buy a desktop. much easier to repair yourself

this was fantastic! good on him for doing this and making it public

when companies become so big and provide essential services they should be taken over by the government

for one time transfers (e.g. friends phone) I use warpinator.

if I own the device I use scp/rsync.

to keep files in sync I use syncthing

i use syncthing, and start it via the systems service. i found it reliable. systems has a feature by which you can get notified on error (look up the onerror key), you might be able to do what u need with that.

alternately, you can run a systemd timer that runs periodically and notifies you when your condition is met. if u want a pop-up, use zenity etc.

ur def right about this. there are a few other things (e. g. cached mail etc) that would be good to encrypt, which I don’t do right now.

if my computer gets stolen I figure no one will bother with my data unless they stand to immediately gain financially. e.g. ransom. my data (I have backups) or access my bank info (I keep this encrypted) and steal my identity. so I protect against this as best as I can without sacrificing usability too much

I found it better to just encrypt one folder with all my sensitive info (I use gocryptfs). i saw no reason to have my zshrc and init.lua encrypted 🙂 and I just encrypt data I don’t want in the hands of others…

they will never be able to stop pacman -S linux.

I use arch, btw

honestly on single user machines I uninstall a display manager. autologin on console, and put a few lines in my zshrc to start my wm automatically

i don’t follow? the idiots I knew thought they were so important that declaring their non support for Biden/Harris would magically stop the genocide.

I never got a straight answer to the question “what if trump wins? will that be better for Gaza”

there is no way Biden or Harris would have approved the 20 point genocidal plan in the article. this is what they voted for. where are they now?

i hope they vote in midterms…

where are all the folks who said “I’m not voting Harris cause of Gaza”?

install Linux… I use arch btw

IIRC u need mlocate or plocate…

why is the American chemical society joining with Wiley and elsivere?

I would love to have content indexing with full text search in files and emails. I used to run namazu / notmuch mail to index it (back when I would fetch it using offlineimap). But sadly my mail lives on an IMAP server now and isn’t searchable locally. And Baloo was simply taking too long to index all my files.

I’m really surprised that an indexed search takes roughly as much time as a directory search. I guess it shows how much the filesystem and tools have evolved… back in the day, a full tree search through even 10GB would be slow and noisy…

Thanks; KDE integration is a big plus. But I haven’t been tagging or rating files … 🙄 so several of these queries are not useful for me. A fuzzy matching based on the whole file name seems to best fit my workflow… and there doesn’t seem to be an option to fuzzy match, or match on the whole path in Baloo.

I was hoping dumping a long list of matches to fzf would give me a performance gain (because of Baloo’s indexing), but right now the performance difference seems negligible.

My images etc. are on a separate partition (300GB, not indexed). I certainly have tonnes of data in .git folders, which fd ignores. But the exclude_folders setting in baloofilerc seems to ignore most of these by default.

I agree metadata and context makes a huge difference. Looking at my work flow, I’ve put all the data I need into the file names 😄. The metadata is borked for most of them cause many were download some 20+ years ago. So I put the author names and title into the filename to make it easy to search…

Unfortunately the full path is ignored by Baloo. There’s main.* file in several folders; the parent folder name is ignored by Baloo search, so I dump all Baloo results to fzf and search there…

honestly I think you’re better off trying to figure out how to get it all done in one distro. two other vms hogging resources in the background is not something that can be optimized well. but two applications in the background can be optimized excellently by the os

but that said, keep us posted on what u do and how it works out…

pdftk can split it into pages, and then recombine the pages. not sure how to automatically remove an element from each page unfortunately.

honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.

I’ve used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it’s more up to date