Wise words

My sincere condolences. As you wrote, you can’t prepare for this and it will take a long time to process. IMO it’s best to let people help out if possible and focus on the rest of your family.

Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing them. I assumed that you would want to have file versioning out of the way and focus on the writing. What about keeping a sort of change log (diary, if you want) as part of the document itself, like an appendix? That way you could maybe separate raw document history from the creative process.

Git is a technical tool intended for versioning sharing, manipulating and comparing pieces of code. I’m not sure that you need all those aspects for literary work. I imagine that writing a poem is more linear in the sense that you won’t merge a poem branch back to the “main” version of the poem. At least not in the way you would do it with code. You will also probably not submit or accept patches to the poem. So maybe the commit messages are not necessarily the best place to keep “creative metadata” about the content.

Just some random thoughts. I guess that you’ll have to try and see what method fits your creative process best (the natural trend you mentioned). Good luck!

You could set up a script to automatically commit changes (if present) every X minutes. That way you would generate automatic document history without having to care the commit comments. Git is mighty versatile, but you don’t have to use all of its features.

Works (again?) for me.

I used to love playing Netstorm and Darwinia.

Picard uses audio fingerprinting and the musicbrainz DB to match the items. If the items are in the DB, then it will find them. If they aren’t, then they can be added.

There are other similar tools (although they might not have graphical UIs) which also use additional metadata backends and allow complex manipulation of audio files. I personally use beets which can be configured to use Musicbrainz, Spotify, Deezer, Discogs and Bandcamp for metadata (it will also help with file manipulation, audio normalization, fetch cover art and many other things). It seems that there is a plugin called ‘ytimport’ which integrates with SoundCloud and YouTube. That might help with your specific question, though I did not test it.

Beware that the latest release of beets (2.5.x at the time of writing) is quite fresh and might break some plugins. I personally will stick with 2.4.x for a while.

• Tales from Beyond the Firmament from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia
• Temple of the Second Moon from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia

I’m not advocating for anything, but if I remember correctly, flatpaks are typically installed in user home directory. If that’s the case, then it’s just a matter of copying a directory and installing flatpak. I might be wrong though.

Calling people idiots is not helping them, it’s insulting them.

Does it detect browsers installed through flatpak?

Ok, my mistake. I didn’t express myself correctly. I wasn’t referring to the article but to the communication between developers.

I don’t see any drama. It’s just people working together, having different priorities yet still getting things done. Some friction is to be expected.

Would it be possible to use a “thin” Windows VM as “client” for One Drive? Meaning that the client would be responsible for synchronization of mounted directories which are actually used on the host machine.

We’ll go with bare-metal Linux—no Halium, no libhybris. We want to stay as close to mainline as possible and actively contribute upstream.

We’ll develop everything openly. Our policy is to publish code, collaborate with the community, and be transparent. Free software, for us, is a matter of principle—not just legal compliance.

IIRC that’s not accurate. You only need that “pro feature” if you want to be able to apply activate kernel updates without rebooting. Unless you have that requirement and an armada of devices matching that profile you don’t need to pay anything.

On the other side, if you don’t want to sell it, then gathering private data can theoretically be seen as theft, which in turn could protect your privacy. Generally, it would be nicer if ownership of such data would not be transferable.

Testing a normal Linux installation sounds like a good idea. In my opinion it’s better to transition to Linux than switch. That way you can go back to your previous system setup and see what you are missing or need without having to open your computer and swap hardware. If you can add the old or new SSD as an external drive and so that you can can boot then your plan might work out.

I just can’t be bothered to switch when my current distro worked just fine for me for the last 20 years. I have no time to experiment anymore, I just want to get things done.

So how did it work out for you? Did bcachefs manage to perform any miracles?