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My home folders on any OS have a Development folder (which conveniently sits right next to Documents and Downloads) and in that folder, I’ve also got subfolders per programming language that have the respective projects in them.

The other folder I usually have is SyncThing with whatever synced folders are relevant for that machine.

What is this th → þ replacement going on in your text? Trying to bring back the thorn?

I usually boot the System-Rescue CD (can also boot from USB) and use GPartEd to resize partitions.

That old laptop’s CPU and TPM are “not supported” by Win11. And also, Win10 already didn’t run that smoothly on it - so, I didn’t even try to hack Win11 onto it.

Read my text again. This is my only Windows laptop - and it needs to be actual Windows for all the obscure firmware update tools of some devices I have flying around.

Everything else in my household is either Linux or MacOS.

I took the opportunity to “downgrade” to Windows 7. My old HP laptop (which is specifically for a few specialty Windows-only apps) feels double as fast now compared to Windows 10 before. And with the help of LegacyUpdates.net and VxKex-NEXT (provides the very few Windows 10 API calls so you can even run most Win10-only apps on Win7) you get a pretty nice and lean system.

Open-source Mbrowser 52.2, packed with security features

Does anyone know where to find this?

EDIT: All I can find are the user agent strings which indicate that this might be some IBM product. Also, there’s rv:52.0 in the environment part, but IBM Mbrowser/60.5.1 in the engines part - so the actual version of the browser component might be 60.5.1 in this case, not 52.x. (There’s also a rv:60.0 with Mbrowser/60.9.0 - no IBM this time.)

Looks like there was www.diforfree.org some 7-10 years ago. I’ve found a few remnants via Google. But I couldn’t find anything that’s still working.

Does the Optiplex have passive cooling? I don’t want these things to make any noise at all.

They changed it quite some while ago but you were still able to get books in the older format by using an older Kindle (or Kindle app version). I haven’t checked myself, but heard rumours that this loophole was closed recently.

If it still works for you: Apprentice Alf’s DeDRM plugin for Calibre.

But I believe this ship has sailed after Amazon’s recent changes…

First, you buy an eye patch. And maybe some small and energy efficient computer. A Raspberry Pi 5 might even be enough for your first steps. Or maybe some small form-factor PC. Then you install Linux on there and follow one of the various guides for Linux.

I’m really exhausted

We all are!

All uploads go through an AV scan, though. But yeah, better be safe than sorry.

Debian is usually pretty good at auto-detecting hardware. It might be that your Ethernet and/or WiFi adapters will get new IDs and thus you might have to reconfigure your IP address and/or WiFi. But that should be about it.

I was using PhotoSync quite successfully until I’ve switched to iCloud.

Nowadays, my MacBook is configured to always download all photo originals. And my Photo Library is then backed up to my NAS using CCC. This allows easy restore in case something goes wrong, as I can either restore the whole library or open the backup library and pull out what’s needed. If that fails, there’s also osxphotos to work with the library.

Yeah, I’m trying to build some muscle memory in yazi, too, as I like its instant previews.

I’ve also just remembered this website that has lots of other cool terminal tools:

https://terminaltrove.com/

Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic file manager if you grew up in the 90s with Norton Commander on DOS.

For my local Git repositories I prefer lazygit now. There’s also a plethora of other lazy* tools for e.g. Docker.

And you should maybe look at dialog or whiptail to spice up your shell scripts.

If you do Python, there’s the rich library and there’s also pythondialog. Both pretty easy to use. If you want more, there’s textual.

EDIT: mutt for emails is nice once you’ve managed to set it up.

Probably BigBlueButton, or maybe Jitsi. Or, they’re still using Teams but didn’t want it mentioned in the article.

I’m pretty happy with Downie (and Permute to directly convert media to whatever format I like). So far it downloads everything I throw at it. And you can create custom download handlers (using JavaScript) to make it work (without interaction) with sites that are currently not supported and would spawn the user-interactive downloader.

If you just want to download and don’t care about a nice GUI, yt-dlp probably has similar features.

A quick search says it’s an NZB site: https://usenetreviews.org/nzbsites/tabula-rasa/

EDIT: And here’s a Reddit discussion about it.