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Fucking Deloitte!

Ah, so it has a "watch" mode? Cool.

Ditto.

I get angry with SyncThing; don't get me wrong. I really wish they'd add a per-file-type merge plugin capability, and I get far more sync conflicts than I care for. I get situations where a client on one computer stops (mostly, Android killing it) and it needs to be manually restarted.

What I've never had it data corruption. It's to the point where I implicitly trust that if SyncThing says it's synced, I know it's on the destination. It might be a stored as a sync conflict, but it's there.

How is rclone fire and forget? You have you manually run it every sync, right?

This is a good list.

There are three kinds of Linux commands:

• commands I use frequently
• commands I've never seen or don't know about. There's almost nothing in standard POSIX that falls in this category, and a lot of OSS that does. E.g., I use to always reach for fuser until I realized it's not a base install on many distros, so I switched to lsof which is is, and is also both more powerful and harder to use.
• commands I've seen before but use so infrequently I forget they exist, or what they're called. This is sadly a larger set than I'd like.

Some of these in this list are the third kind.

Huh. My cousin is a professor, and my best friend is a high school teacher. They're both responsible for developing their curriculum. That's only an n=2, but it's 100% that if they (the people I know) hate their curriculum, it's their own damned fault.

What? Teachers hating their subject?

So... you're saying that a positive learning environment is better than a terrible one? The AI part is ancillary to the scenarios you set up, isn't it?

"AI is better than having the student learn in a terrible learning environment."

"A homeless alcoholic is a better language teacher than having a student learn in a classroom whilst being beaten about the head with a stick."

You're saying AI is better than a bad teacher. Maybe a bad AI is worse than a bad teacher, and maybe a good teacher is better than the best AI. I just don't know how setting up such a comparison is constructive.

Yeah, especially for text files. Hard no.

Databases have their uses, but the trade off between obfuscating the data and making it harder for users to access has to be far more compelling. LogSeq is a really good example that you can do relatively complex note organization with cross references and tree structure without resorting to a database. Using a DB for something like this is user-hostile, smells of vendor lock-in, and seems lazy.

TBH what I saw first is that you connected a fan to some hard drives and called it a homelab.

It was pretty funny for the half second it lasted.

The idea is that blkdiscard will tell the SSD's own controller to zero out everything

Just to be clear, blkdiscard alone does not zero out anything; it just marks blocks as empty. --secure tells compatible drives to additionally wipe the blocks; -z actually zeros out the contents in the blocks like dd does. The difference is that - without the secure or z options - the data is still in the cells.

always encrypt all of your storage

Yes! Although, I don't think hindsight is helpful for OP.

Hm? Both bspwm and herbstluftwm have tabbed layouts. It's been so long since I've used i3, but it has them too, right? Sway's a mostly config-compatible, mostly client compatible i3 clone for Wayland, so I'd expect it to have tabs, too. As well as floating windows, which every tabbing WM I've used also supports.

I think I missed your point. What are you saying? Did I say something that made you think I thought tiling WMs could only do tiling?

What I'm opinionated about is configuration files. Technically, even a desktop could be configuration-less, although I've never seen one. I have become insistent that my WM have no configuration that isn't set through a client call. Sway still uses a config file like i3; mostly the same config file, unless it's drifted significantly. That was Sway's whole killer feature: i3 users could switch from X11 to Wayland with only minor configuration file changes.