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BuckShot686

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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

— Malcolm X

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UNetbootin could be cool, it’ll provide access to mamy iso’s instead of just one.

Distro’s supported:


<span style="color:#323232;">- Ubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Kubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Xubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Lubuntu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Debian
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- openSUSE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Arch Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Damn Small Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- SliTaz
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Linux Mint
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Zenwalk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Slax
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Elive
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- CentOS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- FreeBSD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- NetBSD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- 3CX
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Fedora
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- PCLinuxOS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Sabayon Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Gentoo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- MEPIS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- LinuxConsole
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Frugalware Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- xPUD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Puppy Linux
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It can be used to load various system utilities too, such as:


<span style="color:#323232;">- Parted Magic
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- SystemRescueCD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Super Grub Disk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Dr.Web Antivirus
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- F-Secure Rescue CD
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Kaspersky Rescue Disk
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Backtrack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Ophcrack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- NTPasswd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Gujin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- Smart Boot Manager
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- FreeDOS
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Heck ya to Fedora, glad to see it recommended for a first time user. It’s not much more difficult than Mint, but you can also get into the weeds instead of having to find a new distro after Mint. Mint basically has permanent training wheels, while with Fedora you can pop em off whenever it’s convient.

Edit: Fedora is also a more up to date Alpine and it’s not directly controlled by Red Hat.

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But Fedora is upstream of Alpine, right?

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The KDE spin has x11, KDE is my go to DE everytime. So assumed that layer I guess.

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Just going off how things are setup in the KDE spin, the tracker is what allows you to search and find files on the machine. Disabling it would most likely make it tough to find files. But I’m not familiar with gnome just to be clear. I’d say report it and hopefully someone else can provide better detail.

Anyone use Skiff?

I’m only just hearing about the suite from skiff.com and curious if anyone here uses it. They’ve been around for 3 years and apparently offer an open sourced encrypted suite. They’re mainly known a Google Docs alt, but I just learned they offer encrypted mail, calendar, and cloud (10GB for free) along with their docs....

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Sorry it sounds like an add, swear to jah I’m just curious as it seems to have been around.

City Guardian (AI assisted) (i.imgur.com)

I’ve been diving into AI assisted workflows and found an extreme font for creativity. My recent efforts have been towards RPG-style characters like you’d see in a D&D game, and this guy came from the idea of a royal guard of an ancient city, Egyptian/African-esque. The AI gave me a variation with just the shield and I really...

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It looks amazing, I just can’t shake how much the characters face resembles the lyricist Ryan Caraveo!

Edit: Reference photo & song: yewtu.be/watch?v=xikczrPm_1Q&amp;listen=false

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/35e0e76a-4371-4cc2-aa40-3f3688587fba.webp

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A trick I’ve learned for when this happens with SearXNG is to add “!web” to the search query. It provides a wider range of search engines and images, which specific ones can be selected in the settings. Like all things software, it takes a bit to adjust to a new interface but SearXNG allows users to control a lot more of the functionality.

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VeraCrypt is the only company I use when it comes to encrypting external drives. Depending on what distro you use, you’ll just have to select the proper file format. Aside from that, maybe encrypt 90% of the drive so there’s some space for a few things which you can access without mounting the drive. When you go through the setup in VeraCrypt, it directly asks if the drive will be used with one or different systems, so they got you covered there. You can also find many video walk throughs online to follow along with as well.

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Depending on your specific situation, it could be a solid option to just jump in to whatever distro covers your needs best and just run Windows in a VM. On a current Linux device which previously ran windows, throw this in the terminal:

sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

and it will source the old Windows product key. You can also just jot down the key by pulling it up in Windows too. But regardless of how it’s handled, it makes the VM setup an easier process for sure!

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If things are still the same from ~ June of 2022 then you have a choice between none, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, and NTFS.

Edit: VeraCrypt utilizes a unique encryption process. Its easy as you just move the mouse around like you went mad, but this produces a highly secure encryption key too. As long as your distro works with NTFS then it seems VeraCrypt can assist to help you encrypt. Otherwise, when Windows is a VM it only can do what Linux allows it to do lol

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It’s quite an easy program to install and it’s also cross platform. The fact drives need the softwarenon aNY PC trying to gain access seems like a feature to me. Maybe if you wanted to copy something from the encrypted drive to a friends computer, only then would it be somewhat of a nuisance. But this all ties into me recommending to leave some portion of the hard drive alone. You’d be able to access anything not in VC’s space anywhere, while it’s also a breeze to download and install VC too.

Online Office suite, easy to set-up?

I’ve been using the Google Office suite for the past 10 years and been looking for an alternative for a while. Degoogling is a hard process. I mostly use the office suite and the files storage. I teach in college and Univ, so I need to be able to access my files and presentations from different computers. I curently have 200gb...

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Cryptpad.fr is a fantastic full replacement for Google Office Suite. Open sourced, encrypted, but only comes with 1GB of storage on the free plan. You can pay to add more and its reasonably priced. It provides excell, powerpoint, and word. I like using board.net at times too. It’s FOSS as well but only provides a word equivalent. A little more straight forward in my experience for others.

Privacy friendly Adobe Acrobat alternative with ability to scan from scanner

I’ve been using Adobe Acrobat (cracked) for around 2 years, and i have recently started switching all of my proprietary apps with privacy respecting and/or FOSS apps, however i could not find a PDF viewer/editor desktop app that could scan and create documents from my printer/scanner, which i use quite often, thus i came here...

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Okular is amazing, this paired with Libre Office for PDF creation is how I do PDF production and editing. Okular has somewhat limited editing, so when converting scans/photos into a PDF I use KolourPaint for more detailed editing. It allows me to remove, add, or edit anything in a scan/photo before it’s converted into a PDF by Libre Office.

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Screw shower thoughts, where’s shitter thoughts!?!

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Bromite has been abandoned unfortunately, definitely worth thinking about another chromium backup browser for sure.

Best Google-suit alternatives?

Hello! I would like to take some distance from Google because I don’t like its hegemony over the internet. I’ve switched from chrome to Firefox, I’ve stopped using it as a search engine and I’ve started using duckduckgo for starters, but I’m a bit more lost on how to replace its other services. What are yours...

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Proton is the move, in combo with board.net for GoogleDocs and OpenStreetMaps for GMaps, you’ve degoogled more than most. Start using GrapheneOS instead of Android and you’ll damn near remove the big G from your day to day!

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I mean, once the journey starts it’s not long before Linux over MacOS or Windows is a no brainer. Being Android is Linux based allows for a degoolged option to be equivalent to a fork. But sure, iOS is more private and secure out the box vs Android, yet with a few minutes spent in settitngs, Android quickly wins out. Degoogling and FOSS options are two peas in a pod, so might as well also get a pixel with degoogled android and cover all basis.

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Not too sure how I feel about Bing and Apple Maps or OneDrive and Dropbox being referred to as alts in a privacy forum…But if ProtonMail is the GMail replacement, using ProtonDrive is an easy solution I’d say

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I’m glad you think so! I was pondering if Apple was practical as it has some privacy functions built in, but OSM is the top choice alt when the focus is privacy. Do you not agree?

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Cryptpad is worth trying out as a GoogleDocs alt too. It has excel and powerpoint along with word docs. Board.net is more straight forward, but it only offers word docs

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The NASDAQ!

Not Eating Enough of These Six Healthy Foods is Associated with Higher Cardiovascular Disease and Deaths Globally (academic.oup.com)

Consuming fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, fish and whole-fat dairy products is key to lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes. The study also found that a healthy diet can be achieved in various ways, such as including moderate amounts of whole grains or unprocessed meats....

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Lipids are one of the four macromolecules found in life. Moderation of lipids is the key part here. LDL (bad cholesterol) is needed for digestion, cell signaling, and immune cells require it for certain functions. It’s the goldilocks principle, too much or too little is an issue.

I had to look it up, but reducing milk by 2% fat increases the calcium ~6mg/cup. A little calcium goes a long way for human cell functions, so it’s a decent increase for sure.

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This link is the research paper which was reviewed by sciencedaily, my title is a blend of both sciencedaily and the paper titles. The research paper’s title is super ambiguous and it seemed a blend of the two made more sense.

ScienceDaily Link: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/230706231347.htm

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