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Not everyone can have 2 computers for all kinds of reasons.

Everyone do you best. Prioritize your data and take stronger precautions for the most important.

Lucky Backup is a fantastic piece of software. It is the perfect amount of GUI to spread over rsync.

In a conventional set up you have tabs which are collected into windows. When you close a window, all tabs it contains are closed. You can do other things on all the tabs in a window, like reload, unload, bookmark, etc.

Windows can be divided among workspaces arbitrarily or can be on all workspaces. Workspaces can be created or deleted on the fly. Windows which are in a deleted workspace do not close, they just move to an adjacent workspace. Though you could probably script otherwise if you wanted.

From your screenshot am thinking your system is just like having all tabs in a single window in a single workspace?

in case you don't know, you can discard tabs natively without an extension in FF now by going to URL about:unloads. it's a newish feature in the past year or so. much more rudimentary than Auto Tab Discard but gets the job done with one less extension.

I like light themes and agree that they can be done well. Overall my problem with dark themes is they are too low contrast everything melts into everything else. Who doesn't want a distinct border around a window?

I agree the debian website is exremely confusing. I was wandering around for ages with a dozen tabs open trying to find the actual download link I need.

I dont know how to code but i have made contribs on repos. For documentation and stuff.

Some repos are very complex and some are simple. It is typically roughly corrolated to size: larger projects = more complex. And then it depends on the language/platform/toolchain being used. Some of them can be very ellaborate. If you dont typically work on that kind of project the set up can be very difficult as you are starting from scratch with dependencies, might need dev versions, can be a whole thing.

Also there are some things which are organizational choices made by the maintainers. A couple of times i was unable to contribute to docs because they werent seperated from the rest of the project and just to edit markdown files you had to install a whole dev toolchain and who knows what. I gave up before getting anywhere. Whereas others have different components segregated nicely.

Then there is quality control stuff having to do with testing, formating and such. You might only find out about that once you've got through everything else and time comes to make a PR.

Start out by using git and github or alternative for yourself to learn the basics. Then pick a smaller, explicitly beginer friendly project to make some minor contributions. Something with a few maintainers and regular contributions from others is generally a good balance. Look for an updated CONTRIBUTING file or equivilant section in the documentation.

I think making a few markdown contribs first is probably advisable even for programers because most of the time it is more simple.

Unless there is a signature option i asssume doing it by hand also. Its like 3x retro.

I think thats called taxes!

There should be more government funding for floss. Both by prioritizing floss projects to use and direct funding to projects that arent useful to govts.

I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them.

Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on.

oooooh a .code-search files sounds lovely

Well the odds of me learning C++ anytime soon are pretty low. But if someone else thought it was useful enough to spend time on, I guess starting with the existing plugin which is pictured above would probably be expedient...

That or a stand alone application.

I'm sure this must exist....

How do you use sed and grep to check?

I've been trying to use sed more but having everything in a single command makes it hard to think about when there is complexity. I know it's dumb but having a "find" box, a "replace" box, and toggles for options that are visually distinct from one another really helps me. Especially when it comes to re-using a line later on, I have a hard time following my own code if there are a lot of escapes or fancy regex components. The only reason I've been able to learn anything at all is because of the websites like regex101 and regexr that make everything colorful. Really what I want is a desktop version of those but it's probably too much to ask for.