Eric MurphyHave you been wanting to try out Arch Linux and are thinking of using the archinstall installation script? In this video, I'm going to GATEKEEP Arch Linux by telling you why you SHOULDN'T use the easy install script and why you should install Arch Linux manually instead. Trust me, I actually have good reasons to as why new users might not want to use it, I'm not just being elitist...or am I?
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0:00 Intro 1:57 Why install Arch Linux manually? 2:59 What do you learn from installing Arch manually? 5:08 Mom, cancel my meetings, archinstall broke again 6:19 Manually installing Arch is scary! 7:36 Who Arch Linux isn't for 8:31 What about Arch distros with a GUI installer? 9:50 My recommendation
Why you (probably) shouldnt use an Arch Linux install scriptEric Murphy2023-04-05 | Have you been wanting to try out Arch Linux and are thinking of using the archinstall installation script? In this video, I'm going to GATEKEEP Arch Linux by telling you why you SHOULDN'T use the easy install script and why you should install Arch Linux manually instead. Trust me, I actually have good reasons to as why new users might not want to use it, I'm not just being elitist...or am I?
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0:00 Intro 1:57 Why install Arch Linux manually? 2:59 What do you learn from installing Arch manually? 5:08 Mom, cancel my meetings, archinstall broke again 6:19 Manually installing Arch is scary! 7:36 Who Arch Linux isn't for 8:31 What about Arch distros with a GUI installer? 9:50 My recommendationCaring about privacy almost ruined my life.Eric Murphy2024-06-15 | Support my work on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ericmurphy
Overwhelmed by all the steps you have to take to be private online? Feel like there's no use in fighting the man? You might have privacy fatigue. Let's talk about how to have privacy online without completely losing your sanity.
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0:00 Intro 2:45 What's your threat model? 8:10 Compromises 11:32 ConclusionHow Blogging Ruined the WebEric Murphy2024-06-08 | Support my work on Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ericmurphy
0:00 The decline of the web 1:08 What we do here is go back 4:57 An ode to the personal website 8:26 The end of homepages 12:10 The modern webThe Shady Business of VPNsEric Murphy2024-05-31 | If you want to be private and anonymous online, just use a VPN! Now you're safe from all the bad guys online, right? The VPN industry makes a lot of claims. But are they telling the truth? And can you trust these companies with your data?
0:00 Intro 0:51 Stretching the truth 5:21 Trust issues 7:18 The congomerates 8:19 Conflicts of interest 11:44 Skeletons in the closet 14:03 Free lunch 15:55 Should you use a VPN?Is it impossible to be private online?Eric Murphy2024-05-24 | Every time I talk about privacy online, the pessimists always come out. "It's impossible to have any online privacy." "They've already collected so much data about you. Why bother?" Is it really well and truly over? Or are there actually good reasons to still care about online privacy in the age of surveillance capitalism?
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0:00 Intro 0:48 It's over 3:08 "You'll never have total privacy online." 5:49 "They've already collected so much data about you." 6:41 Privacy goes mainstream 9:08 Under the influence 9:32 Why pessimism failsOnline Ads Are Getting Out of ControlEric Murphy2024-05-18 | Online ads are getting ridiculous these days. Companies are pushing more and more ads, and ads now are offensive, scammy, and even malicious. In this video, we'll see just how bad the modern advertising landscape is, and if there's any hope for the future...
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0:00 Intro 1:08 But wait, it gets worse 4:06 We don't need privacy where we're going 6:01 The unsustainable future 9:15 The future of making money onlineHow ThinkPads Became The Internets Favorite LaptopEric Murphy2024-05-10 | If you've ever spent any time on the internet, there's a good chance you've heard of how amazing Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are. They're the GOAT laptop brand, and if you're a *real* power user, you know how much better they are than the lowly MacBook. But how did they gain their legendary status and cult-like fanbase online? Are they really all that special, and do they live up to the hype? Find out in this video...
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0:00: Intro 0:45 Corporate heaven 3:03 The Macbook-ification of the laptop 6:18 The meme, the myth, the legend 8:03 The downfall of the ThinkPad 9:32 ThinkPad society and its futureWhy Are Open Source Alternatives So Bad?Eric Murphy2024-05-03 | Want to switch to Linux or tired of paying ridiculous amounts of money for Adobe products? Just switch to these open source alternatives. But if you've ever used any of the popular open-source software alternatives, you've probably been disappointed. Why can't GIMP come close to the power of Photoshop? Why isn't there a decent open source video editor yet? Is open source software doomed to be worse than proprietary software, or is there hope for it yet?
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0:00 The problem with open-source alternatives 2:30 Which open-source software are we talking about? 4:07 Where's the money? 5:39 Why is the UI so bad? 8:46 Software matters 9:32 Can open-source do better? 12:28 ConclusionHow Googles Chromium Took Over the Browser WorldEric Murphy2024-04-26 | Have you ever wondered why every browser these days is based on Chromium? Why can't they make their own browser from scratch, or base it on something like Firefox? And is having every browser based on Chromium really a bad thing? Let's find out in this video.
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0:00 Intro 1:13 What's wrong with everything being Chromium? 2:31 What's so great about Chromium? 5:26 Why can't you make your own browser? 7:47 What happens when Google controls the internet? 9:26 ConclusionYouTube sucks now. Heres how to fix it.Eric Murphy2024-04-19 | How to waste less time online: youtube.com/watch?v=mFPuDaVA7wI
Remember when YouTube used to be good? Me too. Are you tired of YouTube's changes to the site, like removing the dislike bar, blocking adblock, and adding Shorts? Or just tired of rampant clickbait, scammy sponsors and non-stop distractions? I'll show you how to fix all of these issues and more in this video.
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0:00 Intro 0:35 Return the dislike bar 2:03 Skip sponsored segments 5:28 Remove clickbait 8:17 Remove distractions 9:58 Remove ads 13:28 Remove YT Shorts 14:47 What about on mobile? 16:31 ConclusionDoes Apple REALLY care about your privacy?Eric Murphy2024-04-12 | Nobody understands online privacy: youtube.com/watch?v=H414XdcbC4Q Why do I care so much about privacy? youtube.com/watch?v=0aXIXozAsOE Email tier list: youtube.com/watch?v=EtH9ZTof-Tc
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If you're tired of big companies like Facebook and Google suctioning up all of your personal data, you might have heard that Apple is different. Apple loves to talk about how much they care about user privacy and all the protections they put in place to keep their users safe from big, bad big data. But is Apple really being truthful in their claims? How much do they really value your privacy and protect you from trackers? And should you buy an iPhone or an Android?! Let's find out in this video.
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0:00 Intro 0:48 It's not tracking if WE do it! 3:24 The ineffectiveness of Apple's privacy features 6:01 Apple's App Tracking Transparency failure 8:43 What does Apple do right? 9:28 What's my recommendation? 11:02 ConclusionI wasted my 20s online.Eric Murphy2023-09-15 | I wasted a good portion of my life so far on scrolling online and I have a few regrets.
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0:00 How to waste your life 5:48 How to spend less time onlineThe Secret Online Piracy Club Youve Never Heard OfEric Murphy2023-09-07 | Everybody's heard of The Pirate Bay. If you've ever needed a free copy of Photoshop or the latest Hollywood blockbuster, there's a good chance you've sailed the high seas before. But what you might not know is that there's a secret side of torrenting and online piracy that you've never seen before. In this video, I'm going to tell you the story of What.CD, the most infamous private torrent tracker of all time.
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0:00 What ever happened to torrenting? 1:42 he still uses The Pirate Bay 2:57 The world of private torrent trackers 3:33 The story of What.cd 4:47 Who cares, anyway? 6:43 Sharing is caring 8:01 The music Mecca 9:33 It's not about the money, it's about sending a message 11:07 The downfall of What 13:06 Requiem for a tracker 14:38 Does anyone still care about private trackers?Can You REALLY Trust Proton Mail?Eric Murphy2023-08-31 | Proton Mail claims to be private and secure. But can you really trust them? Maybe you've heard some news stories about they logging your data and handing it over to the government. So why do I still think that ProtonMail is one of the best mail services out there? Should you even trust ANY email provider? Find out in this video...
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0:00 ProtonMail bad 2:20 Email was never meant to be private 4:43 Email gets encrypted with PGP 8:26 Proton brings PGP to the masses 9:11 Trust issues 10:45 Why use "private" email? 11:16 What happens when the glowies come knocking? 13:20 What's your threat model? 14:47 Can you trust Proton? 15:54 Should you use Proton?The ULTIMATE Email Tier List (Based Tier to Botnet Tier)Eric Murphy2023-08-24 | These days, it's pretty hard to find an actually good email service. Maybe you don't want an e-mail address that can read through all your email to sell your data to advertisers. Maybe you don't want an email that will rat you out to the government. But are there any good, usable, cheap, and privacy-respecting emails still out there? In this video, I'm going to finally rank the best and worst email providers of all time...
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0:00 Intro 2:13 Disroot 5:33 Fastmail 7:22 Gmail 9:16 mailbox.org 12:14 Mailfence 14:06 Outlook 15:49 Posteo 17:58 ProtonMail 22:45 Self-hosting 26:12 Skiff 30:34 Startmail 32:35 Tutanota 35:28 Yahoo! 36:59 My recommendationHow Mozilla Ruined FirefoxEric Murphy2023-08-17 | Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla's terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.
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0:00 The fall of Firefox 1:34 Privacy promises 3:45 Why use Firefox, anyway? 4:42 Deals with the devil 7:08 Big business 8:24 Making the world a better place 9:54 Mozilla doesn't care about you 11:29 Firefox (lack of) Focus 12:02 Mismanaged funds 13:12 What happened to Firefox?Nobody Understands Online Privacy.Eric Murphy2023-08-10 | Almost nobody understands online privacy. That's why you see so many privacy noobs confused and overwhelmed because they heard you have to use Tor and host your own email and cut off all your friends that don't use Signal. How much do you need to worry about privacy? Can you trust this company? Somebody told me was good but somebody else told me it's terrible for your privacy. Who do you trust? Relax, and let me explain threat levels, the level of privacy you need, and everything else in this video.
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0:00 Privacy is confusing 1:25 Why do you care? 2:23 The Privacy-Anonymity Spectrum 3:10 The Normie 4:43 The Privacy-Conscious 6:34 Privacy vs. Anonymity 7:41 The Activist 9:47 The Ghost 11:05 Which level are you? 12:02 Conflating levels of privacy 13:16 Can we improve discussions about privacy? 14:00 ConclusionWhy Do I Shill Arch Linux So Much?Eric Murphy2023-08-03 | In this video, in true Arch user fashion, I'm going to tell you why Arch is the best Linux distro. To be honest, Arch is probably the only reason why I still use Linux to this day. But what makes it special and different from other distributions? Let's find out in this video...
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0:00 Intro 0:52 The Packages 3:46 The Wiki 5:39 Arch Linux is only free if your time is worthless 7:01 No more distro hopping 8:28 Computing at the speed of thought 9:19 Linux sucks tbh 10:08 ConclusionI Love Neovim, but I NEVER Use It for Coding.Eric Murphy2023-07-27 | Why you should use VSCodium instead of VS Code: youtube.com/watch?v=c_eFYsuV1PU Is it still worth it to learn vim? youtube.com/watch?v=c68MkeMBjhE Why Neovim is better than vim: youtube.com/watch?v=qQvFC0wRiRE
Neovim is probably my favorite text editor of all time, but I could just never get into it for doing any major projects. When I'm working on something big, I'm always reaching for VSCodium (VSCode). But why am I not using Neovim as my IDE like all of the rest of the cool kids? Let me explain myself in this video...
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0:00 Intro 1:34 The painful setup 2:27 Plugin woes 4:09 Web tooling 5:19 Is it worth the setup? 6:24 Muh bloat 6:56 Why I switched 7:33 Vim bindings forever 8:18 VSCodium is validWhy Do I Care So Much About Privacy?Eric Murphy2023-07-13 | Bro...Google Chrome is so convenient, why do you care so much about privacy? In this video, I'll finally explain why I dislike all of the creepy tracking by companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook, as well as the dangerous, real-world consequences this data collection can cause.
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0:00 "But I have nothing to hide!!" 1:14 The philosophical argument for privacy 2:10 Real-world consequences 2:38 Google Photos flags dad as a criminal 4:32 Man wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition 6:46 Users of Ring spied on by employees 8:30 Tesla owners being spied on by employees 9:57 Way-too-specific Facebook ad campaign 10:53 Airline companies charging more based on your computer 11:55 "Just trust me bro" 12:25 Data breaches 13:12 Why I care about privacy 14:14 But caring about privacy is too hard!! 15:23 Conclusion
P.s. Trafotin don't be mad I stole your thumbnail pleaseHow JavaScript Ruined the WebEric Murphy2023-06-29 | Ever noticed how bad the modern web is getting? Why is every website a slow, laggy, buggy mess? Whatever happened to the good old days, when websites were simpler? In this video, I'll talk about how the rise of JavaScript frameworks like React have been a disaster for the internet...
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0:00 The absolute state of the modern web 0:45 The JavaScript obsession 2:57 Peer pressure 4:31 The FUTURE of web development! 6:20 Move fast and break things 7:59 Muh "Developer Experience" 9:53 Peak performance 11:36 The user "experience" 12:16 How to make non-bloated websites 14:17 ConclusionWhy does every personal website look like this now?Eric Murphy2023-06-25 | What's with the boring, soulless websites everyone has now? I remember a time when you used to find all kinds of interesting things on people's websites. These days, they're just glorified Linktrees with links to their Twitter and GitHub. Is there any way to bring back the glory days of the personal website?
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0:00 Le Reddit drama 1:38 What's happening to the centralized web? 3:44 Where's the money? 6:00 Decentralized social media and the fediverse 9:01 Back to the web forum? 10:45 We're tired of the ads 11:36 Revolt against the centralized web 12:25 What's the future of the web?Why I Stopped Using SassEric Murphy2023-06-08 | Have you ever heard how much better Sass is than plain old vanilla CSS? Sass and SCSS has been the go-to for web developers for over a decade, but these days it's not quite as necessary as it used to be. In this video, I'm going to explain why I don't use Sass any more, as well as explain why I don't need its most popular features when I'm writing my CSS. Next time you start a new project, maybe think twice before reaching for Sass over CSS...
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0:00 What's Sass? 2:00 What about variables? 3:33 What about nesting? 7:08 What about mixins? 8:03 Why I don't use Sass 8:47 So what do I use instead?Why I Stopped Using the Brave BrowserEric Murphy2023-06-04 | So you probably think the Brave browser is pretty cool, huh? I like the Brave browser but after years of using it, it's hard to ignore some of the flaws of the browser. In this video, I'll explain why I stopped using Brave, my biggest annoyances and complaints regarding it, and what I recommend to use instead. If you liked the video, feel free to donate your hard-earned BAT!
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0:00 Intro 1:25 Brave Rewards 8:02 Brave Shields 10:31 Brave bloat 14:47 So what do I recommend instead?Technology was a mistake.Eric Murphy2023-05-28 | Everybody knows that technology is the ultimate force of good in the world. Right? Humans now are more prosperous than ever before. But at the same time, something feels very wrong as modern society seems to have made people more stressed, depressed, and unfulfilled than ever before. In this video, I'm going to do sort of a book review of Ted Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future and offer a different perspective on the consequences of technology on modern life.
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0:00 Modern society is amazing! 1:09 The book 1:44 The purposelessness of modern life 6:24 Surrogate activities 7:22 Dude, where's my freedoms? 9:02 Numbing the pain 9:59 The author 11:19 The end of industrial society 12:55 What can we do? 15:28 In conclusionNew to Linux? Yeah, DONT Use Manjaro...Eric Murphy2023-05-17 | If you're new to Linux, there's a good chance you've been recommended Manjaro Linux. After all, you get all of the benefits of a rolling-release distro without all of the instability of Arch Linux! Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, after using Manjaro myself in the past I just can't recommend it to anyone, especially newbies to Linux. In this video, let me explain why I no longer trust Manjaro with anything...
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0:00 Why use Manjaro? 2:39 The packaging problem 6:25 My experience 9:06 Manjaro's many mistakes 13:49 So what should you use instead of Manjaro?Why Are Arch Linux Users So TOXIC?Eric Murphy2023-05-14 | If you've ever spent any time online, you might have heard how TOXIC the Arch Linux community is. You might even have been cyberbullied for using Ubuntu by an ELITIST Arch user! But are Arch Linux users really as rude and elitist as you might have heard? In this video, I'll explain why the claims of Arch users' toxicity might be a little bit exaggerated...
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0:00 Intro 0:49 Why are Arch users so rude? 7:23 Why do Arch users so elitist? 12:12 ConclusionWhat Ever Happened to Audacity?Eric Murphy2023-05-10 | If you're up-to-date on your open-source drama, you might remember the drama that went down a couple of years ago when the audio editor Audacity was purchased by Muse Group. Right away they started making terrible decision after terrible decision, to the point that people in the FOSS world were calling Audacity spyware. But now that the dust has settled, is Audacity really dead? Is it safe to use? What ever happened to all the Audacity forks like Tenacity? Let's get to the bottom of it in this video...
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0:00 The drama 2:16 What about the telemetry? 4:41 What about the weird privacy policy changes? 5:20 What about the license? 7:31 What's new with Audacity? 9:19 What about the Audacity forks? 11:55 What should you use?Video Editing on Linux Is Terrible. Or Is It?Eric Murphy2023-04-28 | If you've spent any time online, you probably know just how BAD the state of video editing on Linux is. But what if it wasn't as bad as they say? What if, as a matter of fact, Linux video editing was pretty good? In this video, I'll go over some common claims about Kdenlive, my favorite Linux video editor, and see if they're true or not. Can Linux video editing be used professionally or are you doomed to suffer?
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0:00 Intro 2:34 It's buggy 4:33 Too many annoyances 7:32 You can't do professional work on Linux 10:56 Honorable mentions 11:51 Conclusion
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0:00 Intro 1:53 Ueberzug forks 2:58 Ueberzugpp 4:00 What's wrong with Ueberzug? 4:47 Image support in kitty 6:35 Displaying images in the terminal with Sixel 10:13 My recommendations 11:36 ConclusionI rewrote my Vim config in Lua. Was it worth it?Eric Murphy2023-04-16 | Haven't you heard? All the cool kids these days are configuring their Neovim in Lua. I recently ditched my ancient Vim script configuration and rewrote the entire thing in Lua. Was it worth it? Should you do the same? Or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? Find out if it's finally time to say goodbye to your init.vim and create an init.lua in this video...
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0:00 Intro 0:15 Why Lua? 4:17 Lua basics 6:19 Setting options in Lua 8:18 Setting a leader key (and global variables) 10:04 Setting keybindings in Lua 11:48 Sourcing different files with require 13:48 Loading Vim plugins in Lua 17:00 Was it worth it? 17:41 Additional resources 18:11 ConclusionIs This the New Best Privacy Browser? (Mullvad Browser)Eric Murphy2023-04-11 | There's a new privacy browser on the block. The Tor Project and Mullvad VPN have teamed up to bring you the baddest, most private browser out there. But does it live up to the hype? Does it put other privacy browsers like hardened Firefox, Librewolf, and Brave out of business? Find out in this video...
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0:00 Intro 1:22 What's Mullvad browser all about? 2:09 Installation 2:25 Mullvad Browser features 4:15 What's the catch? 5:42 Wait, why can't I change the settings? 7:59 How Mullvad Browser protects you from advanced fingerprinting scripts 9:38 What's the difference between this and Tor? 10:41 When you shouldn't use Mullvad Browser 12:26 My recommendations 12:52 Oh no, Mullvad Browser is REPLACING Hardened Firefox! 13:32 Final thoughtsHow to Install and Manage Fonts on LinuxEric Murphy2023-04-09 | Want to install your favorite font on Linux but not sure how to do it? In this video, I'll go over the simple process of installing fonts, uninstalling fonts, managing fonts, setting the default font, and previewing fonts, all from the command line. No longer do you need to install a bunch of BLOATED graphical programs on your pristine Arch Linux setup...
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0:00 Intro 0:38 Installing fonts 3:13 Uninstalling fonts 3:21 Installing fonts system-wide 5:17 Finding the name and style of your font for terminal applications 7:27 Setting the default font 11:13 Previewing fonts 12:43 ConclusionWait, Vim has an Easy Mode?Eric Murphy2023-04-07 | π My website: https://ericmurphy.xyz πΈ Support the Channel: https://ericmurphy.xyz/donate π₯ Watch my videos on Odysee: odysee.com/@ericnmurphy π» My GitHub: github.com/ericmurphyxyzHow to browse your favorite websites WITHOUT the creepy trackingEric Murphy2023-04-02 | Tired of all the creepy tracking scripts, annoying ads, and bloated UI of all of your favorite websites? In this video, I'll show you how you can use alternative front-ends for all kinds of different popular sites. Finally, you can watch YouTube videos, browse Reddit, and read tweets on Twitter without the watchful eye of Big Brother. Plus, you can set up automatic redirection so you'll never have to go through the grueling loading of the new Reddit redesign ever again!
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0:00 The problem with your favorite website 1:31 What's an open-source front-end? 3:28 What are instances? 4:44 YouTube 7:06 Reddit 8:34 Twitter 9:34 Google 11:06 Google Translate 11:42 IMDB 12:21 Quora 12:29 Imgur 12:47 Even more? 13:26 Automatic redirection with Libredirect 16:18 Can you trust these alternative front-ends? 17:20 Donate! (If you can) 18:02 ConclusionHow to Create Your Own Firefox Theme with Firefox CSSEric Murphy2023-03-30 | Is the default Firefox theme not really doing it for you? Are none of the custom Firefox userChrome.css files others have created to your liking? In this video, I'm going to teach you how you can completely customize almost everything about Firefox using Firefox CSS. I'll show you how you can live-debug your custom theme, find CSS snippets you can use in your own theme, style pages inside your browser, and more in this video...
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0:00 Intro 0:54 Steal someone else's theme 1:21 Enabling themes (if you haven't already) 1:36 Finding your profile folder 1:51 Enabling live-debugging 3:06 Editing files from the debugger 3:50 Finding browser elements with the inspector 5:45 Media queries 6:36 Changing CSS variables 7:38 Changing pages inside the browser with userContent.css 10:33 Firefox CSS snippets 12:44 Additional resources 13:08 ConclusionThe ULTIMATE Search Engine Tier List (Based Tier to Surveillance Tier)Eric Murphy2023-03-26 | Looking for the best search engine, but don't want to send all of your private data to an evil corporation? In this video, I'm going to rank all the search engines and reveal once and for all which are the best of the best and which are the worst of the worst. I'll be ranking them based on their search results, user privacy, and their bias and censorship. Is DuckDuckGo really as good as they say? Find out in this video!
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0:00 Intro 2:15 Bing 4:16 Brave Search 8:02 DuckDuckGo 12:14 Ecosia 14:17 Google 15:08 Metager 17:38 Mojeek 19:43 Searx 24:09 Startpage 27:00 Swisscows 28:30 Qwant 30:05 Whoogle 30:57 Yandex 32:44 My recommendationsWhat your favorite terminal color scheme says about youEric Murphy2023-03-24 | This is definitely a what your favorite terminal color scheme says about you
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#shortsDont like Firefoxs UI? Heres how to make it better. (Firefox CSS)Eric Murphy2023-03-21 | Have you ever used Firefox, only to wish that their UI was...better? In this video, I'll show you how you can install custom userChrome.css themes to completely reimagine how your browser looks.
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0:00 Intro 1:49 How to find a theme 4:10 How to install a theme 6:21 Customizing the colors 6:57 Installing more complex themes 8:20 Basic customizations 10:01 Enabling compact density mode 10:55 ConclusionWait, LibreWolf got even BETTER? (LibreWolf Review)Eric Murphy2023-03-18 | You might have heard of LibreWolf before. It's a privacy-focused Firefox fork that makes a lot of improvements to Firefox's out-of-the-box experience. But I never cared that much about LibreWolf because it didn't really seem that different from hardened Firefox with a custom user.js file like Arkenfox. What's the point? But in recent years, LibreWolf has made a lot of small changes that makes the experience a lot better, especially for new users. In this video, let's see if LibreWolf finally puts Firefox out of business...
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0:00 Intro 0:20 Wait, what's LibreWolf? 1:52 What's new with LibreWolf? 4:38 Explaining the settings 6:42 Adding additional overrides 7:39 Read the docs 8:21 But LibreWolf is out of date! 11:38 ConclusionThe ZSH plugin you didnt know you needed...Eric Murphy2023-03-16 | Why have I never heard anyone else talking about the zsh-history-substring-search plugin? I've been using it for years and I can't imagine life without it. Here's what it does and how to install it.
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#shortsYou NEED to know this before using an AUR Helper...Eric Murphy2023-03-14 | Have you spent your entire time on Arch Linux downloading AUR packages from an AUR helper like yay, paru, or pikaur? They're great tools, but you still need to know how the AUR works and how to build packages manually or you're going to run into some issues. In this video, I'll teach you how to manually build packages and install them with pacman, as well as find out if you even need to use an AUR helper at all...
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0:00 Intro 1:03 What's wrong with just using AUR helpers? 3:10 What does an AUR helper do, exactly? 5:11 Manually building packages with makepkg 7:10 Updating packages manually 8:52 Manually fixing your AUR helper 9:43 Should you use an AUR helper? 10:43 ConclusionWhats the Best AUR Helper? (Paru vs Yay vs Pikaur)Eric Murphy2023-03-10 | There's a dozen different AUR helpers but nobody seems to be able to agree on which one is the best. In this video, I'm going to be comparing three of the most popular AUR helpers, yay, paru, and pikaur. What's the difference between all of these? Which one should you be using? Or should you even be using an AUR helper at all? Find out all this and more in today's video...
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0:00 Intro 0:51 Before you install an AUR helper... 1:59 Yay 4:15 Paru 7:11 Pikaur 10:05 Manually building 11:42 Graphical AUR managers? 12:29 My recommendation 12:47 ConclusionI finally learned how to exit VimEric Murphy2023-03-09 | Have you ever made the mistake of opening Vim and don't know how to get out? In this video, I'll finally explain how to exit Vim once and for all...
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π My website: https://ericmurphy.xyz πΈ Support the Channel: https://ericmurphy.xyz/donate π₯ Watch my videos on Odysee: odysee.com/@ericnmurphy π» My GitHub: github.com/ericmurphyxyzFirefox is NOT private. Heres how to fix it. (Firefox Hardening)Eric Murphy2023-03-07 | I bet you thought Mozilla Firefox was a privacy-respecting, secure web browser, right? But by default, Firefox actually has a lot of anti-privacy features and settings enabled. In this video, I'll show you how you can disable a lot of the cruft that Firefox ships with, as well as turn on a lot of hidden preferences to make your browser even more private. We'll also compare three popular user.js files, including Betterfox, Arkenfox, and Narsil's user.js, each with different levels of privacy. After a little bit of configuration, you can finally have the web browser you always dreamed Mozilla would make...
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0:00 Intro 0:19 Does Mozilla really care about privacy? 2:44 Advanced privacy options 3:08 Mozilla ads and annoyances 3:44 about:config 4:13 What's a user.js file? 5:36 Installing user.js files 7:41 Making overrides in user.js 8:56 Advanced privacy with Arkenfox user.js 9:57 Arkenfox overrides 10:59 resistFingerprinting or not? 12:59 Arkenfox updater 14:21 What I don't like about Arkenfox 14:43 Narsil's user.js 15:14 Google safe browsing or not? 16:42 Which add-ons should you use? 17:37 My recommendation 18:00 What about Librewolf? 18:37 ConclusionThe ULTIMATE Browser Tier List (Based Tier to Spyware Tier)Eric Murphy2023-03-04 | With the amount of web browsers out there, how are you supposed to know which one to use? In this video, I'll rank every popular browser out there from the best to the worst. You want a browser that respects your privacy but is still easy enough to use for normal people. Will Google Chrome come out on top? Find out in this video...
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0:00 Intro 2:16 Brave 5:15 Firefox 6:48 Hardened Firefox 10:28 GNOME Web (Epiphany) 11:48 Google Chrome 12:48 GNU IceCat 16:54 LibreWolf 20:24 Microsoft Edge 20:50 Opera 21:47 Pale Moon 24:31 Qutebrowser 28:41 Ungoogled Chromium 30:55 Vivaldi 35:03 Waterfox 38:08 My recommendations 39:02 ConclusionArch Linux Wiki Tips You Should Know...Eric Murphy2023-03-02 | Three quick tips for using the ArchWiki that you may not know about. Did you know that the Arch Wiki has a dark theme now and offline support? I didn't either.
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0:00 The problem with downloading from the AUR 2:07 Uhh, what's a PKGBUILD? 4:12 Reading the PKGBUILD with an AUR helper 6:01 How safe is the AUR, really? 7:07 Reading through diffs on updates 8:03 What to look out for in PKGBUILDs 9:44 Best practices with the AUR 10:22 My recommendations 10:48 Doesn't everyone already know this? 11:33 ConclusionWhy I Stopped Using PrettierEric Murphy2023-02-25 | Prettier is a great tool for automatically formatting your messy code. But being an opinionated code formatter, Prettier can sometimes cause some issues. In this video, I'd like to explain why I no longer use Prettier in my own projects, as well as some alternatives to Prettier. Now you can still get all the time-saving benefits of having your code formatted without the rigidity of Prettier.
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0:00 What is Prettier? 0:37 Why I stopped using Prettier 1:26 Prettier's opinionatedness 2:17 Prettier's automatic line breaks 5:40 Line break issues in GitHub 6:41 Auto-formatting without Prettier 8:52 Consistent code styling in teams 9:53 Fixing code styling with ESLint 11:49 When should you use Prettier? 12:26 Conclusion