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librewolf finally finished building:

97:39.61 We know it took a while, but your build finally finished successfully!

it may have gone a bit faster if i had already disabled tracker3 on my system.

i'd been noticing that my system seemed slugging for a while now and it just didn't occur to me that FUCKING TRACKER was running in the background.

this is what we do at mleku HQ when we discover this spy indexing program running:

locate tracker|grep ^\/usr\/lib|xargs -n1 sudo chmod -x

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72827703/how-to-disable-file-indexing-in-ubuntu-22-04-tracker3

tracker is gnome's contribution to the NSA's data gathering efforts, i'm pretty sure.

i am also pretty sure that this database has contributed at least 10-20% to my power and internet access costs over the years, in addition to reducing the performance of my computers by 30%.

if i could add one thing to the linux distribution circus, it would be a linux distro with none of the telemetry or data indexing systems enabled.

i'm quite certain that CISA et al are taking advantage of these indexes to speed up their "threat assessment" after they flag you on social media.

i'm also quite sure that it is possible to keep these criminals out of your pc but it takes a lot of effort, because one of the biggest projects of the NSA is keeping backdoors in everything.

mleku 2y ago

i read through that page and searched the dconf entries.

the defaults are so aggressive, literally everything, maximum speed, almost nothing is left out.

it affected me so badly because it was always trawling my entire GOPATH and GOROOT directories and indexing this shit pointlessly.

all of the stuff related to it has now had its execute permission removed, all the dconf settings are set to max, and i'm going to get pacman to not update it, and after that's done, i'm making another snapshot of my system so i never have to go back to this bullshit again.

holy shit this shit has literally taxed my computer's capabilities like the australian government.

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