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Cake day: January 15th, 2021

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  • I’m not the OP, but tbh the only thing that doesn’t work for me is the apps that replace your input by the same thing in another layout.

    For example, you have 2 keyboard layouts, type something and realize afterwards that you forgot to change the keyboard layout. You press the hotkey to trigger a script that removes your input, translates it into a different keyboard layout and pastes it back.

    People who only use 1 keyboard layout don’t even think about this issue and usually don’t know such software exists.

    I miss it a lot. There’s 1 script that works in wayland but it’s pretty buggy and it’s not in arch repos, so I don’t trust it too much. X11 had many options.




  • I did run docker, specifically the portainer interface, not just the docker itself. While it’s nice and easy to use, I felt like docker obscures things behind some abstractions, for example my native services store data simply as directories and files somewhere under /srv, while docker containers keep data somewhere in docker’s directory as some storage objects with randomly generated names.

    I also completely lost control of my firewall, for example if I can just run iptables and see exactly which ports do what, I can easily read and understand line by line each firewall rule, when I use docker containers it’s all some gibberish to me, ports get opened and closed and mapped to container ports (I guess) without me ever touching iptables, and I have no idea what is happening with my server anymore.

    So yes, I tried portainer and dropped it, if you do native packages and an android app in f-droid, let me know, I really like your project so far. I can even stand the docker thingy, but we need an android app with proper sync and caching, because not everyone has internet connection 24/7. We may want to run an app, sync with backend, then add entries during a flight. Browser won’t solve this.




  • I’m not sure RSS readers are supposed to solve your issue. They are readers — they allow you to read stuff you subscribed to.

    Discovering stuff you want to subscribe to is an entirely different task. Idk, try searching blogs or sites that interest you or ask others what they follow.

    If my RSS app would “suggest” me articles not from my feed I would uninstall it immediately.

    Inoreader might have something like that, probably that’s why I stopped using it.








  • This is an excellent answer and I wish I knew all of this when starting to use archlinux. “Arch does not support partial upgrades” is something you can read everywhere, but it’s rare to find such a good explanation of what exactly a partial upgrade is, and which commands lead to it.

    I only learned about all of this when I got into some broken state by randomly running pacman commands.

    Everyone, be like this guy. This guy explains stuff well. Newbies need stuff explained.