Recently had an issue with qt5-webengine not building, leading to stremio not updating. Every fix i tried i had to try to rebuild, only for it to fail until a glorious person posted a comment on its AUR page.

Also, fuck electron

Im a neovim user myself, and i swapped my caps and escape keys at the os level. I touch another computer and am WONDERING WHY IM WRITING LIKE THIS xD

Im not from the US but ill be mean to any one of them i encounter

Whenever i encounter the “we cant revolt, theyll shoot us” argument from americans i always think to myself “so youd rather they shoot someone else in a different country then? Right”

Its clear subconsciously at least they think theyre superior and value their own lives above other nation’s peoples.

Eh? What?

So is not voting AND doing nothing else…

Wouldnt a true anarchist explicitly NOT do nothing? Theyd actively (keyword: actively) do what they could to resist, no?

I agree, but only one of those 2 countries has proclaimed (in law if im not mistaken, but i may be wrong) that they would intervene militarily to prevent one of their own from being tried by the ICC, regardless of the actual crimes they’ve committed. And im talking about sending special forces to extract said alleged criminal against humanity, from another sovereign nation, abiding by its own laws.

Guess which of the 2 I’m talking about? Russia is by no means the good guy, but its not a binary issue, as most people on the internet seem to react when these 2 countries are mentioned in the same sentence. Russia being ‘bad’ doesn’t automatically make the US ‘good’ and vice versa.

Sure, who’s worse shifts back and forth over the years, but to my eyes, currently, the US is worse, and its been that way for a long time. Way before trump. Anyone who thinks this all started when trump took office, is a bit deluded.

But you’re 100% right, send both of them to the ICC, in an ideal world.

Fascists gonna fascist i guess 💁‍♂️

How would I try to track the issue down given I don’t exactly know when the issue will appear? Is there a way to set something like a listener on the discord process and just wait for it to happen and see what else happens around that time?

I just replied to someone else below with regards to the drive checks. I could also go ask on the arch forums, or maybe in some irc chats if theres people actually in there

I dont believe its a drive failure after checking. Its a pretty new NVMe drive:

$ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Self-test has begun (NSID 0x1)
Use smartctl -X to abort test

$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/nvme0n1p3
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.17.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Also with nvme-cli:

$ sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1
Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0n1 namespace-id:ffffffff
critical_warning			: 0 <<<<======================= Seems good!
temperature				: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
available_spare				: 100%
available_spare_threshold		: 10%
percentage_used				: 1%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
Data Units Read				: 8034527 (4.11 TB)
Data Units Written			: 70423529 (36.06 TB)
host_read_commands			: 58265590
host_write_commands			: 901798802
controller_busy_time			: 10039
power_cycles				: 340
power_on_hours				: 1500
unsafe_shutdowns			: 63
media_errors				: 0
num_err_log_entries			: 0
Warning Temperature Time		: 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time	: 0
Temperature Sensor 1			: 45 °C (318 K, 113 °F)
Temperature Sensor 2			: 48 °C (321 K, 118 °F)
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count	: 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time	: 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time	: 0

As for flatpacks, I’d like to avoid such install methods if possible, at least for now. Whats weird is I don’t think I’ve come across anyone else with this issue, so I doubt its something wrong in general with the packagement process.

Oh i didnt know about this. Where did you read this, id like to see if theres more info?

My first lemmy account was on an instance called iusearchlinux.fyi then it just disappeared suddenly and without explanation (admin probably burnt out). Anyway, it was nice to be able to tell people i use arch linux without actually having to tell them. I miss that instance

It do be like that :p

It seems Ive installed it through the official repositories:

$ pacman -Qm | grep "discord\|Discord"
// EMPTY OUTPUT

Ill get back to you about the drive checks, either tomorrow evening or the day after. Ive got a technical assessment for a job position tomorrow so I’ll have to look into that issue after that. :)

As I mentioned replying to @just_another_person@lemmy.world, my root partition is on an NVME which is not even 3 years old yet, and I have not had any other problems with it apart from discord, so I don’t think its a drive failure issue, but better safe rather than sorry, so if you’d be so kind as to let me know how you’d like me to test/verify its health I’d appreciate it :)

Is it possible that the read-only error occurs because the directory its trying to write to doesn’t exist (/opt/discord/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-log/src/core/ doesnt exist)? It may be a stupid question but as I said I’ve no idea how node works so consider me as having the intelligence of a rock when it comes to it

$ ls -lh /opt
total 36K
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app1
drwx--x--x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 15 16:43 containerd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 discord
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app2
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Feb 25  2025 app3
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Nov 24 15:04 app4
drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 app5
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Mar 20  2025 texlive
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jun  4 00:59 app6

$ ls -lh /opt/discord
total 216M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_100_percent.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254K Nov 25 00:11 chrome_200_percent.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5M Nov 25 00:11 chrome_crashpad_handler
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root  15K Nov 25 00:11 chrome-sandbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182M Nov 25 00:11 Discord
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  299 Nov 25 00:11 discord.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.9K Nov 25 00:11 discord.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10M Nov 25 00:11 icudtl.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247K Nov 25 00:11 libEGL.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.9M Nov 25 00:11 libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.2M Nov 25 00:11 libGLESv2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.6M Nov 25 00:11 libvk_swiftshader.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600K Nov 25 00:11 libvulkan.so.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 locales
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 25 17:00 resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.8M Nov 25 00:11 resources.pak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333K Nov 25 00:11 snapshot_blob.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 702K Nov 25 00:11 v8_context_snapshot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Nov 25 00:11 vk_swiftshader_icd.json

As for the drive, my root partition is on an NVME drive which should be fine considering its not even 3 years old.

What info does this give you? As someone more experienced, what jumps out at you when looking at this (trying to improve my knowledge while troubleshooting - 2 for the price of 1 xD)

“Why should we give them back? We managed to steal them so they were obviously not safe in your hands. No, no, we’ll keep them here for safe keeping.”

This seems to be basically what I want to achieve, except I realised it only works on official arch repos and so doesnt sync the DB for the AUR, which I’d like. I started looking into it and a way I can use just yay to sync the local DB with the remote since its just a wrapper for pacman, but I got a bit lost.

Using yay to sync both official and aur I think also means I need to create only one .timer and one .service files to sync the DBs, instead of having one of each for checkupdates and whatever yay command I use, right?

Any ideas for what I could use without needing to enter sudo password since it needs to run in the background?

Thanks

EDIT: I solved the passwordless issue I think by adding this to my sudoers:

myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/yay -Sy --noconfirm

I verified by running yay -Sy --noconfirm and it worked without asking for password so I think if I use that in my systemd timer service if will work, but now I would like to check against the local DB everytime I open the terminal.

EDIT 2: In my .bin/check_last_update.sh script I replaced this line

num_packages_to_update=$(checkupdates | wc -l)

with this:

num_packages_to_update=$(yay -Qu | wc -l)

I think it works now, but I’m not sure if the -Qu flags also check for AUR updates.