Seriously, some people are that good that you know they could do almost anything very well in a matter of days.

So why not ? I always have a lot of respect for someone that is willing to drastically change their lives in order to improve.

Also as DDG is based in the US it is most likely legally bound to give your informations to any agency with a nice gag order on top of it.

I can’t imagine any serious privacy oriented business to be headquartered in the US.

The whole better privacy is true with DDG but certainly not to the extent people would like to think.

That being said DDG has decent search results and is slightly better than Google for privacy. Google is an ecosystem so every little bit you don’t give them is a success.

It’s really too bad we don’t have good private search engines…

A long time ago I used a CLI download manager that could download from different mirrors at the same time.

I think it was a tool called axel and it worked very well.

Same devs as the Nvidia driver installer?

I always select the custom install option and always get recommended the same version that is already installed.

(Physics engine or something).

Oh no you have to say it out loud EVERY time ?

Have you checked when the file was last modified.

If it fits the date you did the Spotify command then I wouldn’t worry much about it.

If you still are concerned you can send the file to virustotal to be safe.

If it’s more concerning for you for a functional reason then move the file elsewhere if nothing break you should be fine.

Rocket league.

I thought it was just some soccer car game and could not see the complexity and skill required to master the game.

Went back to the game years later and pretty much never dropped it then.

I will just say that the recent video from Veritasium about night vision goggles does indeed say that you see better the blue light in the dark rather than the green.

And that’s why high end military grade night vision goggles are in the blue spectrum.

Now code is imprinted straight to your retina.

You can see the code long after in your sleep and keep on optimizing it.

If I remember correctly the F-Droid team on Android had a lot of trouble getting reproductible builds. I can’t imagine how difficult this would be for a whole system.

Is there a feature to migrate users from one instance to another ?

I think it will be important when some instances will shut down. As long as people can move, then I think we can spread out the load.

I know my instance is handling the load very well and I’m really grateful for it.

Exactly, especially since the article is basically just reading the changelog and jumping from random additions without any logic.

It’s the opposite, I don’t make any assumptions on OP’s knowledge but my understanding of your comment is that you are assuming that he is just the average Joe that likes Linux but might not be able to teach on the subject.

I just told him that teaching is an avenue he could look into and he agreed. Nothing more here.

Do you know if OP has certifications or experience?

Do you know how knowledgeable he is on Linux ?

Beside I will say it again, you can totally teach introductory courses on some subjects without being an expert on it.

And in practice, I have definitely seen people teaching with tons of certifications and alleged expertise on the topic but who couldn’t teach anything. And that was of very expensive courses on rather specific Linux topics.

I personally would much prefer to be introduced to a new subject (like BASH101) by someone who has zero certifications but some experience and a real ability to teach.

Because I have seen a lot of super certified teachers who ends up unable to teach anything and who are recycling the same course without any practical experience in the last decade.

If you like teaching/training that could be an avenue to make money with some of that knowledge.

You would need to consolidate that knowledge and show that you have a good enough understanding of that topic to teach it but it’s a pretty good way to learn more and make some money along the way.

Not every training needs to be kernel level types of expertise, a lot of people train on the basics of Linux and could use some training. For instance many business will send admins that are knowledgeable on Windows to learn also on Linux so they can do both at the same time.

Can you store emojis in KeePass ? 🤔

Regarding the edit:

As far as I know your bash just tells you the purge commands were run but not if they were successful.

It also seems like the first purge would have removed all strongswan* package anyway so it sounds likely that you attempted to purge strongswan and decided not to. Maybe seeing the things that would be broken at the time you decided to reduce the scope of the great purge of strongswan in 2022 :)

Just a perspective on why people would support NVIDIA here:

• They don’t believe in copyright law so they don’t mind whoever infringe on them. Especially since here it would make the proprietary driver work better.

• They do care about copyright law but think having a working driver outweighs respecting them.

Not my opinion here just saying that for some people usability trumps any other aspects.

I’m not sure all of these are really small content creators and completely sponsor free but here it is:

YT channel on STEM and making sciency stuff: https://youtube.com/@TechIngredients?si=ic6g-uCLEWXO4DWu

Random technical stuff : https://youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections?si=sz-Gwfgo0gMN3vOG

All things space genuine expert: https://youtube.com/@scottmanley?si=MzE-v1thBOwrvmBf

Great computer stuff: https://youtube.com/@Computerphile?si=S2Ju7aLhViNw5sd8

Not so unnecessary inventions: https://youtube.com/@UnnecessaryInventions?si=O9iy4OVVbhJj6-kE

Some scottish guy researching odd history stuff: https://youtube.com/@CalumRaasay?si=UqgnEsN0YkU7YZuR

This guy sounds ! https://youtube.com/@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER?si=9lN-vhpOO-twS6pi

Pretty random list, I just like very different kind of things :)

But I’d say most of the above are passionate people and mostly without ads or sponsors etc.

So just like Reddit does if I’m not mistaken ?