The way I understand it is that you dont need the extensions if you use brave (i dont have any of those installed and just use as strict shield settings as I can) but they will support them for as long as possible for those who also want to use the extensions. Brave seems to use a modified version of the chromium engine in their browser which includes the shields.

The only issues ive had so far are with youtube’s recent “3 strikes” message, which gets fixed by brave within a couple of days to make yt unable to detect that brave is using (or is itself) an ad blocker.

Brave Shields block ads and trackers by default, and they’re built natively in the Brave browser—no extensions required. Since Shields are patched directly onto the open-source Chromium codebase, they don’t rely on MV2 or MV3.

https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

Ive read the comments, and I love you as a human so much for helping the kitties (and the way you talk about them is hilarious)!

This seems like an easy implementation, and I can skip the variable and just directly check the timestamp from the script i guess. My question is, if I install something, say yay -S a_single_package does that also update the timestamp of the core.db file?

Ive got one (not the one you mentioned) which is quite good. I don’t think its quite at the level of the one you said, but it should be decent.

If that’s the case I’ll turn this into an exercise. I’ll make a simple testing circuit once I’m done with my thesis and see how many I can save. Worst case I get some practice. Best case I get a set of switches for free and recycle. Most likely I’ll fry some, save others, and have a stock of spares and some experience. Thanks!

I wouldn’t call myself skilled by any means, but I have some experience with it, and have some tools available (flux, wick, etc)

I switched because of neovim, and got used to it. I was never the kind of guy to press caps to type capitals, always just kept shift pressed down with my pinky, so i basically never used the caps key anyway

Commenting because fellow caps-esc swap enthusiast, and I would like to know the answer as well

The other comments do a good job explaining why you would go with X or Y distro based on your requirements. What I want to do is give you a general recommendation/piece of advice based on a feeling I get from reading your post that, that you are not excluding the possibility of tinkering with your system at some point in the future to get it less bloated and more streamlined to your use case (please absolutely correct me if I’m wrong about my interpretation).

As such, I think if your current computer has the ability to reasonably run Mint you should go with that. The reason is that it simply works most of the time without much hassle. As someone new to Linux, that’s a big part of the transition. A lot of stuff is new, so there’s no need to force extra complexity on top. You have the ability to dabble in said complexity even with Mint, but its not required, and while I am dying to recommend Arch to you having read that your PC is a bit on the less powerful side (the meme is real guys), I don’t think its a productive use of your time nor a healthy level of stress to deal with at this point of your “Linux progression”. That’s why I recommend Mint; make the transition, have the ability to slowly and eventually play with your system to an increasing degree as you get more comfortable with everything, but don’t handicap yourself from the get-go. Eventually, if you do decide to go with a distro which gives you more control in exchange for higher experience/knowledge/tinkering then you should have a solid foundation of skills to build on.

tl;dr: I recommend Mint so you get used to Linux, looking up solutions online, using the tools (commands) available to you to diagnose problems you may encounter, and if you decide its good enough for your use case - stick with it. If you want more control, think of it as a learning experience which will allow you to at some point delve into the more hands-on, complex distributions.

Not sure what the MacOS one is, but i use flameshot and im happy with it

I ended up doing that yea. I Also put mine in the bspwm config just in case.

I think it might actually be just turning the display off now that you mention it. Here are the xfce4-power-manager settings I have for the display:

https://i.imgur.com/ZRlnhKt.png

I most certainly do not know how this specific thing is xD

I will say however, you took the saying “Improvise, Adapt, Overcome” to heart haha

Thanks for the info! It would be good to be aware of the term

Just a sidenote about ntfs & ext4.

ntfs doesnt require defragmentation on SSDs, and it actually might lower the lifespan of your SSD because of the increase in unnecessary read/writes.

ext4 IIRC works just fine as long as your drive is at most 90% full and you keep that last 10% free.

Its been a while since i read up on that fact about ext4 so someone more experienced can correct me if im wrong

You’ve done what now?

Whats alt-tech?

After the situation with his former employee (i forget her name) coming out and exposing how toxic of a work environment that company is, i completely stopped watching (not that i was a regular viewer before) and do not give their vids the slightest bit of my time

Thanks! I just joined and registered on the server. It will be good to have that available :)