Freedom Tech Index

. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. The Google Chrome web browser is loaded with spyware. It's like a giant space nebula eyeball watching everything everyone does. Don't use it! For anything! Google Chrome Violations: - Not Open Source - Tracks your history - Profiles your computer usage - Integrate w/Google Payments - Contains a key logger - Records your voice - Saves your passwords to Google Servers - Profiles users in other ways - Self-Updating Software with who knows what NeoCities ranks it as spyware level EXTREMELY HIGH. You can get more info over there: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome.html Here is Richard Stallman's webpage on why you shouldn't use Google Chrome: https://stallman.org/google.html Go 👉 here to learn about better browser options. #Chrome_Browser

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. "Disk Usage Analyzer" is perfect for finding files that are eating up all your disk space. Disk Usage is called "Baobab", which are those cool African trees in the picture's background. They probably named it this because the ring chart that the program uses looks like the top of a Baobab tree, but don't quote me on that. That's just my opinion. If it isn't already install on your system by default, you can install Disk Usage like so On Debian based distros: sudo apt install baobab On Arch based distros: pacman -S baobab . . . or install baobab however your system installs packages For more system tools go to 👉 this post and scroll down. #Disk_Usage_Analyzer_Baobab

. Each time you click this web link: https://source.unsplash.com/1920x1080/?lauterbrunnen,grindelwald,wengen.murren You will get a random picture from the keywords lauterbrunnen, grindelwald, wengen, murren, which is an area in Switzerland. You can make the keywords whatever you want, and use those results to set random wallpapers in Ubuntu Gnome using crontab. This websites explains how: https://youness.net/linux/set-random-wallpapers-unsplash-com-ubuntu Or you could just install the "Random Wallpaper" Gnome Extension and select UnSplash as your source. To make the cron job work on Cinnamon desktop you would use this gconftool line instead: gconftool set org.cinnamon.desktop.background picture-uri 'file:///var/tmp/wallpaper.jpg' #CronJob_Random_Wallpaper_Gnome

. Cron is used for scheduling repetitive tasks, such as backing up your system once a day, or changing your wallpaper with a new random image every 10 minutes. You put the commands you want to execute into a text file, save it, and then make that text file executable. Then you add a line to the crontab file by typing "crontab -e" into a terminal, and adding a line to schedule that script file using the syntax below: # ┌─minute(0-59) # │ ┌─hour(0-23) # │ │ ┌─day of the month # │ │ │ (1 - 31) # │ │ │ ┌─month(1-12) # │ │ │ │ ┌─dayOfTheWeek # │ │ │ │ │ (0 - 6) # │ │ │ │ │ (Sun to Sat; # │ │ │ │ │ 7 is also # │ │ │ │ │ Sun on some # │ │ │ │ │ systems) # │ │ │ │ │ # * * * * * <command to execute> For more Info: https://kvz.io/schedule-tasks-on-linux-using-crontab.html See comments for some examples. #Cron_Jobs #Crontab

. AlternativeTo.net is a good website for finding alternatives to common Big Tech software, or any software from any source. This website has alternatives for everything, on every platform, unlike LinuxLinks.com, which focuses on only Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). AlternativeTo is good for finding proprietary Linux software like the non open-source BricsCAD, which is an excellent professional alternative to AutoCAD, or DaVinci Resolve, which is a great proprietary alternative to Adobe Premiere Pro. #AlternativeTo

. Hardinfo is a nice GUI tool for displaying hardware and system information. It has the look and feel of MS's device manager. So if you don't feel lik ememorizing a bunch of command line commands, such as lspci (list pci devices), lsmod (list kernel moduels), or neofetch (Computer summary). you can install hardinfo and give it a spin. Although, NeoFetch is kinda fun, especially if you set your terminal to be semi-transparent. Hardinfo should be in the default repositories. To install it on Debian based distros you would type: sudo apt install hardinfo Then you can search for it the normal way. When you search for "hardinfo" it may show up as "System Profiler" Unlike MS's device manager, You CANNOT edit hardware settings with hardinfo. You can only read the system info. This "Learn Ubuntu Mate" website is a good overview of hardinfo, with lots of screenshots: https://learnubuntumate.weebly.com/hardinfo.html #System_Information #HardInfo_System_Information

From this 👉 website: Use this command: wget -m -k -K -E -l 7 -t 6 -w 5 http://www.website.com -m Means “mirror the site”. Recursively grabs pages & images. It checks the timestamp, so if you run wget a 2nd time with this switch, it will only update files/pages. -k Modifies links in the html to point to local files. Turn it on just to be on the safe side – chances are at least 1 link will cause a problem otherwise. -K Lowercase k above edits the html. If you want the “untouched” version use this switch and it will save both the changed version and the original. You can always delete the one you don’t want later. -E Saves HTML/CSS with “proper extensions”. If every file is named with something like “.htm” you’ll now end up with “.htm.html”. -l 7 Prevents infinite loops, so wget will NOT download forever. -t 6 Sets the number of retries before it gives up on that file and moves on to 6. -w 5 Tells wget to wait a few seconds before next file. More copy options 👉 here 👈 #Scrape_Website_Wget_Terminal

. [Brought to Our Attention by American Patriot] HTTrack gives you a GUI interface for downloading a website. On Linux it launches to a web-browser interface. You can install it on Debian based distros by typing this into a terminal: sudo apt install webhttrack This will also get you the command line version of httrack. Here is the HTTrack website, where you can find more info as well as the manual and documentation: https://www.httrack.com/ See this 👉 Index category for more options. #Scrape_Website_HTTrack_GUI

This channel is a collection of information and things that people new to Linux ask about, such as which alternate apps can be use in place of Big Tech's spyware/malware. To navigate the Main channel, click the pinned "Table of Contents" message at the 👆 top ☝️of the main channel, and scroll down through categories. Categories are slowly being added, so be sure to check back regularly. Here's a link for joining the "Discussion" chat associated with this indexed Table of Contents channel. https://t.me/+SfvY2GpsDPw2ZWZh If you join the Discussion chat: ——————— - You will see every comment made to any of the posts in the main channel - You can post your own questions and comments for everyone else to see and respond too. Make sure to share this channel with everyone. Let's help freedom lovers gain their digital freedom by getting them off of Silicommie Valley's tyrannical platforms and onto open source software. #JoinDiscussion

. See comments for some good wallpaper resources. #Wallpaper_Sources

. Linux does not use the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard combination for anything, so it is perfect for binding to a system monitor, which can then be used as a taskmanager to kill/end hung processes, just like MS OSes. Here are some examples: To bind gnome-system-monitor to Ctrl+Alt+Del, add these lines to your ".xbindkeysrc" file: # Bind System Monitor to Crtl+Alt+Del "gnome-system-monitor" Control+Alt+Delete To bind htop running in gnome terminal, add these lines to your ".xbindkeysrc" file: # Bind htop to Crtl+Alt+Del "gnome-terminal -e htop" Control+Alt+Delete To bind Stacer, add these lines to your ".xbindkeysrc" file: # Bind Stacer to Crtl+Alt+Del "stacer" Control+Alt+Delete To set up terminal system monitors, the rule of thumb is you put the program name for your terminal (konsole, eterm, tilix, etc..), and then a "-e" for execute, and then the program you want to execute from within the terminal, such as htop, or any other terminal system monitor. #System_Monitor_As_Taskmanager

. There are countless system tools for Linux, and countless opinions on which ones are best. See comments for some of the most common GUI system tools, and maybe some command line ones as well. #System_Tools #Linux_System_Tools

. Libiquity is a company located in the rural mountains of Pennsylvania that offers Linux computers that try to adhere more to the FSF (Freedom Software Foundation) which run only FOSS software, firmware and hardware drivers on their computers. https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200 Their X200 laptop comes with Trisquel Linux, which is one of the few officially approved GNU Operating Systems. You can see the other GNU approved Linux distros here: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html #Libiquity_Computers

Ehhhh you mean like sharing opinions you don't like? Pretty scary thought that it's socially acceptable to state that the government should regulate speech.

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. Neocities-dot-org ranks Dissenter as Spyware Level HIGH as you can see at this web-page: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/dissenter.html One of the main issues with Dissenter is it hasn't been updated for security issues in a long time. That also makes it a security vulnerability. It is considered a "dead" browser, and is not available for Linux anymore. Dissenter is based on Brave Browser, which is based on Chromium. Dissenter still has some Brave and Google connections going on, and Dissenter also has an inherent issue that it associates web pages you have visited with the discussions you are having via Gab. They were working on that issue, but with lack of development and upkeep, who knows these fixes have happened, or will happen. #Dissenter

This channel is a collection of information and things that people new to Linux ask about, such as which alternate apps can be use in place of Big Tech's spyware/malware. To navigate this Main channel, click the pinned "Table of Contents" message at the 👆 top ☝️, and scroll down through categories. Categories are slowly being added, so be sure to check back regularly. Here's a link for joining the "Discussion" chat associated with this indexed Table of Contents channel. https://t.me/+SfvY2GpsDPw2ZWZh If you join the Discussion chat: ——————— - You will see every comment made to any of the posts in the main channel - You can post your own questions and comments for everyone else to see and respond too. Make sure to share this channel with everyone. Let's help freedom lovers gain their digital freedom by getting them off of Silicommie Valley's tyrannical platforms and onto open source software. #JoinDiscussion

[Forwarded from Bitti Brightlight] "This option here may be good to add to the Linux alt index. It converts an Audible book collection into MP3 files from the proprietary Audible. I am using it to bring my collection out of my iphone and out of Audible's app requirement." https://openaudible.org #Convert_Audible_AAX_To_MP3