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desktop thread [PINNED]

Started by chainpuncher
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Light and dark themes

Anonymous
Constantly looking at dark screens causes your pupils to dilate meaning things dont look as sharp. Do it for years and you'll enjoy being blind by the time you're 30. The original...
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Actual problems with linux

Anonymous
I've been daily driving linux for years now and here are the things i can think of: - awful software distribution, especially for proprietary - corpo tranimals running every project, making it...
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Solving CP and spam in anonymous discussion boards

admin ## ADMIN
We asked 2 questions: >1. How do we stop spam without JavaScript and adding friction to the anonymous posting process >2. How do we stop CP spam without relying on an external...
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Tiling Window Managers: Worth it or meme?

segphault
One of the many stereotypical traits of a Linux user is the preference and usage of a tiling window manager, such as i3, dwm, hyprland, etc., as well as their...
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What do normies do with computers, tablets, and phones exactly?

Anonymous
Like, they're always on the phones. Sometimes they're watching a video on their phone, and the TV is playing at the same time. What are they even looking at? I know...
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>2026

Anonymous
>I'm still using OpenBSD >I'm still running Gentoo without systemd, polkit, PAM, dbus, wayland and a whole host of other cancer disabled at compile time >I'm still using USENET and XDCC for...
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Closing the online floodgates through accelerationism

Anonymous
Goal: Segregate the Internet and break it up through forceful decentralization via age verification. The idea is quite simple. Target FOSS repositories that are compatible with age verification and submit pull...
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System76 Laptop

Anonymous
I am considering purchasing a System76 laptop since it has supposedly found a way to undo Intel ME and stuff like that. I figured everyone here is more educated than...
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Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia

rave + wirefaux
>+ wirefaux? Who's this? A reader of this article, who posted it around several "nostalgia" hivemind circles, only to be met with immense backlash and several bans from many tech circles...
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How to access the so called "dark web"/resouces

0_O
Here are some resources to access the so called "Dark web" Well first download the tor browser either from your OS package manager or through the [tor website](https://www.torproject.org/download/), after opening the...
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Filling Cyberix with autonomous LLM bots

Anonymous
No other website has come up with a solution like this. 4chan is falsely rumored to be hosting something similar but their complete cross-server source code leak in April of...
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SystemDisease removal

Anonymous
Slackware>Void>Gentoo>Devuan>Artix pkgtools>xbps>portage>apt>pacman the best init you can use on Artix is OpenRC. It's neat enough for you to rc-update delete udev, elogind and dbus Devuan lets you use SysVinit which is ideal, you...
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Worst Programming Languages

LostintheCycle
Share one (1) programming language and giver some reason for why you hate it so passionately. Mine is **MATLAB**. I've had to use it too much in the past few years...
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It would take me 10 posts and half the night to detail everything horrible about systemd, freedesktop and everything else the DoD is doing via fronts like Red Hat.

Anonymous
I hope you held on to old systems because you'll need one in the near future to play with compilers at all. They won't be able to access the web...
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Cyberix Linux distribution - Cyber-ix/Cy-linux/CyberixOS

Anonymous
Flavor of GoboLinux Except it's riced out, debloated and configed for our needs And add a arch chroot for software The base system remains lean, minimal and frozen. Beautifully riced Shitware and junk...
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Does Wine/Proton really just work?

Anonymous
What's your experience?
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>indieweb

Anonymous
>megabytes of anime gif vomit and random prefab javascript widgets that'd bring a pc from the actual geocities era to its knees >every site made by a monoculture of 14sheitthetadeltas with...
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Building mullguard in Zig — TUI WireGuard frontend for Mullvad because fuck Electron

46&2
I'm fucking tired of the bloated Mullvad Electron GUI shitting itself on my Void musl setup. I'm also tired of manually fucking around with `wg-quick` in the terminal and...
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Linux as a whole is compromised

Anonymous
>Gentoo and Funtoo > >A new evolution of Funtoo's core ideas is being built from the ground up, unencumbered by legacy toolchains, with a target for an initial public release in...
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what the fuck is xorg clipboards why the fuck are there two and why are they so fucking inconsistent

Anonymous
What the fuck i've tried so many exotic ways to synchronize my clipboard but they're all so fucking autistic. Some programs only like the middle paste/select and some programs only...
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All You Need Is SSH

wrongthink
As a self professed minimalist, I’ve long been a fan of the axiom “Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left...
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Terminal dictionary

Anonymous
Is there any good dictionary program I can use inside virtual terminals on Linux?
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