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netchami,

Me after completing exactly zero (0) tasks on my to do list

netchami,

The only thing Gates does is use his foundation to avoid taxes. He’s not any better than other billionaires. The entirety of billionaire philanthropy is a massive lie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto

netchami,

Stay away from this garbage. Use BleachBit.

netchami,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/bbfaed18-8a2e-41cf-bb4b-3eac04ed9263.png

netchami,

uBlock Origin should prevent this, other ad-blockers might not have these bypass mechanisms.

netchami,

Maybe it’s just because I’m fundamentally more of a console user than a windowing-system user, but to me a Unix-based OS is always going to be a winner compared to Windows.

I absolutely agree

But, if you want to laugh at OSes, laugh at classic MacOS

Or some weird old Unixes like AIX

Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux

I’ve been daily driving Linux for 17 months now (currently on Linux Mint). I have got very comfortable with basic commands and many just works distros (such as Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS) with apt as the package manager. I’ve tried Debian as a distro to try to challenge myself, but have always ran into issues. On my PC, I could...

netchami,

I thought a more advanced distro, that is still stable, would be good overall. However, not getting new software for a long time sounds quite annoying.

Arch is actually not as bad as many say. It’s pretty stable nowadays, I even run Arch on some servers and I never had any issues. It gives you the benefits that you can basically find any package in the AUR and everything is up-to-date. Try it out, if you don’t like it, you can still switch to something else.

I’m wanting to challenge myself to get much better with Linux, partitioning, CLI, CLI tools

The best way to learn the CLI is to use it. Try not to use your graphical file manager for a while and only interact with the file system through the terminal, that teaches you a lot.

I’ve been considering installing Arch the traditional way, on my X220, as a way to force myself to improve. Is this a good way to learn more about Linux and a Linux system in general?

Yes.

I always hear good things about the Arch Wiki.

It is truly fantastic.

Is there any other tips someone can give me, to sharpen my Linux skills?

Use the system, don’t be shy, try different things out. If you are scared that you might break something, try it out in a VM. Break your VM and try to fix it. That teaches you a lot.

I was even considering trying out Gentoo on my X220, but the compiling times sound painful.

I would not recommend that, updating packages will take ages, it’s not a great experience.

netchami,

There is Last.fm, Libre.fm, as well as ListenBrainz.

voxel, (edited ) to privacy
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is making the watching experience worse on and Microsoft Edge.

I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.

Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.

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netchami,

Google is a shitty big tech corporation and wants everyone to use their garbage browser that collects and sells all of your data. Thankfully we have great solutions like Invidious and Piped that allow you to watch YouTube content without ever having to visit the ad-infested YouTube website. You can use these in combination with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links, it’s awesome. No ads, no delay, no tracking. Just some free and open source software.

netchami,

Damn, imagine you really need it on Thursday… Get ready to file for bankruptcy.

netchami,

Pro tip: Infect your Windows friends with malware, then get them to switch to Linux

/s

netchami,

Disconnect that piece of shit from the internet and use a streaming box/stick or an HTPC.

netchami,
netchami,

Tor is not meant for torrenting, so improvements to torrenting on Tor will never be made.

netchami,

So hyped for Plasma 6

netchami,

Not using Windows kinda solves this problem. It also solves many other problems lol

netchami, (edited )

Some solutions:

Open sourcing the app

@kuro_neko have you ever thought about making the app open source? I’ve used Connect for a little bit and I really like it, it would be really cool if the app was open source. You practically don’t have anything to loose, as you don’t sell the app or insert ads and trackers. Lemmy is an open-source plattform, and many (if...

netchami,

Vanguard, BlackRock, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Twitter/X, any company owned by Elon Musk, pretty much every Big Tech company, Disney, almost any media company, as well as every major bank.

netchami,

Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things. And at developing things. And at literally everything.

netchami,

Everything that doesn’t involve Microsoft is more stable.

netchami,

Nah, that’s what actual Linux distributions are for. Linux runs on almost every server and powers nearly the entire internet while Windows is used to play fancy video games.

netchami,

I will never understand why people liked Windows XP, I’d rather use Gentoo Linux from 2002 compiled from a stage 1 tarball than this steaming pile of shit. Windows 7 was solid, but 10 was (again) the biggest piece of garbage. Horrible UWP UI, Cortana, the garbage Windows Store, the Windows Phone integration, the useless Xbox app, the shitty version of OneNote, crappy MS Edge, Candy Crush ads in the fucking start menu and tons of data collection. Oh yeah, what a great operating system!

netchami,

Yes, but make sure to use a VPN or a Seedbox for the actual torrenting

netchami, (edited )

A few of those are not shown on the picture, but this is my personal list of favorites:

  • GrapheneOS

It’s just the best, most private and secure mobile OS.

  • Signal

End-to-end encrypted messenger with great history and track record

  • LibreWolf

A Firefox-based browser with out-of-the-box privacy improvements and pre-installed ad-blocker

  • Mull

Firefox for Android with privacy improvements

  • SearXNG

Self-hostable meta-search engine

  • Whoogle

Proxy for Google search

  • Piped

Private YouTube frontend

  • LibreTube

Piped client for Android

  • Notesnook

End-to-end encrypted notes app

  • Aegis

Good 2FA app for Android

  • Bitwarden

Secure, FOSS password manager

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  • NextDNS

Private DNS service with customizable filters

  • SimpleLogin

Email aliasing service allowing you to create a new email address for every service you want to sign up for

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