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Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

Arch Linux Installation commands

Principles

You install archlinux from their latest ISO-Image with or without a graphical user interface. If you choose to install it with a GUI, you should go on a browser of your choise and open the archlinux.org website and run a neofetch. If you chose to go with a non-gui installation I'm fine with a login prompt on the actual machine.

This gist is a help to go through this speedrun, pretty fast.

Arch Linux

chroot on Termux

Let's download the Arch ARM image with curl and install proot:

apt install curl proot

Let's download the ARM Arch Linux image:

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

	Installation
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	1. Install the build dependencies for Emacs:

	$ sudo apt build-dep emacs
	$ sudo apt install libtree-sitter-dev

	2. Download and unpack the Emacs archive:

	#!/bin/sh
	# PNG Gamma trick (by @marcan42 / [email protected])
	#
	# This script implements an improved version of the gamma trick used to make
	# thumbnail images on reddit/4chan look different from the full-size image.
	#
	# Sample output (SFW; images by @Miluda):
	# https://mrcn.st/t/homura_gamma_trick.png
	# https://www.reddit.com/r/test/comments/6edthw/ (click for fullsize)
	# https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/869855956842143744

	#include <GUIConstants.au3>
	#include <EditConstants.au3>
	#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
	#include <Color.au3>
	#include <WinAPI.au3>

	Global $threshold
	Global $image
	Global $width
	Global $height

	#EXTM3U

	#EXTINF:-1,Digitally Imported - Ambient
	http://pub1.diforfree.org:8000/di_ambient_hi

	#EXTINF:-1,Digitally Imported - Big Room House
	http://pub1.diforfree.org:8000/di_bigroomhouse_hi

	#EXTINF:-1,Digitally Imported - Breaks
	http://pub1.diforfree.org:8000/di_breaks_hi

	#!/bin/bash
	COUNTER=0
	while [ $COUNTER -lt 10000 ]; do
	xdotool click 1
	sleep 0.001s
	echo The counter is $COUNTER
	let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
	done