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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Ali Murteza Yesil - Personal</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/feeds/personal.atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>https://murtezayesil.me/</id><updated>2020-08-28T22:09:00+06:00</updated><subtitle>Blog</subtitle><entry><title>Summer 2020 Begins</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/summer-2020-begins.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-28T22:09:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-28T22:09:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-28:/summer-2020-begins.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;It is nearly end of August and it finally is safe enough to go out.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It is nearly end of August and it finally is safe enough to go out for a holiday. In fact, I am back. I spend last 4 days in rural area near a lake. When I first received the invite, I didn't want to go. I was making excuses like "clinics in rural area may not have adequate tools for Covid19" in my head. As it turns out, there isn't many people on country side and it would be an achievement to get sick there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2 things to convinced me go to:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Seeing that Covid19 cases in city was record low. That means going to country side maybe safe enough.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I thought to myself "Elderly people often talk about their regrets and their regrets usually are the things they didn't do. If I miss on that, I may regret"&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also was away from computer (almost) the whole time. For sake of consistency, I wanted to write a blog about my time there. But given that I take my time to write, I could spend an entire day in front of a computer. Instead I postponed it to after return which is now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am glad I did go.&lt;br&gt;
I am glad I didn't spend my time there in front of a computer.&lt;br&gt;
I am glad 😀️&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Properly unorganized</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/properly-unorganized.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-24T12:25:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-24T12:25:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-24:/properly-unorganized.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Chaotically Organized File System&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I always envied people who can keep their living space tidy, data storage organized and wake up on time. Thanks to living abroad as a student, my life fits into 1 luggage, 1 handbag and 1 backpack. I have to throw stuff around get untidy due to lack of stuff. That being said, I have Juggernaut with enough SSD and 1TB HDD and I heavily utilize the HDD.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not going HDDless even on my laptop just yet thanks to some advantages it offers when paired with much faster SSD.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Offloading data on SSD to HDD is important for longer SSD lifespan.
    Data blocks on SSD is much more fragile than sectors on HDD. If most of the SSD is filled, smaller section will be used for supervisioning and cause certain blocks to age much faster and possibly causing premature death of SSD.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SSD speed can be affected by how much of it is filled. Less data on SSD means the faster it can operate.
    SSD write operation depends on finding healthy blocks and utilizing them instead of previously used and more degraded blocks. More available storage means faster the SSD will find a suitable block and start operation.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;HDD is my first line of backup and redundancy.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Local HDD is faster than remote NAS&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Local HDD doesn't require a local NAS server.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/screenshots/hdd_storage.webp" alt="File manager showing some directories in Juggernaut's HDD, the storage device. Visible directories are Books, Backups, timeshift, Linux and sub directories of Linux such as Distro Hop Backups"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You probably got that I heavily use my HDD.
It has an installed distro for recovery (that I hop will never need to boot into), my data from previous distro hops, Steam and GOG backups, game saves, encrypted diary, distro ISOs, ebooks, phone backups etc, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My HDD is a beautiful mess. Even though I organize stuff in outer most level, Not knowing whether something is in Pictures or Backup/[Device]_[Date]/Pictures or Linux/Distro Hop Backups/[Distro]_[Date]/Pictures turns looking for files into dumpster diving. And I still can find the stuff I am looking for. &lt;strong&gt;It annoys me but doesn't disable me&lt;/strong&gt; from finding what I need. I just hate myself for being disorganized and envy tidy people.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>May we meet in Heaven Dear Omar Hamza</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/may-we-meet-in-heaven-dear-omar-hamza.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-21T20:36:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-21T20:36:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-21:/may-we-meet-in-heaven-dear-omar-hamza.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;My unworthy writing about recently deceased friend, Muhammed Omer Hamza.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Today is Friday, holy day for Muslims. Sun put on its brightest smile and birds are chirping to turn the day into festive. Unfortunately, not for us. We are going to funeral for our beloved friend &lt;strong&gt;Muhammad Omar Hamza&lt;/strong&gt; who closed his eyes to get some rest during recover after his surgery never to open them again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I always use my headphones to listen to something while riding a taxi. Today is different. I am thinking of death as we ride to the mosque. I am listening to the bitter feelings as tiers grind over the asphalt. Feeling, as if I am the one in the coffin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While I am in deep thoughts, we arrived at the mosque. Follow the broken hearts and you shall find the Beautiful Muhammad in whites. It grabbed my attention that he isn't in a coffin. Must be the rush during Covid19. After the prayer, we carried the Glorious Omar to hearse to deliver him to his final home, semi-mixed graveyard for Christians and Muslims. Flat places were taken. Great Hamza is lowered to a grave on slope. Thank god I was lucky enough to carry him to the hearse and put dirt on his grave as we farewell him to his final home. He past away in the abroad country he came to study. His parents couldn't attend to his funeral, so I put a shovel of dirt for each of his parents too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We left him in his final home in this world, along with angels to question him and ask about his deeds. My prayers are that I can reunite with all the people I love, that includes Muhammad Omar Hamza, and his parents can visit the grave of their son and recite Quran.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Name Everything</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/name-everything.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-17T17:14:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-17T17:14:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-17:/name-everything.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Finding a suitable name for stuff is both fun and a possible cause of cancer. So, I am naming devices I own.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;You probably have a phone and a laptop and possibly even a desktop for heavy duty jobs such as wm ricing. But what do you call those devices? If you have 2 phones how do you differentiate them? If they are the same make, do you use their modal numbers?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wanted to solve this non-existing problem for my devices so that when I want to refer to any of them in my blog posts, readers would have a confusing (and in my opinion funny) moment and go "What the heck even is X?" in their head 😜️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/juggernaut" title="An overwhelming or unstoppable force"&gt;Juggernaut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My laptop which was low end back in 2017 when I bought it brand new and even lower end now 7nm era.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Model: Lenovo IdeaPad 110 15acl&lt;br&gt;
CPU: AMD A8 7410 - 4 cores each ticking at 2.2GHz&lt;br&gt;
iGPU: AMD R5 - 900MHz 1GB RAM from shared memory&lt;br&gt;
dGPU: AMD R5 - 1050MHz 2GB RAM&lt;br&gt;
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz&lt;br&gt;
SSD: 240GB with DRAM - Solus OS + swap&lt;br&gt;
HDD: 1TB 5400rpm - Solus OS (for emergency) + Storage&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy" title="is our neighboring galaxy"&gt;Andromeda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My Android smartphone which is a mid range phone that still rocks after 3 years 👍️&lt;br&gt;
Screen is still healthy even though both its glass surface and protective glass took a good beating thanks to clumsy me. Front speaker and microphone connection of headphone jack stopped working after a recent drop 😐️ I still like this phone and looking forward to using it for another 3 years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Model: Redmi Note 4 - mido&lt;br&gt;
CPU: SnapDragon 625&lt;br&gt;
RAM: 4GB&lt;br&gt;
Storage: 64GB&lt;br&gt;
Battery: ~3000mAh (was 4100mAh but aged 25% in 3 years)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Sophisticated Noise Cans&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Model:Redmi Airbuds in-ear Bluetooth earphones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I bought them after dropping phone which caused front speaker to brake and headphone jack's metal piece for microphone come out. I only have it for phone/video calls and it was the only solution that fit into my budget. Without them the only other way to make phone calls is to use loudspeaker which is not always appropriate. Sound quality is good for the price (20$).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I don't like about Airbuds is the in-ear design. I tried tips with different sizes but my ears still hurt. Not only that they hurt which I can get used to, using in-ear earphones feels like my ears are blocked.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you name your devices? What are the creative names you came up for your devices?&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Switching to Bluetooth earphones</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/switching-to-bluetooth-earphones.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-11T18:29:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-11T18:29:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-11:/switching-to-bluetooth-earphones.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;After I droped my phone and broke its headphone jack, I had to switch to bluetooth earphone. Redmi Airdots is my choice thanks to its price.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;My one and only phone, Andromeda, is a Redmi Note 4. I purchased it 3 years ago. It initially suffered from problems such as consuming battery for self overheating. But I later switched custom ROMs, Lineage and Havoc OS, and battery started to last more than a day. Andromeda served me well in its 3 years of service and it continues to do so albeit with some hickups.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not the best phone user. I actually am a clumsy person who drops his phone on regular basis. So much so that Andromeda's display got replaced once and glass twice. Its glass is broken as I write these lines 😁️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But broken glass isn't the issue. It still detects my touches fairly accurately. Real problem is that, a recent drop resulted &lt;strong&gt;front speaker to stop working&lt;/strong&gt; so that I can't hear other person during phone calls and some copper piece come out of headphone jack which rendered &lt;strong&gt;microphone on headsets to not connect&lt;/strong&gt; so that other person cannot hear me during a phone call (if I am using a headphone). My temporary solution was to use loud speaker which is annoying and makes private calls difficult. Also it is rude in public. Another option was bluetooth speaker which requires some budget.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I could spare 20$ for a pair bluetooth earphones. Pretty generous huh 😜️&lt;br&gt;
Anyway, after some market search I set my mind on Redmi Airdots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I recommend them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
No and Yes. They aren't the best earphones, not even best in-ear earphones, but they are affordable.&lt;br&gt;
Just like every other in-ear earphones, they aren't comfortable even after I replaced the tips with different size that better fits 😕️ They will do for now. It isn't too much of a deal since I am planning to use them only for calls. Speakers on wired earphones still work with the phone fortunately.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/memes/modern_problems_bluetooth_earphones.jpg" alt="Top Caption: Switched to Bluetooth earphones after phone's headphone jack. Bottom Caption: Modern problems require modern solutions"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Yet Another Last Hop Attempt</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/yet-another-last-hop-attempt.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-09T22:00:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-09T22:00:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-09:/yet-another-last-hop-attempt.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Solus 4.1 was one of the best polished experiences I had. I hope it continues that way and I don't feel the need for a hop.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I tried many distros ever since I purchased this laptop, Lenovo Ideapad 110, back in 2017. My previous post was about &lt;a href="my-linux-journey.html"&gt;my Linux journey&lt;/a&gt;. And as it could be seen there, my every hop was due to some frustration or some feature I missed. But leaving a well polished OS like Manjaro and Pop_OS! is much more difficult and it hurts to need moving away. I tried Pop_OS! twice and n both cases it slowed within a month. In fact, I have been having problems and hopping once a month pretty regularly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/distro_backups.png" alt="A directory with backups of important files before I replace the distro on SSD. I put the distro name and the date it was removed on the directory. It turns out I have been distro hopping once a month from February to August of 2020"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have been distro hopping every month for the last seven months. I am not some adventurous person who hops for fun, except that time I decided to use &lt;a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/" title="Linux From Scratch"&gt;LFS 😅️&lt;/a&gt; I heard that people were using Pop_OS! for months with great performance. I used Pop before and experienced performance degragation on SSD. Manjaro stayed fast but installing too many AUR packages got the best of it. Arch, well, was born dead in the hands of a newbie like me 😜️ Elementary is beatiful and good for people switching from Mac, but isn't for me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everytime I distro hop, I want it to be the last hopping. I want to settle with a distro on the bare metal. I am not against trying new distros on VM. I am talking about desktop distros btw. Since I am new to server space, I only tried Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10 so far.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Solus 4.1 vs Solus 3.99&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The biggest improvement I noticed so far is the black screen issue upon booting after a gpu driver upgrade is gone. I hope it stays that way. Another thing I noticed is that my GPU supports Vulkan now. It didn't before. Even though I installed bunch of drivers and libraries from different PPAs as instructed in Lutris and Steam wikis. I simply installed Steam and Solus pulled every Vulkan stuff games would need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;I want this to be the last hop I will do on baremetal&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be ready to quote me on that as "Last Famous Words"&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fun Fact: Solus' package manager, eopkg, is derived from &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_(operating_system)"&gt;Pardus&lt;/a&gt;' package manager &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardus_(operating_system)#PiSi_package_management" title="means &amp;quot;kitty&amp;quot; in Turkish"&gt;PiSi&lt;/a&gt; which was the first Linux distro and package manager I used. Unfortunately PiSi was discontinued when Pardus moved to Debian base. It lives in Solus. That is a nice nostalgia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/neofetch_juggernaut_lenovo_ip110.png" alt="Neofetch command showing system info on the terminal: Username: Murteza, Computername: Juggernaut, OS: Solus, Kernel: Linux 5.6.19, Computer Make: Lenovo Ideapad 110-15ACL, DE: Budgie, CPU: AMD A8 7410, GPU: AMD Radeon R5, RAM: 6860MiB total"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/juggernaut_screenshot_sunday.png" alt="Screenshot of a clean desktop with no icons. Wallpaper is blurry dark and darker blue with Solus written in the middle. Taskbar is tranparent background with application menu and icons on the left, clock in the middle and system tray for wifi, battery, volume and more indicators on the right" width=100% height=auto&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="distros"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>My Linux Journey</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/my-linux-journey.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-07T23:59:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-07T23:59:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-07:/my-linux-journey.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Like many other distro hoppers, I tried many distros. Solus was one of the best polished experiences. That is not to say it is perfect.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I learned to use linux by breaking it. First time I broke Ubuntu, I purged Xorg while trying to remove KDE 😬️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.pardus.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Pardus-04.png" alt="Pardus logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Pardus&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started my Linux journey with &lt;a href="https://www.pardus.org.tr"&gt;Pardus&lt;/a&gt; installation CD distributed with science magazine of &lt;a href="https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/en" title="Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey"&gt;TÜBİTAK&lt;/a&gt;. It probably was around 2011. What I do remember is the sluggish KDE 4 desktop that put old family computer (512MB RAM, 1,6GHz single core CPU) onto its knees. What I liked about Linux was how easy it was to get started. WiFi worked out of the box with some occasional disconnection issue. It also had Firefox and no Internet Explorer. I learned one thing with Pardus, Windows is not the only operating system developer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2011 was the time I never knew about the terminal. I never searched for it on application manager. Linux desktop was usable without CLI in 2011. Forget about shell commands, I didn't know English language back then. Unfortunately the 7 years old laptop couldn't hold any longer and just died one day never to boot again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6/10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Would run it for nostalgia on a VM 😁️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Hardware&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lenovo IdeaPad &lt;strong&gt;110&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;AMD A8&lt;/strong&gt; CPU (4 cores boosting to 2.2GHz) with iGPU (for rendering desktop)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;8GB RAM&lt;/strong&gt; (6.7GB usable thanks to integrated GPU 😠️)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;AMD R5&lt;/strong&gt; GPU (2GB Vram for projector support)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Fan&lt;/strong&gt; for cooling through motivation&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;1366x768&lt;/strong&gt; display (for 720p window + 48 pixel for title and task bars 😅️)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Keyboard&lt;/strong&gt; (with short Shift key 😠️) with numberpad&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Touchpad&lt;/strong&gt; which is comfortable and sometimes makes me forget to use mouse&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Barely Camera&lt;/strong&gt; because why not&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Plastic body&lt;/strong&gt; because it worked for Barbie 🤣️
&lt;strong&gt;1TB HDD&lt;/strong&gt; 5200 RPM
&lt;strong&gt;DVD R/W bay&lt;/strong&gt; which I replaced with &lt;strong&gt;240GB SSD&lt;/strong&gt; with on board RAM&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/010/369/original/ubuntu.png" alt="Ubuntu logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Ubuntu&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I installed Ubuntu on IdeaPad 110 the day it was delivered in 2017. Unity desktop environment was a nice change from other operating systems I used. Ubuntu was amazing and every program I could need was available in the store. WiFi and bluetooth worked amazingly well out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were 2 things I didn't like about Ubuntu:&lt;br&gt;
First is the AppArmor internal error prompt. I disabled AppArmor and issue was fixed 🤦‍♂️️&lt;br&gt;
Second was the half new and half old looking system after a release upgrade.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7/10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/106/747/original/ab7ee760c4d7d8b4.png" alt="Mint Logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Linux Mint&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/linux_mint_change_my_mind_1.jpg" alt="Linux Mint is Ubuntu plus cinnamon DE minus snap packages. Change my mind"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8/10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Roll it to earn 1 point&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/090/050/original/ae5ab97b259fe17d.png" alt="Solus Logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Arch&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I learned what RTFM means and how useful Arch wiki is. Nonetheless I ended up with something that wouldn't work. I know it was my mistake to install whatever I could find on AUR which can break the system. But in my defense, I was spoiled by installing stuff from a repo and not breaking anything.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some assembly required&lt;/strong&gt; / 10&lt;br&gt;
I am not &lt;a href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/57622/arch-home-server-challenge-las-313/" title="Arch Home Server"&gt;Mad Lad&lt;/a&gt; enough&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/025/128/original/ba24e6fc18d3e34a.png" alt="Solus Logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Solus 3.99&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I tried Solus because my prejudgment for stability of Arch Linux prevented me trying Manjaro. Solus was much faster than Ubuntu even though I tried GNOME edition. Games were playable which is an interesting development given that this laptop is suitable for offices and gaming isn't something it should be able to do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every GPU driver update was causing system to boot into black screen. Fix was rebooting it system to safe mod and rebooting to latest driver. I would be happy to use stable kernel instaled of edge but graphics drivers didn't work with stable for some reason. Given Solus is a rolling release, I was getting this problem 2 or 3 times a week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;███ / 10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/025/121/original/81f2041d18d0535b.png" alt="Manjaro logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Manjaro&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It works. It is lighter than anything I tried so far, partly thanks to optimization done to KDE. Manjaro is stable and is recommendable to grandpas. That being said, Manjaro and Arch's one of the biggest attraction is AUR which also is the weak spot. Most people break their systems because they did something wrong while installing from AUR.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8/10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Still recommended though&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/025/123/original/a76f54a7dbcd8afd.png" alt="Pop OS logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Pop_OS!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pop_OS! is the Ubuntu++ that I expected Linux Mint to be. Pop is especially recommended for computers with Nvidia's sand. But for some reason it kept slowing down faster than any other OS I tried on this computer (excpet Windows 10 which always was slow).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I started the installation and let it use the entire SSD the way it wished. All the defaults except the encryption which I don't think effects the performance because if it did, why wasn't it affecting at the beginning. About 50GB or 240GB SSD is filled.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I used to distro hop for fun and trying other distros. Not with Pop_OS ! I wanted to use this for the long shot but it keeps slowing down on me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9/10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Only if it knew it was installed on an SSD and performed so.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="https://fosstodon.b-cdn.net/custom_emojis/images/000/025/128/original/ba24e6fc18d3e34a.png" alt="Solus Logo" width=20em height=auto&gt; Solus 4.1&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It turns out, both iGPU and complementrary dedicated GPU supports Vulkan. No other system could run anything on Vulkan before. Even after adding PPAs and installing &lt;code&gt;mesa&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;vulkan&lt;/code&gt; stuff, I always had to use &lt;code&gt;PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1&lt;/code&gt; flag to run windows games. Native games performed poorly too. Solus was like a fresh air to my computer 😃️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GPU driver update no longer causes black screen. I installed it on the HDD to try it out. And with Pop_OS! on SSD slowed down enough to be almost match with Solus on HDD, I am planning to replace Pop with Solus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9/10&lt;/strong&gt; until it break again&lt;br&gt;
Sorry for being negative but if it won't break (hopefully), I will make a newbie mistake at some point and break it 😁️&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;This is NOT the end for a distro hopper&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I believe the reason geeks started to distro hop is that there are many different people with different needs and there are different distros with strong point and weaknesses. Desire for finding the best for our own use case pushes us to hop between many distros.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There are developers who need to have the latest libraries to test against their projects. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There are grand parents who need a way to communicate with their children and grandchildren.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There are servers which run day and night to provide services to millions of people.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is no single best solution. That is actually why there are many distros in the first place. We will keep hopping in hopes of finding the best for our personal use case andbe able to give educated answer to people who ask for recomendation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
    &lt;img src="images/distro_hopping_bullet_cat_1.jpg" alt="A cat hovering off the ground. Top caption: There is a new distro with mouse themed wallpapers. Bottom caption: It is time to hop"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="distros"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Marble League 2020</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/marble-league-2020.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-08-05T11:11:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-08-05T11:11:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-08-05:/marble-league-2020.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;I am not like interested in sports. But I find Jelle's Marble Runs silly. That is a solid reason to love something 😅️&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;h1&gt;COVID-19, sport events and me&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not a person who followes football, basketball or any other sports league. I don't think I was ever excited about any sports events. As a Turkish, I would support Turkey in an internetional competition. But I never painted my face red and white or went to stadium for a sport event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actually have not been interested in sport events for over 20 years. But ever since we had to self-isolate the &lt;a href="https://covid19.who.int/"&gt;COVID-19&lt;/a&gt; by staying in our houses, I restarted bloging, deployed NextCloud instance for my phone and computer to sync, joined Fediverse and also started watching YouTube more and more. Some of the videos are programming related and others are entertainment, comedians and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, dedicated an episode to &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gBMw64aqk" title="Watch the episode on YouTube"&gt;sports and COVID-19's effect on them&lt;/a&gt;. As it turns out, all sport events are halted. Except one! Marble League, Jelle's Marble Runs, continues without a hickup. I never heard about MarbleLympics before but after seeing some clips in Last Week Tonight's episode, I knew I had to watch it.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="https://jellesmarbleruns.com/series/ml/"&gt;Marble League &lt;img width=25em height=auto alt="Jelle's Marble Runs Logo" src="https://jellesmarbleruns.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-circle-cropped.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://jellesmarbleruns.fandom.com/wiki/Jelle_Bakker"&gt;Jelle Bakker&lt;/a&gt; co-founded Marble League with his brother &lt;a href="https://jellesmarbleruns.fandom.com/wiki/Dion_Bakker"&gt;Dion Bakker&lt;/a&gt; back in 2014. It is a silly event and commentator speaks in a way that assumes marbles are real athletes with personalities and traits. In my opinion, it is silly in a not weird but oddly entertaining way. I ❤️ Marble League.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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    &lt;td width=50%&gt;
      &lt;img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marblelympics/images/1/1d/JelleBakker.png" alt="Orange marble with purple flowers" width=75%&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Jelle Bakker&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;td width=50%&gt;
      &lt;img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marblelympics/images/7/78/Dion_Bakker_M1.png" alt="Black and White" width=75%&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Dion Bakker&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;table&gt;

But watching a sport event without supporting any team is weird silly. I didn't like the idea of supporting whichever team is sitting on top of the leaderboard. I wanted my team to surprise marbles with its achievements and I found a team that is not expected to win, not expecting to win*, close to Earth 😉️

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    &lt;img width=50% src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marblelympics/images/b/b1/Oceanics-0.png" alt="Orange marble with purple flowers"&gt;
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* At least I am not expecting my team to win. I just like them the way they are regardless of whether they win or not. That being said, I expect them to pass balancing so that I can watch them compete.

&lt;iframe src="https://fosstodon.org/@gray/104638372103104260/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script src="https://fosstodon.org/embed.js" async="async"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Silent Rage Quits</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/silent-rage-quits.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-07-30T16:49:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-07-30T16:49:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-07-30:/silent-rage-quits.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;nobody saw it coming&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Has it ever happened to you that when you start to change your life for better by building a good habit but at some point you give up seemingly out of nowhere, kinda like rage quit but without rage?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Announcing your goal to public or close friends and family members for them to keep you reminded of your goal is called "motivational accountability". It sounds like a great idea. But it only back fired in my cases.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I decided to announce what my goal was and wanted people to motivate me by reminding me my goals. I got the support of people I love. I also got bombarded with what I should and shouldn't do. I am mad at myself for pushing myself to the spotlight and too much attention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you look from outside there was nothing wrong, my path was wide open, weather was clear. People around me made sure of that. I can't be mad at them for their help. I pressured myself by taking too much support which turned into pressure. There is a fine line between supporting someone by reminding one's goals and pressuring them to reach their goals. Even though some people were keeping the balance when mixed with other's pressure, they all turned into pressure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;I finally snapped and I silently rage quitted&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I still do set targets for myself but I don't announce them. They instead are my secrets until they are reached.&lt;br&gt;
Asking for help, opinions and experiences of others is important for making educated decisions. But it sure is difficult without revealing anything. If people really have to know, it should be as few people as possible in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Read on your own risk&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In case you are wondering what I rage quitted, it is computer programming (or at least CS degree). After spending 4 years in 2 different universities in 2 different countries and hearing about what programming languages to learn, which online courses to take, what programs to write, how much mark to get, how many hours to sit on the arse and practise coding, practising for interviews, solving puzzles on Leetcode, memorizing a tone of formulas for no other reason than they will be asked in the exam, what should one aim for ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe you think I got it all wrong and annoyed and frustrated for no good reason. If you don't recall this feeling, I am happy for you. I hope you never experience it.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;If you find accountability very motivational and working for you then I am glad for you. Let the world know and help you to reach your goals.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Personal"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry></feed>