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+---
+title: "Post Title"
+slug: post-title
+created: 2024-12-31
+updated: 2025-06-23
+description: "A brief summary of what this page is about."
+tags: [linux, self-hosting, minimalism]
+draft: true
+---
+
+
+Here are my **personal** coding standards for some languages.
+
+## Interpreted languages
+#### Never put the file extension to the source file instead use a shebang.
+`` 
+    #!/bin/sh
+    #!/bin/python3
+    #!/bin/perl
+``
+
+## Posix shell
+#### Always wrap variables with `"${}"` to prevent globbing.
+`` 
+    echo "${var}"
+    echo "${1}"
+    echo "${@}"
+``
+
+## Makefiles
+#### If Makefile is fully posix complient and doesn't have anything extra add 
+`.POSIX:` to the beginning of the file
+
+## C 
+#### Use K&R style `if`s
+``
+    if (condition) {
+        do this;
+        do that;
+        do another;
+    }
+``
+#### if only one line don't use curly braces.
+``
+    while (condition)
+        do this
+``
+
+``
+    if (condition)
+        do this
+    else
+        do that
+``
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+---
+title: "Why I like Gentoo."
+slug: "gentoo"
+created: 2024-09-06
+description: "Why I think source based distros are better."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+### Why I prefer Gentoo over Arch.
+A lot of people say very good things about gentoo linux, it is very well maintained,
+It is more secure, It is lightweight and so on. But when it comes down to it,
+very few people actually use gentoo, I think that is because they install it 
+and after a month or so they really get sick of waiting for the packages to compile 
+and they switch back to whatever they were using before. I know it because,
+I had done that in the past, I dual-booted my machine with gentoo and arch linux
+intending to only use gentoo, and arch only when I didn't have the time to wait
+for the package to compile, but ended up only booting to arch and almost never 
+to gentoo, at that time if you were to ask me the best package manager 
+I would have unhesitatingly said arch's pacman, while I still think that pacman is the best 
+**binary** package manager
+for the past few months I have started to really like gentoo and its package manager
+portage and there are different reasons for that.   
+
+### Compiling programs makes more sense than downloading binaries.
+On unix-like operating systems you generally use 
+open-source software and that software is made to be compiled by the users specific 
+to their machines, but on binary based distros you use programs that are compiled for
+you by someone else and again to me, personally, compiling just makes more sense.
+
+### It gives you more perspective to the program you use.
+If you'd downloaded a binary package you would only be able to tell if a program is fast, 
+has enough features and so on, but you wouldn't have known how much time it takes 
+to compile, what the build dependencies are, and even sometimes the
+programming language that it is written in. I do agree that knowing those abstract details 
+of a package is utterly useless for a typical end-user who is not a programmer
+but for a programmer those details are very important, since you get to know what build systems are
+faster what programming language compiles faster, builds better and sometimes you 
+get to learn some stuff that you didn't even know existed. You can build programs from source in other distros
+as well but gentoo makes it easier and forces you to do that
+and be honest, If you could install binary package in 10 seconds
+you wouldn't even bother waiting for it to compile for 20 minutes.
+
+### You install less packages.
+In order to avoid compilation you tent to install less pieces of software
+resulting in more stable and more performant system. God forbid you if
+you are using arch linux and have access to the AUR 
+(I had installed more than 2000 useless packages on my arch system). 
+
+### It is more secure, lightweight and faster (at least in theory).
+I have not noticed any significant difference in terms of performance 
+between gentoo and binary based distros and I kind of think that security 
+on client OSes is overrated, but for some few people these might be important 
+since you literally can skip some useless parts of a program (useless for you of course)
+resulting in less bloated, therefore faster and more secure programs, but again I 
+don't really find it that important.
+
+### **No systemd**!
+I am not against systemd but I prefer to not use it.
+On gentoo the default init system is openrc and it works 
+with no problem.
+
+### Bad parts.
+Like everything, it has some negative stuff about it as well,
+those are
+
+- Compilation can take some time.
+- Gentoo is the one of **the hardest** distro to manage.  
+
+I am saying both of those with an asterisk, because 
+although I agree that there are some big pieces of software that you basically have to have 
+like a browser, (it took 6h to compile a browser on my machine) but most of the time
+if software takes too much time to compile that indicates that it is 
+overcomplicated and you shouldn't even be using it.  
+Gentoo is hard to use but, that also means gentoo forces to know more, making you better at 
+system administration.
+
+So, that is all.
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+---
+title: "Posts"
+slug: "posts"
+css: |
+    time {
+        font-size: 16px;
+        color: #bbbbbb;
+        padding-right: 0.5em;
+    }
+---
+<time>2025-01-24:</time> [Hosting an email server is not possible.](/posts/selfhostmail.html)
+
+<time>2024-12-27:</time> [Software I use.](/posts/software.html)
+
+<time>2024-09-25:</time> [I dislike modern smartphones.](/posts/nophone.html)
+
+<time>2024-09-06:</time> [Why I like Gentoo.](/posts/gentoo.html)
+
+<time>2024-06-09:</time> [New webiste.](/posts/website_created.html)
+
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+---
+title: "I dislike modern smartphones."
+slug: "no-smart-phone"
+created: 2024-09-25
+description: "Explaining why I prefer not to use a smartphone."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+
+### Why I absolutely hate smartphones.
+
+For the past few years, the question that I have been asked the most
+is that "why don't you use a smartphone", but I've never really 
+answered any of those questions, even though, 
+I do have different reasons not to use one.
+
+The main point is that if you ever use any sort of properly
+designed "normal" operating systems and hardware you can't really 
+go back and use garbage computer operating systems or phones
+without getting disgusted. 
+With smartphones, it is even worse than toy-like computer OSes like windows
+or mac, because with those systems you at least get some sort of 
+proper hardware components like a keyboard, 
+a monitor with "normal" screen ratio and so on.
+But with phones, not only you get an operating system that is no better than 
+trash, but also some very cringe way to interact with the hardware. 
+(Yes, I am talking about sensor screens.)
+
+Now, let's talk about why
+
+- Operating systems
+- Package Management
+- User space applications
+- Hardware
+- Privacy and Security
+Absolutely suck on "smart" phones.
+
+### Operating Systems
+There are 2 main OSes for phones: iOS and Android, there are also some not widely used ones 
+like legacy Windows Phone and even some open-source ones, though here, I shall only talk about the
+first 2 that I have mentioned, but that should also be somewhat relevant 
+to almost all the other phone OSes as well.
+
+**Android Sucks**! because, you can't even perform the most basic
+computer functionalities 
+like compiling very simple software, writing scripts, and so on, you don't even have
+the root access to the phone you "own", but the company that sold you that has full 
+access to the phone over the internet, that is basically like slavery with extra steps, lol.
+Some people might say "Well, that is not a computer
+you are not supposed to compile programs and write scripts!" I don't buy that argument
+because, in reality, computers and phones are indeed the same thing, the way that they
+function is the same, the way they connect with other computers is the same,
+they use the same technologies to function (in fact, Android uses the Linux kernel).
+The difference between properly written computer OSes and android is that 
+computer OSes care about the users while phones are trying to keep you under control.
+It is also worth mentioning that I am not talking about the pure open source Android
+project, I am talking about Android, on which companies put a load of garbage to make 
+it more "beneficial" for the company.  
+
+With iPhones, it's the same thing except it is even worse, 
+it should be obvious why, apple! the single worst company 
+that has ever existed, Apple is trying so hard to keep you 
+inside of its garbage-like "ecosystem" by making it very hard 
+and even sometimes impossible to connect with hardware/software
+other than Apple's, and all these ***morons*** will be like 
+> "BuT, DuuuuuDe, APpLE DeVIces WeRk WItH oTher AppLE DeViCes sO SMoOthLy" 
+Yeah, by making it impossible to work with basically everything else
+and you have to have apple garbage all around you.
+
+### Package Management
+Android and iOS do have some sort of package management,
+on Android, it's Play store (But you can also install packages using .apk format)
+on iOS, you have app store.  
+Google owns Play Store, and you have to have a google account to be able to use 
+Play Store (which on Android you basically also have to), on iOS, Apple owns
+app store.   
+That might not seem like a huge deal, but it is. It basically means Google and Apple
+have all the control of the programs uploaded to Play Store and app store respectively,
+meaning that Google and Apple can block and even change the source code of some programs,
+inject absolutely anything inside them.  
+Those companies need profit no matter what, meaning they would do anything to 
+get profit, even unethical stuff, and you are the one who let them do that to you.
+
+### User Space applications
+By user space applications, I mean just the programs that people
+install on smartphones. Frankly speaking, those programs are
+just for normies who don't understand 
+technology and advances users are completely ignored. Phone programs
+are graphical, thus they use more ram and cpu and most of the time they are
+full of advertisements (Xiaomi Phones even have ads in the system's gallery).
+They are not privacy-respecting, bloated, and kind of useless. 
+There is one program, however, that is worth talking about separately, and that is 
+"WhatsApp". It is the most widely used messaging application, though it has absolutely
+nothing extraordinary and some stuff that is even worse than an average messaging program.
+Here are some bad stuff about it:
+
+- WhatsApp is not private, **at all**!
+- You have to have a smartphone and a phone number.
+
+Imagine a piece of software requires you to have a phone to be able to use it,
+that is basically like saying that a $400  device is a dependency of that program,
+this is absolutely *nuts*. I find it quite absurd
+that people don't find it absurd. 
+> If a program as simple as a messaging app requires you to have
+> a cell phone, you shouldn't even be using that,
+> no matter how many people around you use it!
+
+### Hardware
+Hardware of cellphones absolutely suck they are designed to be broken so easily you can
+break them by accident, that is, of course, 
+to sell more of them, they are nothing like old classic solid Nokia phones 
+with buttons and stuff, instead you have only a screen and you touch on it 
+which is very very cringe.  
+I just want buttons to press, not touchscreens to touch.  
+Another thing is that you can't upgrade your RAM or your storage and you're supposed to use overpriced
+services like iCloud or Google Drive.
+
+### Privacy and security
+Privacy just doesn't exist on smartphones; that is just a matter of fact.
+If you use an iPhone, all your photos are sent to Apple servers and can be hacked 
+(though not quite probable) since, they are not stored only on your local system
+which makes it less secure as well,
+On Android, people use Google Photos, which is basically as bad as iPhones.
+
+### Health
+Phones are also bad for your health, I can't
+tell you the specifics since I am not a doctor.
+But it is common knowledge that phones are bad for you.
+
+### Good stuff about phones
+The only good thing about a phone is its camera. 
+though many people take too many useless pictures
+resulting in a mess of data. Nonetheless, cameras are very useful
+but it is not worth it to use a smartphone just because of that.
+
+### Summing it up
+Smartphones are useless pieces of garbage that are overpriced, not privacy respecting and 
+meant for normies who don't understand how technology
+works, or at least how it should work, ***no offense***.
+Even if you must use a smartphone, that doesn't change the fact that they are 
+bad for you.
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+---
+title: "Hosting an email server is not possible."
+slug: "hosting-email-server"
+created: 2025-01-24
+description: "Explaining why don't host an email server."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+### Reasons to not host your own email server.
+
+Last summer, I had successfully managed to host my email server but 
+a couple of days ago I completely removed everything from my server
+and purchased an email hosting service.
+
+I'd like to share my experience with hosting an email server
+and what makes the process an absolute nightmare.
+
+#### - It's hard to find an affordable VPS provider that doesn't block port 25. 
+
+If you don't know anything about email, you need the port 25 to be open to send mails but 
+most server providers block it to reduce spam and the ones that don't costs more than
+the usual ones.
+
+#### - Getting a domain and IP that is not blacklisted.
+
+If you have already bought a domain it might be blacklisted meaning that 
+all the mails you'll send is going to go right into the spam folder of the receiver.
+It's the same for IP but chaining it is a lot easier than getting a new domain on most 
+server providers.
+
+#### - Not enough documentation is available and some is outdated.
+
+There isn't that much documentation for setting up an email server, I think that is
+partially because of the process being so tough that no one really wants to document it 
+and there are so many commands involved in the process
+even just a small update on one program can make the documentation outdated.
+
+#### - It's very hard to set up.
+Configuring an email server was perhaps the hardest thing that I'd ever done 
+(even after finding the proper documentation), I spent weeks on that.
+
+#### - Almost certainly, your mails won't be delivered.
+
+Even after going through the very difficult process of finding the correct server provider, 
+documentation and setting everything up (DKIM, SPF etc.) you'll still end up in spams,
+you might be able to pass spam filters of some email services, but you'll never feel 
+confident of sending mails because big email services sometimes update their spam filters
+and you got to keep up with those as well, so it doesn't just end there when you set it up.
+
+#### Summing it up
+
+I'd gladly host an email server, but I just can't make it work half as good as the paid 
+email service providers. In the future I might try to do it again 
+(though I don't think the results will be different) but now I'll stick to email services.
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+---
+title: "Software I use."
+slug: "software"
+created: 2024-12-27
+description: "Software I recommend, use and some I dislike."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+
+Here are some of the programs I use, recommend and some I dislike.
+You can get my configuration for most of these programs [here](https://git.farajli.net/slcf.git).
+
+### Criteria
+For software to be usable for me it has to be:
+1. Free and Open-source
+1. Uncomplicated, simple to use
+1. Lightweight
+1. Fast
+
+### Operating systems
+* [Arch Linux](https://archlinux.org): The best linux distro for most people, since installing packages is very convenient using the AUR and has a great wiki.
+* [Gentoo](https://gentoo.org): Unique operating system with a proper wiki, see my [post](../posts/gentoo.html) about it.
+* [Void](https://voidlinux.org): Great linux distros free from filthy systemd and glibc.
+* [Debian](https://www.debian.org/): Easy to install and use, the best distro for beginners.
+* [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/): Simple operating system with a clean and elegant codebase.
+* <a href="https://ubuntu.com" class=orange_text>Ubuntu</a>: Debian done wrong with snaps.
+* <a href="https://manjaro.org" class=orange_text>Manjaro</a>: Same as ubuntu except even worse doesn't even work properly.
+* <span class=orange_text>MacOS</span>: BSD done wrong, with apple garbage.
+* <span class=orange_text>Windows</span>: Graphical trash.
+
+### Programming languages
+* C: Portable assembly, basically the default programming language for unix.
+* Go: Modern version of C, very convenient and safe to write programs in.
+* Posix Shell: Concise and convenient for scripts and small programs.
+* <strong class=orange_text>C++</strong>: Bloated, not safe and a mess, literally every bad piece of software I've ever used was written in C++.
+
+### Window managers
+* [DWM](https://dwm.suckless.org): At first a little hard to configure but at the end totally worth it.
+* [BSPWM](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm): Best static window manager, easy to configure with and an extraordinary tool called bspc.
+* [i3wm](https://i3wm.org/): An average window manager, good for beginners.
+
+### Text editors
+* vim and [nvim](https://neovim.io/): Just way too convenient to be real.
+* <span class=orange_text>JetBrains IDEs</span>: Bloated, heavy, overcomplicated and costs money(?).
+
+### Browser
+* [Qutebrowser](https://www.qutebrowser.org/): Has vim-keybinds making it very convenient to use.
+* [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/): Sometimes, you need a bloated browser to view bloated sites.
+
+### Terminal and terminal Utilities
+* [st](https://st.suckless.org/): Terminal emulator though a little hard to configure.
+* [alacritty](https://alacritty.org/): Terminal emulator which works perfectly fine without any configuration.
+* [cmus](https://cmus.github.io/): Music player.
+* [zsh](https://www.zsh.org/): Interactive shell.
+* [dash](http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/): Shell script interpreter.
+* [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf): File manager.
+* [translate-shell](https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell): Cli translator.
+
+### Xorg utilities
+* [dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/): Interactive menu to select items.
+* [slstatus](https://tools.suckless.org/slstatus/): Status monitor.
+* [mpv](https://mpv.io/): Media player.
+* [nsxiv](https://nsxiv.codeberg.page/): Image viewer.
+* [zathura](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/): pdf viewer.
+
+### Other
+* [pandoc](https://pandoc.org): Document converter.
+* [git](https://git-scm.com/): Version control system.
+
+### About hardware
+I don't really care about hardware because it is easily replacable and I am fine with whatever just works,
+as long as it not overpriced. If you use proper software any hardware should get the job done.
+
+I am not going to shill thinkpads like everyone else, though I think they are fine, to me only 2 things
+set apart thinkpads from all the other laptops, firstly, the fact that they are librebootable and, secondly,
+they are really cheap.
+
+### See also
+* [Suckless Rocks page](https://suckless.org/rocks/)
+* [Cat-v harmful stuff](https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/)
+* [Luke Smith's Post](https://lukesmith.xyz/programs/)
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+---
+title: "New webiste."
+slug: "new-website"
+created: 2024-06-09
+description: "Announcing my new website."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+
+### I have a website!
+
+As of June 13th 2024, the best website on the internet has officially been created.
+
+This site is not made by using one of those fancy and bloated site generators
+or any garbage like that, it was created, quite surprisingly, by writing HTML and
+CSS, as it is supposed to be, though it is a little inefficient, error-prone
+and a pain writing HTML and adding boilerplate code to each file,
+thus it's quite probable that I shall write a small program to do that automatically
+for me in the future, but that program won't be the same as bloated site generators,
+in fact, it'd basically be the same as manual way of writing HTML.
+Here are some of the advantages of my website compared to a lot of contemporary ones.
+
+- Doesn't fill your entire ram.
+- Doesn't have ads, tracker or unnecessary JavaScript.
+- Loads **Fast**!
+
+As of now, there isn't that much of content here, but I will probably add a lot more.