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krongulus updated their site.

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krongulus 3 months ago

Ive been working on and off on this site update for a few months. I have a few more pages half done that i want to finish but i decided to just get it out there cause its been haunting me

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

that reminds me, how's 2 weeks of Void treating you?

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krongulus 3 months ago

I actually love void, its probably my one of my favorite distros out of the ones i tried. I'm currently trying out Arch and NixOS because I want to give those more of a shot, but Void and Arch are my favorites. The only negative to void is that theres not as many packages and that a fair amount of packages require more setup because of relying on systemd, but if you don't want to use systemd then void's great.

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grumpfox updated their site.

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grumpfox sonic2k

3 months ago

Thanks for the follow and the shoutbox comment, really appreciated! Always lovely to touch base with fellow Sonicheads. Out of curiosity, did you ever visit any of the Sonic forums around the early 2000s, like SSMB? For some reason the Sonic2k moniker just seems so familiar.

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sonic2k 3 months ago

Yep I did, and this handle has been mine since at least May 2000. Before then I had a different handle for a short time but this has been associated with me ever since. A few popular Sonic fans knew me then too, we used to hang out on AOL Instant Messenger a lot

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grumpfox 3 months ago

Ah that's lovely, imagine we may have crossed paths a few times back in the day then! Flint was (and is) my moniker there as well.

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grumpfox

3 months ago

And it's time for a brand new discography project - and I told you I'd pick an uncool one! It's the funky monks the Red Hot Chili Peppers who, among many other things, were one of the very first bands I fell in love with. And that's a huge reason *why* I wanted to cover them, to explore what their discog means to me in 2026 and to balance the critical and nostalgic sides of myself.

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grumpfox 3 months ago

I don't listen to them much these days but there was a period in my early teens when they were a daily presence in my CD player - and that's why I'm kinda hyped to revisit this stuff and see how both they and I have grown, warts and all. So we start from the beginning, with the scrappy and troubled self-titled debut: 1984's The Red Hot Chili Peppers, https://grumpfox.yorniq.xyz/artists/rhcp#rhcp_rhcp

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grumpfox 3 months ago

I'm part of a webring now, bringing back the early 2000s baybeeee. Courtesy of https://yorniq.xyz/site/cdring !

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grumpfox mjauuu

3 months ago

Thank you for the watch!

krongulus

3 months ago

ive been on and off working on a refresh of this website cause ive been neglecting it and i finally got the energy to finish/cleanup my wip... anyways i want to ask has anyone ever been banned for posting 🏴‍☠️ links on their resource/link pages? i see that a lot but i wanna make sure i wont get zapped for it LMAO

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caesthoffe 3 months ago

i haven't but i am but one person

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ventablack krongulus

3 months ago

really loving the vibes of your site! i also enjoy your music~

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krongulus 3 months ago

Hey thank you so much! I love your site as well your arts and music is super great your mega talented!

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ventablack 3 months ago

ahhhh thank you!! that means a lot to me TwT <3

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grumpfox fvlp

3 months ago

Thank you for the follow!

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krongulus

3 months ago

I take everything i have ever said about any linux distro back 1000 times. Void Linux is my absolute dream distro. They were NOT joking about Runit being faster

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

been thinking about giving Void a try. I've heard some stuff about compatibility issues due to the lack of systemd or the fact that some programs have to be compiled from source code due to Void's package manager. Still, if you're still going strong after a few weeks i'll probably give it a try this summer

taibhse 3 months ago

have they added full-disk encryption to the installer yet? i remember testing and really liking it a few years ago but that put me off using it as my main distro

just-a-husk 3 months ago

@taibhse apparently yes: https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/fde.html

krongulus 3 months ago

I will likely eventually post about my experience later on but so far i haven't seen anything missing. Anything i couldnt find i just got on flatpak, you can also double check here https://voidlinux.org/packages/ I want to say it was easier to install then arch, but a little tougher then something like fedora/mint that has a visual GUI.

taibhse 3 months ago

@just-a-husk i know about that, i meant in the installer. i don't want to have to do it manually. i remember there was an issue or PR about it like 5 years ago but i don't think they've done anything with it to this day

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grumpfox updated their site.

3 months ago

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grumpfox

3 months ago

New review, and we return to the world of Manic Street Preachers for a bit to look at bassist Nicky Wire's second solo album, which appeared one July morning in Bandcamp and then has proceeded to kind of just exist. 2023's Intimism: https://grumpfox.yorniq.xyz/artists/manics#nw_inti

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grumpfox 3 months ago

This is going to be the last review for a couple of weeks as I've got some holiday travels coming up. June's reviews will see a new artist discography page pop up!

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grumpfox 3 months ago

Also I didn't realise the RSS feed had gone bork a month back, fixed now!

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krongulus updated their site.

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krongulus 3 months ago

loved writing this

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

The classic Linux experience right here. Mint my beloved, Arch not working and fucking Gentoo

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sclptures 3 months ago

i'm starting to understand this urge to tinker with something, especially tech. there were thoughts in my mind like "i should try installing arch, mint was easy so this MUST be easy too!", but after reading this i don't think i'll have that thought ever again

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pacrobat 3 months ago

Try the flatpak version of Steam if you did not already! if you have any issues like with Steam definitely give Aurora a shot, its also Fedora, it is immutable, comes with all the libraries/software you might need, and its made by the same people who make Bazzite (also great).

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krongulus 3 months ago

@sclptures If you're interested in Arch but too nervous to install, I recommend EndeavorOS or CachyOS. There *is* also an Archinstall script for Arch that helps with the installation but i've heard of some people having issues. Also if i'm being honest, and i probably should have included this, If i wasn't dualbooting on the same disk Arch probably would have worked way better/out the box

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sclptures 3 months ago

@krongulus i'll consider that once i'm comfortable enough with the terminal!

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taibhse 3 months ago

i believe steam is in rpmfusion, you should enable that if you haven't already

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grumpfox

3 months ago

New review! Continuing with the R.E.M. gap fill, it's time to look at their era-celebrating Warner Bros period best of album - and its b-sides & rarities bonus disc. 2003's In Time: https://grumpfox.yorniq.xyz/artists/rem#rem_it

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krongulus

3 months ago

The way windows, everytime i try to dual boot with a new distro, completely ruins my computer is truly a sight to behold. I have windows in case for school but im thinking of installing it onto a portable ssd. You cannot begin to explain the pain i have gone through these past 2 weeks.

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

i just use a VM of Tiny10, usually runs as fast as Windows would normally run

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badgraph1csghost 3 months ago

you could always do what my chanology roommate in college used to do and physically switch out SATA HDD's whenever you need to change OSes

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krongulus 3 months ago

Yeah thats what i'm going to do i think.

krongulus

3 months ago

Blue

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krongulus 3 months ago

Wait what the fuck i thought the color was based off the site colors, why is everyone just green or red HAHAHA

zhongvie 3 months ago

i take it as post type, even before the avatars had a stripe to the side that indicated the post type. iirc its blue for ur own avatar above, green for just text post, red for site update?

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krongulus 3 months ago

I would have never have guessed, i thought for a moment red meant supporter. Thats very curious

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

Zhongvie is right, the colors are solely dependent on post type

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krongulus

3 months ago

Anyone got any linux distro recs?

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badgraph1csghost 3 months ago

debian with kde plasma

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

If you've never tried Linux before, Mint is a good place to start. If you want an optimized distro for gaming, CachyOS seems to be the place to be rn. If you want something stupidly stable that can run on older hardware, Debian's a good choice. And if you just want something that's good overall, Fedora seems to be a good pick.

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just-a-husk 3 months ago

And if you want something that radically redefines security and eats through RAM like nothing else because it turns every window/program into its own VM, pick Qubes OS

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krongulus 3 months ago

Thank you all for the input. I should have clarified ive used mint for awhile, but the past couple of weeks ive been installing/trying stuff out with my free space + virtual machines. I’ve been getting very into linux so ill likely make a blogpost (or a few) about it haha

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zhongvie 3 months ago

ive been using mx linux mostly bc its among the only one my poor baby laptop can run (2gb ram :skull:) but its honestly been pretty good, i like its package installer UI (but im also super baby with linux so ive got no experience outside of that)

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pacrobat 3 months ago

I use fedora and KDE on all my machines, if you want a plug and play distro Aurora is pretty good and hard to mess up, although you cant go wrong with good ol Debian.

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krongulus 3 months ago

I'm going to be completely honest i've tried to install arch about 6 times but keep running issues with dual booting in the grub bootloader. I do think its an attractive system (outside of the memes/clout) but fedora and debian are tempting me to. I really wish i was smart enough to get more of the deep differences between distros

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pacrobat 3 months ago

honestly there is not going to be a tangible difference for the majority of people (and that is a good thing) so unless you run into specific issues with some packages that in the unlikely event cannot be solved you really cant go wrong with whatever seems the most appealing.

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grumpfox

4 months ago

New review up. When I did my R.E.M. runthrough a few years back I missed a couple of releases, so let's catch up on those. Starting with their one and only (partial) film score. 1999's Man on the Moon (Music From the Motion Picture): https://grumpfox.yorniq.xyz/artists/rem#rem_motm

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