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Blocklist-Update.sh

Blocklist-Update.sh is a script that I wrote to manage blocklists from bluetack etc to be used in conjunction with Transmission torrent downloader in Linux/MacOS. The script can be taylored to work with Qbittorrent as well, but the placement of the blocklists means you'd have to redirect the blocklist to go somewhere locally manageable as Transmission uses its own blocklist directory in .config. I believe there are about 10 lists there now. It works well for my needs. It can be ran weekly using crontab in standard user profile.  To download:  blocklist-update.sh To download the others:  Github

POP OS! NEW DISTRO FROM SYSTEM 76 TO JUST HIT THE SCENE…

 Remember a time when Linux operating system(s) were rather sparse, and there wasn’t a lot of different things to choose from? Even now, each and every distro creator is more or less building on what someone else did before. This is not different with System 76’s POP OS. As you may know, System 76 is a rather trusted vendor of modern hardware sporting a Linux distribution, usually Ubuntu based on sturdy hardware. System 76 has recently decided to get into the distribution game. This decision was not something the company made lightly, however, it would seem that way. There are many different opinions, but a majority of them say the same thing about the new distro, they usually insist that it is just Ubuntu with a few different tweaks added in. A lot of flashy branding. Pop OS is very new and will take some time to win any awards with newcomers, but the goal was originally to allow newbies access to a stable computing experience without the hassles that might come with the recent