Thank you :) EndeavourOS was my second pick !

I picked manjaro because their user base is bigger and Manjaro is older. I will probably switch to EndeavourOS for all the reasons mentionted here and there in the comments. There seems to be a common strange atmosphere arround manjaro.

Also, because that logo thing on boot made me this post, this means I already felt something is odd with Manjaro. Always follow your guts !

Ps: Didn’t though it’s that much of a heated subject. It’s a bit sad, I really liked manjaro’s default and looks amazing.

Thank you very much for your throughout and explanatory response !!! <3 I also read all the comments and I know what I will be doing !

While I did like the well build defaults, I didn’t liked how they added their logo on boot up, even if it has nothing to do with logoFAIL exploit, It felt wrong (or does every distro does that?). Also the fact they added their own bookmarks in my freshly installed Firefox left me a bit skeptical… :/

There’s probably nothing to be alarmed off but That doesn’t feel right… If they do that, what else could they add hidden in the distro normal people can’t see ?

If I may ask, do you have any good distro you would recommend? Something as bare bone as possible, as good as debian but a bit more up to date. I do not fear some tinkering with a new distro but Arch is a bit to much of a hassle right now… That’s why I chose Manjaro.

My second pick was EndeavourOS as daily drive, but the community is small compared to manjaro and it’s relatively new in the game. Any thoughts?

Thank you !!

Manjaro damaging it’s image wouldn’t be a new thing.

Could you elaborate? :)

Interesting ! Didn’t knew you could add sysctl commands as Postup/Postdown. !!

Thank you :) !!

This is the kind of painting you see in Psychedelic festivals. Maybe that’s the audience you should target :).

Same here 👋 still i’m a bit sad I had to move on from VLC… It was always one of the first software I would install on my setup… But that was mostly on windows.

On linux/macos, MVP seems to work way better. I’m very thankfull for all these years of service, but everything has an end and like ICQ ended recently, VLC will probably die off in a few years…

Except if they make a come back? Who knows !

Genuine question, I see alot of people concerned by losing their shell history, any specific reason why?

I mean I keep mine to default and auto-delete every shell history after logout :/ And I never seemed bothered, I never go up more than 10 lines anyway… Whats the point/use case of keeping a whole shell history over time?

Heyy thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and knowledge with us !!!

Very interesting and the write up is easy to follow up ! That’s the kind of cool blogpost we will be missing when the internet will be dead brained and flooded with AI shit…

Will you integrate an RSS feed to your blogposts? So I could get your feeds directly into my RSS feeder? 😁

Hey thanks for the clarification :) ! I’m not a photographer nor educated enough in specific science domain.

I only pointed out what technique photographers use to make them appear so bright and colorful on pictures.

They really are as colorful as they appear in photos but human night vision is primarily black and white.

Does that even make sense? I mean, we are what we are, and we see what we see. There is noway that we could certainly know how they actually look like.

If a reptile looks at an Aurora Borealis, It would totally see it differently, and it’s perspective would differ from ours.

With a camera you can change alot of attributes to make it appear b/w, sepia, more light, rgb, cmjn, infrared, flash… But that doesn’t make it how they actually appear, I mean who is in charge to give the correct mixture of how much light, b/w, cmjn, rgb, infrared… to see the “real” manifestation ?

Personally, I think this is more a philosophical/metaphysic ¿? question, but I’m no expert in any of those subjects. I’m just relying on my personal experience and my feelings ^^.

Feel free to argument !

Thank you :) Also good to know it’s RISC-V (five roman number).

How is it pronounced? Like every letter or more like risk-5?

Corrected !

Uhhhh, I saw them yesterday in northen* hemisphere in Europe and they waren’t white at all… So my guess would be that it depends from where you look at it ?

But in reality they are more dull than on pictures, because photographers use Long Exposure to make the color brighter than they actually appear.

Edit: Typo

Nobody is talking about how games look sharper? Looking at 1080p vs 1440p side by side, you can clearly see the difference on how the textures look less “pixelated” and more rounded up.

It looks like you have a better AA effect and better color management (depends on your pannel though).

I really enjoy/see the change from 1080p to 1440, but you clearly need good enough hardware to make it run smoothly. It’s vram hungry and GPU demanding.

It wouldn’t be that way if there wasn’t any reason to eat that much more vram and GPU resources… Higher resolution textures

The proxy is also susceptible to application-level threats that the VPN is not.

You sure about that? I mean, to use a VPN your need some kind of application that could potentially be vulnerable or have some zero day exploits.

In contrary, a proxy is as simple as to forward your traffic to another computer through a SSH tunnel which doesn’t specially need some kind of application but only relies on lower level package.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment but If I’m wrong I’m agear to learn something new.

Also goes in reverse. Here are probably a lot of good IT specialist who wouldn’t pass any comptia test. Not because they are bad IT guys or don’t have the necessary skill/knowledge…

No… Just because CompTIA tests are worded in such a way that you actually doubt that every answer could actually be right and fit the question…

They are playing on words and even if you’re the best IT guy in the world but lack the reading skills and English collocation of a perfect native Shakespeare writer, you’re going to fail ^^.

But that’s on purpose 🤑🤑🤑.

You still need someone else’s computer. Making a cloudflare proxie or other cloud platform is useless and not secure, specially if you’re torrenting or trying to hide your IP.

I’m pratically sure they even block the torrent protocol and do not allow port forwarding on most cloud VPS.

Yeah proxies are great, but only if you have somewhere to route your traffic.

Recent qbitorrent update supports cross sharing between public/i2p users.

But people have to enable the option, most public trackers aren’t aware off and most private trackers are not into sharing their well builded closed piracy club money making scheme

You should have a talk with your boss about NIST keypair :x

Hey did you find a solution? I maybe found something that could interest you !

Complementing @thebrain anwser, I totally wiped and fixed bad sectors on a old SSD drive I fought was borked because of alot of unallocated pending sectors. (In/out errors)

Keep in mind this is advanced stuff and could not work in your case and EVEN brick your hard drive. You will lost all your data and everything will be rewriten.

Manually rewrite sectors

https://leo.leung.xyz/wiki/Hdparm

Full wipe with “–security-erase-enhanced”

https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe_drives_hdparm.html

This can take some time (3hours in my case) and it looks like your terminal is stuck, don’t worry just wait until it finishes !

Again this can be DANGEROUS ! Only attempt such mesure if you don’t care to lose your hard drive.

Just a simple example, on vanilla gnome you can not set nightlights to “always”, how stupid is that? Yeah there are some tweaks made by people you can download from the official gnome website… But than you have to trust their plugin/scripts…

I really don’t like that kind of modification :/

Yeah MacOS is probably the worst OS/GUI that ever existed, and that’s why following a similar path sounds just a bad idea…