Expressing the 'Top-Flex Identity!
Through the beginning of February, novaTopFlex shall schedule references to HTTP Status Codes and the RFC (Request for Comments) system as appropriate for the context. The videos shall be uploaded at a relatively standard pacing—up to three (3) at 9:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 6:00 PM every day.
novaTopFlex has already scheduled the first batch of new videos and video content for the weekend series. Additional topics shall specifically cover the `os`, `sys`, and associated modules each with a checklist to ensure the proper functionality and features are represented.
For the channel at https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex:
For the channel at https://www.youtube.com/@geoTopFlex:
For the channel at https://www.youtube.com/@futoTopFlex:
Unfortunately, Linux is a relatively obscure operating system, further obscured by capitalist priorities and the economic incentives of a monoculture. However, the Linux kernel and associated operating system features and functionality alike are highly identified geographically in a particularly concentrated set of areas across numerous countries around the globe.
For the most part, Linux communities in the United States are associated with leftism, though the use of Linux can also be decoupled from politics. As a kernel for numerous operating systems, the technical hubs of the United States are often the areas with particularly common use of Linux, though not necessarily within the area of Silicon Valley in California as corporate headquarters often remain hostile to Linux and open-source, even if silently.
The most commonly identified Linux havens are the countercultural hubs of Northampton and Amherst, Massachusetts, the Berkshires; the State of Vermont; and the Northeast Megalopolis at large. Within the State of Ohio, Columbus is largely associated with the concentration of Linux users and the lack of cultural apathy or antipathy toward open-source.
Northampton is the traditional county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, located along the Connecticut River, Massachusetts State Route 9, and United States Route 5 and bypassed by Interstate 91. The community is officially recognized as the “City of Northampton,” a stark contrast from the larger “Town of Amherst” further east which also has official city status (there are also “Cities” in Massachusetts with town status as such communities do not have wards). Home to Smith College, Northampton is easily identified as a feminist hub, though the college does not necessarily define the entirety of the city.
Downtown Northampton has unfortunately seen a decline, especially in recent years. On the contrary, however, is the positive perspectives on the community, including, though not limited to, the historic Hotel Northampton and the Historic Northampton area along the Connecticut River. Additionally, the city serves as a popular destination for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, questioning, polyamorous, and otherwise nonconforming people and communities, with the political background supporting numerous people regardless of gender or other factors of identity or expression. Even outside the LGBTQIA+ context of the City, Northampton is also a leftist paradise, with support for socialist, communist, and even anarchist perspectives. Thinkers are particularly common within the region, including, but not limited to, the thinkers against capitalism and toward such perspectives as degrowth and ecologism.
Though Smith College is all-female, the City of Northampton is not necessarily matriarchal by nature. However, female dominance and male submission or other role reversals, in addition to drag shows, may be more significant to the City of Northampton and residents of Hampshire County at large, including the Town of Amherst located further east along Route 9. Countercultural features beyond the queer haven for Northampton may also include independent bookstores and leftist organizations, a culture that refuses to stigmatize zines and radical perspectives, and a culture that particularly supports Linux and the Fediverse, as identified by many users on Mastodon and numerous other services being from the Five College Consortium and the Pioneer Valley at large.
Using the cwm window manager from video 45F, novaTopFlex shall attempt to open the xclock application for demonstration 45G. 45G is supposed to refer to the window movement as well as management, with the following keyboard shortcuts to be demonstrated:
xclock window by small amountsxclock window by large amounts
Prior to beginning the video, novaTopFlex shall launch a 540×960 VNC server session on port 5901, using TigerVNC and the cwm startup file. The window manager shall be tested as follows:
To locate the video stream, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex upon video release and search for “CWM: The Basics” within the appropriate search feature.
novaTopFlex continues to pursue new interests in technology and often prefers diversity in terms of the different desktop environments and window managers in question. Even on YouTube Shorts, diversity of desktop environments and window managers is absolutely essential for an effective demonstration of a vast plethora of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and otherwise UNIX-like environments. So long as the system is POSIX-compliant and supports such desktops and window managers, successful software development can remain a successful and viable set of opportunities.
With X sessions, since Wayland is unsupported for most window managers, novaTopFlex focuses on VNC environments and desktops that support such environments. Such window managers may include `cwm`, `dwm`, `aewm++`, `blackbox`, `fluxbox`, `herbstluftwm`, and more.
Linux is not an operating system by nature of being a software kernel. However, numerous distributions have been derived from the kernel, resulting in hundreds to thousands of clearly distinct operating systems. Every distinct distribution has unique characteristics, yet in most cases even the characteristics themselves are not clearly defined. With these facts, one can expect the vast majority of Linux systems to have at least one thousand separate shell commands, total, with BSD- and Solaris-derived systems potentially having fewer such commands, down into the hundreds.
When compiling most software packages from source, the GNU Three-Step Method is as follows:
./autogen.sh # With this command, four steps, if necessary
./configure
make
sudo make install
The configuration commands may also contain parameters and options, depending on the specific source and related content type. With the Linux kernel, the command to `make` can also be utilized with different configuration utilities, each with clearly different options as well, as in graphical and terminal environment setup options.
novaTopFlex shall not focus on the issues of the past, but rather on the issues of the future. The community shall focus efforts on the novelty and specialty of the identity, including surprising connections and ideals found in unexpected places. Previous years had incorporated elements of the personality in numerous spaces, including technology, geography, mathematics, and related and intersecting topics.
Even in the most awkward and confusing of cases and circumstances, novaTopFlex shall be considered a single and sovereign, regardless of the resulting rumors and confusion. The entire networked community shall be treated as equals and with due diligence and respect by the growing novaTop community, and confusion may be an inevitable evil of novaTop hangouts in select spaces. While gossip and stories of false signals may seem inevitable, words that are not true to a given dynamic, whether based on stereotype or not, shall be avoided wherever additional context matters and is available.
The novaTopFlex, geoTopFlex, and futoTopFlex identities intersect with various software applications on the associated Linux system with Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, including the following software applications, as most commonly utilized by the Three Identities:
novaTopFlex shall also freely identify with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and general and specialized FOSS communities alike. No software that is not truly free and/or open source shall be deemed worthy under ethical consideration and/or scrutiny. novaTopFlex shall consider learning materials that align with core values of the Linux community, assuming that these materials do not conflict with the faithfulness of what is considered “free” as in “freedom” in addition to based on price. Numerous desired software applications utilized by the novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop Identities have also been officially declared under the “Digital Public Good” status, including QGIS in particular.
The future success of the novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop identities alike depend particularly significantly on understanding of significant deviations and understandings of nontraditional scripts, especially where the novaTop appearance may be quite the surprise against all odds. Desired outcomes are highly inspired by Permacomputing principles as well as similar principles tailored specifically to internet access.
With an overt and obvious passion in country music comes a longing for a festival dedicated specifically to country music. A separate and distantly related–or perhaps unrelated–form of art, apart from the musical scene, is also of interest: WordPress. For WordPress, novaTopFlex would recommend attendance of a WordCamp, but the ideal location of the WordCamp would certainly be Montclair, New Jersey.
Over the past few generations in particular, the vast majority of our global communities have been built in increasingly hostile manners, resulting in forced obligation and surveillance mechanisms across the various machines that power our modern society. Unfortunately, with the recent boom of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and a moral panic around AI, I have increasingly identified such change as evidence of a crisis, and I have also been muted or even banned from certain communities over concerns of being a large language model (LLM). Sometimes, I even identify myself as a bot online, as I remain faceless on applications and social media/networking platforms across the board, and even some of my reactions and sensitivities match bot-like sensitivities. Notwithstanding the artificial intelligence (AI) epidemic, I am also afraid to speak up about being a victim of numerous additional crises, even when the overall cultural situation seems to be improving depending on the various perspectives on society. Such crises of concern to me are often the most particularly isolating crises regarding society and stereotypical expectations, since I have recently switched to free-and-open-source-software (FOSS, sometimes with “libre” as FLOSS). Over my journey as an everyday user of Linux-based systems, I have shifted my identity in directions away from the predominating lifestyle and often stereotypical norms and the prevailing expectations and toward the influences that actually matter the most in society, despite significant pushback.
Unfortunately, modern society and the current systems intact tend to encourage partial definitions of “health” and “well-being” that fail to cover the true definitions of both terms in a literal sense. Because of our modern dystopian environment, in-person locations for such outreach are currently few and far in between, with virtually zero meaningful sense of hope for the future. However, though online cannot replace in-person outreach, there can be hope for the future, not against loneliness (unfortunately), but against feelings of selfishness and potentially unfair comparisons that may result from unfair advantages and disadvantages in circles in society. But even then, the risk of unfair comparisons is (mostly) only present when the services being utilized are proprietary and thus unethical.
Expressing the 'Top-Flex Identity!
I am most excited about my upcoming life at 18, 19, and 20, as I will finally be able to advocate for the society that I require for my pursuit of a strict ethical code that respects justice over stereotypes. By respecting justice over stereotypes, I am respecting the safety of vulnerable groups over my personal comfort throughout my identity.
novaTopFlex and geoTopFlex are the two channels of my identity, available on YouTube. My latest video thus far, for any of you whom are in the tech-nerd category, especially on Linux and UNIX-like systems, is available at https://youtu.be/z9u2TIqctyw?si=0830UjN8lkOOuJ1U. This video does not contain any sound and is recorded using a fraction of my native/host display, following my mouse cursor without drawing it (so a motion sickness notice must be attached).
novaTopFlex is an authority in the subject matters of technology, geography, and mathematics. Depending on the specific context, language, and/or application, abilities may vary dramatically. For instance, while I may be easily capable of utilizing my most commonly used commands or my applications, I may often utilize documentation sets provided to my system(s) by Dash by Kapeli through Zeal for video content on select platforms.
Part of the novaTop authority is the separation of identities into novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop standards. novaTop is for technology, geoTop is for geography, and futoTop is for mathematics. Video content, especially on mainstream platforms such as YouTube, may be further subdivided as follows:
In my future, I am most worried about my life at 18, 19, and 20, and i am afraid that capitalism will prevent me from carrying on beyond the age of 21. If I can even live to see 25, i am afraid of the high risk of extinction that our systems are creating. However, even under heavy capitalist pressure, i am temporarily able to resist the most obvious forms of capitalist influence. Such actions include posting onto ethical platforms under ActivityPub and the Fediverse domain, even if the connection is not inherently obvious at first.
Even though I pledge to avoid proprietary software as much as reasonably possible, I unfortunately must post to proprietary services relatively frequently in my best efforts to gain a mainstream following. For instance, I have multiple YouTube channels, my primary one being at https://www.youtube.com/@novaTopFlex, providing information on various free and open-source topics, particularly in the software domain.
However, I continue to maintain my position as a free software and an open-source software advocate together, and even my online presence calls out the claim, “we need a mass proliferation of open-source software.” I prioritize my access to Mastodon and Lemmy in particular, though I would accept traditional IRC (especially Libera.chat) over such a proprietary service as Discord. In addition to my aforementioned position, I aspire to become one of the editors of Permacomputing, at least on the side of my activities.
Unfortunately, we are trapped in the economic systems that actively prevent attempts to make for more sustainable lifestyles. In our modern society, there seems to be no escape from dependency on proprietary industries, hardware or software, automotive or otherwise. Since there is no viable escape for most of the modern population, we must resort to advocacy to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all. Therefore, the best action that I am taking to live a more sustainable life is actually supporting Permacomputing.
Permacomputing refers to the project to advocate for technologies that support all of the following:
Please note that the bullet points above do not signify an exhaustive list. For more information about the project, please visit https://permacomputing.net/. However, most of the concepts listed in bold above are often associated with ecologism, intersectionalism, degrowth, and other ideologies often associated with Mozilla and related organizations.
Hello! This is novaTopFlex from numerous social media accounts! While I am actively considering changing my daily routine for off-days throughout my life, I have recently scheduled myself predominantly around The Lunduke Journal and host Bryan Lunduke. Therefore, throughout much of the past year, my spare time that had been available had predominantly revolved around the shows that had been created by Lunduke. While I do not expect to eliminate the influence of any journalist in the tech industry, I am actually planning to change the activities of my free time as follows (in chronological order, assuming the entire day is free and I am free of external duties):
Also, under the most ideal of circumstances, the times that I access The Lunduke Journal content should overlap with the times that I am actively on the treadmill, unless and until Bryan Lunduke considers me for an interview.
Even though the successes of novaTopFlex may be increasingly attacked by adversarial tensions discouraging ideals such as a mass proliferation of truly FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) systems, I have been successful at encouraging a newfound interest in such software packages, while remaining in my extremely early stages of advocacy for the abolition of proprietary systems altogether.
Unfortunately, the most obvious evidence of my failure in spirituality occurs out of context of our current economy. While I depend on Permacomputing and related principles at odds with our globalized systems, unfortunately, I am unable to ensure that I remain opposed to co-optation by unethical entities in various contexts. Although the current ideals of novaTopFlex are currently shared by a maximum of seventy (70) tech enthusiasts globally, I am actively convincing additional people to join, especially calling for users of system hardware older than 2011 with software based on Linux, BSD, and/or Solaris systems.
As novaTopFlex, my most substantial failure in my time management systems is most certainly my desire to listen to The Lunduke Journal, operated exclusively by Bryan Lunduke. However, I am also increasingly interested in all of the shows produced by Lunduke, and I am actively planning around a possible meeting with the journalist in the coming weeks.
If I ever decide to eliminate my strong connection to Bryan Lunduke and his words of wisdom, I actually also maintain interests that remain compatible with the Three Identities of my personal identity: novaTop, geoTop, and futoTop. I continue to gain interests in the topics associated with each of these identities, often to organize the respective topic clusters into their respective categories.
For better time management outlooks, I will begin to keep track of the times and timing issues that I have taken risks against in prior offenses. Time management structures are often hierarchical, and must be aligned based on our valuable preferences and our external influences. Our modern societies may not be structured in our favor, by the way. Even though I have gradually identified opportunities to escape from the mainstream, I continue to remain addicted to some of the issues of proprietary software modes, particularly when I access data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
As novaTopFlex, the ideal preferences to replace the encroachment of The Lunduke Journal and of the words of Bryan Lunduke are as follows:
As geoTopFlex, there is no inherent problem with the unrelated content of The Lunduke Journal. There is no obvious reason to associate geospatial content delivery with the technological news networks in any way. However, plans to replace the encroaching beliefs from Bryan Lunduke that are available to me are as follows:
As futoTopFlex (sometimes futaTop), again, there is no inherent problem with Lunduke. Though this is the mathematics identity, and Lunduke may provide mathematical proofs for a few of the answers to solving tech myths or similarly tangentially-related topics, plans for the resolution to the encroachment may include video topics such as:
All five of the topics listed above are modules from Python that are commonly associated with related to mathematics in the language.
I have attempted to compile numerous GNU software projects from source, with varying degrees of success. My goal is to ensure that I am not installing the software onto my internal storage, but rather onto my USB 3.x flash drive of 256 gigabytes. I am currently interested in storage tinkering, and my hardware and software should function in unison to ensure a successful systems operation. By ensuring that the standard GNU three-step procedures are being followed, the standard system operations should remain uninterrupted. Unfortunately this may result in a dramatic decrease of my storage space available, which I had not been expecting when compiling software for my flash drive, instead of my system’s host storage. I will continue to serve my interests in GNU and F[L]OSS software throughout my time attempting to compile such software from source.
A few of the software packages in question are particularly long compilations, especially with make set to a single thread. Convention is normally to ensure that make is performed with -j$(( nproc + 1 )), but I have not received any significant issues with single-threaded source compilation of GNU software in most cases. This has changed with the GNU debugging utility, gdb, which may break my external installation but should not break my overall host system, Ubuntu Linux, version 24.04.2 LTS.
The oldest thing that I own that I continue to use daily is a 2017 MacBook Pro, 13 inches, with the Touch Bar. While my purpose for using this device has changed substantially, from BYOD to a reused purpose via Ubuntu Linux, I continue to utilize the fullest of the functionality possible on my computer. Unfortunately, under my current setup, I am unable to use my FaceTime camera, Touch Bar (including Escape functionality), speaker, and microphone. Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) devices largely remain functional on Linux but may require a system reboot.
The novaTop Identity has just become official! Significant influences to the identity are prevalent from Rossmann, Stallman, and, of course, even from the Voldemort of Tech! When you access my YouTube channels, there may occasionally be a dichotomy between formal and informal influences, so if you are looking for more professional content, please check the video content longer than five minutes in real time or videos where the video stream has been slowed down. Or for slightly more informal tech suggestions, the videos that had been sped up or are in real time less than five minutes may be of better help. There will also be the occasional video that requires a mix of speeds, but videos that include a slowdown portion should be more suitable for practical and professional settings.
Categories of videos from the three identities may be categorized based on length, speed, type, and topic. Turning points in length occur at five minutes and again at fifteen minutes, while speeds can be faster, normal, slower, or even mixed. Types may include documentation-, content-, and context-based topics. Topics will be included at the beginning of every novaTop video. Technologies will be under the novaTop category, while geospatial progress and recommendations will be under geoTop. futoTop does not have an official identity, so the identity may become more prevalent in select novaTop and geoTop content streams, if any given topic relates to mathematics, or possibly science, in any way.
Documentation-based topics refer to topics present on YouTube videos on the novaTopFlex channel that are entirely based on documentation on Dash or Zeal. Topics with additional influences beyond the Zeal documentation may be content- or context-based. All videos in the geoTopFlex channel are considered context-based channels. Content-based topics specifically refer to the output of specific command(s), regardless of the requirement to view additional internal and/or external documentation. Context-based topics are specifically based on a specific situation occurring within novaTopFlex.
If there are interviews or external forces involved in a novaTopFlex video or stream, then these meetings must break through. Expect novaTopFlex to speak about the future and issues in the technology industry during these times of elevated risk. Questions may also be focused on the context, but videos with third parties may not be considered “context-based.”
I, with my three separate yet interrelated identities of interest, am always passionate about my frequent uses of different services, including Microsoft’s GroupMe; Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads; Discord; Linktree; and even Fediverse services including three (soon to be possibly four) Mastodon instances, three Lemmy instances, PeerTube (TILvids), Misskey, Pleroma (annihilation.social), WriteFreely, and this subdomain on WordPress.com.
I have a strong passion for the communities that I belong to, including freeCodeCamp, Linux, Ubuntu as a distro, QGIS, and the occasional mathematics domain. Soon, I can also claim to extend my passions into the following content management engines: WordPress.org, Joomla.org, Drupal.org, and Jekyll.
novaTopFlex is an identity, a community, and an ethical channel on YouTube, all focusing predominantly on advocacy for open contributions and the elimination of closed contributions. Although the topics of interest may vary substantially through the three identities, the ideologies remain fairly similar.
novaTopFlex is the technological identity, acting as the main identity for the novaTop personality.
Examples of content containing features of the novaTop identity may include:
geoTopFlex is the broad and obvious geographical identity, and acts as a side-identity and geospatial channel to standard novaTop content. Often independent of the primary identity, sometimes novaTop content must be contained within geoTop context for reliability.
Examples of content containing features of the geoTop identity may include:
futoTopFlex is the secret mathematics identity, and acts as a back-identity to the standard novaTop and geoTop personalities. Unless combined with novaTop aspects on video, the futoTop personality will be respected as such. Otherwise, this is the futaTop personality to avoid confusion. Normally, content combinations will not occur; however, within a novaTopFlex or geoTopFlex video, combinations may be required to occur for an extended understanding of the context.
Examples of content containing features of the futoTop identity may include:
After careful research and consideration from the official Ubuntu package repositories, novaTop can identify the following characteristics of the Linux ecosystem in favor of public transit:
Unfortunately, I am frequently experiencing wireless connectivity issues on my system shortly after successfully connecting to Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi connectivity often drops within the first 3 minutes, and sometimes after less than 1 minute.
For more information about my wireless connectivity problem: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1549549/are-there-any-networking-packages-that-could-cause-wi-fi-issues-immediately-foll
Output from ifconfig:
br-3101728dc201: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 172.19.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.19.255.255
ether 02:42:61:63:91:a0 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
br-d00e38b71d37: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 172.18.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.18.255.255
ether 02:42:5f:4f:1e:51 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
docker0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 172.17.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 172.17.255.255
ether 02:42:ee:a0:6b:22 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
enp0s31f6: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 38:f3:ab:d6:65:95 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 16 memory 0xef700000-ef720000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
mpqemubr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.31.57.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.31.57.255
ether 52:54:00:12:3c:dc txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp0s20f3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.7.211 netmask 255.255.252.0 broadcast 192.168.7.255
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:7ffc:ea7b:8736:49db prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fe80::ff43:35be:516b:c14d prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:5036:2404:9852:e144 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:373f:1350:5144:48c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:db73:5609:44b1:9f39 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:e11d:185c:226c:1c1d prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:391e:c67:d546:d8b9 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:310f:7200:cf0b:c111 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:70ad:f1ad:80eb:9648 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global>
ether 58:6c:25:ed:c9:52 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0Output from iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
enp0s31f6 no wireless extensions.
wlp0s20f3 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"zms"
Mode:Managed Frequency:5.18 GHz Access Point: 40:47:5E:7C:1F:67
Bit Rate=1.4413 Gb/s Tx-Power=22 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=63/70 Signal level=-47 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:374 Missed beacon:0
docker0 no wireless extensions.
mpqemubr0 no wireless extensions.
br-3101728dc201 no wireless extensions.
br-d00e38b71d37 no wireless extensions.Output from ip a:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s31f6: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 38:f3:ab:d6:65:95 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 58:6c:25:ed:c9:52 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.7.211/22 brd 192.168.7.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp0s20f3
valid_lft 13257sec preferred_lft 13257sec
inet 192.168.7.188/22 brd 192.168.7.255 scope global secondary dynamic noprefixroute wlp0s20f3
valid_lft 13258sec preferred_lft 11542sec
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:70ad:f1ad:80eb:9648/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 604329sec preferred_lft 85818sec
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:e11d:185c:226c:1c1d/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 2591732sec preferred_lft 604532sec
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:391e:c67:d546:d8b9/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 2813sec preferred_lft 2813sec
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:db73:5609:44b1:9f39/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 2813sec preferred_lft 2813sec
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:310f:7200:cf0b:c111/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 2813sec preferred_lft 2813sec
inet6 2600:2b00:801c:c200:5036:2404:9852:e144/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 2813sec preferred_lft 2813sec
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:7ffc:ea7b:8736:49db/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 604329sec preferred_lft 85818sec
inet6 fdbf:e970:1109:1:373f:1350:5144:48c/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 2591732sec preferred_lft 604532sec
inet6 fe80::ff43:35be:516b:c14d/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: docker0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:ee:a0:6b:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 scope global docker0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: mpqemubr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:12:3c:dc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.31.57.1/24 brd 10.31.57.255 scope global mpqemubr0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: br-3101728dc201: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:61:63:91:a0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.19.0.1/16 brd 172.19.255.255 scope global br-3101728dc201
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
7: br-d00e38b71d37: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default
link/ether 02:42:5f:4f:1e:51 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.18.0.1/16 brd 172.18.255.255 scope global br-d00e38b71d37
valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverdashing command on Ubuntu (not officially supported by Kapeli; docsets will be utilized in Zeal (as I am not on macOS).Without a mass proliferation of open-source software, our ability to perform our standard system operations without disruption will continue to seteriorate. We are long overdue for a commitment to open-source, and I believe in open-source never being co-opted. Unfortunately, with the pressures of the Rust development team, including the religion of Apache, MIT, or otherwise permissive open-source licensing, we are currently experiencing the symptoms of corporate power and control of Linux. If my Linux system becomes proprietary in a future update, such as with a commercialized sudo command, then I will be pushed away from my current system and toward Alpine or even a BSD distribution, such a shift in power dynamics that I will clearly reject.
When recording videos to YouTube, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features are disabled prior to the beginning of the recording time. The intensification of the setup may vary with the specific video topic(s), but the most intense setups will be set up as follows:
For less intense video topics and video setups, such as videos that follow along with documentation, expect somewhat lower resolutions for the VNC servers. Whenever an alternate desktop environment or window manager is being discussed, expect to activate a single 1920×1080 VNC server with the environment in question.
Within most videos, expect a total of sixteen (16) workspaces on desktop environments and window managers for every desktop incorporated into the system, with the organization structure as follows:
| Desktop 1 | Applications that require Internet connectivity; Offline documentation browsers when Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disabled |
| Desktop 2 | Virtual machines with QEMU on the host system and SSH logins with terminal emulator(s) on virtual systems |
| Desktop 3 | Utility applications, including terminal emulators, that may or may not require Internet access; do not expect most applications on this workspace to demand access to networking. |
| Desktop 4 | Applications from office suites and productivity |
| Desktop 5 | Audio applications, particularly audio-editing applications |
| Desktop 6 | Video applications, particularly video-editing applications |
| Desktop 7 | VNC (Virtual Network Computing) viewers |
| Desktop 8 | Interactive Python, Python applications, and terminal emulators with Python processes |
| Desktop 9 | Graphics editors and applications for graphics editing |
| Desktop 10 | Applications for the creation and editing of fonts |
| Desktop 11 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python |
| Desktop 12 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktop 11 exhausted |
| Desktop 13 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11 and 12 exhausted |
| Desktop 14 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, and 13 exhausted |
| Desktop 15 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, 13, and 14 exhausted |
| Desktop 16 | Sampling of Graphical Applications within Python after Desktops 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 exhausted Note: novaTopFlex will never create nor destroy desktops or workspaces within most situations; expect exactly sixteen desktops or workspaces per individual display. |
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