I’ve always been of the mindset that we ought to clean each others places just because it’s so much easier to help a friend out than work for myself.
Born 1983, He/him, Danish AuDD introvert that’s surfed the internet since he was a tween.
I’ve always been of the mindset that we ought to clean each others places just because it’s so much easier to help a friend out than work for myself.
To quote Cory Doctorow on enshittification:
Here is how platforms die:
first, they are good to their users;
then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers;
finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Then, they die.
First half of my life it was completely by accident I didn’t own anything nintendo, but I’m glad the second half of my life I’ve actively avoided it, so not a single cent has gone to those greedy motherfuckers.
I was just in a youtube comment section trying to explain what enhittification means, but then I realized I don’t care.
That’s a lot of choo-choo’ing
If we’re sharing silly useless projects, I quite like “activate linux”, the configurable watermark inspired by “Activate Windows”.
It’s unfortunately not a strictly terminal based goof, but wanted to share anyway.
This reminded me to install onedrive for linux. I mean, I have 105 GB of free cloud storage on my OneDrive, it’d be dumb not to take advantage of it even though I’ve moved from windows. CLI and systray GUI. The GUI makes it very easy to log in and setup, no need to touch a config file.
I switched to linux a little over a year ago and went with MX Linux because they have great GUI tools for windows refugees like myself, and because they don’t like systemd over there they use cron jobs. Now, having switched to Nobara I’ve just installed both SystemD Pilot here, but also found KCron, a KDE Cron configuration module which allows for the same functionality as what I’m used to.
If I just want to setup a “when system starts” daemon, is there really any difference in using one over the other? I guess it’s possible to shut down services more gracefully?
In any case, great job on this utility.
I use an extension which bundles 5 different solutions in one called PaywallHub. I hasn’t been updated for a while because it got hit by takedown notices, but the chrome extension and firefox addon repos are still available, you just have to install it a bit more manually: https://github.com/Angeloyo/PaywallHub