Twenty years ago, I had an epiphany: Linux was ready for the desktop.

Please read articles before posting; this is literally the first sentence. The article is about the author’s 20 years of Linux desktop usage.

I have fingerprint biometrics protecting my phone’s lock screen and the vault itself - I feel this is the biggest weakness in my security, both from weaker legal protections (there are situations where you cannot be compelled to give your password but your fingerprints aren’t protected) and the fact that my phone has my fingerprints all over it.

My desktop just has a numeric PIN on the lock screen since you also need to enter the Bitwarden master password (and you need to be in my house to get the chance to type it in).

We know this as the Caravan Game.

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Yeah, I hate those little dots and I inevitably jump through the hoops until I’ve clicked enough things to make them go away.

I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to get a custom number plate of that star’s name.

Network effect, same as for most social things. Perhaps the EU will force interoperability, but they seem more focused on “save the children” style control and monitoring.

I don’t think people should downvote this Linux-related content that’s in a Linux sub just because it’s been posted on different servers in the Fediverse. People are too free with their downvotes.

Oof, that’s embarrassing for a “hacker” distro. I guess they have too many red teamers and no blue.

[MIT] does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else.

Sounds like it wouldn’t matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.

I’m not sure about the exact setup (default or yours), but is it possible that there’s a prettifier that’s responsible?

Not quite what you were asking for, but there is https://tomgroenwoldt.github.io/helix-shortcut-quiz/

It’s quite good for letting you know about things you didn’t know you could do, but sometimes it tells me I’m wrong because I’d do it a different way - e.g. I’d go to line 13 by :13 but it wants 13G.

Also, from within Helix you can do space ? to get the list of commands and any bindings they’re on.

edit: also, FYI Helix and similar are modal, not modular (although there is a plugin system on the way).

I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google’s version I think I’m covered already!

Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.

The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it’s now a Netflix series or something).

I guess I’ve just been lucky then! I’ve stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.

The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you’ll need to stop updates. You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

I’m planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it’s currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.

So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.

None of the books I’ve bought from kobo.com have DRM.

I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority is set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.

Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).

You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you’ll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you’ve side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.

Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.

I’m happy to use different set ups for the different types as they’re quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.

I’m using a bunch simultaneously at this point. I need to script keeping them all in sync, or decide which one will be the winner.

It uses a neutral net that he designed and trained, so it is AI. The public’s view of “AI” seems mostly the generation stuff like chatbots and image gen, but deep learning is perfect for science and medical fields.