The best option would be to have a “regular” client that keeps a local copy in sync with the cloud instead of a mount.

BTW: IDK what cloud storage you are using, but IIRC some show files that are not available locally (ie. only the most recent files are downloaded locally - the older stuff is downloaded on request).

Alternatively, you could hack something together running unison locally in the guest to sync the cloud folder to a shared one… you’ll have two copies of the data though.

It’s a guy babbling about an anonymous website with the same-old stuff against Stallman, and how that is part of a conspiracy to harm free software.

I watched it (most of it) despite having formed my opinion on the quality of that DistroTube channel a while ago… you might want to be wiser than me and do something else with your time.

PS:

Before you put me in the pro-Stallman faction, let me clarify that I think the FSE (non the FSFe - BTW you should change your name guys) is largely irrelevant and so I’ve never investigated the allegations to Stallman enough to take a stance pro or against: I do not care.

I am amazed at the achievement, and even more amazed at how much people can cheer at anything like madmen.

Never heard of it… OMG that must be the worst name for a backup solution! :D

It reeks of abandoned software (last release is 0.50 from 2018), but there is recent activity in git, so… IDK

Yes, Syncthing does watch for file changes… that’s why I am so puzzled that it also does full rescans :)

Maybe they do that to catch changes that may have been made while syncthing was not running… it may make sense on mobies, where the OS like to kill processes willy-nilly, but IMHO not on a “real” computer

The ones I added recently are all git-related (one key for signing and I started using different keys for codehaus, gitlab and github)

I did add a bunch of new keys to my ssh agent… this might really be it!

Now that’s a neat idea! (not sure I’ll ever implement it though: having passwords on my ssh keys is already enough of a hassle, plus having provisioning and scripts ask for password is a PITA)

Anyway, I was just trying to authenticate with a password, like we used to back in the day :)
(it’s only for install isos or freshly installed systems that I’ve not provisioned yet - everything else requires a key).

It used to back in the day, especially if you tried using shitty windows usb inkjets.

Nowadays basically all printers are network printers (they are, aren’t they?) plus we have cups which is the same thing macos uses (so manufacturers actually care).

(I assume you meant “I created a separated /var partition”)

You can move/resize partitions from basically any live usb (via cli or gparted for gnome and kde partition manager for kde).

Shall you want to, you can also merge the var partition with (say) your root partition:

1. mount both partitions in two directories (just create empty ones and mount on them, say ~/root and ~/var)
2. inside ~/root create the new var/ directory
3. copy the data over
4. edit ~/root/etc/fstab (remove the line for the old var partition)
5. use whatever partitioning tool to get rid of the actual partition and expand the previous/next one

Be aware that you can very easily lose your data ;)

PS: just in case, try running flatpak uninstall --unused

Well… I’d rather say It’s the only reason why we still care about Mozilla and put up with their crap :)

Kensington? I don’t think an air tag can actually prevent theft (if they see it they’ll remove it - if they don’t see it they’ll still steal your stuff)

Reading https://codeberg.org/river/river/src/branch/master/protocol/river-layout-v3.xml it seems to me that what I want to do is actually not possible in river, even writing a custom layout manager…

IIUC the protocol works like this: river asks “how should I layout N windows in HxW screen?” and the layout replies “window1: H1xW1 at offset X1,Y1; window2: H2xW2 …”, so there is no way for the layout manager to identify specific windows and, in my use case, put all the text editors on the left side of the screen etc.

Did you have some other approach in mind when you suggested river? (I may very well be over-complicating things and not seeing a more straightforward solution)

TBH I really liked the idea behind river, but does it have tabs? Also… I would need to write my own custom layout, wouldn’t I?

BTW: are there other WMs that are modular like river?

Sorry to be a bother, but… how do I tell hyprland I want a window to be added to a specific group?

I was thinking of something like:

windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(myfirsteditor)
windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(mysecondeditor)
windowrulev2 = group XXX, tag:texteditor

but I can’t find what I should write instead of group XXX to tell hyprland/hy3 that I want the window to be added to a group on the left-side of workspace 1…

I would also be fine with some rule that could be added to exec or probably even some dispatcher, but I can’t find anything that allows to target (or define) a specific group.

Am I pursuing this from the wrong direction?

I have no idea what a DreamMachine is (and wikipedia does not help) so here’s the long answer :)

If you want a VPN tunnel to your own home, for secure access to your LAN, I’d recommend you look into NetBird and/or TailScale, which at their core are wireguard plus NAT punch-through (you can also run wireguard or openvpn directly, but it may be a pain since you most probably have a dynamic IP and possibly a CGNAT).

If you want to hide your traffic while connecting through networks you don’t trust (such as the work one or some cafe’s wifi), you can either use NetBird/Tailscale as above and connect though your home (well, assuming you trust your ISP of course) or some third party VPN which connects to their servers (I’d say look into Proton first).

Keep in mind that VPNs actually do very little for your online privacy (ie. it’s not like google or facebook can’t track or fingerprint you). They do is prevent man-in-the-middle traffic analysis from your ISP (or the admin of whatever LAN you are using), but then the VPN provider can do the exact same things, so… make sure to double-check the privacy guarantees of your VPN provider and compare them with those of your ISP.

What do you (think you) need a VPN for?

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ and make sure to double-check that unlocking the bootloader isn’t too much bother (ie. read the installation instructions)

I use just for that usecase - highly recommended

Also you mentioned provisioning scripts, is that Ansible? If so python is already there, if you mean really just bash scripts I can tell you that does not scale well. Also if you already have some scriptsz what language are they on? Why not write the function there??

Currently it’s mostly nixos, plus a custom thing that generates preconfigured openwrt images that I then deploy manually. I have a mess of other vms and stuff, but I plan to phase out everything and migrate to nixos (except the openwrt stuff, since nixos doesn’t run on mips).

I don’t really need to run this specific synchthing-ID script except on my PC (I do the provisioning from there), but I have written scripts that run on my router (using busybox sh) and I was wondering if there is a “goto” scripting that I can use everywhere.