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boatswain,

I love Localsend because it’s gloriously simple: Does exactly what you want, and nothing more. I haven’t used KDE Contact; what else does it add in?

boatswain,

The tl;dr from the article (which is actually worth a read):

The very short version: Unix PIDs do start at 0! PID 0 just isn’t shown to userspace through traditional APIs. PID 0 starts the kernel, then retires to a quiet life of helping a bit with process scheduling and power management. Also the entire web is mostly wrong about PID 0, because of one sentence on Wikipedia from 16 years ago.

boatswain,

Definitely; OP’s linked article doesn’t have any quotes that refer to copyright, while this one of yours adds a lot of context that was otherwise missing. There’s a world of difference between allowing retention of IP addresses and creating a cleaning house for IPs suspected of distributing works.

boatswain,

If XSS is your concern, check out Firefox’s Container Tabs. They allow you to set up tab groups that restrict access to cookies to only tabs in that group, so you can just, eg, set up a group for your bank and restrict it to just your bank’s site. Your session cookie etc are then not available to any other tab groups.

I pair that with the Temporary Containers extension, so any random tab I open is in its own container. Everything is always separate.

Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price (www.token2.ch)

Token2 is a cybersecurity company specialized in the area of multifactor authentication. Founded by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva with years of experience in the field of strong security and multifactor authentication. Token2 has invented, designed and developed various hardware and software solutions for...

boatswain,

I don’t see a good way to put it on a keychain; the only hole looks tiny, and right on an edge where it’s likely to snap after a year or so of wear.

boatswain,

That looks close, but I’d want to swap out the track ball for a D pad, and I’m not sure how feasible that is

boatswain,

Yeah, the Belkin is just solid; it’s definitely my longest-lived peripheral. I’ve never used anything by Razer; their stuff seems style over substance.

The DIY community here creates so much really cool stuff; I’m hoping someone else has already tackled this problem.

boatswain,

I’m sure it does for its purpose, but the D pad is something I use frequently to control movement in a specific direction, so I wantt to be able to, for example, strafe right for a second or two; track ball seems like not a great solution for repeated consistent input like that. Track ball seems like a better solution for doing things like moving a cursor to a particular location.

boatswain,

Interesting, hadn’t seen that before. Their site doesn’t really show how they get their 29 button presses–is is multiple switches for each finger? How’s the software for it and, most importantly: does it run on Linux?

boatswain,

That’s actually really neat, and could be worth experimenting with. It’s a shame the two halves seem to be hardwired together; I’d only want the left half. Might be a good place to start though, thanks!

I did find it amusing how much the site talks about using a smartphone with your thumbs though; that seems like an alien idea to me: I just a swipe keyboard on my phone with my index finger.

boatswain,

Me too! So far, the Azeron is looking most appealing, though I’m concerned about Linux support. It sounds like some people have got it working though, so maybe it’ll pan out. The ideal would still be something that supports QMK, so I’m still interested to hear if anyone’s come up with anything that does that.

boatswain,

Ah bummer

boatswain,

Ooh, wow, that looks like a super handy resource. Thanks!

boatswain,

Just picked this up based on the up votes here, and I’m already a fan. Seems like it does what you want and nothing else, which is perfect.

boatswain,

Mint is super comfy. Garuda is cool. Pop_OS! is as annoying to use as it is to type.

Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....

boatswain,

On top of all that, most hitting contacts I’ve seen contain language saying that if you use company resources to make a thing, that thing, the company owns that thing. Seems likely that in addition to firing they could compel you to turn over the drive and wipe it.

boatswain,

Such a good game. It’s mind-blowing how much personality and character development they give a bunch of quadrilaterals. The wiring and narration are fantastic.

boatswain,

You can have non-markdown files in your vault, but I’m not sure how readily you can search them by default; there may be plugins that support that use case though.

boatswain,

SyncThing is fantastic; I use it for Obsidian files and also for password manager databases.

boatswain,

CherryTree is way clunkier, IMO, and has too many irrelevant options that get in the way, particularly around formatting. Obsidian is just markdown, so you don’t have the option of spending 15 minutes trying to figure out why code blocks are showing up as dark text on light background even though you’re in dark mode, which was my last experience in CherryTree. Looking and cross referencing documents is also super easy; I’m not sure if CherryTree even does that.

boatswain,

Working through the new Guild Wars 2 expansion. Once I’m done with that, it’ll probably be back to Baldur’s Gate 3, though that might change if it takes me long enough that the new Cyberpunk DLC is out.

What are your favorite video games that force you to pull out the pen and paper?

Ever since the language puzzle in Tunic that got me to fill up 6 pocket sized pages of notes over multiple days while trying to puzzle it out as I tried to and, eventually, succeeded at translating the in-game “paper” manual, I’ve had a craving for games that force you to pull out a notebook and take notes/puzzle things...

boatswain,

Secret World was a great modern horror MMO for a while there, and the investigation missions had some really complex puzzles that expected you do go online and do research into Egyptian dynasties and King James bible quotes and all kinds of other stuff. They dumbed down the amazing build system the game started with, but the core story skills still all be worth playing.

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