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A Simple Color Calibration Guide for Manjaro Linux

When I installed Manjaro Linux on my HP laptop, I noticed that the screen was more blueish than normal. This is a very simple guide on how to fix that in minimal steps. 1. First update your system with sudo pacman -Syyu 2. Download monica color calibration tool (which is basically a GUI front end for xgamma binary) with sudo pacman -S monica 3. Launch Monica from the start menu: At first you will notice that the gamma of all colors are equal to 1. Then you will move the sliders until you can see the colors are balanced as shown. However, you will need a grey color as your reference first. 4. Download this image, or the silver coin of your country from images.google.com , increase your laptop brightness to maximum then start moving the sliders while looking at the silver coins. Your calibration is correct if the coins look as grey as they should, if there is a reddish, blueish, greenish or yellowish color cast, it means something is wrong. In my case, t

Securing Your Crypto World

The best way to secure your online Crypto world is not to remember your passwords, but rather remember just 5 accounts passwords and be able to reset the rest of the passwords of your other accounts. Which account passwords you should be able to memorize? Your primary email account password. Your first password manager password. Your offline password manager or password-protected zip/rar file (Backup). Your personal computer operating system login password. Optionally some of your personal wallet passwords/passphrases (You may need that as a third paranoid backup for store of value funds i.e. BitCoins). Why? Email is one of our core Internet identities and most online accounts we create are tied to our personal email address. Therefore we are usually able to reset most online account passwords with "Forgot Password" through our email, and it should have the strongest security standards. Contrary to popular online (probably unintended) brainwashing belie