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
With Linux Mint 19.1 coming in November, I decided to switch from arch-based as it was getting kind of buggy, I chose Linux Mint 19 and 18.3 for my drives, mostly because older computers wouldn’t work as well graphically with the new xorg stack in 19. The newer computer, however, works fine. It uses the modesetting driver in place of the standard intel driver that the cpu calls for. This seems to weed out any issues and the performance is at least on par with the brand name version of the driver module. Linux Mint all-in-all works better and smoother with regards to default themes and with optimizing itself for SSD drives. It also has a lot of things that I’m used to with regards to the traditional layout of the desktop, the standard Ubuntu base for packages, and the way that rather than resorting to a terminal every single time I want something done, I can find a graphical component for most things. My one gripe with Linux Mint is that in a short while, many of t