Always follow the 3-2-1 rule, Google. Always!

The search is still bad, imho… If I search for a place, osmand doesn’t show the address in the list. So, I’d have to go through each of the items to find the one that I’m looking for.

yeah, I tried osmand, but the UI is just “meh”

I’m almost degoogled, in the sense that no penny goes to them.

• I use Fastmail for mail/calendars
• Revanced/Smarttube for YT (no ads, no money)
• Immich instead of Photos

The only thing I can’t really get rid of, is Google Maps.

I had assumed, since I can do flatpak install org.gnome.Sdk and select 3.38 (there are even older 3.x versions to select from), that they left it for older GTK apps that are not (yet) compatible with newer runtimes.

yes… since it’s way easier to distribute, anything, by anyone.

Speaking of which… I’m the official maintainer of all the crypto wallets out there… trust me, bro!

Bummer! Flathub doesn’t want me to use Gnome 3.38, since it’s EOL :-(

Noice! I got a successfull build of a flatpak bundle (without webkit) using GitHub actions. the bundle can be downloaded and installed via flatpak install --user xxx.flatpak and it’s running.

Now I need to figure out, how to publish this to Flathub.

TBH I’m fairly new to this. Gnome 45 sandbox has webkit2-4.1, while my PC build uses webkit2-4.0. Now, Gnome 3.38 sandbox has webkit2-4.0, but it still doesn’t run, due to missing libs. And I don’t know how to put everything together, so it works without having to re-build everything.

I managed to get it somehow working, but it got rejected by Flathub, because they don’t want me to build webkit and use the network during build (which I need)

I’m working on resticity, a restic frontend.

yeah, a light theme will be implemented later on.

Compared to electron it is lightweight. i.e. it doesn’t include full Chrome, but a webkit webview, which also has its caveats, but does the job just fine.

Lol… looks like I just made it in time 😂

Karma is a bitch, huh?

EA is also the one behind easyanticheat, refusing to make their games work under Linux, claiming it’s difficult.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/tim-sweeney-is-right-about-the-difficulty-of-adapting-fortnites-eac-to-linux/

However, Steam/Valve has made it very easy to ship EAC for Steam games and many games (i.e. Apex Legends) have shown that it just works.

So yeah, excluding Linux users is as shitty as being excluded from Apple.

Maybe it’s just me, but I never liked GitLab in the first place. The UI is just awful to me. Searching through issues, before posting a new one, is just a pita.

• Switched from Gmail to Fastmail
• Set email aliases for all registered services
• Started hosting stuff myself

Yeah, just put it where the caps-lock key is. It’s the best position for “frequent” use.

/s obviously

after modifying /etc/fstab you’d have to manually run sudo mount -a for the settings to take effect.

But… but… mom told me not to trust strangers on the internet.

I have a vorta backup, running on a regular basis for my home dir which has GBs of data.

Mounting and restoring files is literally a matter of seconds.

But if you want something that you can easily take with you, you can go with a symlink/git approach:

• have a folder “configs”
• move all your dotfiles thst have NO sensitive data like credentials into that folder
• symlink them into their proper place
• use GIT to track them and push them to a git repo

Once you need them somewhere else, it’s just a git pull away… easy as that.

What I dislike about existing solutions, is they come with their own binaries, conventions, and stuff, but basically do almost the same… this is the “raw way” that will hold up on any system, and almost all of them have git.