Never heard of this, but it sounds really neat. Can it actually replace ddg in my daily life?

CumBroth and oldfart, thank you for being internet heroes. Soulless is the best.

Ddclient has done the trick for me, and my registrar supports it with an API

I use slackware btw. Doing work for the computer is half the fun.

But I did learn something here, so thanks for that.

I use ddg to search for things in my area all the time. I just use near <zip code> instead of near me.

I’m not google free though. I pay for YouTube premium and have a couple Gmail addresses.

I was on xfce for a long time due to having low power hardware. I got a decent computer around the time kde plasma came out. I tried it and have stayed on it.

I hate gnome with every fiber of my being.

My daily driver for ~25 years is still on sysvinit. I have plenty of experience with systemd based distros. I run proxmox on my home server. I don’t hate systemd, but it’s a lot less intuitive for me.

Example: I want to start the tailscale daemon and service at boot. Easy, add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Oh wait, I want my laptop to check for an internet connection before trying to bring up tailscale. Otherwise the boot process halts for 20 seconds until it gives up. Easy, add a bash script in rc.local to test for an internet connection before trying to bring tailscale up.

I know the answer is systemctl something, but I have to look it up EVERY DAMN TIME. and this is just one of many things that have been giving me heartburn for years.

I call it butter fuss. Yours is better.

I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

Slackpkg or slackpkg+, without a doubt.

I have bazzite on my daughter’s machine. I still had to enable compatibility for other titles. It’s not a huge deal if you know it’s there, but it can be a stumbling block for someone testing the waters.

Valve needs to enable Proton by default.

Slackware!

If it’s a steal, buy it and try it. Worst case, you could turn a small profit by reselling it.

May i see the output of neofetch?

You delicious bastard! Thanks for the rook tip.

I too was a bit underwhelmed by sway. I also bought an amd gpu, but I don’t regret it. I couldn’t get Wayland to work at all on my 3060 ti.

Compiz fusion! I spent so long trying out different effects for different actions. I smoked a lot of reefer in those days.

Upvote for soulseek / nicotine

I’ve used slackware more or less exclusively since the late 90s. It’s been my daily driver since I deleted my windows XP partition some time in the early 00s. It’s really all I know. Sure, I can find may way around a .deb based system when I have to. I’m also likely to apt install something, say yes to 50 dependencies, brick my system and have no idea what did it.

I love to tinker, and I love to learn. There’s no shortage of either in Slackware, and that’s why it’s not for everyone. And I don’t mean that in an “i use arch btw” way. I’m an intermediate user at best. I ask for help way more than I provide help. Lucky for me I’ve made some good friends in the Slackware community over the years.