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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

OPERA BROWSER REVIEW

Opera browser, a product of Opera Software, a subsidiary of Otella based in Norway, is the chromium-based browser that has built in features such as ad blocking, free VPN, memory improvements over Chrome itself and wallpapers and a light and dark theme pre-configured. Opera browser has been around for a long time. It started its life around 1994. Opera was co-founded by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, an Icelandic born programmer living in Norway at the time. Under the direction of Jon and his colleagues, Opera built some amazing features into their software such as; Tabbed browsing, fraud and phishing protection, bookmarks bar and many other features that the competition at the time simply didn’t have. Opera was very fast and it accomplished much of this thanks to the founding company’s own in-house Presto engine. Opera used Presto up to version 12 then dropped the engine in favor of a pre-built Web kit engine which was of similar fashion to what Google Chrome was using. Later on Web

WD BLUE 250GB 3D NAND 2.5 INCH SATA III SSD

A couple of weeks ago, my new Western Digital Blue 250 GB SSD came in the mail. It’s fast. My computer automatically recognized the new hardware when I plugged it in. After installing Manjaro 17.1.1 on the device(As I had no Manjaro 17.1.2), it booted quickly and cleanly. The system ran as if I had a regular Hard disk drive in the machine. It shutdown 2 times as fast as the hard disk drives I’ve been using have done. It also loaded applications in a flash. Everything seemed stable on the system. A couple of issues I’ve been having with Manjaro lately, the themes aren’t working as they are supposed to, this doesn’t seem to matter here. All my scripts worked beautifully on it, everything finished in half the normal amount of time. I’ve had absolutely zero problems with it. Installing the device, however, might prove to be a challenge. The only available slots are where the floppy drive would go and it isn’t open, and an SD card reader spot. I also didn’t originally have a cable that wou