Blog Post Ideas (Post No. 38)

    I've decided that I'm going to throw around some new blog idea posts for future posts of this blog. The topics I'm going to cover as ideas are: 

• How to Linux Mint like the blog admin.
• How to Zorin OS like the blog admin.
• How to Debian like the blog admin. 
• How to Ubuntu like the blog admin. 
• How to Fedora like the blog admin.
• How to Fedora Silverblue like the blog admin.
• How to openSUSE like the blog admin.
• How to Manjaro like the blog admin. 
• How to Arch Linux like the blog admin.

                  As you can likely tell already, I've pretty much entirely left the Windows ecosystem behind and now favour Linux more heavily versus when I would've NOT done so in the past. Why? I'm sick of the bloat, constant forced updates, and probably another whole host of other annoying things.

      This doesn't mean I've entirely decided to abandon Windows usage, but it's rather, that I'm probably going to favour it less in favour of more open-source alternatives. (And NO I am not getting a newer model Apple Macintosh computer. I have said it before, and I'm going to say this again... I believe that the Apple Macintosh post 2013 models are just nothing but fashion accessories. Be triggered if you want, or just simply disagree with me, I don't care.)

I refused to believe the world would end until after "1 year" into the Coronavirus Pandemic (Post No. 36)

     I was looking at my post numbering, and I soon realized I had skipped a number as I was writing in the posts, so I figured I might as well make this Post #36. 

     People were often saying, "The End Is Near," and stuff like this, but for years I had outright denied it, perhaps being skeptical, and keeping an extremely limited interest in current events. 

     I mean, at first, I've realized that I've planned my life around the fact that the world probably, won't end, but I've also begun to realize that I'm a fool. And that I've also realized that the collapse of human society will much sooner happen than my ever even hoping to leave my hometown to set up some new roots elsewhere. 

    I mean, people claim, "I'm safe," but really those people are full of poo-poo. This is why I've basically chosen to make political discussion a taboo topic on my personal Discord server. I mean, there are plenty of more topics to talk about, but politics is not one of them. Most other mainstream religions are also not subjects that are holding of my interest, either. 

    For the first time in many years, I'm personally taking my own spirituality somewhat seriously, since I believe that the last days are running out, and the final judgment against the world is drawing ever nearer. 

   Because of this, I've pretty much believed that I don't feel it would be appropriate to say that everything's okay, and return my Facebook profile back to "where" it was supposed to be. 

    Of course, even if I supposedly did choose to "return" my Facebook profile to a "back-online" state, I would more than likely be attacking character of people who believed that being woke didn't make them unlikable [CENSORED EXPLETIVE USE.], but rather, genuinely better people, generally better human beings, what have you. 

   So, in retrospect & all honesty, being logged off of Facebook forever, and not having a "Ginger Empire" group in any more active spots than a Discord page may in reality be for the absolute best, and not to be keeping people from being connected with me. Why? Because I absolutely refuse to believe "the marketing." Because it's actually a better image than what reality actually presents 420 times out of 10, 4200 times out of 1000, 42000 times out of 10000, 42000000 times out of 1000000, and incrementally getting higher numbers the bigger the number is until we reach really big numbers that Chuck Norris may have counted to himself, or can be counted to, if you're willing to spend 365.25 days at the rate of 1 number a second from this present moment on a calculator which can count to infinity, by first making an initial calculation of "division by 0." 

    I mean, if you have the free time to kill to do that, then by all means, find such a calculator which can do such mathematical operation of division by 0, and go ahead and do it. Of course, you may have to keep counting even when you're asleep if you choose to do such things. 

    Otherwise, you will be a mathematician who follows the orders of this chap from the book "The Number Devil." 

     I mean, my doing all this isn't all saying a thing of doom and gloom. But, for those who believe that the present society is still something with the best interests of the many at heart, even today, at times like these, then sure. Pretend all your worse fears have been realized. If you're a child that was born in Generation Z, or even a thereafter generation, realize you're screwed six ways from Sunday and if you had lived long enough to at least reason as a human being, wonder why your parents had "never told you no", if that was a common thing in your household growing up. 

    And I don't mean superficially wonder about this question. I mean, literally scratch that noggin of yours and wonder why that was the things the way they were. 

    Perhaps it also might be a good time for me personally to consider looking and seeing if my favorite furniture store may soon be tanking and then just considering intentionally emptying out my entire bank account several times over during the months to follow, and keeping the bank card in my trousers in my coin pocket, and using gift card transactions if I absolutely must patronize my favorite coffee shop. 

   I mean, it may seem like I'm probably being overly paranoid about this, and probably want to bury my head in the sand so to speak, refusing to unbury it, similar to how an ostrich buries its head in the sand. 

   Also, I believe one of the things I had often said, is that after building the "Claymore", I would eventually be constructing the computer, the "Excalibur," which is the final of the three computers and thus the most ultimate out of the entire three. I may have to take some very serious consideration into constructing the computer the "Excalibur", as opposed to keeping it as part of the RP script and keeping it a mere legend.

The Culmination of The Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - And for everyone else to just find out. (Post No. 37)

   I've decided to cancel the majority of my "Beta" posts since the thing is --- My intention was to spend the majority of 2023 working toward getting other computers on the network off of running a Microsoft Windows OS and using Linux instead, before firmly deciding that Linux is the only software operating system that I will be using from "this point forward." 

    Although, thanks to a suggestion from a Linux OS-tan, this mission has become sooner accomplished prior to January 1, 2030 - and as of right now, the only computer that does run Microsoft Windows, is also one which does not currently participate on my home network. This means I've cancelled most of my "Beta" posts, as this means we're on the final post as of right now... Which is, why Linux is the only OS that I should use in the future. 

1. Windows (more contemporary versions) is just bundled with spyware. However, this is likely due to government requirements than anything else. 
2. For every penguin that decides to start using Linux as their OS of choice, the current CEO of Microsoft's genitals become more and more flaccid and incapable of even going to the point of orgasm. 
3. Microsoft Edge is unavailable out of the box by default in Linux --- and can be added, although the question which should be asked is, why would you add Edge to Linux? 
4. While this choice of software will ultimately not make me more popular, give me more money, or give me better hair, or make me feel loved... The truth is, I don't really care anymore. Some may think I'm crazy, looney, gone off the deep end, need a girlfriend, whatever, but I sleep a little easier at night knowing that I have the ultimate moral high ground in a "PC vs. Mac debate." 
5. The fact I would even dare contemplate switching to Linux in 2023 is likely due to the fact I'm not afraid of Windows 10-tan's threats to destroy my family... Or, for that matter --- Microsoft sending people to my house to break my legs.
    

 

  (Yes, Windows 10-tan's favorite artist is Violent Vincent. But then again, she is terminally online as she is a product of the generation which is terminally online, and very much out of touch with reality!) 

  It is also a fact of life that Microsoft does put ads on your OS --- but they are much easier to escape in truth than say, certain Internet media apps like Spotify. 

  Microsoft cannot break your legs if you do not have the e-mail connect completely from the Internet - seems dumb.

The Culmination of The Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - And for everyone else to just find out. (Pre Beta Post 1 - Post No. 35)

     Instead of having a post which is obviously a "Third" Alpha post, I've now decided that we should begin with the first of the beta posts, which will start to make everything come together to the point where it will eventually make it become the ultimate post - The Culmination of the Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - & For Everyone else to just find out.

    We will consider the answer to a few questions during this discussion:  

1. What, exactly, am I talking about whenever I say that this "thing" is supposed to be something that I only personally know about for the present time, and why "everyone else" should find out after much of it is said & done? 
2. Why do I feel that "If I use the most popular, and most trusted OS made by a company in Redmond, Washington, U.S.A," that I blame the software in the event something does go wrong, but if I use something compiled by a bunch of hippies and distributed on the Internet for free, I blame the hardware instead?
3. What if when I choose to use my new OS instead of Windows, I run into reliability issues? 

  Let's look at these questions, one at a time. Starting with the first one out of the series of 3.

1. What exactly am I talking about whenever I say that this "thing" is supposed to be something that I only personally know about for the present time, and why "everyone else" should find out after much of it is said & done? 

   I have long held that the knowledge that I have assembled from research during much of the latter half of December 2022 wasn't really ready to be revealed to anybody just yet. And, if I had revealed my plans to people who could try to talk me out of it, then I would ultimately abandon those plans and never touch the idea of such things again with a 10 foot pole or even a 39 1/2 foot pole. Never mind my hands being mere inches away from such things.

   Also, the idea that I would personally sanction closed-source offline software platforms, such as Microsoft Windows in favor of more open source things from versions 10 forward ended up becoming rather unpopular with many computer geeks - but you have to realize, that many versions heading forward from Windows 10, and to even further forward Windows versions will ultimately NOT be remaining the same Windows versions in essence taking advantage of the x86_64 architecture like was popular during the latter half of the 2010s and much of the 2020s, or even the i686 architecture which has been popular since the 1990s, and the 8 and 16-bit Windows which had been developed from 1985 - 1995. 

   The truth is, that I also don't buy the marketing. Like who cares if the marketing that Windows offers is that it's popular & I should consider only buying into that marketing? 

   Popularity doesn't necessarily mean it's something worth the value of the license key. Popularity means that it's the thing which the most people jump ON the bandwagon of. 

    On the other hand, I'd rather be the one that jumps OFF the bandwagon. It's crowded on there anyway, and I actually don't want to go to wherever the bandwagon's going to be headed --- considering the destination is likely somewhere where I don't want to be. 

2. Why do I feel that... "If I use the most popular, and most trusted OS made by a company in Redmond, Washington, U.S.A.," that I blame the software in the event something goes wrong, but if I use something that was compiled by a "bunch of hippies" & distributed on the internet for free, I blame the hardware instead?

  Well, I believe that mainstream popularity is obviously overrated. Like, who cares if mostly everybody and their dog runs Microsoft Windows systems? Windows as an OS, especially in the later versions - particularly after Windows 7 has become less of a quality experience, and more of a royal pain in the rear end. Why? Well, consider these few things:

Exhibit A: Blue Screens in XP, Vista, 7 vs. Blue Screens in 8, 8.1, 10 and 11.

  On top of this picture, we see the Blue Screen of Death in Windows XP, Vista, and 7. On the bottom of this picture we see the blue screen of Windows 8, 8.1, 10, and 11 (although 11's Blue Screen is now black which makes it more accurately a "death" screen.) 

   Now, displaying the stop code in the XP - 7 BSOD was a better idea as opposed to "You can search for the error online: INSERT THE STOP CODE THAT CAUSED THE ISSUE HERE." Why? Well, let's be realistic. Suppose that the Windows post-7 device was "the only device." Well, unless you searched the code online using your cellphone or tablet if it could utilize such a capability, you're pretty much forced to have the device repaired - and of course, since we live in a world where "Time is money" literally anything that could have the device which could be used for any productivity purpose down for even merely but a moment will likely be spending time trying to have the actual broken device fixed to a last save state or probably a bill with the repair technician. 

   Windows in my opinion --- if we lived in a perfect world, would either not exist at all, or would be the absolute most stable OS on the face of planet Earth, to where nobody would have ANY reason to use anything else but Microsoft Windows. So, if something goes WRONG with Windows, then by all means, I'll blame Windows every. single. time. Because many of the versions after 7 seem more rushed - and of course, with the disinclusion of an ad-free Solitaire game by default out of the box, makes it even less desirable of an overall experience for me. 

    Reality Check! We don't live in a perfect world. And Windows has never been, never was, and never will ever be a perfect OS for 100.0% of humanity to use on their devices --- especially if it's going to continue to have these issues which have been more or less common since the 1990s. 

   Oh, by the way... Another thing I'm going to mention. Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot aren't security devices that really secure the device. They are just things Microsoft forced to have Windows 11 as a requirement so that hardware as old as Core2Duo wouldn't even touch Windows 11. So, I have plenty of reason to blame the hardware if something should just so happen to go WRONG. 

Exhibit B: The fact that Linux is absolutely not an annoying ecosystem that demands everything be part of a device ecosystem.

   Since my first day using Windows 11 back in February 2022, I have never done one thing: That is... Use Microsoft Edge. Why, you may ask me? Well, Microsoft Edge is not an Internet Browser that I want to rely on, for anything. If anything, it will become the successor to the Browser that it replaced from Microsoft ---- Internet Explorer. So, yeah. Edge is now the new "Internet Explorer." 

   Also, if hardware doesn't work, then the software will obviously at least basically tell me what's wrong. No codes - because I don't need cryptic nonsense like this in my life. 

   Besides, most hardware will work with non-proprietary drivers out of the box in Linux anyway - of course, the rare time that does not hold true, proprietary driver activation usually tends to work easier than trying to get proprietary drivers to activate in Microsoft Windows. 

3. What if I decide to choose my new OS instead of Windows, & I run into reliability issues?

  First of all, what "reliability issues" are we talking about? I mean, I've noticed when something ran Linux it ran absolutely like a clock and always started up whenever I pressed the power button. 

  In some cases, such issues can be fixed with a re-install. Others? Rebuilding or replacing the hardware might end up having to be what "the doctor ordered." 

   My point? My new yearly motto isn't just going to be some random nonsense that I pulled out of my rear end. No, no. But it will be a personal mission statement that I not only live by, but continue to follow, during the next few, and eventual twilight years of the 2020s decade, which could be the years where all religion is eventually abolished in the name of "Government" providing everything and all things.

 

The Culmination of The Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - And for everyone else to just find out. (Second Alpha Post) (Post No. 34)

      Before I start today's post, I would like to apologize to the computer nerds that I have hung out with in the community of nerds for so long for saying anything nice about Windows 11. Sure, I may "claim" that there are some redeeming aspects about Windows 11, but it ultimately doesn't really matter what the Modern-day Microsoft Machine does in the end. I will have to "flip" the Monopoly Table at some point, and throw the game pieces away. I've already said I didn't really care about Windows 12 - and want to not look at if or when a Windows 13 will be released, or it will likely get cancelled due to some traditional superstition in the Western world. Not that I wish to talk about superstition --- Or bring any attention to how Windows is going to be viewed as something that I will be making fun of and refuse to use more recent versions so that I can use the Windows versions designed for more of a circular economy.

      I've had the strongest held belief for the longest time that Windows 7 was the last version of Microsoft Windows that Microsoft of Redmond, Washington, U.S.A., had released to the public that would be any good. 

     

Windows 8 --- was just plain bad

Windows 8.1 --- mediocre

Windows 10 --- not good

Windows 11 --- a hopeless disaster from day 1. 

 

    With that, I won't mention this else much longer.

The Culmination of The Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - And for everyone else to just find out. - First Alpha Post (Post No. 33)

    Before we go much further in tonight's blog, I would like to offer a short recap of the information that we've just merely looked at so far. And that is, as follows -

• I am not a Windows fanboy.
• I am not a Windows fanboy.

• I am not a Windows fanboy.

 

  Did you get all that? I think the important point we have summarized in this blog is that, I am not a Windows fanboy. I never have, and never ever will be a Windows fanboy - even if the only computers still running on Earth were Microsoft Windows based systems. In fact, Windows 33 SE could be the latest version of Microsoft's OS on the public market, of course --- my life might be long in the history books by this point already, and the epitaph on my grave after my remains were turned to ash were, "Here Lies **THE ADMIN OF THIS BLOG - Name omitted to prevent doxxing**, He refused to be a Windows Fanboy because he really started to talk fecal about all the versions after Windows 10." 

   My point is, when I had Windows 10 as my OS of choice, I was open-minded, (somewhat) but now I've realized that I'm actually doing the equivalent of locking every single door in my house to the outside world and closing all the blinds, but visiting the bathroom toilet with the washroom door wide open. Which if nobody was in the house with me, I would probably be just fine with. But, say, have at least 2 humans and a cat running around the same house as me most of the time --- then, that doing such things isn't really very private. 

   I've ultimately decided that using a Linux PC for productivity purposes, like Zoom conference attending is the only way I should go forward in continuing versions of the future. Also, I can't justify putting money down on replacement hardware for this computer just yet (I have yet to discuss which vendors I will/won't be buying from.) 

 

This is a minor heading: Vendors which I won't be buying the required equipment from

    

 

 

 There are some vendors under absolutely NO circumstances I will be considering purchasing the hardware from - This will maintain from the "First Alpha" all of the way to the final culmination of my research. 

Pre-Builts (new): 

Amazon

eBay (some new equipment is sold on here, you'd be surprised)

Costco

Best Buy

Staples Business Depot

Wal-Mart

Any OEM manufacturer website which sells pre-built systems shipped with that lovely (sarcastically-speaking of course) program of spyware which Microsoft made the mistake of ever allowing to see the light of day, Windows 11. Examples of such manufacturers, but if others also sell Windows systems like them, and primarily such, are as follows: Acer, ASUS, DELL, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and MSI. (Computers built using MSI and ASUS motherboards would be okay since they don't strictly fall under the "pre-built" rule.) 

  And this ends the list of systems I'm not considering. Why? Because the manufacturers would probably have the balls to consider the chances of me voiding the "Idiot Insurance" (or, warranty) that they ship with by default. True, to save a few bucks there is the option to simply skip any & all of these "new" vendors altogether and just buy used, in which case I can do whatever I want to do. So, you may be asking me... Where's Apple? Well, considering the purposes of why I want to do this --- plus I don't feel like taking a loan out from the black market dealer for buying a fashion accessory that I will likely under any circumstances not want anyway. And, even after all this, you still feel I should buy new - Just look for some sub $1000 desktop off of AliExpress with a brand name nobody outside of China has ever heard of, and wipe everything off of it when it arrives in Canada. (I'm kidding, I don't want to get anything from AliExpress, either --- as they were not even a choice on the list to buy new.) 

This is a heading: Vendors Which I will be buying Hardware From

 

  So, I guess you're probably expecting me to power the first computer in my setup (& those thereafter) on nothing but hopes, dreams, and imagination... Right? WRONG! Just because I don't want to buy it from the vendors I said I wouldn't be buying it from "new" doesn't mean I'm going to buy it "not at all". 

 

  You see, in this age where sustainability and environmentalism are the two driving factors in changing consumer behaviours so far in the 2020s, I mean, for better or worse, those two things are going to be here to stay --- And people who are conservative and dislike the idea of living in multi-family residential complexes, and would rather have a distance of 30:00 minutes or more between home and the grocery store, and other things they want to do, and simply not seeing the need to take planned trips which won't take them long to do, 365 days of the year, which means no more impromptu sea holidays to tourist trap towns which are likely prestigious and whatnot anyway, dread the existence of such things, and ironically may end up either losing much of what they fought against --- including the seemingly malicious [STATEMENT REDACTED DUE TO ORDERS FROM THE NEW 8TH KING OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF REVELATION WHICH MUST EXIST FOR A LITTLE WHILE], then it would not make sense to purchase another Windows OEM device which would only be a reliable and good device for a mere four or five years, put it out to pasture, and then purchase the next model which would be running a version of Windows with the next generation of processing in the future from what was considered "good enough" five years ago. Especially when the purpose of said electronic computing equipment would be to use word-processing programs (Not Microsoft Word specifically), spreadsheets (for financial purposes & list-making for database reasons), some somewhat light Internet browsing (as in using a web browser for connecting to the World Wide Web), and video-conferencing to connect to meetings which circumstances dictate that I cannot be present in person. This means that feeding the corporate "money-making" machine which is Microsoft any further of my hard-earned cash has to be stopped immediately. 

 

   I mean, who cares if every time Windows 10 or 11 gets installed to a new device, the CEO and other officials at high-ranking desks at Microsoft Corporation all get sexual orgasms at the same time simultaneously? I sure don't, and I doubt that I ever will. I know it's not the best way to reference this, but I've already come to the conclusion that I view Windows 10 as the henchman, and Windows 11 as the evil mastermind. 

 

But, without further ado:

Vendor list of which I will consider purchasing the productivity PC (Used/Refurbished):

Amazon

eBay (but only Used or Refurbished Hardware only - NO NEW HARDWARE!) 

Infotech Computers

Any local used computer dealer that will sell me hardware in Good, Very Good, or Excellent condition at the right price only. Nothing classed as Fair/Acceptable or Poor condition to be offered to me. 

Vendor list (new):

System76

TuxBook

Manjaro.org

Amazon (but for purchase of parts for custom PC assembly only - Not for purchasing a pre-built.)

The Culmination of The Majority of My Research of a thing which I intend to only have my knowledge be for the present - And for everyone else to just find out. - Pre Alpha 2 - (Post No. 32)

     DISCLAIMER: The blog's content for today's post is not to be taken seriously, but it probably isn't going to matter anyway, since this will likely be the last year I publish this series of posts on this blog anyway.

 

 

    Before we go much further with today's post, I'd like to remind the readers of the blog today that they should simply take time to... "THINK!" As the action of mere executing the thought process in the human brain is not a criminal offense in the governed state as of yet. Nobody has gone to jail just because they thought differently from the rest of the crowd. However, with the way things have been going, I doubt that status shall be one which remains with us for much longer. 

    So, I would like to have anyone who reads this to just stop what they're doing for a moment --- just to think. I don't care if they "offend" somebody's sensibilities, or some shit like that --- They need to not let the corporations think for them. They don't need to let governments think for them.

   I mean, the very reason why that I even proposed the idea of exiting the state of being in the Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS ecosystem (as of now) is to just simply not participate on the Internet, as more and more woke sensibilities happen to seep into the generations after X and Y. 

   This blog isn't for you if you have the delicate sensitivities of your mama's fine china. If you get offended, leave. Because thanks to people like you, this blog will likely not survive 2023 into 2024 and beyond --- of course, I probably shouldn't be digging my own grave just yet. No. Instead, I should be selling off all the unneeded material things I have, moving out of my hometown to a rural outport in Newfoundland similar to my mother's hometown, move in with the things that I'm absolutely sure that I'm going to need for the rest of my life, and, if things go well...
Wait for the apocalypse to crush the world I've grown up living in like a bunch of insects under giant feet. 

   It's sad how people feel that in order to ensure peace for everyone, that free thought has to be criminalized, but if this is how things have to continue going forward, then there are likely some difficult decisions that I personally may have to make. Such as, "How much longer am I going to be writing blogs on the Internet," even if I will never see a single red cent of the ad revenue. 

   Or, "Maybe this year will be the last year I can enter my museum volunteering career in Kentville before I have to go hide from the Thoughtgestapo out to exterminate me and everybody who even is so bold to think as me." 

   My point is --- I probably will not be continuing to write these blogs on blogger due to probably some perhaps less than tasteful opinions I may have presented as part of the blogging stories I've written over the years. Not just in posts in the past which might have gotten a few people upset in the past, and exposing some people who obviously didn't want to be exposed, like such as in the case of some blogs which have harmed my personal public image in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia, such as Nerdz In Space. Or, probably some posts which are not entirely popular opinion which aren't going to be winning me any friends, or giving me things like love, money, or better hair. Such posts until 2021 were found in Ramen Pirate.

  My point is - the time of relative peace has ended. And it is likely not to be returning again since some powerful people in high places have pretty much decided that such peace is how such insustainability has become such a serious problem to the point where in order for there to be "peace" again like there had been since prior to before the first world war, reshaping has to happen. It's also of interesting  note, that one day - somebody is going to be writing the history of the "free" world, from a heavily Governmental State-supporting bias thought somewhere. Where? I don't know, I couldn't tell you... And even if I knew and/or could tell you? I would wish that I didn't or couldn't. 

   So, I end this post with one last reminder. And that is... to... "THINK... Because it is not illegal... YET..."