that jokingly means “a person who has their shit together wouldn’t be doing that”, but we all have those things and they’re fun to take note of and laugh about.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What if the bible was like the marvel comics of their time?
4·1 day agoThe Sumerian/Greek/Roman/Egyptian pantheons really feel like the MCU of their time. Public domain collection of super humans that anyone could adapt their own fanfic to.
I would not say “often” better academically. It’s up to the resources the parents have. Poor families doing homeschooling end up poorly educated, wealthy educated families are more able to educate. Humans already did this up until the advent of modern public education systems.
In a public school, the idea is that both the rich family and the poor family are offered the same education, and this is better for society as a whole. I will agree that public education isn’t perfect and could be improved in almost every way, but opting for private education is leaving your child’s future up to random chance as dictated by your social status.
At some point you will try to socialize your homeschooled kid. If you live in a rough community where drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancies are relatively common, you won’t be able to avoid the same influences you’re trying to avoid in public schools. Except now it will be all they know.
IMO exposure to a larger population of people in a public school gives kids more reference for all the kinds of people in society, and control over who they want to interact with. Then it’s the parent’s job to make them feel empowered (not pressured) to make the best choice they have available.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is there any polite way to tell your manager one of the reasons you don’t see yourself working with her is how she reacts each time I tell her about an issue?
2·8 days agoIf there is an HR dept, I would raise this with them. If you are no longer on the clock at 5pm, there’s nothing stopping you from hopping out of the vehicle wherever it is and going home. Keep a record of everything, what was asked of you and when, what action you took and when, and maybe even have a witness sign off. If they try to fire you with cause, you can sue for wrongful termination. Just remember that HR is there to prevent the company from being sued, they are not your friend.
At the end of the day, the real solution is obvious: this is what unions are for. Collective bargaining is how you even the odds with greed.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why isn't there a Windows community? Is Linux winning?
111·14 days agoNo one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
1·15 days agoThat seems as reasonable as suggesting they could pass a law requiring everyone to hire a govt licensed computer user in order to interact with their devices, and otherwise touching a keyboard or touchscreen would be illegal.
It doesn’t feel like a realistic estimation of what they would actually try to do. There’s too much that is currently dependent on Linux, you’d do better to just dismantle and ban the internet.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
93·15 days agoDoesn’t even make sense. Virtually all Linux distros can function completely offline. How do you do age verification completely offline? Classic politician who doesn’t understand tech trying to look like they’re doing something to save the kids.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some of your favorite songs in a language you do not speak?
2·23 days agoYeah, my first thought was Kveikur. Such a vibe.
I just use gimp, but for the record, someone recently got modern Photoshop working in wine
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•A maga person has just threatened my family, what's to do next?
6·2 months agoEufy doesn’t have a good track record for keeping things local or secure, despite claiming they are, btw. Source
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Linux@lemmy.ml•I have the absolute worst reason for dual booting Linux and Windows
1·2 months agoYeah, seems like there needs to be a distro made for retrofitting various phones or something with those features. Maybe even using the zune hw.
You misread what I said. For the fediverse to work, it needs to be distributed. OP said they didn’t see a stories community on “this instance” (was unclear whether they meant lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, but both are notoriously monolithic). Centralizing all users and communities onto a single instance is antithetical to the fediverse.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What movies and shows had a positive influence on your life in your childhood?
6·3 months agoWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
And do you believe that you are representative of what most kids these days do in their free time?

Everything is always optional for power users on linux. What I’m saying is they shouldn’t have made a GUI checkbox that’s also easy enough for non power users to check.