Thursday, July 20, 2023

My loyalty to the idea of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) will never die! (Post No. #47)

If Free and Open Source Software has 1 million fans, then I'm one of them

If Free and Open Source Software has 5 fans, then I'm one of them

If Free and Open Source Software has 1 fan, that's me

If Free and Open Source Software has 0 fans, I'm no longer alive

If the whole world is against Free and Open Source Software, then I am against the whole wide world.

Until my dying breath, I shall support Free and Open Source Software.



Thursday, July 6, 2023

/dev/scuff/null /dev/null/scuff/null - sudo pacman -S reconnect-fan (Post No. 46)

 

   Sometimes, it's actually amazing how obvious a solution to a problem is, that perhaps reconnecting the internal fan of a computer will literally solve a problem of it going at 0 RPM. Fortunately, this saved me a lot of time and money in so doing, since I really don't want to immediately sink another $1,200 into another Acer Nitro, plus another nearly $300 or so in SSD upgrades to make it be closer to 1TB in storage size (of course I may just do that anyway since I feel using MicroPBBTH Windows 11, even with the custom fork is absolutely not appropriate for someone living in the real world in 2023, considering that many open-source applications can easily do the same jobs that proprietary programs may have done since the dawn of time.) 

    Of course my parents always seem to try to get me to be like "Most" People. I never was like most people. Never was, and never am going to be, and I'd rather not be like "Most" people. 

      I mean, would most people get the idea in their noggin that they would create their own (truly in a sense) computer from effectively scratch that won't be absolutely practical for average society? Probably not. Most people probably don't even delve into nerdy subjects like that, probably due to the fact they'd rather not have their hobbies become public, because if this were 1983, they would be ostracized socially for it just because that it's their hobby, just like in 2023 that they don't admit they like anime and manga publicly, because the toxic monkeys of normal society that my parents believe I should be appealing to, (And, no... I will never be. All of the oceans on all seven continents of the Earth can sooner boil, and every public office can close their doors for good since the toxicity of said "normies" will give me cancer, no matter how many vegetables I eat, cigarettes I don't smoke, and probably other harmful practices which cause cancer I intentionally avoid.)

     But the way I see it, I only live once, and it might be an idea to write on the ol' Bucket List, that I will be wanting to "truly build" my own computer from scratch. Like, it's safe to say, I'm not going to just go to Amazon or eBay with a laundry list of hardware that I want to include in the particular setup that I want to have and then pay some seller from who knows where in the world, excluding the regions of Eastern Europe, and have the components all shipped to me in the back of a truck and I just put them all aside until it's ready for me to build and have it put through its paces after I put a far more sane OS than Windows 11 on it, probably going so far as to avoid said NT installation media like the Plague, or the Coronavirus pandemic which had been so relevant in the past that I don't feel like the Windows fanboys I know in the town of Kingston-Greenwood area are really going to mock me for my choice to just defy popular opinion and decide to pick an OS that is much harder than it actually is worth trying to get installed, and running on my system, as opposed to running Windows and not being mocked for the fact I run Linux, or perhaps being tried to be persuaded back to Microsoft Windows. 

   I mean, I've already decided I hate Windows 11, and if (or when) Microsoft gets off its corporate ass and releases a Windows 12, I have very high doubts I'm going to be in line to upgrade to the latest & greatest version of the Redmond juggernaut's Operating System.




Monday, July 3, 2023

/dev/scuff /dev/null (Post No.45)

     Before reading this blog post tonight, and "automatically assuming" that I'm going to do a set-up walkthrough for my new favourite OS ever, Arch Linux, I'm going to have to bring some attention as to why I am choosing to write tonight's blog post on this blogger website the way I am. 

    


 Arch Linux is truly the power-user's OS, and to be quite honest, the ultimate in Operating Systems. Unlike Ubuntu, Arch is much harder to turnkey install, although in later releases, it is possible to boot from the live media and type "archinstall" at the commandline interface. 

    Also, I'm going to start maining it on devices which I will not be using for Zoom (Ubuntu Christian Edition will be taking that job instead.) And, I shall give the modern Microsoft Windows versions and Apple Macintosh macOS versions the flipped bird.

    If someone calls me stupid or some other insult for choosing Arch Linux over Microsoft Windows... 

They are the baka! 

 

Not ME!!!!

I would've been mentioning something about the streams sooner, but I was kept too busy. (Post No. #55)

       This is the 55th post of the blog, even though it actually counts as the 56th on Blogger. Normally, I wouldn't talk about anythin...