You don't listen to lectures and academic podcasts while you are bike riding or washing dishes or doing other things? How inefficient.

Do what my daughter does - listen to it on double speed. She did her entire bachelor's degree like that. Everything I know about blockchain technology I overheard on double speed at the dinner table when she would bring her laptop and listen to class lectures.

I don't know of a transcript. If you want to speed-read through the 9 studies that are referenced in the podcast, you can find them listed on the podcast website, notrelated.xyz. He did another one a few months later that's of interest in the same vein - "Against Method and For 'Pseudoscience'".

Too late, I left him a confusing mess of a message. He'll probably give up completely on Linux and buy himself a Mac.

No, I make my versions of Pale Moon unbranded, per the Pale Moon trademark requirements. It's just a short 'disable branding' line or something like that in .mozconfig.

In the 80s I was writing fortran programs on a timeshare computer. And I recall we didn't need GUI's for writing fortran or for Unix user administration.

Did you file a bug report regarding the capitalization issue? I can actually see how that could be problematic in certain very specific instances, although I don't think it's a huge problem. As was pointed out, probably by you yourself, it can be fixed with a simple change to a config file. But it should be corrected, and a bug report would be the proper process. There's a link at the top of this page that says "Bugs" - you can click there to go to the bug reporting page.

Since this was an "Existential Issue", does this failure mean that mankind will all now perish?

When future races look back and write our history, they will say, "humanity had a pretty good run, but was destroyed by two competing versions of the Devuan installer ISO failing to agree on capitalization options".

Not quite as dramatic or heroic as "a giant meteor destroying all dinosaurs", but probably appropriate for our silly race to die out in a very silly and forgettable manner.

On sysvinit you can use sysv-rc-conf to enable and disable services.

sudo sysv-rc-conf

Make sure you know what the different runlevels are, or learn them. They are fairly simple, but important.

antiX is ONLY window managers (Icewm, JWM, Fluxbox, Herbstluftwm) by default. I don't know if installing XFCE slows down the system - I have XFCE installed on antiX and the system seems plenty fast enough.

That and all the other stuff that everyone told you above. And anything else that we forgot to mention. I mean, it's Linux - there's like 100 different ways just to copy a file. There's basically an infinite number of combinations of settings and programs and desktops and configurations you could use with your distro, and each combination might give you different speed and responsiveness. So no, you could not say the "only" way to speed up Devuan is to disable unneeded services. It's probably one of the BEST ways to do it though.

Some desktop environments will slow the machine down noticeably. Cinnamon used to be particularly bad, although recently I think it's been more speed optimized. Using a minimal window manager such as DWM or Openbox or IceWM instead of a desktop environment can speed you up, especially on older equipment.

Using the latest version of an older generation LTS kernel instead of a new generation kernel will usually give you a speed boost according to years of benchmark tests on Phoronix website. LTS kernels such as the 5.10 kernel are optimized over a period of years, whereas newer kernels such as the various 6.x versions typically introduce regressions. If you aren't using brand new hardware that needs a new kernel feature then it's worthwhile to experiment with older LTS kernels. I have one machine that runs fantastic on the 4.9 kernel, and another that is very happy with the 4.19, and on most others I've been sticking with the 5.10 kernels lately.

Also it's worth checking the cpufreq scaling governor to see if it's in "powersave" or "performance" mode. I don't recall how Debian/Devuan normally set this. There's various how-to's online to check and to change this governor.

Building a kernel that's optimized for your particular equipment used to give about a 2%-3% performance boost (allegedly), although I don't think you'll see as much boost compared to the kernels that distros provide today. But it's always worth trying and worth learning about the kernel config options and how they might apply to your system. If you build your own optimized kernel, you'll probably "feel" like your system is running faster, even if it's not. And that's got to be worth something, right?

Lastly, in my personal experience, runit and s6 make systems noticeably faster in terms of booting and program start times compared to sysvinit and are especially faster compared to systemd. So on your Artix systems you'll have a lot of good options there. Also dinit seemed pretty zippy when I tried it.

There's a new one called Epyrus by a Pale Moon dev: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=29026
Oauth2 instructions are here: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=228618#p228618
and here: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=28908

I've been using Epyrus, but not with Gmail, so I haven't tried the Oauth2 setup myself. The mail client does a nice job, especially if you are looking for something lighter than Thunderbird.

I have no edit privileges, the post is too old. Also it's not completely wrong, it's still mostly true, and if you had had systemd packages on your system when the post was made, then you, like a lot of other people who did have systemd packages at the time, would have likely checked them with a tool like HOAS's one-liner to make sure they weren't fakes that were carrying the RotaJakiro backdoor. Therefore, the post was both timely and informative. I reject your "clickbait" characterization. And if it is finally judged to be clickbait, then I hope we can all agree that it's pretty much the world's worst clickbait - exactly zero responses from anyone except my one post for more clarification and sources for nearly its first 6 months of existence.

Just use straight Devuan. Or if you need different Turkish language support, try antiX - it's also Debian without systemd and has a lot of international language support. Trying to take a systemd distro like Pardus and turn it into a non-systemd distro is just a huge amount of work for no particular reason, when Devuan and antiX have already done the hard work for you. Maybe you could start from Devuan or antiX, and add some Pardus packages and/or repos on top of it.

Can't you just do all that from synaptic? Pick the old kernel you want, install it, reboot into it, bring up synaptic and lock the package. What's the problem?

If you want to install Linux-libre kernels, I recommend that you add the repo from jxself.org and use the libre kernels that Jason Self compiles there. They've worked fine for me on Devuan in the past. All the instructions you'll need are on that website.

You're lucky that HOAS hates you for your political rants, in a way - he'd just tell you to use some horrifying awk or sed command to do something you could do perfectly well in a point and click program like synaptic.

Thanks for posting this, I won't update to this version. Please let us know if you get a point update that fixes it or if there's some obvious config change that's needed to fix it.