It was new to me too, but a (code) forge is essentially a VCS server with stuff like a wiki and issue tracking. So think GitLab, GoGS/Gitea/Forgejo, BitBucket and all the others.

How are they connected?

If it’s through bluetooth, that should be perfectly fine.

Check the debian wiki for instructions.

Yes, a quick web search later I haven’t found a readymade solution.

Setting the volume for specific outputs is not very hard, so maybe a middleground solution is to have two shortcuts. One for “game mode” and one for “music mode” or whatever.

The details depend a bit on the audiostack of your distro, but they all have a cli program with which you can change inputs/outputs and volume; e.g. pactl for pulseaudio and wpctl for wireplumber.

You’ll need a mechanism to find your triggers (I create a firefox tab with youtube/spotify, I have a music player active) and then you can act on it.

Detecting voice in an audiostream is probably technically possible, but that sounds pretty hard to setup.

Why is that?

I know that feeling all too wel…

Sorry I can’t help you with the solution you want, I don’t use flatpak.

It’s not really what you’re asking, but couldn’t you just visit the about:profiles page?

It’s not as nice as the dedicated profile manager, but it’s just as functional.

You could even set it as your default page, or add it to the bookmark bar.

IIRC, within RHEL it goes fedora (next major) -> centos stream (next minor) -> RHEL (current major.minor).

With Debian and its derivatives (e.g Ubuntu) this means that Debian-unstable corresponds to fedora, Debian-testing corresponds to CentOS stream and Debian-stable corresponds to RHEL. (Roughly of course).

Ubuntu is based off of some flavor of Debian and is therefore downstream of it: Debian (unstable I think) -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu LTS.

But as far as which version has the newest packages then sure, your list is correct.

people’s configs on github?

Yep, it’s definitely better to have as a default

It is with zfs, but I not with regular mount I think (at least not by default). It might depend on the filesystem though.

You can also do the following to prevent unwanted writes when something is not mounted at /mnt/thatdrive:

# make sure it is not mounted, fails if not mounted which is fine
umount /mnt/thatdrive

# make sure the mountpoint exists
mkdir -p /mnt/thatdrive

# make the directory immutable, which disallows writing to it (i.e. creating files inside it)
chattr +i /mnt/thatdrive

# test write to unmounted dir (should fail)
touch /mnt/thatdrive/myfile

# remount the drive (assumes it’s already listed in fstab)
mount /mnt/thatdrive

# test write to mounted dir (should succeed)
touch /mnt/thatdrive/myfile

# cleanup
rm /mnt/thatdrive/myfile

From man 1 chattr:

A file with the ‘i’ attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file, most of the file’s metadata can not be modified, and the file can not be opened in write mode.
Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.

I do this to prevent exactly the situation you’ve encountered. Hope this helps!

Then you might like this tech blog: https://theluddite.org/#!post/ai-hype

If you don’t want spellchecking, then no. You can just change the keyboard layout.

If you do want spellchecking then yes, you will need to install some kind of language pack.

I’m not sure how libreoffice does it, but Firefox has different language packs for translating the UI and for spellchecking.

Are the extra dialects taking up too much space for you?

You’re welcome!

I’m sorry that I don’t have any advice for a specific laptop, but it seems others are helping with that already.

More memory and cores will help you with compiling and running your code.

Have you even read my comment?

It’s probably best to limit yourself to a used laptop.

Reading and writing code is nothing more than reading and writing text, and for that you don’t need a fancy gpu or screen.

What I would recommend you look for in a laptop is

• an SSD instead of an HDD
• more cpu cores (at least 4 cores)
• more memory (RAM) (at least 8GB, preferably 16GB+)

More memory and cores will help you with compiling and running your code.

And make sure you take regular backups! You never know when your disk will fail.

Also make sure to check linux compatibility before you buy. Laptops used to be a pain (10+ years ago), and it’s gotten a lot better, but it’s not always perfect. Just search for “[brand] [model] linux” or try to find the model on the archlinux wiki.

How did you install nixos? The labels for disks and partitions are usually set during creation.

If the KDE-spin installer did not need to reformat the disks (i.e. the partition sizes and formats didn’t change) it probably didn’t touch the partition labels.

You can change the label if it bothers you, just make sure fstab doesn’t use the old label :)

Happy hopping!

because bash isn’t always in /usr/bin/bash.

On macOS the version on /usr/bin/bash is very old (bash 3 I think?), so many users install a newer version with homebrew which ends up in PATH, which /usr/bin/env looks at.

Protip: I start every bash script with the following two lines:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

set -e makes the script exit if any command (that’s not part of things like if-statements) exits with a non-zero exit code

set -u makes the script exit when it tries to use undefined variables

set -o pipefail will make the exit code of the pipeline have the rightmost non-zero exit status of the pipeline, instead of always the rightmost command.

You can also set up a wireguard VPN to run VNC over, that might be easier instead of using SSH tunnels.