This isn't a guide, just something i think may help. To install Steam on an Arch-based distro in most of the cases a simple sudo pacman -S steam will do just fine.

The installation will ask you to select a valid vulkan package from a list. And in most of the cases that's just fine... most of them.

Then you have your very "picky" old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict. Now you can try to remove the old (working) drivers and try your luck. But looking online i find a simple way to skip this passage and install Steam.

sudo pacman -S steam --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver

I’m after you now.

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I've been both of these guys. In unrelated news, I fucking hate Subway™

Trying to put down in words what it feels like taking Vyvanse for the first time as an adult diagnosed after 30.

After years of trying other treatments, therapy, non-stimulant medications, I’ve got my first prescription for a stimulant and today is my first time taking it. I was always wondering what would it feel like so I think I’d try to describe it:

After the initial physical sensation subsided (stiff feeling in the neck, jaw, a feeling like tension on the skin of the back of the head) and I’ve started my work day I’ve realized that I’m pretty much feeling calm. Like there was a race in the back of my head where each task was fighting for a priority and I was trying to accommodate the first one that came to mind, but now while the race is still there I can just methodically pick one out and focus on it for a bit, or switch to another while still remembering the first one. It feels almost mechanical in how calm the process is (maybe a bit too mechanical actually), and I feel less governed by emotion.

I’m still getting distracted, but it seems like distractions last much less and I don’t feel panic and urgency after returning to the task at hand.

Now I wonder what it feels like once the effect is over, and if I will be able to sleep tonight normally.

One other effect is that there is almost no hunger, so I had to remind myself to eat something. In that regard it feels similar to hyperfocus when I’m absorbed in a task and forget to eat anything. I don’t know if it’s actually bad since I do have enough weight that needs losing, but I also don’t want an eating disorder. Feels like I need to start planning my meals.

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New revelations seem to show Israeli participation in increasing US efforts to crush Latin America’s left and consolidate far-right power in the region.

News outlet Canal Red and Honduran journalists have given the public access at Hondurasgate to audio files and documents that reveal shady dealings by an elite network looking to ensure US dominance in Latin America.

At the centre of the story are the war-criminal US regime of Donald Trump, convicted drug trafficker and far-right ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei, and the genocidal government of Israel.

The new US war on Latin America, with help from Israel and the local far right

Key facts include that:

• Ahead of the 2025 election in Honduras, in which the US regime was clearly meddling, Trump pardoned Hernández (the “kingpin” who was in a US jail serving a 45-year sentence). Israel had paid for his release, and Trump apparently wanted him to regain power in Honduras. Hernández ally Nasry Asfura — the “façade” — won the election.
• Hernández sought to use public money to spread propaganda (in collaboration with the Trump regime) and destabilise left-wing governments across Latin America. In one audio, he advocated the use of violence, saying “if you want to keep people controlled, you need to oppress them“.
• The target would be “the cancer of the left” in Honduras and throughout Latin America. Mexico and Colombia, currently under left-leaning governments, would be key targets.
• The money for destabilisation efforts would come from Honduran public coffers, from Javier Milei’s network, and from Israel. Reactionary International describes the strategy as “the systematic conversion of Latin American states into dependencies of a US-Israeli axis, using money, media, military infrastructure, religion, and organised crime”.
• The reaction to the leaks was tens of thousands of cyberattack attempts in just one day, mainly seeming to originate from the US and Israel.

US imperialism changed strategies, but never went away

The US spent decades during the Cold War fuelling death and destruction in Latin America to get its way. And the elitist far-right alliance behind Donald Trump is seeking to resuscitate that full-on campaign of terror.

There have long been numerous players in US efforts in Latin America, including:

• Honduras, which was a key military hub for US destabilisation. Brutal pro-US regimes led Honduras to have one of the world’s highest murder rates. The US backed a coup there in 2009 when things started to slip away from its control. And the efforts to stop the left in 2025 seemed to follow this pattern too.
• Israel, which has a long record of supporting the far right in Latin America, which has returned the favour. This dynamic stems from the left’s historic support for Palestinian rights and anti-colonial causes more broadly. In particular, Israel has been the most consistent supporter of the US embargo on Cuba.
• Argentina, whose far-right dictatorship in the 1980s secretly got arms from Israel. Now under the self-proclaimed “most Zionist president in the world” Javier Milei, Argentina is the Latin American country with most dual nationals participating in Israel’s genocide.
• The billionaire class, which uses forces like the Atlas Network to push its class war against ordinary people forwards. Far-right figures like Milei and Hernández are very much on board with the mission.

More recently, the Trump regime has been enlisting as many pliant far-right leaders to its cause as possible. And while Iran’s resistance to US-Israeli aggression has diverted Trump’s attention slightly, his war-hungry team are still fully intent on stamping US authority on Latin America.

Resistance in knowledge and action

Trump started 2026 off by following through on regime-change threats against Venezuela. Then he intensified the US stranglehold on Cuba. And amid the Hondurasgate revelations, he has reminded Latin America what he wants:

Imperialism aside, the Trump administration considers Venezuelans who come here to be illegals but a Venezuelans in Venezuela to be Americans.

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— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 13, 2026

Colombia has national elections at the end of May. And Colombian president Gustavo Petro has been openly questioning how right-wing forces may be interfering, especially as the election software from Honduras’s elections comes from the same people handling Colombia’s vote count.

But Trump’s overt and covert attempts to increase US dominance in Latin America are absolutely meeting resistance. And it’s not just from journalists revealing dodgy backroom dealings. It’s also from the ground strategies of the organised left.

CNN, for example, now admits that Cuba has responded to increasing US hostility with:

one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, meanwhile, has reacted to Hondurasgate by insisting:

As long as we stay close to the People, [the forces trying to destabilise the left] won’t do anything to us…

The billionaire class in charge of the US empire may have drug traffickers and genocidal war criminals on its side. But its victory isn’t inevitable, as long as ordinary people are fully aware of this campaign and willing to take action to oppose it.

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The Usambiro barbet (Trachyphonus usambiro) is a bird in the family Lybiidae, the African barbets, found in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Formerly treated as a subspecies of d'Arnaud's barbet, it was recognised as a distinct species by the International Ornithologists' Union in 2021. First described in 1908 by Oscar Neumann from specimens collected in Usambiro, Tanzania, it differs from d'Arnaud's barbet in having a longer wing, a shorter tail and a darker bill. The species inhabits open savanna, grassland, shrubland and pasture habitats, including Maasai Mara in Kenya and the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, at elevations of 1,100 to 2,100 metres (3,600 to 6,900 ft). It likely feeds on seeds, fruit and insects, and is listed as a Least-concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Usambiro barbet has a yellow head with black spots, black wings with white spots, and a yellow breast marked by a dark breast band. Its belly is pale yellow with a reddish vent, and the sexes are similar in appearance. This Usambiro barbet was photographed on a branch in the Serengeti National Park.

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