manyroads,
thankyou for a reply.
I was hoping for contribution to this post to not be complex complicated philosophical and unconcise.
Just an example, took X.Org donkeys years to finally manage spurious display resolutions out of the box.
Just those four links above is a ton of information to comprehend.
I started with Red Hat 6, was it XFree86 or X.Org I forget.
At fifty-six years old, the big gift of life is too short to give time to waylandows crap when we've water and trees and animals and children to worry about.
If you are French I will let you off for your spelling of lifestyle as two words as you (on the street in Africa,) say du-mant or du-me (apologies for spelling!)
Greek/English is one word.
The best English speakers in the world are the Ghanaians, I bet it goes the same for the French speaking Africans I forget which country I mean.

This is 21st century Shitain, no sovereign control, real, or effective.
Just a hegemony jerk off competition stuck between the US and China.
Some fucking American multinational fat cat bastard even owns our two shortwave transmitters, one in England, the other in Falklands.
Empire karma.

Please put your two penneth in, everybody has something interesting and useful to add.
euhapistw thank you

We are not failing to act, we are acting, we are concentrating on the cure.

I have been participating on this forum for just over a year now and regard it to be the best, second to none, no competition at all.
I have never ever encountered a troll stealing my time which must be beyond outstanding.
Also, not for any particular reason, I know I can be quite somewhat hard to bear! and there has been the odd time when I have been out of order.
This has shown great tolerance, but I am not stupid and it is quite obvious that I am concerned with computer engineering.
Everything comes down to freedom and this forum is a great demonstration of that.
This is not magic, this is because of the integrity of the people at this forum.
I admire this forum and consider myself to be at the bottom of the pecking order.
I guess the solemn computer engineering here, wipes out trolls as boredom.

When I am rambling in Greece, not off road but on road, there are places with so little traffic that I can drink the water straight out of the gutter.
When I am in Britain I never drink tap water straight, and question that all places that serve drink and food should activated charcoal filter.
My daily water needs are 500/750ml for coffee, 250ml for cooking, and 500ml to water down wine.
Depends where I am, If I can get wild water I do, I don't always have to 'process' but Britain is not really wild and I am mindful of liver tick.
I use bottled water some, but I do use tap water.
I boil it up in a kettle, just a quick boil, I don't think I need 5 minutes.
Then I let it cool.
Then I chill it in the fridge.
Then it goes through a typical activated charcoal filter.
I find the filters last for three months always chilled.
I havn't grown two heads and my balls havn't rolled out the bottom of my trousers.
Please be critical of my methodology.

I do on the interweb pretty much what I did before the interweb; go shopping, go to the library, post mail, enjoy entertainment, etc.
I have hobbies & interests and such forums are most wonderfully helpful.
I don't care for social media, tell em nowt.

If I was up to something, good or bad is irrelevant, that warranted black ops through the windows, a small bottle of powerful acid would be quite useful to destroy memory chips, if I was in my container and black ops had managed to successfully breach my container my primary concern would be the best self defense which is to attack.

The vast majority of people are under the illusion that a computer is a perfect electronic device, black & white, whereas the truth of the matter is creations are mechanical; hardware software same thing; your aircraft is redundant obsolete; expensive.

My motivation to clean something is that is an actual physical benefit, as for privacy certainly one round of zeros is better than a cat lick and eight rounds would be quite expensive even for NASA.

I think that China leads in computer engineering but that does not mean that they lead in reconnaissance/surveillance.
Of course GCHQ does the full take, that is part of their job.
If you are British and you are in Britain and you are working for a Chinese computer company and you are doing R&D with the best silicon technology and nanotechnology doctors on the planet, apart from learning stuff, this access requires ink on paper at the very very very highest echelons of power in China.
Putting a small BIOS chip into a machine about as big as a photocopier, flashing the BIOS down the pipe from China, and then changing the chip on the board in a flash, using tweezers and hot air down a straw, best done very slowly mind, no need to heat stress the board.
I think security services would find unpacking that package and associated software problematic.

These days I am not in the field with film & chemicals & faxmille scanner & satellite dish; a piece of crap telephone doesn't cost 50,000 bucks.
If I send words or pictures ( I am a veteran reporter & photojournalist,) I encrypt blowfish seven characters is sufficient.
If far sighted and responsible people at NASA choose to lift my material that's fine by me as I know they value my art.
As for thieving multi-nationals their primary concern is not that publishing a photo can get one killed.
Android app 552k jackpal Android Terminal Emulator to tarball, & 670k CrptIt 1.4 (theinsanetechie dot in) to blowfish encrypt.
There are file manager apps that encrypt, I'm sticking with blowfish thankyou.

Is Chitty chitty bang bang superkalafragilisticexpealedoshious spelt doshious or dotious.
It's spelt with a k, I was thinking in Greek.

Can we put sdmem -f -ll -v in a script in a low init level that will function at shutdown -h now, and three fingered salute.

Apparently if you spin a Windows install CD-ROM backwards you hear satanic messages.
Never mind that, if you spin it forwards you install Windows.

Listen to Diseases by Michigan & Smiley.
Well, starting with the bread & milk,
milk = synthetic antibiotics steroids hormones, bread = glyphosate antibiotic.
Supposedly in Britain we produce wheat for humans, bollocks, the weather's shit, we produce wheat for animal feed for export.
We get our wheat from France and Canada, post Brexit mind, mainly from Canada.
They don't seem to have food regulations in Canada, if I eat that stuff I get instant gastric reflux which will lead to gall bladder removal.
When I live in Greece I eat bread but in Britain I eat pasta and not any old pasta.
A lot of people in Britain simply say that they are allergic to wheat and dairy which shuts everybody up.
A lot of people who appear to be fat useless bastards are actually a fat & toxins bandage around the trauma.
If you're really concerned about your present genetic modification and alteration which will render your children and grandchildren sterile, check out Zach Bush on the tube.

I make my own refractasnapshot because I think systemd is all about data thieving.
I apt-get --no-install-recommends install; to avoid crap.
I use icewm, I like how it's automatic, you install a program and it appears in the menu.
In icewm also I like how the open programs line up along the bottom bar and also you can drag and drop the order there along the bottom.
A file manager is essential, PCManFM is light, otherwise Slax would not use it.
Sakura is great because you can copy and paste.
Many many years ago thanks to TinyCoreLinux I use Beaver editor which don't get more simples (I have the amd64 dot deb if anybody needs it.)
Xpdf is just fine.
Viewnior is a ultra low-fat image viewer.
Mirage is a most elegant viewer and also can do some basic editing even change file format.
I backup my browser settings (i.e, in Chromium it's .config/chromium,) because going through all those browser settings is a pain in the backside and browsers have to be updated all the time due to fatheadery and skulduggery.
I force ttf-bitstream-vera by stanley knifing the folders in /etc/fonts by tarballing them.
Give icewm a spin, you will be most impressed by it's ease of use.
JWM is outstanding, but the menu is somewhat too much information.
icewm is not difficult at all to edit some config to get more than it does automatic.