I got it on time because I subscribe to Lemmy Plus! Now I can never go back to Lemmy Community Edition.

Sidenote, maybe some of your applications do not need a Linux computer but a microcontroller like an Arduino or a ESP32 is sufficient.

Similar story here. Tried some latest versions of popular distros. Settled with Fedora KDE. Fedora supported nearly everything in my convertible laptop out of the box where others were hit and miss. Easy transition from Windows 10. KDE doesn’t enforce it’s own opinions of desktop and workflow like Gnome does. Steam, Epic and GoG all play fine. It’s my daily driver now. Much recommended.

Exactly!

You know, when the designer did something funny with it. Like elongating the end and making it into a giraffe.

Mint has not been the new kid for ten years plus. The first iterations of Mint was in 2006.

Mint is the kid that everybody likes despite not even sharing any interests.

Yep. And if you edit it you can reload it with “. ~/.bash_aliases” and if you do it frequently you can create an alias for it.

Purged into the abyss of forgetfulness by the originator.

If everything else fails, at least there seems to be a snap for it.

It’s a convertible that you can use as a tablet.

Others have already answered your questions, so I’ll just drop in my anecdotal experience to moving over my desktop to Linux last year. I tried a few different distros but settled with Fedora KDE edition. It works with everything exotic in my laptop out of the box, except for the gyro that doesn’t work with anybody else either. The desktop feels familiar and is easy to customize. I tried to like Gnome and variants but it is really settled on The Gnome Way of doing everything. Fedora is a fresh experience from previous attempts of going full Linux desktop with Ubuntu and even Mint. The GUI for software and package management is neat and includes native packages, flatpak both the fedora builds and mainline. Some minor things are not quite there but I believe that will be the Linux experience forever and I’m okay with it. I recommend to try it.

Be honest. What did you say that offended Firefox so bad it decided to leave?

I’ve been craving something like this as an alternative to Trakt since their latest enshittification. Are there other alternatives? Do they share protocols and whatnot like lemmy, kbin, Mastodon etc?

Nanageddon.

Edit; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7XR4gcOn2G0

The easy solution would be to have a third common mount point for the two that is switched if the external drive is connected or not.

You have a point.

I think banking is the old standard example of real time kernel needs. Money goes in, numbers go up, no time to explain the tide.

It’s pretty distant now, but I did imagine it from a user perspective to be something like a folder structure except you can “tag along” as you go, so that you can find the files from your subjective chain of association rather than remembering how the project is set up. Say to reach the file;

• /project/year/keyword 1/keyword 2/file
• /keyword 2/year/project/keyword 3/file

Consequently, you could have all relevant files collected or filtered depending on how you set up your paths like searching a database rather than keep track of different data structures of different department needs and such.

So you could call it a mind map of sorts.

My entry level experiments were with just “tags” (the keywords) but I imagined a file system that would incorporate everything filesystem like permissions, creation/modification dates, and next gen like file history, integration with custom content parsing and version control systems and stuff that are partially reality today with COW filesystems.

Oh, how interesting. Yeah, I did some very basic prototyping with a WebDAV (online storage technology that was popular by the time), but I was mostly interested in the concept that the actual execution of it. And I didn’t have massive amounts of data in numerous files so no practical motivation either.

Watched the first video. Interesting.

Reminds me of when I realized some twenty years ago that hierarchical filesystems are just a convention and I was daydreaming about a dynamic database-like filesystem where files are stored with meta data in tags that could be addressed according to whatever your chain of association may be. I even conceptual a bridge of how common OS like Windows or Linux could connect and interface such a file system using the familiar system of slashes transparently for the user with all the benefits and none of additional complicated learning. Of course this was way beyond any technical scope of mine and I didn’t bring it to attention beyond nerdy beer conversation.

Maybe I was on to something.