Round 3 - Winners Bracket

I love alpine. Please go click on alpine. It's a really good minimal distro that's great for both servers and desktop alike.

And to top it off it doesn't come with systemd or gnutils. No "GNU/" for you mister stallman

I just had to install sudo. Wtf @debian-official even arch has sudo in the base package

Yeah, the default debian installer is a pain. You can also just install it like you would arch, substituting debootstrap for pacstrap and apt for pacman

The even funnier bit is that you can even use an arch install iso to do it since debootstrap is in the arch default repos

Ahh the good old Linux Transgender Allegory

did some cable management for my PC so that all the cables now route behind the desk to the back I/O, looks much nicer :3

May we see?

It is so handy how on Unix you can just write files to /tmp and they will be cleared up automatically upon shutdown!

So if I want to write a disposable python script to test something - put it in /tmp!

Or if I want to view e.g. an MS Word document that my browser can't read, just save it in /tmp.

And of course if it's worth keeping, then move it to somewhere permanent.

Making my own posts aren't usually my thing but I wanted to talk about this. I use a overly elaborate setup that utilizes a combination of NixOS, a couple additional modules, and some bash to make everything on my computer not specifically declared otherwise in the config files to be removed on restart.

I fully understand it's crazy, and kinda impractical. Downright inconvenient at times. But I absolutely love it. I never need to worry about old trash files piling up over time, I know exactly what files stay on the computer, and I've learned a lot about the linux HFS in the process.

Anyway, follow your heart, do stupid shit on your computer, experiment, learn. It's not a smooth ride but it's rewarding.

Smooth rides are never rewarding. Use Linux.

It is so handy how on Unix you can just write files to /tmp and they will be cleared up automatically upon shutdown!

So if I want to write a disposable python script to test something - put it in /tmp!

Or if I want to view e.g. an MS Word document that my browser can't read, just save it in /tmp.

And of course if it's worth keeping, then move it to somewhere permanent.

Making my own posts aren't usually my thing but I wanted to talk about this. I use a overly elaborate setup that utilizes a combination of NixOS, a couple additional modules, and some bash to make everything on my computer not specifically declared otherwise in the config files to be removed on restart.

I fully understand it's crazy, and kinda impractical. Downright inconvenient at times. But I absolutely love it. I never need to worry about old trash files piling up over time, I know exactly what files stay on the computer, and I've learned a lot about the linux HFS in the process.

Anyway, follow your heart, do stupid shit on your computer, experiment, learn. It's not a smooth ride but it's rewarding.

i was not made to go long periods of time without a hug but here we are anyways

Do you accept hugs over internet protocol (HoIP)?

yeah but i need real hugs sadly :(

Hugs should be a (optional) human right, in my opinion

I hope you find a source of hugs in the near future

For now, I’m sending as much random-internet-person love as I can :3

and i hope i can be tgat source of hugs :3

there's a lot of fear mongering around the new firefox terms of service and privacy policy and most of all of it is bullshit and, just fear mongering. One thing that is concerning however is the following:

Before this would only apply to mozilla services such as the matrix chat, firefox send (rip), the vpn, or whatever, but now they are saying it is applied to the browser as well.

And one of the things you shouldn't do according to the policy is, you guessed it:

So mozilla (perhaps accidentally, companies love to do this but also mozilla is kind of stupid), just said you cannot use firefox to browse porn. If it is intentional and they double down on this (which I'm really not sure if they even can, firefox is a program running locally on your computer, it's not a service they can just ban you from or anything like that, again, mozilla is a bit stupid), it's not a reason to use chromium. In the terms of service they also write:

"the Executable Code" is vague, like does it count if you build it locally on your computer, or is it just the mozilla packaged versions of it downloaded from official sources or whatever idk.

But i think it would make sense forks don't count as the terms apply to "Firefox" and not anything else. So here's some alternative browsers which aren't firefox, but are firefox based:

Librewolf: just firefox, all the crap removed, and lots of privacy features turned on as well. Google is disabled in the search bar, but you can enable it again with a bit of a hack, and by default, history and cookies is cleared when you close it. You can turn that off easily. Basically identical to regular firefox otherwise, it's what i'm currently using.

Zen: Very new but gaining popularity quickly. kind of buggy due to it's recency, but people seem to love it. Main focus is customization, but with improvements in privacy, and speed. Pretty different from other browsers, but that might be what you want.

thats. basically the main two rn. i dont think anything else really would be good for most people and even as someone who really likes to get into things deep with privacy and security and shit i think librewolf is just fine. there's lot of other options but they're kinda all in the categories that these two cover.

While nowhere near in a state to be used as a regular browser, i would keep your eyes on Ladybird which is undergoing the insane challenge of making a web browser from scratch; it's not based on chromium or firefox. The first alpha version is projected to come out next year and it seems very promising.

Well, I wasn't expecting to see this as the first post on my dash!

You've pretty much nailed the description - I like to think of Zen as the Linux of browsers. Fast, secure, and infinitely customizable, as well as being FOSS of course.

I haven't experienced too many of those bugs you mentioned recently, though I'm not exactly unbiased.

Wow, this sounds almost like a post from an official account! :3c

Check this out:

You can find more Zen at the sites below:

i know very little about computers in the grand scheme of things, but i know enough to know that every single tumblr post about technology has at least one thing wrong about it.

most posts which are just about "heres a tip on how to do something on your computer" either is entirely unnecessary, or straight up makes things worse.

i was not made to go long periods of time without a hug but here we are anyways

Do you accept hugs over internet protocol (HoIP)?

yeah but i need real hugs sadly :(

Hugs should be a (optional) human right, in my opinion

I hope you find a source of hugs in the near future

For now, I’m sending as much random-internet-person love as I can :3

Bubbles

Hello Linux Tumblr, what do you all think of my i3 configuration?

Very… usable

i was not made to go long periods of time without a hug but here we are anyways

Do you accept hugs over internet protocol (HoIP)?

Opening Round - Part 2

Opening Round - Part 2

fucking hell, my whole entire home folder on my system just deleted itself after a reboot QwQ

I'm literally fuxking crying lah

and what's worse is I backup my shit regularly enough, but just a few days ago I was clearing space so I deleted some random backups and left a random one, but the one I left behind is fucking 2 years old

my 13 year old thinkpad is finally giving in guys

never thought this day would come TwT

PS: yes, I tried to recover files and shit but it seems to all be gone, except some hidden folders which somehow stayed (yk, the ones with names prefixed by '.') and are just barely keeping my laptop alive