Thank you for posting this!

Reading Josh Meissner’s article about the acquisition of bike route sharing app Komoot has reinforced the importance of promoting and fostering community-owned services.

I’m not sure how to reach the owners of the https://furtherheights.com/ instance of wanderer, but visiting their website results in a 1033 error. The next instance I tried (https://trails.tchncs.de/) works as expected, though!

One of the great things about Linux is that if the user is still undecided after reading the paragraphs and looking at the screenshots, they can boot into the live environments and see for themselves which one is right for them.

Have you actually visited the download page that you linked? Because it has screenshots, explanations, whole nine yards.

I also posted this question in another comment thread, but is there no way for an app to say “give me communities only” or “give me users only” when calling the webfinger lookup thingy? Because if there is, then Mastodon devs could update the behavior on their side to depend on whether the name starts with @ or ! (the same way Lemmy apps do).

Is there no way for an app to say “give me the community only” or “give me the user only” when it calls the webfinger lookup thingy? Because if there is, then Mastodon devs could update the behavior on their side to depend on whether the name starts with @ or ! (the same way Lemmy apps do).

True, although it’s not unusual for me to think I know all my options, and then discover new ideas by reading how other people do it. (I mean in general, not specific to copying files from one machine to another)

Gotcha. I don’t have a home server yet, but that is in my backlog of projects for 2026. In your case, are you more often pulling from your mini server to update existing setups as your configs change over time or are you usually pulling your dotfiles onto a new setup?

Thanks for sharing your workflow. How often do you use this workflow? And are you more often cloning your dotfiles for a new setup or just keeping them updated across existing setups over time?

Yeah, so far I’m leaning toward setting up a USB thumb drive that I always keep up to date so that I can plug it in when I do a fresh install.

In your case, are you more often pulling from GitHub to update existing setups as your configs change over time or are you usually pulling your dotfiles onto a new setup?

A new setup is as simple as installing chezmoi, logging in to Bitwarden, downloading my Gitea SSH key, and cloning.

Thanks for sharing your workflow. I might be getting into the weeds a little bit, but for a new setup do you install your apps first and then clone your dotfiles or vice versa?

This is for the occasional install in a home environment on some extra laptops I have around the house. I updated the OP to clarify my use case. Thanks!

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Are these the folks behind Bazzite?

Rebooted, still have the same issue.

No errors or output from the add?

No errors or output when I run the command in my OP, but when I remove the --if-not-exists option (flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo), then it returns error: Remote flathub already exists. Yet, issuing flatpak remotes still only lists fedora.

I haven’t tried adding it just at my user level yet, but the fact that it says, “Remote flathub already exists,” does that yield any clues as to what I should try next? I’d like to do this at the system level if I figure out how. Thanks!

EDIT: On second thought, maybe I’m not supposed to be able to configure this at the machine level because that’s the point of immutable distros–they’re difficult to break—so I should just configure this at the user level and call it a day? This approach will probably work well enough for my purposes anyway. Thanks for chiming in w/ the idea to use the --user option.

You mean write a script with something like find followed by stow --target=/path/to/profile/folder firefox?

Yeah, I’ll have to study some more examples and read the docs. With some creativity I might be able to finagle something using the --target option. Thanks for weighing in.

It’s also important to make sure the code makes sense and is documented so whoever reads it 2 years from now (be that you, someone else, or I guess another llm) will understand what they are looking at.

Fair points, although it seems to me the original commenter addresses this at the end of their first paragraph:

Then review the entire git diff and have it refactor as required to ensure clean and maintainable code while fixing any broken tests, lint errors, etc.

I don’t have any direct advice, just that there’s a thread in one of the Linux communities where the OP is asking for help with ydotool. You might find some good tips in that thread.

ETA a link to my post from last year about emulating mouse clicks via keyboard shortcuts. I never followed through and got it working the way I wanted, but through my research and troubleshooting I stumbled upon several tools and tutorials, which I linked in the top level post and one of which might (hopefully) help you.

Good luck, and please post an update if and when you figure out how to resolve your issue. Thanks!

Josh Meissner’s article about the acquisition of bike route sharing app Komoot is a sobering reminder of the risks of partnering with for-profit organizations and the damage done when their owners’ interests no longer align with the communities they serve.

Really enjoyed Rphyrin’s diary entry about their field mapping workflow while traveling along the west coast of Java. I often rely heavily on photos with location and direction data enabled, occasionally augmented by voice memos and GPX tracks, which I import into JOSM for my updates.