Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.
Yeah, I was just thinking this needs a lot more upfront info. I mean, kudos for the site that harkens back to the 90’s infomercial era and keeping it comfortable for those generations, but a page with some specs and actual info would go nicely with that.
I mean, I just plug the drive in once every week or so, move any new personal, irreplaceable files to the drive via whichever file manager I fancy at the time, and then set it aside for next backup.
There’s no replacement for physically backing up your data. Automation can even be the cause of file loss. Take it from someone who has spent days recovering their files via disk recovery tools.
External drives are camping kits for PCs. If you have one, then it doesn’t matter if you lose your system, just reinstall or install something new, open your camping kit and make camp. Make a dotfiles repository if you want to save your home and app configs.
Windows and Mac is like a long term home ownership with a car, kids, partner, and too many bills to be free again. Linux is a nomad life. Nothing is for certain and you could lose your tent in a thunderstorm if you don’t stake it down properly.
Also, Timeshift is a very rudimentary and first-layer protection. Something that got configured wrong could have been configured wrong months ago and you may not have caught it at the time and all the restore points you’ve kept could have the same problem.
I’m not trying to be mean here, but if I’m reading the meaning of this post correctly, it feels like you really haven’t dived that far into open source. There are thousands of FOSS projects that do exactly as you say, and yes, some get branded and bloated.
But like… that doesn’t mean that what is out there needs to strip away anything. It just means that you have to keep looking and possibly contributing even if its just reporting bugs.
For example, Firefox. Have you even checked around? Falkon, Qutebrowser, Ladybird (still in alpha), Nyxt; there’s a handful of QTWebEngine browsers already doing just fine. Not to mention the plethora of stripped down Firefox forks for both desktop and Android like Fennec, Ironfox, Floorp, Firedragon, and Zen. There’s also a stripped down base Chromium browser, which I believe is de-Googled.
I’m just not quite sure what you want to achieve here.
Yeah, it really speaks volumes about the devs. It means that no matter how innocent the package may be or how long its been there, they still pick through it all multiple times to make sure their users are safe and happy.
But RIP Deepin users. Tbh though, I’ve been hanging around Linux forums a while and still have yet to see someone who actually daily drives Deepin, lol.
There really wasn’t a lot of ramp up to it but there were Discord screenshots of his toxic personality being put down in r/feedthebeast at the time and (iirc) one of the devs that actually did do work on the project quoted the whole “poly” thing. Dunno if there was a screen of it, though.
But even before that, there was apparently some horrible stuff that MultiMC did that resulted in PolyMC and other forks in the first place. That whole application has a shady past, tbh.
I’m just trying to say, use Hyprland if you like Hyprland. There WILL be a fork of it someday. That is always guaranteed to happen when a dev becomes a piece of shit. Its all about when it is going to happen, but by all means move over to the fork when it does.
As long as its open source and money does not change hands, you are in no way directly supporting a fascist dev. Once that software is on your PC that software is yours to do what you want with it, not the dev’s. By all means, design your Hyprland as pro-trans with trans flag colors. I endorse that wholeheartedly, in fact. 🏳️⚧️
I just don’t like when people get auto-labeled for something they use or do. Its basic stereotyping and it drives me nuts. A lot of people just don’t want to give the benefit of the doubt to others before even getting to know them. Getting branded because of a piece of software you enjoy is just… its up there, at any rate. I really can’t put words to how frustrated it makes me. I don’t even use Hyprland (I did try it, though). I run KDE because I’m a dirty mouse user. I’m much too smoothbrain for a tiling WM.
Absolutely this. Too many people think that because you use some open source software from some fascist dev that “obviously you’re fascist, too”.
Bigotry: obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
Hating on Hyprland users that know what’s going on but still really like the software fits this definition. Plus, isn’t the biggest kick in the face having the exact people you hate use and enjoy your software?
This is exactly why I switched from PolyMC to Prism Launcher. The PolyMC dev was a fascist prick and an anti-gay/trans activist. His fear was that PolyMC was “going to get taken over by the gays due to the name having Poly in it (as in polysexual)”, so he started banning all the devs who disagreed with him or even made a joke about it.
Those devs forked the project and, to rub salt in the wound, made the icon rainbow. But guess what? Its the same software. They forked it because they still liked it and wanted to use it. The software itself had absolutely nothing to do with the dev.
That is quite a while, lol. To be fair though, there are an insane amount of lines in most packages. Quietly adding a brief line in a seemingly innocent features package is like hiding a needle in a haystack.
Its easy to overlook things when you have a pile of packages to review during every routine. Its especially true if they missed it the first time, since its easier to review changes in a package rather than go through the whole thing again.
Yeah, the Steam Deck launched at a loss to the company, with the business model that the income would come from the influx of Steam users buying games. It was a very well executed business plan that was fair to all involved. I just don’t want to see what happens when Gabe is no longer president of the company…
I’m going to try to mention things I haven’t seen already written, though I may repeat some of the more important ones to me.
(In no particular order)
Terminal:
GUI:
I would like to add that I do use Arch, but I’m fairly sure 99% of these packages, if not all of them, are available for most other distros.
For CLI lovers: Check out Terminal Trove
Edit: I did see that someone mentioned no explanations on the apps, so I tried to put a little blurb on each.
When I took my Linux class in 2007, he gave us a mountain of distros we could choose from. Ubuntu got picked first and Fedora second. This was mostly due to already having easy installs and a gui to boot with. It was also due to him having shown us these distros beforehand.
I was third pick. I knew what I wanted right away. My teacher, an extremely smart man with photographic memory, seemed fairly bored with the proceedings. That was until I chose Damn Small Linux as the third overall choice. The grin on his face as he knew he found a student that would be fun to teach and wanted to learn.
I was fairly sure he expected me to pick openSUSE. It was the third distro he’d shown us installations for and had us play around with. And boy, am I glad I chose Damn Small. I learned so much more than the other teens that were in there just to get an easy credit. He was an easygoing teacher. He didn’t fail people really, he let them hang around and play WC3: FT DOTA on LAN if they wanted and still passed them. But boy would he teach you if he knew you really wanted to learn it.
After that, we had to group in pairs in PC Repair class (same teacher) to take old student’s orders to help fix their computers. I was allowed to work alone and he just let me do what I wanted. I stuck to the code, repaired computers, and never snooped through anyone’s files. He knew I already could find my way around the Windows Registry (something Microsoft is thinking hard on how to stop you from doing now). He’d also do IT for the school during classes. Whenever he was away, I was allowed to be secondary IT if he was busy. It was easy stuff, mostly printer drivers and wifi troubleshooting.
It was really thanks to Damn Small Linux. My first project was to get Windows Solitaire running on it. He set it for us to research as homework. When he came over to me that same day, I had already looked up the info and was playing it on the GNOME 2 DE (MATE is still one of my favorite desktops). I just said, “WINE?” and he put a finger to his lips and grinned.
Thank you for letting an old man waffle on. Those were good times.
Godless heathen here.