EndeavourOS’s default XFCE theme looks very modern to me ! I mean sure it looks more like old school windows era, but that doesn’t bother me at all. I like simplicity and customizability.

What’s cool about XFCE, its only about config files to customize your whole DE.

I tried belenaEtcher once on my Mac… And it seemed to me more like a spyware than an actual software, I was a bit confused and never used it again.

Docker is really cool tech, but not that easy to get it right the first time you run into it. The easy suggestion would probably be some YouTube videos? But the best would be to find your way on the web and follow some written tutorials that gives more details.

Depending on how far and deep you want to go with docker it can range from a simple command you copy/past to more advanced stuff where you add new tools into the image.

My first contact with docker was through Network Chuck’s video, while it gives you a first feeling on what it does and how it work at the basic level, it won’t give you the keys to host qbitorrent behind gluetun on a raspberry pie, let alone on how to properly configure and protect it.

The thing is…you can’t ! This is more or less a personal “enlightenment” ! You can forward your arguments, say what you know and why one is better than the other, but it always comes to personal experience ! If you’re not ready to change, you’re not ready, even with the best argument in the world, people tend to always change when they personally experience something.

Don’t push yourself or others, this will only cause frustration and anger. Do what you can but don’t expect others to change/think the same way you are…

I know this is very vague and doesn’t solve your actual issue, but that’s the best you can do :)

What happened to your roommate? That sounds kinda scary… :o

That’s wechat, and this confusion made it really difficult to find the right info on the web… Most search results were linking to the Chinese thing, uhhg !

Helle there ! It’s still Saturday here :p !

I recently setup weechat (IRC) and learned about bouncers. From what I understand it’s similar to a proxy but with backlogging IRC conversation. I’m still new to it and have a lot a new things to learn.

I’m thinking to self-host my personal bouncer on some cheap VPS.

Other than that was busy with encoding with av1an and encode my bluray library to AV1 codec :).

I also recently self-hosted metube (yt-dlp web frontend) to download some music from RiMusic. Still need to work on a shortcut with HTTPS shortcut on Android !

As another user said, Dark reader extension for your browser.

For programs, if you are on Linux, you can changes the theme depending if it’s GTK based or Qt apps. It’s very customizable ! (Linux FTW).

If you’re on Windows… You’re probably fucked !!

Welcome to the dark side ! Once you have seen it, you can’t unseen it ! White will always be to bright and your eyes will cry blood on every screen/webpage that doesn’t have a dark mode !

I have a strange bug where RethinkDNS wireguard session keeps failling after a while if my phone is not used for a while.

I have to reconnect my wireguard session or it just doesn’t work. I need to ADB and check the logs to see what’s happening and write some kind of bug report to rethink’s DNS bug tracking support.

It’s not the first time they have some kind of misbehave with their firewall and wireguard tunnel. Other than that, RethinkDNS rocks !!

Yeah, vote with your wallet !! This has way more impact than those stupid presidential ballot! Good call staying behind your belief for so long !!!

A few years back there was some kind of url trick where you could directly download every file with some string manipulation… But that doesn’t work anymore and there isn’t any new hack/workaround to bypass paywalled files.

My guess would be that there isn’t any kind of “hack” floating arround anymore, cause it involves the site’s security measure and would leave a very bad image of DeviantArt if the creators only way to market their art has some loophole to get freestuff.

Your best chance is either someone who paid/share the stuff you’re a looking for or someone who has the technical skills to do what you’re looking for without leaving a trace.

I was in the same boat… I just wanted a simple god damn self-hosted cloudStorage without any nitty gritty or all the bloat that comes with most local/self-hosted cloud solution…

Syncthing is good, but not really a cloud storage solution (I love syncthing and I use It to sync all my backups !!).

Give SFTPGo a try :) It also has a WebDAV functionality if you wan’t to use it that way ! It just plain file storage with security features. However, not sure there are any application available, I mostly used it as web application :).

Mostly phishing or link redirects. But the PDF in itself is harmless. Or Am I wrong here? Is it possible to install malware just by opening a PDF file?

My guess would be no… Because there isn’t any execution file to install sketchy binaries. This is very different from cracked games in the sense that getting malware from a PDF is more like a user mistake while a crack… You already know you are doing something sketchy and have no idea what it does in the background.

If someone has more details on how PDF can be exploited, except for the classical phishing attack (social engineering) I’m open to learn something new !

EndeavourOS is great ! While it’s easier to install than Arch (I guess?) and give you tools to maintain your system, it’s still in need of daily maintenance to keep your system healthy and operational.

You learn things but at slower pace and with less headache as a beginner. I’m very thankful EOS exists and give you a glimpse on how to configure/maintain and evolve with the Arch ecosystem !