I will have forgotten a lot; it might be a different system environment. I need to be able to re-learn everything at a later time. Simple solutions that are widely-compatible, and do not rely on my memory are preferred.

I don’t know if you have already considered it, but you can use a git repository as documentation tool ! It’s a GitHub flavored markdown syntax though.

Fork the project, upload it to your own git repo (self-hosted codeberg, codeberg, github… Pick your poison :p) and add your own wiki documentation about your changes in the code.

The only thing you should keep an eye on is probably the license? But I’m not the right person to discuss about licensing :/

Back in the day, that’s what I did ALOT on Windows. Specially because of piracy and my younger me having no idea what he was doing XD !

Still happens on Linux with EndeavourOS but not for the same reasons ! There are millions times more ways to break stuff on Linux but I always learn Something new during the process.

Story time:

Learned the other day that some config files are loaded in a specific order and depending what display manager is installed. That was kinda eye opening to understand cause my system didn’t load .profile when .bash_profile was present and I didn’t understood why ! Thanks Archwiki !

Schrödinger’s SVG?

For those not aware, nepenthes is an example for the above mentioned approach !

While I do agree with the general sentiment to rewire your expectation when switching from Windows -> Linux, I do not agree with the following statement:

Linux is NOT for you, your personality precludes you from using it.

Linux is for everyone… Though I do also agree if you’re doing something wrong (and you will…) Don’t cry or reflect your frustration on your OS. If there are 1000 ways to break Windows, there are a million times more ways to break your GNU/Linux OS. But most of the time, you’re a doing something wrong. However, sometimes an upstream update can Bork your system… (Yeah this happens 🤷‍♂️).

The best kind of case !

It’s not because you can’t check on Windows, that it doesn’t exist ! I’m sure there are a lot of different boot issue logs in Windows, they are just hidden behind a “beautiful” Welcome page.

Or the EU might revisit that old SuSe/Mandrake strategy.

They actually are ! I have seen a few posts talking about it. Not sure about SuSe/Mandrake, but they are talking to implement Linux or try to somehow get away from Microsoft.

Is that even possible? I’m already in panic when I remove a package and it’s dependencies with pacman 😅.

Sure I did replaced Thunar with Nemo, but a few things don’t work exactly how it should, like opening the download directory from Firefox (Known issue BTW) even though all mime-types are correctly set !

Even switching from Alternative -> Base distro seems like a really difficult task :/

Yeah I learned that the hardway when comparing MacOS/linux USB speed…

Took like “seconds” on Linux. I looked quite dumb asking a question and asking for help on Lemmy while shitting (again) on my Mac !

I have somewhere in my notes a command to show interactively how the memory cache gets dumped into my USB stick.

Kinda boggus that’s an over 20 years old known “issue”.

A better example to show that SMS’ are insecure are the Signalling system 7 protocols.

While it is possible to incerpte SMS, phone calls and 2FA (kinda scary…) it comes with a high cost (14k) and some technical skills.

However, if you are a vulnerable target, just don’t use SMS or any smartphone. Geotracking is also possible !

The 2 big players in the self-hosted community are:

• Mealie

• Grocy

I have them both on my to do list but haven’t gotten into to give any feedback :/

Somehow… But It feels like the EU gives you the impression of privacy while it tries to takes it back another way… (Chat control)

The EU says it’s for “the kids” and France says it’s for narcotrafic…

:/

My god does it feel good to read something so well written and not by AI ! <3 Nice blogpost I went through the whole post !

However, I felt kinda uneasy to read about privacy and data collection and then seeing Google Voice being proposed as VoIP solution… :/

I was quite impressed by how it looks and the free option ! However, seeing Google tag manager and tiktok analytics domains and I’m already out !

Tmux has probably some specific features Kitty won’t do as good as a native multiplexer? (sorry I’m not the right person to ask this question :s) but It has the features I’m looking for without the need to install one.

It was quite cumbersome to configure a terminal + a multiplexer on MacOS to behave how I liked it. Kitty solved this issue while being fast, simple and a lot of customization in one single app.

One feature that was really important, copy/past over SSH with Micro which involved quite a hacky thing with iTerm2 + Tmux.Also being able to split my windows, create tabs…

But as I said I have only basic use cases and can’t really say If Kitty’s multiplexing features are on par with Tmux. However, during my web search I read about a lot of people far more knowledge than myself who actually switch to kitty from Tmux without regrets !

Yeah Alacritty was my second pick, but after reading their documentation it seemed more for people accustomed to Vi and the like.

So yeah that’s not something I’m willing to spare some time right now, anyway I’m mostly doing some “sys admin” stuff in my homelab, so simple text editing in a simple terminal is a better fit in my workflow/learning process !

Kitty is probably the best terminal emulator I’ve ever tried out… It even made me drop Tmux as multiplexer on my stupid Mac !

I only have basic use case right now, nothing complex but customization seems way above others.

The full OSC52 integration with micro for copy/past over SSH and taking up the terminal clipboard was also a game changer (nearly dropped micro because of this…)

I only scratched the surface and have only basic usage and still I can’t believe one single person is behind this project (I think?).

This really looks great, I got a question though. As I understand it, it works based on your bash_history which can be very small or autodeleted after each poweroff for privacy & security reasons.

So it doesn’t work in that case. However, creating a file containing a list or array? Of commands could that be a possible way to implemented a similar behavior?

I’m asking because I’m not very proficient in any programming language but have done some small bash scripts here and there and quite interested in this functionality !

There’s always a security risk, however if you are referring to librewolf from the AUR I would say it’s “safe”?

It has 160 votes and a popularity of 14.73* which means there’s a good chance someone more capable then we are, already looked at the PKGBUILD.

That’s not a 100% proof of reliability but it’s a good pointer to a healthy AUR build.

*The bin package has even more votes and popularity. It’s the recommended way, because the other package compiles from source and can take a long time !