buy a desktop. much easier to repair yourself

for one time transfers (e.g. friends phone) I use warpinator.

if I own the device I use scp/rsync.

to keep files in sync I use syncthing

Yeah, autocorrect isn’t great with technical terms. I meant systemd. I followed Arch’s instruction, and just enabled the services via systemctl --user enable syncthing.service

i use syncthing, and start it via the systems service. i found it reliable. systems has a feature by which you can get notified on error (look up the onerror key), you might be able to do what u need with that.

alternately, you can run a systemd timer that runs periodically and notifies you when your condition is met. if u want a pop-up, use zenity etc.

lol. never created a slashdot account…

I’ve used both element and elementX. element supports rendering math formulae, which elementX doesnt

i switched right after win95 🙂

just deleted my account and all reddit apps. quit cold turkey. there’s less on Lemmy. but I’m happier, and more productive 🙂

I heard two talks around 2001 or so. one by Wolfram, after which I swore never to use mathematica again. and one by stallman after which I switched completely to Linux and never went back to windows.

still on Linux 25y later. went from days when getting sound working was a challenge , to today when even obscure tablets work out of the box.

started with red hat. used Gentoo for about 5y. then debian for 10, and now arch.

went from the old “crux” and metacity, to openbox to fvwm to gnome to kde plasma

i remember the old days I was envious of Mac users for transparency and the present windows features, and I ran this utility called Skippy that would screenshot windows and present them… all these features are now built in to the wm now, so no tweaking needed

honestly on single user machines I uninstall a display manager. autologin on console, and put a few lines in my zshrc to start my wm automatically

i don’t follow? the idiots I knew thought they were so important that declaring their non support for Biden/Harris would magically stop the genocide.

I never got a straight answer to the question “what if trump wins? will that be better for Gaza”

there is no way Biden or Harris would have approved the 20 point genocidal plan in the article. this is what they voted for. where are they now?

i hope they vote in midterms…

where are all the folks who said “I’m not voting Harris cause of Gaza”?

they could make billions monetizing the site in various ways like adding ads, monetizing user data, paywalling, or pushing a political agenda

they made a conscious choice not to.

they’ll get my donation every year whether they’re rolling in it or not. they deserve every penny

IIRC u need mlocate or plocate…

i trust them less that AP but more than most other for profit news platforms. I appreciate that they are fact based and not much “spin” and analysis.

why is the American chemical society joining with Wiley and elsivere?

what desktop are you using? on kde/plasma, go to the power settings and it gives you an option to run a script when the battery is connected/disconnected

u can use that to systemctl --user start/stop syncthing

i use syncthing all the time on some 100gb of data. it’s not much of a battery drain. ymmv

I’ve used both and completely agree.

i used fvwm for some 20 years. but when I switched to Wayland, I had to change window managers. I tried gnome first because it was the default on more distributions. works great as long as u use it as is . any customization is hard and needs gnome tweaks or some other extension…

kde plasma was just as light weight and completely configurable

honestly just go on eBay and buy whatever fits your form factor and budget. most modern laptop swill work for you and nonsense paying a premium to get one particular model

I would love to have content indexing with full text search in files and emails. I used to run namazu / notmuch mail to index it (back when I would fetch it using offlineimap). But sadly my mail lives on an IMAP server now and isn’t searchable locally. And Baloo was simply taking too long to index all my files.

I’m really surprised that an indexed search takes roughly as much time as a directory search. I guess it shows how much the filesystem and tools have evolved… back in the day, a full tree search through even 10GB would be slow and noisy…