this is what i was going off of. i’m running cachyos (arch). am i reading wrong?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/763290/what-is-the-preset-field-in-systemctl-status

It just says that when installed it was enabled, and it has been disabled later on. As for this apache server just after install Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) – admstg Commented Dec 7, 2023 at 10:50

mine doesn’t appear to be? it says installed but disabled. unless i’m looking at the wrong service which is entirely possible.

It’s pretty annoying though. I’m sure there’s some way to remove it but until you activate there’s a watermark that shows up over every single application telling you to activate.

only if you don’t know how to reset secureboot?

Thanks for explaining it a bit more. I moved from Windows 11 to CachyOS (limine bootloader and kde plasma DE) sometime last year and that may be a bit above my paygrade right now. Based on what I’m seeing in the Arch Wiki it would seem that quite a few systemd components are in use for my distro.

forgive me if this is a joke, i’m not well versed in linux shit yet, but wouldn’t that only remove systemd-boot?

baby food maybe?

What is the alternative to systemd? I’m sort of a linux noob when it comes to this deeper level stuff.

I’m not sure about caffeine, but amphetamine-based stimulants (adderall, vyvanse, etc) stimulate the production of both dopamine (the feel good chemical) and norepinephrine, aka the anti-adrenaline neurotransmitter. That’s why it calms down people with ADHD, our brains don’t create or transport neurotransmitters correctly (among other things). It’s also why SNRIs are effective for some, they inhibit the brain’s reuptake of norepinephrine. I’m personally on both and they help eachother work more effectively.

https://www.chemistryhelpcenter.org/caffeine/ if you’re curious. Caffeine is a really interesting molecule.

The effect of caffeine is related to its structural similarity to adenosine. Adenosine is a nucleotide and is important for coding genes, but it is also used for energy in the form of ATP and as a neuromodulator and signaling molecule. When the brain is active, it consumes lots of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) as an energy source. As the ATP is used it leaves behind a byproduct, AMP (adenosine monophosphate). The longer the brain remains active, the more AMP builds up over time. Specialized adenosine receptors detect the increasing levels of AMP and send a signal that reduces alertness and increases drowsiness until eventually, you fall asleep. While sleeping, the brain has a chance to clear out the AMP and you wake up feeling alert and rested.

Because of caffeine’s structure, it binds to adenosine receptors similarly to adenosine in AMP. However, when caffeine is bound to the receptor, it doesn’t send the sleepy signal. Instead, it blocks AMP from being able to get to that spot. In this way, caffeine essentially “turns off” adenosine receptors and they cannot tell the brain it needs to rest. The more caffeine you take, the more receptors are “turned off” giving the brain the illusion that the AMP has been flushed out resulting in an alert and rested feeling as if you had just woken up.

Correct, it has a quite similar structure to adenosine. So it can prevent you from getting more sleepy but it can’t “kick out” the adenosine already bound to the receptors.

Well, at least I don’t have to talk about it as much as I have to update the dang thing.

Bullshit. Social networks track the living shit out of everyone and know exactly what’s human traffic and what isn’t. Device identifiers (user agent, IP ranges, browser fingerprint, (lack of) ad id, etc.) and behavioral patterns (including purchase history) differ wildly.

https://github.com/xvzc/SpoofDPI plus a browser fingerprinting blocker.

They also want to defer the costs of positively identifying users to the various governments, presumably so it doesn’t eat into their advertising revenue even further.

I grew up in the 90s and there were some absolutely unhinged ads during saturday morning cartoons. This spoof is only slightly crazier than an actual capri sun liquid cool commercial.

https://youtu.be/eyd51lvu3xw

This isn’t even a conspiracy theory, it’s been investigated and found to be mostly true.

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

Not sure if this is a joke or not, but I recently learned that the same hormones that affect beard growth also contribute to baldness!

Didn’t even think of this, now it’s even funnier. For context, the picture is Sergeant James Doakes from the show Dexter - the only member of the Miami police who thought there was something off about Dexter.

Urotsukidōji

“erotic horror manga” is something i didn’t expect to exist. i constantly underestimate the japanese.

Cachy has been basically rock solid for me, after figuring out a couple nvidia issues. The biggest problem I faced was trying to understand wine/proton prefixes for restoring saves files on some of my older games. Though I’m running Plasma which I guess is kinda “vanilla” compared to these fancier DEs. Props to the Cachy team and the Arch Wiki team for having such a vast wealth of information available that’s pretty easy to follow!