I have never heard of anyone using aliases for anything but trivial one-liners. I don’t think people consider them as an alternative to scripts so I don’t really get the point of half of this post.

However, the part explaining the benefits of using scripts over aliases even for trivial one-liners is pretty neat.

That’s good. You can also check out btrbk - it’s a tool which can take snapshots for you, like Timeshift, but also back them up to somewhere.

Absolutely, my backup solution is actually based on BTRFS snapshots. I use btrbk (already mentioned in another reply) to take the snapshots and copy them to another drive. Then a nightly restic job backs up the latest snapshot to B2.

Just a friendly reminder that BTRFS snapshots are not backups.

I use Neovim. It feels like a second nature after using it for years. I love how effortless the interaction with the editor is after you have spent hundreds of hours learning it. I have no reasonable arguments to convince anyone to do that though. I just do it because I enjoy the hell out of it 🤷‍♂️

It’s not that I’m bothered by this post or anything but the described change is so incredibly minor that I can imagine many people not noticing it at all. Also, it doesn’t introduce any new features which would require an explanation. The article really seems quite useless to me.

But if it’s useful to you and other people - it’s okay. I just shared my thought.

It’s incredible that the tech got so boring that a new charging screen makes the news.

Right, I forgot that autistic people are not allowed to post about things that annoy them in a community about annoying things. Noted.

Commenting mostly to make this post more active because I have very high hopes for COSMIC and really want it to succeed!

Do you mean that it’s worse on GrapheneOS in comparison to stock?

While it’s not nearly as customizable as an Ubuntu kernel, it’s still easy to make your GrapheneOS look and feel exactly how you want it to, within reason.

WTF is it supposed to mean?

It’s funny because where I live there were even warnings to never give your card to the cashier back when they weren’t so popular. It was precisely because of some rare cases of cashiers managing to clone or charge the card during that moment. I, and most people I know, wouldn’t just hand in their card if asked. It just doesn’t happen here.

I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?

How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…

I recommend checking out satty as well.

I really liked it but unfortunately I was not able to get it to work on Wayland (with Hyprland) at all.

If you have to learn from scratch anyway I would consider caddy and traefik. I think those might be a bit more modern and user-friendly than nginx.

Exactly this! Powerful tiling without the need to build your own DE from scratch sounds incredible!

Man, would taking a few seconds to verify stuff kill you? All Proton applications are open source.

I recently migrated to their hosted plan and can highly recommend. It’s as close as you can get to Google Photos with E2EE right now.