I would like to point out some icons available for the desktop taskbar are of various sizes, therefore messing up the aesthetics of the utility. Secondary of importance if to mind only functional appeal, nonetheless, in the end, coherent overall image is also certain sign of proper polish. I do understand, though, that lack of any fixed standard in the Linux world does not help to improve the matter.

Linux stands for individual independence in the realm of personal computers. The diversity only within the Linux world is self evident as a proof towards a hypothesis that Linux opposes any form of digital monopoly or centralized control, within and without. Linux means thinking for oneself, ideally speaking.

Cloud services introduce a new quality to the playground. Even though there is little doubt whether the cloud services are a universal future, especially for the miniaturization of personal hardware - thus allowing to push technological boundaries further, freeing people from at least a certain deal of the limitations imposed by local equipment, resultantly making a step forward in the process of technocratic transcendence and user emancipation - it also implies a different type of mindset. The crucial hardware is no longer on the user. The thinking part, is no longer on the user. The control, is not on the user. It is elsewhere. The chance for dominance of external control is granted.

Linux has always thusfar existed on the margin of mainstream appeal. Even though with the rise of cloud services, the Linux based systems themselves may become a more attractive medium for accessing web only solutions, it happens at a cost - the cost of having Linux limited to the position of a middleman. Linux may easily outperform many commercial offers in the range of comparable tasks, for zero monetary cost to be added, nonetheless, every conscious Linux enthusiast should answer oneself a question: what is the role of awareness in having Linux as the primary or the only operating system? Is Linux just a tool of some sort or is it an expression of certain shared moral values? Is my computer still personal or is it simply a husk without distinctive identity?

Cloud services, is a mind external. Personal computers - in the traditional sense - is a mind internal. The war thusfar has been fought over the ownership of the mind internal. But a new face of war may emerge sometime ahead. The war over having a personal mind at all. The war over having anything at all. The war of thinking for oneself.

The war is lost for the majority of actual and potential userbase. The industry dynamics, the ways of infrastructure unfolding, the business mentality, predicts that. But the fight goes on, as long as there is anyone still willing to pick it up. The fight is for realization of the cost at which future comes. Sometimes it is not what we have that defines us, but it is what we loose or mindfully give up, which does it. Priorities remain the same. Individuality, freedom, autonomy.

Linux, is a turtle, a vicious turtle.

I do not say, loose it. I say, dive, but know when to resurface.

Simultaneously, Linux must take the chance of becoming better, evolving, responding to the time, as local infrastructural conditions - which thusfar have kept it behind the competition, isolated - become weaker.

In the digital age, it is the consciousness factor, which differentiates those swimming from those drowning.

What particular digital activity can you name, that generates the highest prolonged use - and thus the heat - of either the CPU or the CPU and GPU both?

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I noticed a while back that AlphaVantage has discontinued the BATCH_QUOTE function. So in the process of explaining how to work with the new GLOBAL_QUOTE function and manipulate its .csv downloads to get and tabulate multiple quotes together into one output file I thought I'd go ahead and incorporate using conky to display quotes as an option. Below is a link to my tutorial on how to do this with a BASH script and a little basic NIX like cut, tail, cat and output building of delimited files. You can basically replace the missing BATCH_ function of the API this way and build and columnize a single output from multiple outputs and wget operations. There are plenty of images and unfortunately I couldn't get imgur to work right today, who knows why, to display one. Check out the tutorial if you want to see how it looks.

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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

Today I'd like to share with you how to create your aliases in fish as well as in bash shell. As some of you probably already know, aliases are like "nicknames" for those commands, often long, we use the most and by "aliasing" them we make them short. In bash, one creates aliases like this

then we hit enter and next time instead of typing "sudo apt-..." simply typing install will do the same task, which is install a given package. However, this is temporary, if you want to make your aliases permanent and available across boots, you have to create a file called .bash_aliases and add your aliases there. Once you've added them open a terminal and do then hit enter, this will make the aliases available inmediately and across boots. You could also add them in the file .bashrc but as far as I read the former method seems to be the most appropriate.

Now, in fish aliases are created in a different way, for one they're not called aliases but functions and just like with bash aliases you can create them for temporary use or add them in the file .config/fish/config.fish if it doesn't exist create it once you've created the file start adding your functions, like so:
Add as many as you wish/need, once you've finished adding your functions type and hit enter to make them available for use inmediately.

Aliases are time  savers since we don't have to type long commands once and again over and over. Hope you've liked the post and found it useful.

Cheers!

First time user.Installed Linux lite in VIrtualbox and worked flawlessly.However I am not able to share folders between guest and host.I am a newbie but google and tried to put  some commands for example "sudo mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS]My Shared "
mount bad usage..request some help in sharing folders.thank you

Is it possible to upgrade from 4.0 to 4.4 without doing a clean install, i.e. so various settings are preserved? If so, how? I have not found any guidance on this by searching, maybe it's my search-fu?

This installation is running inside a VirtualBox.

Bonus question: Same question but for 4.4 -> 4.6.

Is there a public ppa where I can access packages and XFCE mods used in Linux Lite? Overall I like Linux Lite, and some of the extensions available(such as the customized Whisker menu), but due to the Kernel being update so rarely I've decided not to go with it. Is there any way to use some of the extensions in Linux Lite on other Linux Distros? It appears they are only available through the Linux Lite PPA, and attempting to add that PPA on another Linux virtual machine it returned an error saying the public key was unavailable.

I"m using 4.4 and testing 4.6, but I can't find how to make the screen go blank after a set number of idle minutes. I know it's there, but I haven't discovered the method. Please help.