SmokeInFog

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[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

But what’s the difference?

I can only imagine someone asking this if they a) don't use the terminal except if Stackexchange says they should and b) have yet to try and cleanup a system that's acquired cruft over a few years. If you don't care about it, then let me flip that around and ask why you care if people use XDG? The people who care about it are the people in the spaces that concern it.

Off the top of my head this matters because:

  • it's less clutter, especially if you're browsing your system from terminal
  • it's a single, specified place for user specific configs, session cache, application assets, etc. Why wouldn't such important foundational things required for running apps not be in a well defined specification? Why just dump it gracelessly in the user's root folder outside of pure sloppy laziness?
  • it makes uninstalling apps easier
  • it makes maintenance easier
  • it makes installing on new machines easier

It’ll be in /home anyways and I heard BSD had some issues with something that could be XDG.

🙄

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

And I'm on 6.5 right now running the Mint Edge ISO edition on Mint 21.3

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)
[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Mullvad provides DNS servers: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

As for a fallback option, I'd go with cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 over google's offerings: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 54 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Kitty, hands down. GPU accelerated; native image protocol implemented by ranger, neofetch, and more; incredibly customizable; multiplexing with multiple windows and tabs; ligature support; and much more

If anybody has any questions about it, swing on over to Kitty Terminal Emulator [!kittyterimal@midwest.social]

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago

btop for system resource monitoring, htop for actually finding and killing processes

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 42 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It doesn't really matter which distro you use, all hail the Arch wiki!

PS: if you use ddg, !aw is your friend here

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago

Respecting democratic norms is very important. That said, I don't know that citing US imperialist clout is the best way to get the so-called American "left" behind the incumbent administration if said voter were already looking elsewhere or not planning to vote

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I use Mint and the Arch wiki is still one of my first stops when I have an issue

[–] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

kitty requires its terminfo be set properly on the remote host. Its best to use the ssh kitten (I have it aliased), though it's only technically required the first time on any particular box/instance. See this issue in the FAQ: I get errors about the terminal being unknown or opening the terminal failing or functional keys like arrow keys don’t work?

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