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...

My dotfiles: https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz/dotfiles
ThePrimeagen's init.lua: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/init.lua

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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 Conclusion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NSZsPjIzvg

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...

Firefox hardening tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls
Browser tier list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r6jFE8gic

Mullvad Browser download: https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser

Sources:
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1#issuecomment-1495998714
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/commit/b2b547ecb7250ce9262b45f5fd724e22e16b6d29

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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 thoughts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPcllv2i_Og

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 Conclusion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RtLyPzbttA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THzXOwR8wmI

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?

Arch Linux isn't that hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsNLZwuUJLU

Background footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68z11VAYMS8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSV5UDaTXDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8utpbbdj0LQ

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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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RWNKlxF3c

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!

Invidious (YouTube): https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Piped (YouTube): https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/instances
Libreddit (Reddit): https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#instances
Teddit (Reddit): https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit#instances
Nitter (Twitter): https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Whoogle (Google): https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances
Searx (Google): https://searx.space/
Lingva Translate (Google Translate): https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate#Instances
SimplyTranslate (Google Translate): https://simple-web.org/projects/simplytranslate.html
libremdb (IMDb): https://github.com/zyachel/libremdb#instances
Quetre (Quora): https://github.com/zyachel/quetre#instances
Rimgo (Imgur): https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo#instances

Alternative Front-Ends List: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
LibRedirect extension: https://libredirect.github.io/

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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 Conclusion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlFSg-9dpU

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...

How to install custom Firefox themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVs1jVuA8c
Why I switched back to Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SJFED5xK0
How to make Firefox more private and secure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls

Firefox CSS Hacks Repo: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks
Firefox CSS Subreddit: http://old.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS
My Firefox theme: https://github.com/EricMurphyxyz/userChrome.css

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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 Conclusion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw_M7q3Mtag

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!

Browser Tier List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r6jFE8gic

Brave Search: https://search.brave.com/
DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/
Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/
Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
Metager: https://metager.org/
Searx: https://searx.space/
Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/
Swisscows: https://swisscows.com/
Qwant: https://www.qwant.com/
Whoogle: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

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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 recommendations
...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjm6lGwqnGs

This is definitely a what your favorite terminal color scheme says about you

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#shorts
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jVAJ2ah5hg

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.

Firefox CSS subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefoxcss
Firefox CSS Store: https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/

Themes I like:
Cascade: https://github.com/andreasgrafen/cascade
Firefox-GX: https://github.com/Godiesc/firefox-gx
Edge-Frfox: https://github.com/bmFtZQ/Edge-FrFox
My theme: https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz/userchrome.css

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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 Conclusion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVs1jVuA8c