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• Bulk unarchiver or a frontend for ffmpeg (using existing tools, both get very messy when special characters or multiple directories are involved)
  • Existing ffmpeg GUIs have had fixed lists of formats and options, making new or obscure ones inaccessible. There also needs to be an option to export the command based on GUI selections so the user can learn if they choose, or fix the command if something isn’t right.
• Adding the little details of Windows File Manager (i.e. Format dialog, search by attribute like MP3 bitrate) to some existing Linux file manager
• Mounting of network drives in Linux graphical file managers: many of them handle it through gvfs, which for some reason insists on mountpoints with long directory paths and special characters, breaking compatibility with various utilities
• Extending Linux Mint’s libadapta to further restore theming in libadwaita apps. This I am personally looking forward to contribute to as more programs move to libadwaita and disrupt the look I’ve painstakingly set up for my desktop.

OP probably isn’t self-hosting it. I haven’t got around to self-hosting it either and:

• a majority of instances no longer include Google
• many instances return absolutely bogus results
• the ones that return reasonable results have a 50% chance of getting ‘Suspended: timeout’

The rate-limiting has hit once-reliable instances really hard in the past few months.

~/.drafts, in which my text editor taskbar shortcut script creates files YYMMDD_text_N. I passionately believe in eliminating the chore of manually naming my spur-of-the-moment notes and text files.

~/progs or ~/bin where loose programs not provided by my package manager reside.

If there’s a secondary drive, /media/disk1 as the mount point in fstab.

Seems fine if it only pops up with cursor activity or hovering. Agree if it’s permanently there though. When I use mpv, I have to configure it with some semblance of GUI controls or I’ll lose my mind.

As for specific UI needs, I have went at length to seamlessly theme my desktop like NT 4.0. I could use a fully libadwaita-themed system if I had to, but it just doesn’t spark the same joy that makes working on my computer just a bit more enjoyable.

Have been guilty of this when placing an online order, one time I simply forgot, the other time an obligation presented itself and I didn’t have time to go out of my way and pick it up. As for ordering at the counter and abandoning, IDK. Could be having to run for some urgent matter, but I’d agree it happens way too often to be just that.

If I had to go WiFi-only, there would probably be hours-long gaps when I am unreachable. So my compromise is to use a non-KYC data-only SIM. Even if VPN is left off, it routes traffic first to a datacenter far from my actual location, and there is no longer a route for unencrypted calls and SMS and the associated spam. I don’t have a habit of streaming media on the go, so the data lasts quite a while and there isn’t much of an urge to use public WiFi.

Doesn’t fully eliminate the problem as IMEI is still sent and the cellular modem is still a rogue black box, but a step in the right direction. Knowing that the cellular modem can run whatever code with deep privileges as it wishes, I try to keep as little of my business on my phone as I can, with the bulk of my workflow centered around my laptop. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this automatically makes me immune, but I do think it’s a neat little exercise. Perhaps one could abstract the problem of the modem by getting a separate wireless hotspot.

My friends and family have accepted that they either need to get Signal, XMPP, or Matrix or I will be largely unreachable. The only remaining need for SMS and GSM voice calls stems from work, which is all handled by my work phone that is powered down, or at least disconnected, once I leave for the day. It sucks that this is not the norm, but it looks like I am quite fortunate that my friends, family, and employer all tolerate this workflow.

Take a look at “IoT” SIM cards, they’re a bit expensive and data-only, but might not be subject to the same KYC regulations.

Can also endorse aptitude, but hopefully OP already has it installed prior to this issue. May have to manually install using dpkg if not. Whenever I run into issues like this, aptitude solves it 95% of the time, makes regular apt look like a baby helplessly crying.

Anyone else wanting to move to CoMaps but procrastinating because they’d have to go about downloading the maps again?

Wow! That’s much more that I would have thought. Can’t wait to liberate my dad’s phone over the holidays, he’s on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom’s stuck on a carrier-locked phone.

Minimal delay between a program releasing new features or bugfixes and you getting to use them. Even as an avid Debian user, sometimes I get bummed out when they freeze a package for release right before a feature I would have really liked makes it in.

As for security, there’s not a huge difference I’m aware of. On Debian, features stay where they are, but maintainers will backport just the security fixes of each package to the current stable release.

Wouldn’t be too bummed out about being single forever, but I’d also like to know what it’s like to settle down with a partner. I think I’d prefer the married life, can’t point out the exact reason why though.

Me over here having to provide my own work phone because BYOD. At least it’s my old phone I upgraded from, so the cost is already sunk.

Some are assholes. Others have zero self-awareness. I stress about every little offense I might have possibly made, while astoundingly many others run around unaware that they are being jerks all day. I suspect the unnecessary playing of audio out loud in public stems from a very similar cause.

Confronting those who lack self-awareness is hard for those of us with excessive awareness, but it often gets the job done. Also a quick litmus test for who’s just unaware and who’s really an asshole.

Have you noticed this phenomenon increasingly often, or has it been much the same throughout your years?

Saw the followup post, glad to hear its all running well. I created my VM using virt-manager with a raw disk image and UEFI firmware rather than the default qcow2 format with BIOS. I keep the image size down to 32 GB to save time when imaging. Install proceeds as usual, make sure fstab mounts disks by UUID, Debian does by default in my case. When everything is configured, dd the raw disk image over to the target disk, do the rituals to make it bootable, and consider configuring new partition UUIDs.

Linux: no, but not necessarily plug-and-play. My daily-driver install is literally pre-configured on a VM and cloned to all of my machines with various motherboards. Nvidia complications aside, a default Linux install will contain nearly every driver you could ever need to get up and running. However, some motherboards do need you to chroot from a live environment and make it “aware” of the existing GRUB bootloader.

Windows: At best, you’ll need to reactivate. More often, it’ll be missing a driver or just not work as well as it did on the old motherboard. It’s better to reinstall Windows.

Will admit that I’m very biased against reinstalling Linux anew except as a last resort since it’s a painstaking days-long process to configure things just right for my picky tastes.

If you have SMR drives, it is normal for them to rearrange their contents during periods of user inactivity. The way Shingled Magnetic Recording crams more bytes into the same platter necessitates its own kind of “defragmenting”. Unless it’s host-managed SMR, it’s done by the drive’s onboard controller, so the OS won’t be aware.

No, the more the merrier, even if it’s pure publicity.

Primarily by having multiple email addresses and aliases.

I realized that on many occasions, I’m giving out my email merely as part of signing up for an account or resetting my password. So I made accounts and aliases that I use when I don’t forsee a service sending any messages of value after I sign up. I star the confirmation email for my records and ignore whatever junk mail comes my way, first-party or third-party.

As for the main personal email I use to actually communicate with people, my provider’s built-in spam filter has done a good enough job so far. If it misses anything, it usually follows a pattern (topic, domain, etc.) so I just make my own filter rule. In the off chance I do want messages in my main inbox from a service after I sign up, I do so with an alias. If that alias gets compromised, I just cut it off.

Granted, I don’t see much spam anyway since most of my email is work-related, my employer’s IT department seems to do a good job of filtering out spam, and I’m strict about not using my work email outside of work.

Probably not without LVM or an external drive to restore from. Depending on which partition comes first, you’ll either have to extend the OS partition “leftward” or lop off the front of the data partition, and there isn’t a good way to do either nondestructively.

If you have LVM set up, you could reduce the storage partition, make a partition in the new free space, and lump it into the volume group for the OS partition.