All of these alternatives and you missed the best one ripgrep (rg). The other ones in my opinion are nice to have. Recursive multi-threaded grep that respects gitignore files is a must for me.

I’ve also witnessed matrix structure break down when too many methods of communication are used. It’s all very brittle.

“I want to know why this is broken. How to fix it can come later.”

Or override the TERM variable in your ssh config. Setting it to an xterm value has been supported by any niche term I’ve used over the years without sacrificing any of the usual functions.

Arch. Started using it in high school. Never had a reason to switch. Now I’m just regularly frustrated by other distros trying to make things easier by abstracting simple configurations behind layers of custom scripts.

AUR, when I can. I run my own binary package repo. App images are an interesting concept, but usually they are compiled against ancient versions of glibc for increased compatibility. Optimizations and CVE patches may or may not be applied, LD lookups are longer, etc.

No, no, they’ve got a point. The architecture of Wayland is much more sane. Because of the way refresh events are driven its also much more power and memory efficient. I’ll miss bspwm and picom but man there is a lot riding on simplifying the graphics stack under Linux. The X hacks, GLX, and all the other weird interactions X decided to take away from applications made things non-portable to begin with and a nightmare for any embedded devices that thought GLES was good enough.

Eh, I don’t mind learning a new config if the tool requires it. I just want to define run commands in yaml and have it auto generate pods and startup scripts.

It just bothers me that I have to use a tool outside of the ecosystem for that. Doesn’t it also behave differently though? Like doesn’t it assume everything is root when you use the socket required for docker-compose?

I just wish podman-compose wasn’t so scuffed. I submitted a PR about some garbage months ago and it just seems dead.

If a hallucinating AI with marginal direction enslaves us all, we deserved it.

For desktops it doesn’t make much sense, but now everything’s so oriented to systemd its actually starting to affect embedded Linux applications… so lets try our best to keep the alternatives alive.

I just don’t like the idea of supporting a company as large as Cloudflare. That and their pricing system doesn’t make a lot of sense. I have to wonder where they are making their margin back.

I really want to use porkbun but I don’t want to write scripts to integrate a custom name server api into ddclient. (I know some people have written their own wrappers but they’ve yet to make it upstream.) Namecheap it is then.

One argument against using DD is that sometimes the optimized default flags for FS creation change between kernel releases so its nice to take the opportunity when getting a new drive to reformat partitions. In addition to this, dd is slow if you haven’t completely filled up the partition because it doesn’t attempt to use fs metadata to seek sparse data on disk and instead copies all bytes of the partition. (Completely unnecessary and just causes extra wear on solid state medium)

I use rsync instead of cp so I get verbose messages, hash checks, and resume functionality during large copies. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsync#File_system_cloning

You’ll need to do 4 things:

1. Refresh your keyring

pacman-keyring --init
pacman-keyring --populate archlinux

2. Remove the archlabs section from your pacman.conf
3. pacman -Syyu
4. Maintenance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Check_for_orphans_and_dropped_packages

This should be everything. You’ll need to be careful with removing packages with no upstream. I’m not sure how archlabs distributed their configuration files but if they were packages you’ll have to be selective about what you remove. Ideally you’ll slowly drop those configs for your own versions with future upgrades.

I mean, all that’s doing is passing that URI to GVFS. You can do the same with any tool. (Or add hooks to any existing tool with gio calls if they support subshell execution) https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_manager_functionality#Windows_access

What format are they in? Jellyfin does support some of the common eBook formats. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/books

I’m not betting on the 51%, but it’s still on the table. I’m more convinced they’ll start throwing garbage over the protocol and uninformed users will migrate to instances that support that garbage because of peer pressure, features, or just wanting to get rid of the encoded messages. It’ll turn into the green chat bubble argument with some people feeling their instance is superior in the way it deals with it.

Eh, they could still do the scummy shit Apple and Google were doing to each other with SMS. Start encoding “extra features” in the standard messages and pushing that garbage out to the rest of the network. Or hit it with a 51% attack and scramble everything that can’t defederate fast enough. Still problematic.