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<p>👋 Hi, I’m <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@thesaigoneer" class="u-url mention">@<span>thesaigoneer</span></a></span> , our man in Danang.<br />🌱 No-coder +, perpetually between DE and WM</p><p>📫 Adjusted a gazillion of dots and still drinks beer. Since I&#39;ve tried them all I&#39;ve landed on KDE, dwm and a slew of other window managers. Quintessential distro-hopper, but running Slackware for over 3 years now. And counting. No issues with FreeBSD, Gentoo or Arch either. Prefer bare bones rolling. Into atomics and init systems as well.</p><p>👋 Don&#39;t blame yourself, learn feng shui &amp; blame the furniture</p>

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    Hot on the heels of ye regular vulns is an update for Librewolf, available as a consumable sundry right now: #slackware #librewolf https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

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    I&amp;#39;ve always been full in on Wayland. I like my systems slim and built up from scratch. Leave the cruft in the dust. Basically I&amp;#39;m a domesticated Archie. It&amp;#39;s time to follow that mantra more strictly again. Bootc Broccoli and Gentoo are like that already, even though both are running a full KDE. Now it&amp;#39;s time for the others. https://github.com/thedanangineer/bootc-broccoli

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    Let&amp;#39;s not get into that rant about CachyOS. How an Arch based distro, with just MangoWM and Noctalia, gets to a base install of 20Gb is beyond me. And not like Libreoffice, Gimp and Blender got installed along with it, far from that. Let&amp;#39;s just acknowledge it is not for me. Moving on.

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    On a totally different note: leaving out a number of categories during a Current install still gets me 27Gb of installed stuff. No DE or WM. No kernel source or so. Slackware, we have a problem. Btw, misinformation everywhere: the 20Gb in CachyOS turned out to be 11. Still way too much 🤣

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    Another Saturday has shown up! With Jay Lanagan adding a repo package for LibreWolf, my packing effort on that will be discontinued by the 1st of November. You can find more information about his repo(s) at https://lngn.net/ . Worth checking them out anyway! We have the return of an old favorite of mine: brave-origin is back in the repo. Please be advised there is an excellent Slackbuild for it available, but I cook my own. So, this week we have updates for brave-origin, fresh-editor and (st...

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    Next to enshittification I&#39;d like to introduce &#39;enstupidification&#39;. That one bothers me waaaayyy more. Phone:&#39;Please enter your passcode, so you can&#39;t forget&#39; Tablet: &#39;Every 24 hours we ask you to enter your pin, so you don&#39;t forget &#39; Banking app &#39;We noticed you have KDE Connect installed. Please uninstall, so you can use our mobile banking app&#39;. &#39;You cannot use this service, without signing up&#39;. Astonishing stupidity, wrapped in a, supposedly,...

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    That working day couldn&#39;t have a better start with the MS Office 2013 tabs returning, on FreeBSD in LibreOffice 26.8.2 🥳 #freebsd

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    You thought NixOS users were vocal? Listen to the Slackers chirping away, with version 16 presumably on the horizon 🤣 Let&#39;s check the mirrors and join in 🥳 #slackware

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    Usually you grab an LTS kernel for ZFS support. Chimera Linux has zfs support for the stable (atm 7.2.2) kernel. And LibreOffice 26.08 right now. And KDE 6.7.4 servicepack 2 as well. I&#39;ll be heading back soon, a gem! #chimeraLinux

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    One of the hidden powers of NixOS: https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/nix-shell-p-subtitleedit/ #nixos

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    The camel&amp;#39;s back was broken, my patience ended with T2 SDE Linux. #t2 https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/the-end-of-patience/

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    They do it on purpose. I introduce Vivaldi in the Sundries, next day a new version comes out. But I personally like my browsers as fresh as they come, so vivaldi-stable-8.0.4033.42 is up for grabs now! https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

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    Yep. Did it again. Couldnt have done it without this excellent guide, which is a write-up of a just as excellent YT video. This guy delivers and I really enjoyed setting this up yesterday: Fedora, btrfs, snapper, luks2 encryption. Obviously I changed something and used the Cosmic desktop for this experiment. Recommended! #fedora #cosmic #archlabs https://sysguides.com/fedora-44-full-disk-encryption-with-btrfs-snapshot-and-rollback-support

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    It&amp;#39;s Wednesday here in Danang, time to get the sundries out there! Hot off the press: - The latest Librewolf (according to their git updated 3 hrs ago) - Brave Origin of course - A new addition: Vivaldi! There is an excellent Sbo pkg for that, made by one of the Vivaldi maintainers. But if you just want an installable Slackware pkg, you can find it in this repo; I switched back to Vivaldi myself also. As a consequence Brave-Origin will be discontinued by me at the end of June 2026....

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    The idea that the KeePassXC database with your passwords is within your own ecosystem, and not on someone else&#39;s computer, is absolutely worth the minor hoops you have to crawl through. #keepassxc

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    Time for Saturday&amp;#39;s updates: new versions of fresh-editor and brave-origin-beta are available at: #slackware https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

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    My two cents on the new Hyprland: Hypr, hypr, bring out the mango 🥭 ! #slackware #mango #archlabs https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/hypr-hypr-bring-out-the-mango/

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    Dream scenario. Whilst everyone is gloating over the new Nvidia RTX laptop, everyone also forgets the previous flop of the Arm powered laptops was not on the hardware, but bcs of the lack of decent software to run on it. It&amp;#39;s close to 2028 now and I pick one up for around 500 bucks. And put Slackware ARM on it 😝 #slackware

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    Think I&amp;#39;ve gone through 4 kernel updates in a week (7.0.4-7) on Gentoo and Slackware. All went without any notable hitch. We should be grateful and happy with such responsible and dedicated maintainers among us 👍🏻 I certainly am 🙏🏻 #gentoo #slackware

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    Looking forward to this one! #slackware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ivC2eOg1w

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    It&amp;#39;s Saturday, updates are available. Most notably Fresh Editor getting a bump to v.0.36. And Brave origin obviously. Go get them before it&amp;#39;s Wednesday again 😎 #slackware #braveOrigin #fresheditor https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

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    @jloc0 Bug hunting 101: for some obscure reason Spectacle wasn&amp;#39;t working in Slim 6.7. (Re)install tesseract and leptonica (available in your repo anyway), all good! It&amp;#39;s always the user that effs something up 😆 #slackware #archlabs

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    The unspeakable has happened. I&amp;#39;ve installed Aeon, the immutable Gnome by OpenSuse. Although KDE and WM&amp;#39;s (dwm, mango) are at the core of my nerdiism, that ThinkPad deserved something else. Can&amp;#39;t have an opinion without actually using it. First impressions: clean, no fluff. Very good security (TPM encryption et al). And Suse was my first distro many years ago (the 2 books and 6 CD&amp;#39;s boxes). Network shares very smooth, tomorrow some extensions. And forget about my...

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    Saturday&amp;#39;s updates have landed: - brave-origin-beta v1.91.145-1 - fresh-editor v0.3.5-1 Go get them at: https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

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    Strange the EuroOffice project started out on GitHub. That almost immediately disqualifies it for me, especially in these times. And let&amp;#39;s not forget excellent alternatives like Forgejo. A completely missed opportunity. A pity. And stupid.

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    For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic! Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i&amp;#39;ve been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 ! #slackware #archlabs

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    This can go many ways. Just bcs my bootmanager y&amp;#39;day decided not see my new initramfs, I reinstalled Gentoo, with LUKS. All good. And bcs I&amp;#39;ve actually never used it, I&amp;#39;ll be putting dwl on it today. There will be joy and pain, I am sure. So I stacked the fridge already. Better be prepared 🤣 🍻

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    I am starting to worry. Dwl installed just fine, I compiled it from source. Learned how-to and applied the specific wlroots version in Gentoo. Applications I need are there. Five patches applied, all good. Even got noctalia-shell running. The project has been revived and a lot of patches have been updated to the latest version in the last month. I stop tweaking now. Have to end the weekend on a high. Beer is cold. More next week! #gentoo #dwl

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    New definition of bricklaying 🧱: End up eating 5 toasted sandwiches with peanutbutter. The last two had chilisauce added. Wonder tomorrow why the kilo&amp;#39;s haven&amp;#39;t gone down. Blame the peanutbutter 🤣

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    First impressions of today: - Gentoo remains amazing - Why tf is there no true Wayland dwm? - Librewolf is the Firefox Firefox should have been. - Adding yourself to the pipewire group at 06:31 AM is totally acceptable. #gentoo #dwm