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  • I thought about this solution, as it is the “cleanest”, however I need on total 4 firefox derivatives. Unfortunately, when looking deeply into the options, i haven’t found 4 that are similarly trustworthy, well maintained etc. Also i have my firefox config fully figured out, it works and is as private as i want them, without some maintainer forcing their opinion on my use cases. Plain firefox is the easiest to configure, as it’s like a blank start. However i might be wrong here and am open to suggestions :D


  • Unfortunately that is not what I am looking for. I am already using named profiles. Like i stated in my original post as well as my answers below, this only works from Inside Firefox, however from the operating system pov it is still treated as the same application. Which means:

    a) When i share the work profile, i also share all other profiles, as they are all Firefox b) When I quick access firefox via spotlight, i end up at the nearest, random profile / instance of firefox. c) There is no way to differentiate the profiles on an application level. d) I can not assign the instances to different desktops, as they are all Firefox.




  • The conversion is not an issue, there are already multiple tools for that, including a browser plugin with auto refresh.

    However the tight integration with the editor, in this case neovim, is missing. At the bare minimum it should show the changed area curently being edited, ideally scroll with the editor scrolling like with common markdown extensions. Currently it just shows a static site that refreshs.










  • Thank you everyone for all your suggestions! I’ll quickly try to summarize them for myself. So what you suggest is:

    Operating Systems:

    • NixOs
    • Debian 12
    • ElementaryOS
    • mint
    • PopOs
    • EndevourOS
    • Fedora
    • arch
    • Opensuse
    • Novara

    Tiling Window Manager:

    Recomended to use something based on wayland.

    • hyprland (can be configured from file, good compatibility with nix)
    • sway (proposed with Debian, multiple suggestions, config via file as well, good for custom keybindings, already options for sway in nixos)
    • i3
    • bspwm
    • KDE Plasma
    • dwm / dwl

    Status Bar:

    • swaybar (in case of using sway)
    • waybar (when using wayland)
    • eww
    • ags
    • KDE neon

    Package Managers:

    • flatpack
    • brew (is this already stable enough?)
    • Nix (obvious choice if nix os chosen)
    • snap
    • (pacman if arch)
    • integrated one

    Packages:

    • together with wayland alacritty or kitty
    • foot
    • Yakuake
    • suckless

    At the moment I am trying to avoid anything where RedHat is involved. Not because of the recent controversy, but simply IBM is known to kill their software solutions on a whim. (although i still use ansible), so Fedora is unfortunately out (again, no judging on how great it is). I’ve been quite interested in EndevourOS, so that might be fun to try out. Debian for the desktop probably not right now. I’m running it on servers for stability, but for a desktop environment, i prefer having more recent packages (e.g. neovim). The “sales pitch” for Mint sounded pretty interesting as well. However i’ll give NixOs a try first, simply because it was mentioned very often, same with sway.

    Based on this i’ll try out these combinations first:

    1. NixOs with sway and eww
    2. NixOs with hyprland and waybar
    3. NixOs with dwl and ?

    If this does not satisfy, i’ll look into endevourOS and mint, but that might require some Ansible I assume.

    Thank you very much!




  • I don’t know how the code is currently working, but I like this feature idea and would suggest to start very simple and proceed from there.

    For example you could: a) Make a list of communities that are siblings with their id and instance b) add a toggle to view sister community posts yes /no c) query all communities, list the last x posts from each with time constraints, e.g. not older than 1 day or hour depending on the community post frequency d) list them sorted by time of x , depending on what was chosen

    The biggest issue I see with this simple approach, besides others, is that different communities are different in terms of activity / post frequency. So ideally the better, but more effort, way would be to let each community instance communicate their posts themselves via a query with activity metric parameters. Basically the amount of returned posts would depend on common parameters set by the most active instance.

    It’s not yet thought out, but just getting an mvp started and test the waters would probably be better than having it perfect right away while working on it for months






  • Can you recommend some devices? Most of the ones i saw had good prices, but not performance relative to power usage. The N100 with its 4 efficiency cores is actually quite good for the price and power usage. Unfortunately most mini pcs with it have limited ports.

    I also think, that 2 ssds might be sufficient for the beginning. I’m even thinking of just adding 2 external ssd’s and call it a day for the beginning (one as backup), but that does not scale well.


  • The jbod idea sounds good to explore further, as it tha home server and storage would be separated. However it would add an additional device to the power bill.

    However i don’t need the full amount of all disks at all times. If i’d want to unplug via shell script, i’d need to plug it manually in person back in for storing things. I actually do not need it running all the time, as the home server ssd can cache most of what i need recently in access. The jbod is then more an archive.

    i’m mainly looking for a way to power down the inexpensive hdd’s. I could use the raspberry pi as the jbod controller, but it does not properly support wake on lan, so thats also not an option