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[KDE Plasma] Customized my system to my liking
  • Nice work, that looks really good and inspired me to try a few things on my desktop

  • How did you stop smoking? What was your motivation, and how did you finally do it?
  • I wanted to quit but couldn't. I read Allan carrs quit smoking book and how they described what the nicotine does did it for me.

    It helped finally understanding how the addiction works, and how I was constantly just trying to get to a normal baseline of living that non smokers just lived at normally.

    Ive tried vaping, gum, lozenges, cold Turkey, everything. Almost a year free from nicotine now, no regrets, not missing a damn thing.

  • Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas
  • Similar here, I actually comment occasionally. More than that, I've gone back to self hosting multiple things, I've shifted away from Google, all good changes I think. Prompted by reddit changing the api price, who would have thought they'd have such a positive influence on me.

  • Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
  • Really mind blowing how few crimes are actually solved. I've had real world experience of being a robbery victim and there was absolutely no attempt at solving it.

    Someone told me if you have a problem and call the police, now you have two problems.

  • How do you all go about backing up your data, on Linux?
  • Anything important I keep in my Dropbox folder, so then I have a copy on my desktop, laptop, and in the cloud.

    When I turn off my desktop, I use restic to backup my Dropbox folder to a local external hard drive, and then restic runs again to back up to Wasabi which is a storage service like amazon's S3.

    Same exact process for when I turn off my laptop.. except sometimes I don't have my laptop external hd plugged in so that gets skipped.

    So that's three local copies, two local backups, and two remote backup storage locations. Not bad.

    Changes I might make:

    • add another remote location
    • rotate local physical backup device somewhere (that seems like a lot of work)
    • move to next cloud or seafile instead of Dropbox

    I used seafile for a long time but I couldn't keep it up so I switched to Dropbox.

    Advice, thoughts welcome.

  • if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?
  • All I've been able to think about since I heard "X" lol

  • Bitwarden or Proton Pass
  • This is just one of the weirder comments I've read, like what did I just read here. Lol

  • Bitwarden or Proton Pass
  • Nah, still a great solution if you like. That was my solution for years until just about a month ago I switched to bitwarden because it seemed easier to protect with a yubikey. I've liked it so far.

    I took the opportunity to export all my passwords from Firefox, chrome, and KeePass, then spent about a day cleaning the whole mess up and removing duplicates, THEN imported the csv into bitwarden. Still getting used to not using chrome/Firefox for auto filling and storing passwords, but I like that my passwords don't feel so spread out across multiple browsers/dbs.

  • Best alternative to selfhosting email? E.g. email hosting provider for a custom domain
  • I've used runbox for I don't know how many years now. They do support a catch-all, as I make up email addresses on the fly with my domain and it works just fine.

  • To anyone that misses Reddit Slide; I may have a present for you soon
  • Slide is all I've used for so long I can't even remember different! I don't go on Reddit anymore, but I've been hesitant to actually uninstall Slide. Love to be able to use it here!

  • Reddit admins removing the NSFW tags from subs with porn in them
  • This is great watching the drama from my new "home" here on kbin. I'm so happy that you all are here too, giving me tons to read.

  • Whoa, you're a hacker!
  • Terminal is even more impressive if used in full screen

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