before learning all the new tools like Linux distros, vpns, compartmentalization, offline storage, security…etc.

You better start controlling the apps/services you are using NOW !

Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, X, Maps…etc. all has shit tons of data about you. Limit what they can use. Dont give your info out easily (main email account).

“Much like Android XR, Google says its new Aluminium OS is ‘built with artificial intelligence (AI) at the core.’ This implies deep integration with Gemini”

.Nah fuck off somewhere else please would ya

micro$oft is getting desperate though

https://kotaku.com/windows-11-pro-upgrades-going-for-pocket-change-for-black-friday-2000647371

these people deserve a big FUCK YOU to the face, in front of an audience.

yeh and if i remember correct, there are no options in Samsunf Keyboard to control the clipboard history length. It still remembers what you copied 3 weeks ago…

My recommendation is to use another keyboard. SimpleKeyboard, FlorisBoard…etc.

man i hate those online content that you MUST pay to do homework for the courses. They were over priced and back when i use them, they didnt even grade the homework correctly. E.g. the stupid Mastering series Mastering Physics, Mastering Chemistry and Cengage. I once spent 3 days on a problem because the system didnt like how I wrote the answers. So something like

• coordinate (3x,space herey)

instead of what they want:

• coordinate (3x,y)

yeh at first i was like why all Arch users reference the wiki like its their Bible. Until I use Arch and troubleshoot myself, i would know how detail it is. You can find basically.everything about Linux there.

The downside? They need to structure the layout better. It is soooooo easy to misread or skip over stuff.

“…Based on listening to two and a half episodes of Dual Boot Diaries and a brief text conversation with Will, I’m going to install CachyOS, an Arch-based distro optimized for gaming on modern hardware, with support for cutting-edge CPUs and GPUs and an allegedly easy setup…”

One of the most important lessons I learned from using Linux: Follow the packs, use the distros that a lot of people use not just some recommendation on some ranking sites / youtube vids. Ffs, might as well use vanilla Arch at that point so you can find answers faster. . Even Mint or Ubuntu LTS is a solid option.

The problem with new distros is that it is very hard to find answers to problems. General questions? Sure you can find help. Some bugs that mess up your system? You better pray to the GNU Gods that your distro spins are not that different from the original, e.g. Regolith’s i3wm vs normal i3wm…

Holy C is too much, I am not worthy

do you use a different Google account to download the bank app? or no Google at all in private space, and instead push an app downloaded from main?

hmm i really like the idea of navigation apps with location service in 1 profile. So you just dont listen/stream music while driving? Because thats another app right?

Also thats a lot of vpns lol.

is omarchy a new distro or new window manager?

I stopped distro hop a while ago, and fixing tiling configs is not worth it anymore for me.

“xchat” sounds like one of those porn chat rooms

usually people out it in bashrc and have it autorun

neofetch is pretty but it is slower than the alternatives: pfetch, fastfetch…etc. I either use those 2 or no fetch whatsoever: I want my terminal pops up and is ready to type.

we need all repos to be stored offline, and documentations to troubleshoot.

the 1st i have no idea how much space we will need. Most linux packages are prerry light, no? But there is A LOT of them…

the 2nd is easy. Heard someone say the entire of wikipedia is 200GB, should be doable. Dont forget the technical wikis too: Debian, Gentoo, Arch.

wonder what eventually makes everyone ragequit on the ricing part lol

for me? it was the battery management and suspend/hibernate stuff. You need to do a lot of weird file configs to get them working.

I riced i3wm, dwm and even exwm and suspend/hibernate problem would pop up now and then.

On a full DE? Shit just works.

I do miss ricing though. Especially window managers, I can just git clone my dotfiles and have everything setup in seconds.

Keepass. I need to figure out a way to securely sync between Android <-> PC.

GNUpass should be very secure too but I need a way to view it on Android.

arch linux was what forced me to use LUKS on all of my installs regardless of distros, btw.

i used the standard layout:/boot, /, /home, swap. So when the installs break, the best way to fix is to use the archiso and remount and re arch-chroot.

Well… i found out that without LUKS, anybody can use any distros live cd and mount my stuff.

At first, I used LUKs only on the main partitions: so / and /home, or just / if no separate /home. Swap remains unencrypted. Boot is also unencrypted.

You could encrypt those too but need more work and hackery stuff:

• encrypted boot: can be slow if you boot the compututer from cold. There’s also this thing where you need to enter the password twice => think Fedora has an article to get around this. Iirc, it involves storing the boot’s encrypted password as a key deep within the root directory.

• encrypted swap: the tricky thing is to use this with hibernation. I managed to get it to work once but with Zram stuff, I dont use hibernation anymore. It involved writing the correct arguments in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Basically tells the bootloader to hibernate and resume from hibernation with the correct UUID.

GIF

“Gee Eye Eff”