Twinklebreeze

I don’t think you’re allowed to post stupid questions in this community.

Yeah, no way this is serious.

Could you include a screenshot?

This is why. I live in tornado Alley. My state had 152 tornados last year.

The y argument tells pacman to update the package list. This is so your computer is downloading the new packages instead of old ones from last time you updated it. The second y tells it to delete the old package list and download it from scratch. This is useful if pacman isn’t working correctly. Maybe the files got corrupted. But it wastes more resources for the repo so it is not recommended as a default.

Why would you run -Syyu? -Syu is what you want 99% or the time.