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  • Yeaaah this sucks… EU are such dumbass idiots…

    I really hope for a EAST alliance and have high hope for EU becoming independent from US’ bullshittery…

    They are just parasites taking what they want to produce what they need… When things gets complicated they come to “lend us a hand” but only if it benefits them.

    I would prefer an aliance with all the eastern countries and take once and for all the US domiance down…




  • I can’t stand seeing my father struggling with windows…I tried to make him switch, but he has old piracy blood in him and just want Windows things and pirated software, some which do not have any alternatives on Linux.

    Also, he’s getting old and he always talks about he don’t want to relearn a whole system. But everytime we see each other and talk about computers he trash talks how bad windows is…

    Maybe that’s just something he needs… And boring distros are going to make him depressed? Dunno

    Sorry for the story time, but you switching fully to linux made me think of my Dad in hope sometimes he will also take the steps to get out of there 😅!





  • I think what happens to me is that I completely lack discipline about structure and will often decide to re-organize things.

    Haha ! Same boat here !

    One slightly more stable system I’ve had for my own code is to use the Issues tracker as a sort of documentation storage system.

    That’s a very nice tip, thank you ! That’s something I will explore.

    Thanks for sharing. :) I hope you don’t mind me saying this but it’s nice to see commits like “Just a commit test”. I also have these as part of learning git.

    Yeah that’s a bit embarrassing 🫠 ! Was playing around with some script to convert Obsidian markdown links to GitHub flavored markdown. Because a comment is necessary to push the commit I have always no idea what to put in there xDD.

    Sorry I couldn’t help you out more and hope you will find a workflow that works for you ! 👍


  • Is there any specific reason to keep the docs in the wiki section? Vs markdown documents right in the wiki itself?

    I don’t know sorry :/ I do use a document but only because I want more control over the TOC (Table of content), which is a bit strange in the wiki itself, but that’s just personal taste !

    I’m not a Dev so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but what I would do is add a comment in the code to specify the change and link to your documentation file for more details (if needed). That’s probably one of the advantage of having your documentation not in the wiki page.

    This would keep your code page clean while having proper documtation in the same repo ! However, I have never seen any project doing it like that (for a good reason probably?).

    Here is my codeberg documentation repo about anime encoding in av1. It’s probably not what you’re looking for but maybe this can give you any idea or see if this could fit your workflow?


  • 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 :/


  • N0x0n@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux is not your Panacea
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    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 🤷‍♂️).


  • 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 :/


  • because Floccus doesnt sync Firefox Android.

    You sure about that? From memory It did work with floccus (though it does it in a weird way).

    Open Tabs: cant live without it.

    Yeah that’s probably the tricky part in your workflow ! Not sure if syncing your directory will keep the open tabs. Though I may be wrong here because I personally don’t use that functionality !

    Yeah maybe my instructions are ment for backups rather than keeping a workflow in sync with all your devices. Sorry for my bad reading skills !

    Dunno if a self-hosted Firefox sync does sync Open Tabs between devices, if it does It’s probably your best bet !

    Also, syncing your whole profile between Desktop/laptop and your phone won’t work that easily… They behave very differently and do not have the same directory structure/files on your phone.

    Edit: Here’s the self-hosted Mozilla Sync storage server

    https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

    After skimming through the docs it seems to sync everything (bookmarks, tabs, history, extensions…)


  • I do use Syncthing one way sync to a server to sync the whole Firefox directory and it does work quiet well !

    I already did a backup test and It works without data loss. However, not sure this is a great way to accomplish this task… Why? Because while in use your Browser writes a lot of data and could potentially cause sync issues, specially it’s databases.

    A better way would be to sync all your bookmarks to a WebDAV server with floccus and save your LibreWolf override.cfg

    The downside is that you need to reinstall and reconfigure your addons, haven’t found a satisfactory solution for those :/

    Edit: Maybe a better solution in your case would be to make an automated daily backup of your user directory while your browser is not in use.

    Edit2: However not sure your tabs are getting saved that way !


  • 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”.





  • I’m not very acquainted with any programming language so maybe I’m wrong here (or I didn’t get the joke? XD) but bash didn’t change much in the past few years, I even read some scripts more than 10 years still works because the syntax stays the same (or doesn’t change a lot …)

    Compared with the switch from python 2 -> python 3 I read a lot of people pulling their hair off xD