QuazarOmega

I just started using the Summit app for a day and realised now I involuntarily downvoted quite a few comments conviced I was upvoting them, fooled by the color of the swipe action (I didn't look at the arrow showing up until now) and wanted to remediate even if it's pretty inconsequential.
Another option if ths one isn't really possible, how to browse my read posts, at least I'd be able to find the discussions I had read through

Cody, one of the first few decently good AI assistants that were well integrated into VSCode bit the dust just recently as the greedier and greedier Sourcegraph direction decided to switch to the completely Enterprise (read proprietary) "solution" Amp.

With this commit, another notable project by them goes down, first was their signature code search engine, now this, I just feel sorry for everybody who contributed and now will see pretty much all their efforts rendered meaningless, it was already apparent by how Sourcegraph approached Search sunsetting how much they care about open source, but I'd say this seals the deal even better if you needed insight into whether to trust them or not.

I think what's left by them that might be useful still is the zoekt library and a few other minor repos they have, but they're nothing compared to the impact of the other two.

Things like these make me question how we can just buy in to projects using non-copyleft licences, it's a time bomb, especially with corporate driven software and I see many developers fall into that trap, that in an endeavour for perceived simplicity, will choose Apache, MIT, Unlicense (pls not this one 🥲), or what have you and not care.
What people see as pragmatic in open source is really just a conclusion that comes from the point of view of the maker, rather than the community

Hi, I've got myself stuck on an issue, I've started a big rebase (I know that was already a bad idea to begin with, but, just in case, the information I'm looking for could always come in handy in other occasions), I reordered a few commits and squashed some, while in the process I resolved a few conflicts, then after I resolved one of them and got to the next conflict I realised that I shouldn't have put a certain commit there, is there a way to rewind the process to the previous step while staying in the rebase? That way I could move the commit to where it should be and continue.
I know you can edit the todo (git --edit-todo), but that only works for the next commits, I also can't just reset back by the number of commits I want, e.g. git reset --hard HEAD~4, because for the rebase those commits remain as done and doing git rebase --continue only brings me to where I am already, the next conflict to resolve.
So I wonder, is there a way to move out commits of the done list back into todo? Also for example if I trashed an unmerged file completely while messing around, so I can get it back to its initial state, this would be extremely useful

The Medito app is a (unsurprisingly) meditation/mindfulness app. Sort of the free software alternative to Headspace.
I haven't used it in a long time and was curious to see how it was doing, but I saw this:

• it's only available on IzzyOnDroid now, I believe it used to be on F-droid at some point (edit: it wasn't)
• the available release is 2 years old

So I thought, maybe the app was sadly just archived, but no, it's actually still under development, it's just that no releases have been published on GitHub for 2 years (2.0.48 clearly titled "Deprecated"), instead the Play Store releases keep being pushed out as recently as 3 February 2025 (3.2.0).
Oh and the issues tab has been disabled, which seems very shady to me.
So I wonder what the heck went down with this excellent app, it may still be considered "free software", also featuring the best licence (AGPL), but it looks like it has become unfriendly towards the community, I wonder why

I'm on a Fedora Kinoite system that is entirely on one LUKS encrypted drive, I recently added a second drive to have more space and I'm wondering how I should make use of it.
For now I formatted it completely with a new btrfs partition encrypted with LUKS and to actually add I thought I could:

1. automount it to some location, not sure where I should mount it though, I've seen many questions online that say to avoid /mnt for permanent drives and also /media (there are contrasting opinions on that, though), so I thought I could maybe sidestep this question by going with the second option which is the following
2. extending the already existing btrfs /sysroot to span across the 2 partitions on the separate drives, but I didn't find good information on this process when LUKS is involved. It seems like that kind of operation is heavily discouraged due to risking data loss

So I wonder, what is the best approach and the one that will give me fewer headaches? If it is the second, how do I do it?

Edit: going with the first option I had an issue where the drive wouldn't be mounted automatically at boot, I then read through my /etc/crypttab more carefully and saw that the UUID was wrong, I had used the partition UUID (PARTUUID as seen with the blkid command) instead of the actual device UUID, after correcting that it works and mounts correctly. Just a small oversight, the hardest to notice sometimes.
References:

• https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/KDE_Partition_Manager_Auto_Mount_Guide/
• https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/adding-a-second-encrypted-drive-to-fedora/

I wanted to install a few PWAs in my private space but the option for installation or shortcut creation isn't there on the same websites where it appears in the normal installation of the browser app.
Is this a limitation strictly related to the private space?

I've enabled auto download and installation of updates in the settings, but somehow they are never downloaded and installed in the background, nor when I do "install all", they all prompt me for confirmation.
Is there some setting to change to make it work?

I sometimes play games and also open my music player, but the sound from the game drowns out the music, so I need to go into the sound mixer on KDE and manually lower the game's volume every time.
I was wondering, is there a way to do this process automatically? As in setting up conditions like "if music is playing (some MPRIS API?) then lower all other apps' volumes)", maybe even crazier "if some app is outputting voice then set its volume back up and lower music app's volume or pause its playback altogether for some specified timeout that keeps being refreshed for as long as voice is heard".
I imagine the latter is a bit of a dream, but maybe for the first, even some quick sound profile selector would go a long way, say switching from "normal profile" to "background music profile", etc. which specify preconfigured volumes for those apps.
Is that a thing?

My solution:

let

  nixFilesInDirectory = directory:
    (
      map (file: "${directory}/${file}")
      (
        builtins.filter
          (
            nodeName:
              (builtins.isList (builtins.match ".+\.nix$" nodeName)) &&
              # checking that it is NOT a directory by seeing
              # if the node name forcefully used as a directory is an invalid path
              (!builtins.pathExists "${directory}/${nodeName}/.")
          )
          (builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir directory))
      )
    );

  nixFilesInDirectories = directoryList:
    (
      builtins.concatMap
        (directory: nixFilesInDirectory directory)
        (directoryList)
    );
  # ...
in {
  imports = nixFilesInDirectories ([
      "${./programs}"
      "${./programs/terminal-niceties}"
  ]);
  # ...
}

snippet from the full source code: quazar-omega/home-manager-config (L5-L26)

credits:

• base script: comment on "getting all configs from folder" (Reddit)
  Started developing from that piece that implements the general idea with only builtin functions, so I tried as best I could to stick to the builtins
• isDir: nixpkgs (GitHub)
  Used to filter out directories from the items to be included

I'm trying out Nix Home Manager and learning its features little by little.
I've been trying to split my app configurations into their own files now and saw that many do the following:

1. Make a directory containing all the app specific configurations:

programs/
└── helix.nix

2. Make a catch-all file default.nix that selectively imports the files inside:

programs/
├── default.nix
└── helix.nix

Content:

{
  imports = [
    ./helix.nix
  ];
}

3. Import the directory (picking up the default.nix) within the home-manager configuration:

{
  # some stuff...
  imports = [
    ./programs
  ];
 # some other stuff...
}

I'd like to avoid having to write each and every file I'll create into the imports of default.nix, that kinda defeats the point of separating it if I'll have to specify everything anyway, so is there a way to do so? I haven't found different ways to do this in various Nix discussions.

Example I'm looking at: https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles/blob/main/home/terminal/default.nix

My own repository: https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/home-manager-config

We all know who's the real steward of free software and federation

*smiles in anticipation*

legit had to draw the vector logo of Gogs for this, smh

edit: actually... it already exists, oopsie (ᵕ—ᴗ—) smh my head

I've mostly been using the official F-droid app, but I've become tired of having to click install every single time there's a new update for an app.
On a new phone I tried starting right away with Neo Store, which I know has that functionality, and in fact I haven't had to confirm installation of updates since on there, but on my old devices where I started with F-droid how can I get that to work?
I believe I read somewhere that for this to work, the apps I want to update automatically need to be installed the first time from within the same app and, even then, only some apps that target Android SDKs from a certain point forward support that, so not all can benefit from this feature.
So how can I make this change, do I have to uninstall every application from F-droid I have and reinstall them from Neo Store or is there an easier way?

Edit: One other thing, even in Neo Store it seems I can't update without confirmation if I manually update only one app at a time and instead it works if I let it update everything by having "Auto-update" enabled

I've been using Quillnote for a long time now and this is a feature I've been sorely missing, are there other apps that can help me do the conversion?