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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

ANTERGOS 18.12 KDE REVIEW AND A BRIEF TALE OF MY EXPERIENCES WITH KDE IN GENERAL

Antergos, a Spanish produced, Arch-based, Unix-Like operating system, is a modern marvel to say the least, when compared to Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, etc. Antergos works similarly to a standard build of Arch in that it doesn’t really offer many bells and whistles itself, whereas Manjaro uses its own repos, and seems self aware of what it is doing in the way it manages SSDs and partitioning schemes. Antergos is a more bare-bones system, which is not to say it doesn’t add something over vanilla Arch, but it does so in a way that doesn’t get in the way of the user, doesn’t effect the user’s ability to use the operating system in any way. As I previously mentioned, partitioning is different between Antergos and other Arch-based distros like Manjaro in that Antergos pays close attention to detail whilst installing. It creates a separate root and boot partitioning schema on the drive with swap taking the rest. It seems to use a more logical and advanced method that I can only a