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Agree. And there are cultural issues in forums that make them really annoying. Some forums like to consolidate topics into mega threads like "if you have questions about xyz go to the xyz mega thread". Then you go there and its a 300 page chronology starting in 2008 of completely disorganized conversation. 20 posts per page with no way to read it more easily.

You could do that on reddit with a pinned post but usually mega threads were at least limited to daily/weekly/monthly instead of indefinite.

It would be solved for people who are primarily interested in tech and gaming. How about bellow challenges?

Gaming is huge so presumably lots of gamers are interested in the wider world, which is not exactly well represented here compared to the major platforms.

And we can't ignore the inherent complexities of federation. If a user signs up to another instance but for some reason that instance (or game 's instance) is blocked by others or even goes offline, then it will be confusing if not ruining of their experience.

In another subthread I came up with the below, is this what you mean? I haven't tried it yet.

• /home/user/folderApple is always empty
• /home/user/folderApple-original mounts ontop of /home/user/folderApple at boot
• then /mnt/drive/folderBanana also mounts ontop of /home/user/folderApple when/if it becomes available (later in the order)

Ideally I'd like to avoid a script because my experience is they aren't very durable. I make mistakes and they are difficult to troubleshoot. So I am trying to just use the tools that are already available in the system.

But maybe there is something in the idea of using a second mount, like if

• /home/user/folderApple is always empty
• /home/user/folderApple-original mounts ontop of /home/user/folderApple at boot
• then /mnt/drive/folderBanana also mounts ontop of /home/user/folderApple when/if it becomes available (later in the order)

The results are the same no matter which order I do the mounts in.

don't delete your post, people wrote things here.

You can tell hugo to build from an arbitrary directory of markdown in the config file. Then it'll just do it's best. I have done this experimentally on completely un-optimized obsidian vaults for just my own local use. IIRC there are some mandatory frontmatter elements that hugo requires (date, draft status, and/or title? consult the docs) which will prevent a file from appearing at all if they are missing. Depending how vigilant you are with that kind of thing you can get a more or less janky site straight away.

There are also some plugins, bash scripts etc around that will assist in this. In tidying up the files, selecting which ones to publish, mirroring to another directory etc. I have had mixed success personally, but my vaults are sprawling, badly organized and the frontmatter is often a mess which is all on me. Someone who is less/differently negligent would have different luck. I can provide some links to relevant projects if anyone is interested.

someone else can probably give a more comprehensive/correct answer but here is how I understand it. i believe chromium is open source and chrome is mostly chromium but also some proprietary (and therefor unknown) bits are included. whereas firefox is entirely open source, meaning you could compile it yourself and still end up with the same package.

For nonidentical devices you create additional packages prefixed with specific device name. You don’t need to link all packages at once with stow, pass a name of a package to link it alone.uuu

Sooo... I find some way to share the dotfiles directory across devices (rsync, syncthing, git, nextcloud, DAV) then make specific subdirs like this?:

~
  - dotfiles
      - bash-desktop
         dot-bashrc
         dot-bash_profile
      - bash-laptop
         dot-bashrc
         dot-profile
         dot-bash_profile

But what is the software doing for me? I'm manually moving all these files and putting them together in the specific way requested. Setting the whole thing up is most of the work. Anyone who can write a script to create the structure can just as easily write it to make symlinks. I'm sure I'm missing something here.

yadm is the one I liked the best and tried it a few times. fact is that I am unlikely to keep a repo like this even part way up to date. New files are created all the time and not added, old ones don't get updated or removed. There's not even a good way to notice in any file manager what is included and what's not as far as I know. yadm doesn't work with tools like eza which can display the git status of files in repos. (and it probably wouldn't be feasible.)

Plus I have some specific config collections already in change tracking and it makes more sense to keep it that way. Having so many unrelated files together in one project is too chaotic and distracting.

It's not realistic for me to manage merges, modules, cherry picking, branches all that for so many files that change constantly without direct intervention. Quickly enough git will tie itself into some knot and I won't be able to pick it apart.

Ya you're right I am thinking "partial upgrade"; I just thought the concept might generalize.

I guess the worst that could happen with a partial install would be some deps installed in the system but then not actually required.

I used to use floccus and the thing I really liked is you can selectively share bookmark groups. So if you have certain links you want everywhere you can do that, but some sets you might only want in in specific browsers. I do not know if the others that have this.

Stopped using it because of unresolvable problems and not much Dev attention but looks like its picked up again so I plan to get back to it.