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Software recommendations

This post lists software I recommend for various use cases.

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Compile Linux with Clang on NixOS

This short guide will teach you how to compile the Linux kernel with Clang and LLVM on NixOS.

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Compile GPlates on Fedora Linux

Note: this guide is out of date. GPlates has a new stable version (2.4.0) and the download link for the old source code doesn’t work anymore. GPlates is a free software program for modeling the tectonic history of a planet. It was designed with a scientific audience in mind, but it has also gained popularity among the worldbuilding community. GPlates has an Ubuntu package and both source- and binary-based Arch User Repository packages, but no package for Fedora Linux. One of the options for running GPlates on Fedora is to compile GPlates from source; this guide will show you how to do so.

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Deploy to Neocities through GitHub

Neocities is a free, adless webhosting service modeled after the defunct GeoCities. However, Neocities’ web editor is quite basic and there is no version control. One way to alleviate these problems is to deploy your Neocities site through a GitHub repository.

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Introduction to yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a command-line tool for downloading audio and video from YouTube and other sites. This post will serve as a basic introduction to the program.

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Arkenfox installation guide

Arkenfox user.js is a configuration file for desktop Firefox designed to increase the privacy and security of the browser while avoiding making the browser unusable. This guide will walk you through how to install it and later explain some use cases and alternatives.

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