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privacy

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It hurts all over

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Generally I've found the people who say this get privacy and secrecy confused. You close the door when you go to the bathroom because you want privacy, not because you have anything to hide. Everyone has a pretty good idea what you're doing in there but you close the door anyways. Secrecy would be if you were cooking Meth in the bathroom and wanted to keep it a secret.

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My torrent with the highest ratio...

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For a lot of people, it's a community thing. I'm a member on Orpheus and they have a lot of great community stuff like Album of the Month, user made scripts, tutorials, forums, etc. They can also have a lot higher quality content and moderation because they're so "exclusive". And, for music, a private tracker is gonna be 100x better than a public one or Soulseek.

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I hate obscure tech issues!

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Not necessarily. The value of Reddit comes from it's massive amount of content. A lot of the traffic is just people searching stuff and Reddit coming up first. By deleting your comments and posts, Reddit becomes less valuable even if they still have that content on their end.

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Window Managers for the un-initiated

i3

  • Great for beginners
  • Uses it's own configuration language so no coding required
  • One of the most popular window managers so documentation and such is plentiful
  • Has a 1:1 Wayland fork called Sway
  • Is a manual tiling window manager which means you specify where a window will appear when you go to launch something.

AwesomeWM

  • Is awesome
  • Configured in Lua
  • Has a great status bar built in
  • Great documentation
  • Is a dynamic tilling window manager meaning it places new windows in accordance with a preset layout.

Qtile

  • My favorite
  • Has a 1:1 Wayland version built-in
  • Configured in Python
  • The best status bar I've used
  • Great documentation
  • Dynamic tiler

XMonad (Note: never used this so take this how you will)

  • Configured in Haskell
  • Has a lot of dependencies
  • Extremely configurable
  • Dynamic tiler

There're many more window managers out there but these are the ones I've personally used (besides XMonad) and know the most about.

If you don't like a built in status bar then you can disable it in the config and use another one like Polybar. Distrotube (on Odyssey or Youtube) also has really good videos on all of these window managers and more which I really recommend you check out if you haven't already.

Personally though, I think Qtile will give you the best experience.