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It took me a while to update you about the latest changes to my Arch and Arch-compatible Linux distributions repository. But first, let me apologize for the delay: work, personal life and, for about 3 weeks now, a horrible back pain (that just doesn’t stop, even with an handful of medication) have kept me from doing this in the time frame I expected. First on the “agenda”, I experimented with increasing the zstd compression level for the packages like I said I would do in my last post about the repository....

Caso tenham inserido os dados do vosso cartão de crédito, peçam o cancelamento da subscrição à VodMood através do endereço customersupport@vodmood.com Hoje de manhã, ainda não eram 8h30, a esposa recebeu um SMS de um número estranho (5819PT). Ela pediu-me para ver a mensagem porque está a aguardar a receção de documentação através de uma transportadora e queria saber o estado do envio. Quando vi a mensagem, reparei que o endereço é estranho e não é um que eu tenha visto ser usado pelos CTT ou alguma transportadora....

Since the last post about my Arch (and Arch-compatible distributions) binary repository, I’ve added a few more packages. Some examples are the Mullvad VPN desktop client and nimdow, a window manager written in the Nim programming language. Or Emptty, an amazing display manager that I encourage you to try. Despite adding more packages, the compilation and compression time only had a small increase and I’m still below the 5 hour mark....

Emptty is one of the newest additions to userrepository.eu and already a favorite of mine. This CLI Display Manager is blazing fast and offers a few configuration options. One of these options and my personal favorite is setting the MOTD, like the one you see on the post image. As far as I can tell, it only supports plain text and ANSI color escape codes. If the possibility for scripts arises, it can allow some really cool stuff....