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.
Wie es unsere hirnverbrannten Konservativen immer so gerne ausdrücken... Man muss halt die richtigen Anreize schaffen, damit die Leute arbeiten wollen. Und Fehlanreize abschaffen.
Bei der Polizei haben Untätigkeit und Versagen aber nicht nur keine Konsequenzen, sondern man wird mit noch mit mehr Befugnissen für einen selbst, zusätzlichen Einschränkungen der Bürgerrechte und massivem Ausbau der Überwachung belohnt. Der Rest ist dann geliefert wie bestellt...
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.
Hat sich bei seiner Recherche zur Populisten halt in deren alternativer Realität verlaufen...
and in some cases anti-ICE activists
So it's only a matter of time until they just fake those violent anti-ICE activists they always hallucinate about to justify their insane behavior.
Habicht!
Sadly the people that refused to pay to get informed and love to rage about imaginary stories they got from reading headlines only, don't deserve any better. They killed journalism despite massive amounts of warnings and now have to live with the idiot circus that replaced journalism.
It should be +/-∞
Minus or plus depending on the side from which you approach the limes.
If history is any indication ICE will sadly have to first become bigger, more influental and have a leadership developing their own ambitions before the "dropping them like a bad habit" happens... alongside awarding lots of Ernst-Röhm-Memorial-Awards.
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.
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?