I thought that Syncthing has its own encryption solution: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

Otherwise, well done! It always feels great to have your perseverance and technical prowess benefit you directly.

Lawful Good Steve “My fling and NOT MY child live on welfare” Jobs 🤔🤔🤔

womansplained to death lmao

I’m not sure what you mean by this. Copyparty is a fileserver that I’m using for quick sharing of files and folders with others. “Managing multiple devices” is not what I would use it for, whatever you might mean by that. It does have one-way sync, if that’s what you’re looking for.

My RSS reader, Akregator, has an option to open every article in an embedded web browser. I use this feature precisely for these kinds of situations. Most artists that I follow have their own websites with proper RSS feeds, but others only post on Bluesky or similar, that also only show the title and body text. If I can’t follow them through RSS, I just don’t follow them at all. I can’t be bothered to have their newsletter clog up my inbox or use some third-party service that will probably shut down when I least expect it to.

What exactly are “notes”? CalDav has a to-do feature that might do what you need it to do.

And I thought that the Dead Internet Theory was something that we were meant to strive against…

You may self-host your notes or calendar, but you’re forced to either recreate account systems or give up on interoperability.

I literally just finished setting up Radicale on my old laptop, and now I can access my calendar and contacts through CalDav and CardDav from every single client under the sun. Maybe don’t use AI to write your entire article. I won’t even bother reading the rest of the article if you don’t even get this right.

I’ll caution against nextcloud […]

It is indeed rather big and clunky sometimes, but there’s one feature that I really love that I could not really live without. I just tried out Seafile, but I didn’t like the whole “libraries” concept, because it made it very difficult to exclude certain subfolders that I didn’t want on a certain system or to sync multiple local folders to multiple remote folders. I’m using Nextcloud to sync my Documents, Videos, Pictures and Music folders across all of my devices, but I don’t need every single subfolder there downloaded to every single device that I use it on. I also use it to sometimes sync game save files for the ones that I don’t have on Steam. Would you happen to know a better solution than Nextcloud for something like this? I’m currently migrating it from a Raspberry Pi 2 to an older laptop that I have laying around, and I’d happily use a different syncing solution for this, and set up other features that I used (CalDAV, CardDAV) on other containers.

P.S Syncthing looks like what I might need, but I do wonder how I can make public share/upload links with it.

I was just (a month or so ago) looking for something like this. I’m glad that there’s now such a solution that can run on Linux!

The other commenter gave useful information, but I would implore that you try to change your suspend mode from “deep” to “s2idle”. Deep (S3) sleep, alongside S4 sleep, are unfortunately not very well supported by manufacturers, at least from what I’ve heard.

The easiest way to find something that could help is journalctl -r --boot=-1 after rebooting your laptop. These options will display all of the entries in reverse chronological order, starting from when you powered the computer off. When you find something complaining about waking from suspend, just look up that entry in a search engine. This method helped me many times, mostly with amdgpu bugs in the kernel fucking with my system.

Edit:

Absolutely nothing in journalctl, dmesg, etc 😭

Woops, didn’t read that. dmesg only keeps track of everything from the last boot, so unless you used SSH to remote into your laptop while it tried wake from suspend, you wouldn’t see anything anyways. journalctl on its own vomits out a metric fuckton of entries, but it does persist across reboots. If you use my aforementioned options or something like journalctl | grep suspend, it might be easier to find something

Honestly, I actually save time using Linux compared to Windows. The problems that I had, have and will have are infinitely easier to solve (search engine -> Ctrl+C -> Ctrl-V), instead of reinstalling the whole damn OS (and every single application, game, file, and so on and so forth) whenever the tiniest thing breaks. I actually gain more time to live, because my hair isn’t going white and falling out due to seeing AI slop, ads and cookie banners on my OS all the time.

The text on the bottom left shows your selection to boot, the highlight only discerns between Windows and Linux. It also has its own highlight for the UEFI settings option.

At least I made it fun for myself and my Windows-using sibling with whom I share a computer with. GRUB themes are cool! Also, I didn’t make it myself, you can find the theme here: https://www.pling.com/p/2275254

Wow! I never knew that you could make GRUB look so good!

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I remember this being generated by OpenAI’s Sora model.

“Tomorrow”