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  Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨linux@programming.dev⁩ | ⁨4⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you hop distros?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did about once a year until 2018 when I settled on Arch.

  But now I’ve got a server on NixOS and loving it, so I might be switching my laptop soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal is Flawed, Why XMPP is Amazing! (new animated video)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It requires a phone number to log in. That already kills any hope for anonymity. I use it to message family and close friends, of which the fact that I’m messaging them is not surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just to be sure, when setting up nextcould i need to purchase a domain name?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run my Nextcloud behind Tailscale, and Caddy handles theTailscale https certs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you shell expand your variables and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has never stuck with me, and I hadn’t thought about why until now. I have two reasons why I will always write ${x}_$y.z instead of ${x}_${y}.z:

  • Syntax highlighting and shellcheck have always caught the cases I need to add braces to prevent $x_ being expanded as ${x_}.
  • I write a lot of Zsh. In Zsh, braces are optional in way more cases. “$#array[3]” actually prints the length of the third item in array, rather than (Bash:) the number of positional parameters, then the string ‘array[3]’.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you shell expand your variables and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shellcheck doesn’t insist on braces unless it thinks you need them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you shell expand your variables and why?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Typically find “$HOME/docs”, but with a few caveats:

  • In Zsh or Fish, the quotes are unnecessary: find $HOME/docs

  • If I’m using anything potentially destructive: mv “${HOME:?}/bin” …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It worked on my system⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, OCI container, we’re a runtime-agnostic family here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programing.dev's logo makes it's way onto r/place alongside RBlind.com⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what 11 is, but it’s now Slide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, gitea has compatible actions. Not sure how compatible, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you manage your dotfiles?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done symlinks into a separate directory before, but I found the best method for me was to let ~ be a git repo.

  There are two keys to making this work well:

  • echo ‘*’ > ~/.gitignore: This way git status isn’t full of untracked files. I can still git add -f what I actually want to track.
  • git branch -m dots: For clarity in my shell prompt.