Torrent stuff in HD or 4K and play those files instead of trying to stream from a company that won’t offer better than 720p :-)

Nope, pipx definitely can’t do that, but the idea that running your yourscript.py --help will automatically trigger the downloading of dependencies and installing them somewhere isn’t really appealing. I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s got uv configured to install the virtualenv in the local .venv folder rather than buried into my home dir, so this would come with the added surprise that every time I invoke the script, I’d get a new set of dependencies installed wherever I happen to be.

I mean, it’s neat that you can do this, but as a user I wouldn’t appreciate the surprise behaviour. pipx isn’t perfect, but at least it lets you manage things like updates.

This looks like a reimplementation of pipx.

Syncthing on Android will be discontinued, and there’s a fork already, which as I said above, I use.

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I guess it’s been a while then. Syncthing works perfectly for me, with the official latest version in Arch, the older version in Debian, the flatpak on Ubuntu, and the forked version on Android, syncing all my Joplin data all over the place.

I don’t much care for the file format though. The appeal of Git Journal is strong.

Joplin + Syncthing has been great for me. Sync across multiple devices with no third party in between. However the “sharing” in this context is limited to other installations of the entire db. To my knowledge, there’s no way to say “sync these notes with my wife, and these others with my phone only” etc.

I used KDE for about 10 years, but switched to GNOME when 3 came out and haven’t looked back. It’s a little unusual if you’re coming from Windows, but I’ve found that once I let go of old paradigms like a start bar and icons and embraced multiple workspaces, that GNOME is pretty damned amazing.

You might want to consider using Docker. You can build an image on your normal machine, export it as a file onto a USB stick, and then transfer it to your air-gapped machine, import it there. Then running it is just docker run --rm my_image

You can do this for a whole bunch of programs in one image, or a separate image for each one.

It would gBoard’s autocorrect got one final dig in. I did indeed mean Heliboard, and I’ve now installed it with the glide extension and… it’s great! Thanks for the reference!

What does Tubular do for you that the stock New Pipe doesn’t? I’m also curious about neighbours, as I’m still using gBoard and I’d rather switch to something else that still supports swipe-typing.

Desktop

• Arch Linux
• GNOME
• Firefox
• Tilix
• Thunderbird or Evolution
• Vim (I still use PyCharm for writing code)
• Joplin
• Bitwarden
• Python

Phone

• Joplin
• Firefox Focus & Firefox
• Bitwarden
• New Pipe
• Thunderbird (K-9 Mail)
• Signal
• Aegis
• Antenna Pod
• VLC
• The FOSSify suite (not the dialer)

The problem of unintuitiveness is sadly very common in Free software, but it’s getting better… in a few spaces anyway.

For an Apple Notes replacement, I would suggest looking at Joplin, which I use daily for everything from database diagrams to recipes. It has a built-in sync feature, supporting a variety of options, all encrypted. I used it with Syncthing, which admittedly isn’t very easy, but there are other simpler options.

Depending on your DE, you can have those no problem. You just symlink to the respective .desktop file for the program you want to run. So for example, if you wanna start Firefox from your desktop, you’d look for a file called Firefox.desktop on your system (probably living under /usr) and symlink to that from ~/Desktop.

Knowing how to fix my wife’s computer, or my parents’ computers, or my brother’s.

Actually, while it’s rather frustrating for them, it’s not so bad for me ;-)

The Framework 16 looks pretty great. Repairable & upgradable, discrete graphics (AMD), and guaranteed Linux support.

Each Pi 4 has 8GB of RAM. With six devices, that’s 48GB to play with. More than enough for my needs.

Actually, as a web guy, I find the ARM architecture to be more than sufficient. Most of the stuff I build is memory heavy and CPU light, so the Pi is great for this stuff.

They’re fanless and low-power, which was the primary draw to going this route. I run a Kubernetes cluster on them, including a few personal websites (Nginx+Python+Django), PostgreSQL, Sonarr, Calibre, SSH (occasionally) and every once in a while, an OpenArena server :-)

Seven Raspberry Pi 4’s and one Pi Zero, mounted on some tile “shelves” inside some IKEA furniture.