Thank you :) EndeavourOS was my second pick !

I picked manjaro because their user base is bigger and Manjaro is older. I will probably switch to EndeavourOS for all the reasons mentionted here and there in the comments. There seems to be a common strange atmosphere arround manjaro.

Also, because that logo thing on boot made me this post, this means I already felt something is odd with Manjaro. Always follow your guts !

Ps: Didn’t though it’s that much of a heated subject. It’s a bit sad, I really liked manjaro’s default and looks amazing.

Thank you very much for your throughout and explanatory response !!! <3 I also read all the comments and I know what I will be doing !

While I did like the well build defaults, I didn’t liked how they added their logo on boot up, even if it has nothing to do with logoFAIL exploit, It felt wrong (or does every distro does that?). Also the fact they added their own bookmarks in my freshly installed Firefox left me a bit skeptical… :/

There’s probably nothing to be alarmed off but That doesn’t feel right… If they do that, what else could they add hidden in the distro normal people can’t see ?

If I may ask, do you have any good distro you would recommend? Something as bare bone as possible, as good as debian but a bit more up to date. I do not fear some tinkering with a new distro but Arch is a bit to much of a hassle right now… That’s why I chose Manjaro.

My second pick was EndeavourOS as daily drive, but the community is small compared to manjaro and it’s relatively new in the game. Any thoughts?

Thank you !!

Manjaro damaging it’s image wouldn’t be a new thing.

Could you elaborate? :)

No-Script and they redirect you to their no-script search results. Pretty neat !

But searxNG is my go to at the moment !

Ipfs into I2P would probably be ideal !

Interesting ! Didn’t knew you could add sysctl commands as Postup/Postdown. !!

Thank you :) !!

Thanks for your insight ! Even though I didn’t really get everything, but It seems there is a specific use case !

Maybe overtime with more experience I will get there and have a better understanding of what you meant with contextual history.

Yeah how comes that every planet is flat and round but only earth is flat and square !

Some strange stuff goin on in our solar system 🤔

Same here 👋 still i’m a bit sad I had to move on from VLC… It was always one of the first software I would install on my setup… But that was mostly on windows.

On linux/macos, MVP seems to work way better. I’m very thankfull for all these years of service, but everything has an end and like ICQ ended recently, VLC will probably die off in a few years…

Except if they make a come back? Who knows !

Genuine question, I see alot of people concerned by losing their shell history, any specific reason why?

I mean I keep mine to default and auto-delete every shell history after logout :/ And I never seemed bothered, I never go up more than 10 lines anyway… Whats the point/use case of keeping a whole shell history over time?

Long time I haven’t booted into windows, so can’t help there.

But rest assured that the free tier hides your real IP the same way as the paied tier.

That’s right !!! That was just a starting point for OP if he was on Linux and lacking that info I gave him just some pointer where to look at.

Anyway, most of the time it gets overwritten from other configuration files, nothing harmful. He could even have resolvconf installed on his system, who knows.

Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it’s not functioning properly etc…

Nope ! I use the free tier on all my devices and nothing is leaked based on all tests I did.

If you are on linux you need to check your /etc/resolv.conf and see if your home’s router/ISP DNS is in there.

Check also if networkManager hasn’t your ISP’s dns configured.

There are other locations where your home router’s DNS could be hidden on linux after a DHCP configuration.

If it’s on windows :/ sorry can’t help there.

Heyy thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and knowledge with us !!!

Very interesting and the write up is easy to follow up ! That’s the kind of cool blogpost we will be missing when the internet will be dead brained and flooded with AI shit…

Will you integrate an RSS feed to your blogposts? So I could get your feeds directly into my RSS feeder? 😁

👍✌️

Edit:

I shoud have left that part out:

So right now we will propably have meat and vegetables full of GMO’s, pesticides, and meat fully loaded with antibiotics, vaccines…

That’s was maybe a too personal opinion were the conversation can easily get heated quickly (where ever your stand is on that subject) and is out of the scope of the actual post !

So sorry about that :/.

That’s not the point, eat what ever you think is good for you. We are not going into arguments that’s out of context. That was just an example out of my memory on how they pass things without our consent or when they see any benefit for their own agenda not for the common good. (Still personal opinion, think whatever you want)

But whatever… I’m just a random on the net 🤷

Hummm, does TTIP and CETA rings a bell? If not, let’s just say that during the covid pendamic the EU parliments signed CETA behind ours backs allowing transporting good between canada and EU. Sure TTIP itself was not signed (yeahhhi thats a win… Or not?)

But that doesn’t matter because the only thing they wanted was a trade deal with the American continent It’s TTIP with extra steps…

So right now we will propably have meat and vegetables full of GMO’s, pesticides, and meat fully loaded with antibiotics, vaccines…

So If I where you I wouldn’t count to much on

“They look like they want change, and they then blame too many votes on “not themselves” that it didn’t pass.”

They wan’t changes when it benefits them and their agenda ^^.

Hey :)

Wait, I thought the “downside” of this app was that it used your VPN connection.

It does, but if you have a VPN that let’s you send your traffic through wireguard (like protonVPN, don’t know about others :/) it will send all your traffic through that tunnel.

Also, there was a recent update which uses your wireguard’s DNS instead of rethink’s hardcoded internal DNS. That was the awaited updated I needed to fully switch to rethinkDNS.

There are still some quirks in the interface and a few strange behavior with wireguard when waking the phone up, but nothing that causes leaks in my experience, because if my wireguard tunnel isn’t working rethink isn’t able to make any requests !

Hope it helps :).

Hey :) may I suggest rethinkDNS to have a more granular control over your installed application? Also it’s possible to block everything except the apps you trust while still being able to use your own DNS/wireguard VPN/proxy…

Also If you want a more in depth overview of every connection your phone attempts to make, give Pcapdroid a try !

Hey thanks for the clarification :) ! I’m not a photographer nor educated enough in specific science domain.

I only pointed out what technique photographers use to make them appear so bright and colorful on pictures.

They really are as colorful as they appear in photos but human night vision is primarily black and white.

Does that even make sense? I mean, we are what we are, and we see what we see. There is noway that we could certainly know how they actually look like.

If a reptile looks at an Aurora Borealis, It would totally see it differently, and it’s perspective would differ from ours.

With a camera you can change alot of attributes to make it appear b/w, sepia, more light, rgb, cmjn, infrared, flash… But that doesn’t make it how they actually appear, I mean who is in charge to give the correct mixture of how much light, b/w, cmjn, rgb, infrared… to see the “real” manifestation ?

Personally, I think this is more a philosophical/metaphysic ¿? question, but I’m no expert in any of those subjects. I’m just relying on my personal experience and my feelings ^^.

Feel free to argument !