Alt account of @Badabinski
Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.
I’ve yet to find anything more efficient than opening my shell and typing ssh or scp. Remote desktop is irrelevant to me because none of the systems I administrate will ever have a GUI.
EDIT: tab auto completion also makes things far, far smoother.
Arch Linux, on an old Compaq pizza box server when I was 16. It took me 3 months to install Arch because there was a DIP switch on the motherboard that somehow prevented you from updating the MBR or some shit.
I basically never used it and didn’t touch Linux again until 7 years later, when I used SLES 11 SP2 at a job.
I believe you can force pycharm to launch using Wayland. There’s some option you can pass to it when you launch it.
I love rust and projects rewritten in Rust, but I’ve felt pretty mixed about this particular project. The strong copyleft on GNU coreutils is part of what keeps many Linux distros truly free. There’s stuff like BusyBox or BSD coreutils if you need something you can make non-free, but GNU coreutils are just so nice. I wish this reimplementation in rust had been licensed with GPL or a similar copyleft license. At least there’s no CLA with copyright transfer.
If you want to make things even more spicy, try doing in pure bash with no external process calls. Things like cat are trivial to replace. I saw some uses of sort that might be more difficult, but it wouldn’t surprise me if newer Bash versions had a way to sort arrays nicely.
Many people do. I’ve remapped caps lock as escape because I am a shitty vim user who trys to solve all problems by smashing that motherfucker into itself. I noticed my left pinky was getting unhappy with me, so I tried using caps lock for esc instead and haven’t gone back.
A key dedicated to SCREAMING just isn’t that useful IMO.
I don’t have vision problems and I hate the low contrast text being shoved into everything. I’ve no idea how frustrating it must be if you have sight issues, but I can imagine.
I’ve been very pleased with my factory-seconds Framework 13 (11th gen i7, 64 gigs of RAM and 2TB storage acquired through other channels). Linux support has been basically perfect for me, although there were some kinks earlier on. The Framework 16 might work for you if you need something with a discrete GPU.
If you want something more mainstream, ThinkPads are often great for running Linux. Not every model is perfect, so I’d recommend doing some research there. The Arch Linux wiki often has laptop specific web pages that show how well supported the laptop is. For example, here’s the page for the Framework 13.
The license of a GPLv3 project can change moving forward provided all copyright holders agree to the change. The license cannot be changed for code that was already released. If the Paisa devs could get every contributor on-board, then it’s fine. Alternatively, if they forced contributors to sign a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) which signs over the copyright to Paisa (most CLAs include copyright transfer), then that’s basically free rein to rug pull shit whenever they feel like it.
Fuck CLAs by the way. Try to avoid contributing to projects on your free time that force you to sign one. If you’re contributing on behalf of a company, it’s likely that your legal team will take umbrage at you signing a CLA, but it’s not like you’ll own the copyright to your work anyways, so it’s less of an issue there.
Support projects that have you sign a DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). The DCO protects the company or individual running the project without forcing developers to give up their rights.
Sounds like you may want to use a union filesystem like overlayfs. I’m not sure if the specific behavior of overlayfs will work for you, but it’s worth investigating.
Thank you for putting your use-case in your post, since otherwise I think this might be an XY problem.
EDIT: There’s also mergefs and unionfs. I don’t know what the features and drawbacks are for these three union filesystems. mergefs seems like it might be the most configurable, but it’s also FUSE. unionfs and overlayfs are both in-kernel, so they’ll perform better (which may not matter for your use-case). overlayfs is the one I’m most familiar with of those two, since it’s used by most container runtimes.
Oof, I didn’t know that about firejail. I’d heard of it, but I’d never used it. Like, c’mon folks! If you need privilege escalation, either require launching as root (if appropriate), or delegate the responsibility to a small, well-audited tool designed explicitly for the purpose and spawn a new privileged pid. Don’t use SUID. You will fuck it up. If you reach the point where setuid is your only option, then you’ve hopefully learned enough to rearchitect to not need it, or to give up, or use it if you’re, say, someone who maintains a libc or something.
EDIT: this is overly dramatic, but also it’s not. I personally feel like using SUID is kinda like rolling your own crypto in terms of required competence.
Does runit have the equivalent of systemctl --user for managing per-user daemons like pipewire? I had some issues with pipewire recently and being able to journalctl --user -u pipewire and systemctl --user restart pipewire was a total godsend for me.
Yeah, every now and then I take a step back and say “what the fuck did they build?” when dealing with some of the GNU tools. Twenty minutes later I’ll start complaining about how the BSD version of something from coreutils lacks a GNU argument that would make my life about 83% easier.
It’s like a sick sort of Stockholm Syndrome. I do genuinely like GNU coreutils, but there’s some baffling shit present.
For those who don’t know (including me):
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
I could see the NT kernel being okay in isolation, but the rest of Windows coming along for the ride puts the kibosh on that idea.
I liked how each of the sections ended with a different game that she’s gotten running so far. It makes the article feel like a progressively bigger flex, which, of course, it is. Awesome to see this work progressing!
The arch wiki has a udev rule that can automatically do something if the battery crosses a certain threshold: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop#Hibernate_on_low_battery_level
No polling which is great. I always try to do stuff on an event driven basis where possible for efficiency reasons. Gotta test this out though, since your battery might not send events for every percent change.
The screenshots look really nice. I’ve personally always struggled with designing nice TUIs, so I really appreciate the way this looks.
I’d recommend trying out shellcheck and potentially building it into your repo as a CI check. I’ve written a ton of Bash over the years, and I’ve found shellcheck to be absolutely essential for any script over ~100 lines. It’s not perfect, but it does do a great job of helping you avoid many of the foot guns present in Bash. I also dearly love this site. It’s a fantastic reference, and I look at it almost every day.
I may take some time later today and provide a bit of specific feedback.
oh fuck I did misread it. Man, now I sound like a big ol’ asshole. Sorry, OP :/ I had a bad week thanks to some ChatGPT code and just kinda jumped out when I saw the word “ChatGPT” next to Bash.
From the repo’s CONTRIBUTING.md:
Meh, a permissive license + a copyright transfer means this shit is just a potential rugpull. MSFT can change the license of the project to source-available or even proprietary at any time and you’ll be powerless to stop it.