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https://excessivelyadequate.com/posts/history.html

TLDR; Add to your .bashrc or .bash_profile:

#Read this number of lines into history buffer on startup.
export HISTSIZE=1000000

#`HISTFILESIZE` is usually set after bash reads the history file (which is
#done after reading any configs like `.bashrc`). If it is unset at this point,
#it is set to the same value as `HISTSIZE`. Therefore we must set it to `NIL`,
#in which case it isn't "unset", but doesn't have a value either, enabling us
#to keep an unlimited history.
export HISTFILESIZE=""

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https://icons8.com/lunacy

I've been using Affinity 1 with Wine, but it was finicky and sometimes crashed. I tried a bunch of other programs and found Lunacy by chance. Its actually pretty good and has tons of free assets. Another good program is BoxySVG.

I have been out of the I.T. scene for a while. My machine recently died, and I am looking for a flavor of Linux without "improvements" from Microshaft.

Any thoughts on an O.S. that would be more old school Linux than the recent version of Ubuntu?

I'm still on Firefox, for lack of anything better. Tried out Brave, but it wouldn't even let you move tabs to the bottom or allow for vertical tabs. Immediately uninstalled that garbage. Also using qutebrowser on the side. It's only downside is that it isn't feature complete, yet. But it is good enough to handle most of my browsing just fine and is philosophically in line with what I expect from a browser.

Firefox with the new proton nonsense has become completely unusable, though, so my plan to hold out until qutebrowser is ready was thwarted. For now I disabled updates, but that's not going to cut it for very long.

https://tilvids.com/w/7oq7dXxHp8zwUtdbDrjWej

One for the Linux Newbies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVbjLTFmVo

ALT: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=pHVbjLTFmVo

The plugin manager in question is 'Vi'.

https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cf0blg/is_linux_infiltrated_by_cia/

This is a good example of how the conversation is controlled. Look at the downvotes and crap answers that get all the traction and upvotes. Obvious who the "bots" (accounts run by an "agenda" rather than a "person") are in this case.

The question is about the (((CIA))) control of Linux and the user gives an example. Linux goats must know at this point that systemd, elogind, wayland, and these new package delivery systems (snaps, flatpak) all attack vectors on the linux userspace security. On top of that, who the hell knows what's deep in the kernel code itself (this Rust language for example is another "progressive" hack) and let's not get started about the obvious hardware backdoors.

The Link does not go directly to reddit but another place to obfuscate social media information and tracking.

@Kozel @iSnark

Trying to get rid of shitdows for the nth time.

Imaged my windoze to VM and another disk just to be safe.

Installed Artix community edition. After reboot it won't boot. Stupid grub keeps trying to use wrong NVME. Found a fix grub command. Now panels keep resetting every restart, display scaling is total shit, arranging displays looks like that old windows bug where the windows tile all over the screen, random things don't work, printer won't work, sound keeps resetting to the wrong output every restart. Dumped it.

Installed devuan because everything works with debian. LiveCD couldn't find my network card. Plugged in a usb ethernet that worked, thought it would install drivers. Didn't install shit. Now I'm running some shit fuzzy resolution on a 4k monitor trying to figure out how to install AMD driver and dumped it. Fuck that.

Try void for 2nd time. New hardware. With previous PC it wouldn't work with my sound card. Forgot these fuckers make you manual partition. Figure it out watching some dude on youtube. Looking really nice. But I can't get many programs to work and scaling is shit and something else made me dump it.

Go for PCLinux. Yay, a WIZARD. I fucking love wizards and do not like manual partitioning in a terminal tool. Press next a few times, stuck on Please wait for 30 minutes. Dump it.

Gentooo lets goooo. Wait wtf their livecd is a fucking terminal and I have to reference a guide to get this motherfucker installed. Dumped it.

Do research. Apparently kde plasma isn't absolute shit at scaling. Install artix plasma as I've gotten furthest with this OS toward a usable system. Half the repos now won't update. Some key mismatch shit. Can't get the apps I want. Spend 2 hours finally find some copy paste about fixing keychains in pacman and reinitializing the fucker. Well now it fucking works like it should have out of the box. What shit is this that so much trouble is necessary to pacman? Got yay to work with arch aur. Installed most of the stuff I want. Now the problem is the fucking printer. I installed it through the control panel and selected the correct driver but it still not working.

I'm afraid I may not have the strength to persevere through this printer installation task.