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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

ENDEAVOUROS & AUR HELPERS

Hot on the heels of Antergos Linux’s demise, EndeavourOS, a distribution based directly on Arch Linux, is a distribution that offers an easy Calamares Installation to put Arch Linux on most systems. The distribution comes with YAY(AUR helper) by default and it works in much the same way as Pacman, the official package installer for Arch. Pacman and Yay are both CLI tools that use almost perfectly parallel syntax. Yay can be installed from git cloning the repo from github and reinstalling it can be done from Pacman. Endeavour also installs with literally bare minimum packages and lets the user build his/her own system in accordance with their needs. Endeavour sports the XFCE4.14 desktop by default, this is a much needed update to XFCE as a whole as it offers many features and changes that previously weren’t available(more on this later), and helps Endeavour put its best foot forward as it were. Endeavour is a tweaked and polished xfce with nothing really installed out of