WHY STACK EXCHANGE IS BROKEN (AND REDDIT TOO)
I’m going to begin this rant by saying that there are some things that that the Stack Exchange network is really good with: mainly, programming help.
ANNOUNCEMENT
From news.groups.newgroups:
This is an official communication from the Big-8 Management Board. Please note that followups are set to news.groups.
ADVICE FOR NEWBIES
I originally wrote this as a reply to a Reddit post but as I saved it, comments were blocked.
THOUGHTS ON LBRY
At the behest of people like Bryan Lunduke and DTLive on YouTube, I have started using LBRY more and last night I even uploaded a few test videos of my own. I would eventually like to put up some of my own tutorial videos.
CREATING ONION SERVICES ON OPENBSD
OpenBSD is a new beast for me. I’m still learning, experimenting, and trying out new things. Yesterday I was able to create 3 onion services on it quite easily but it takes time to learn the correct order of operations and to learn how to find out why things don’t work when you think they should.
KDE VS XFCE VS GNOME
Chris Titus recently vlogged about an article showing that KDE 5.17 is now smaller than XFCE 4.14 in memory usage. The article says that in their tests, XFCE actually uses more RAM than KDE. I was very interested in this, but I couldn’t quite believe it and so I ran my own tests.
LET'S TALK ABOUT ANONYMITY ONLINE
Let me show you what it looks like from the internet’s point of view when I go to a simple website using a normal Browser (Brave):
COMMUNITIES IN THE DISTROWATCH.ORG TOP 20
| Distribution | Forum | Wiki | Community | Membership | Bug Reporting | Mailing List | Chat |
| MX Linux | Yes | Technical Only | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Manjaro | Yes | Yes | No | No | Forum Only | Yes | Yes |
| Mint | Yes | No | Yes | No | Upstream or Github | No | IRC |
| elementary | Stack Exchange | No | No | No | Yes | No | Slack |
| Ubuntu | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| Debian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| Fedora | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| Solus | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | IRC |
| openSUSE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| Zorin | Yes | No | No | No | Forum Only | No | No |
| deepin | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| KDE neon | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| CentOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | IRC |
| ReactOS* | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Webchat |
| Arch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ArcoLinux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Discord |
| Parrot | Yes | Debian Wiki | No | No | Forum Only | No | IRC/Telegram |
| Kali | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | IRC |
| PCLinuxOS | Yes | No | No | No | Forum Only | No | IRC |
| Lite | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
*All are Linux distributions except ReactOS
EMAIL CONSOLIDATION
I’ve got too many email addresses.
I have:
- 2 for work
- 1 alias for opensuse.org
- 1 paid account with protonmail with 5 addresses shared in that account
- 1 very old gmail account (I signed up the first day I heard about it).
- 1 seznam account (Czech provider)
- 1 installation of mail-in-a-box with 4 domains that I own but only one real account that I use
- 1 librem.one account (this is a mistake and a disappointment)
The goal is to change all of the services, mailing lists, etc that I use to point to a single email account either directly or through aliases so that all of my email is in one place with the exception of my work email which should always stay separate. Also, to get people to only email me at the one account.
BEDROCK LINUX: STRANGEST LINUX DISTRO EVER?
What is Bedrock Linux?
From their website:
Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to utilize features from other, typically mutually exclusive distributions. Essentially, users can mix-and-match components as desired. For example, one could have: