Some I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• bottom, a process manager written in rust.
• starship.rs, a smart prompt that works with most shells. Fish is my fav.
• broot. A unique file explorer and search.
• dua-cli a space analyzer.
• fdupes . Find and remove duplicate files.

No, but it already has language support for most languages. As a decades long vim user who fully moved to helix, it didn’t lack anything I needed.

You mean the power cost of a computer idling at home?

I have 5 computers (beelink and nuc servers) at home rn, each idles at ~6 watts. That’s about 40 usd a year. One computer would be 8.5 usd per year.

If you’re able to code from a terminal, and care about longer battery life (my main concern when working from a coffee shop or elsewhere), I’d recommend getting a used android tablet, pry something from xiaomi or oneplus. You can find a decent model used for around that price with > 8 hour battery life easily.

Get a good stand, a solid bluetooth keyboard (logitech makes some great portable ones), and put termux on it (can probably handle light python locally).

If you need it to do CPU powerful tasks, use termux to remote into a VPS or your home server, and let a plugged in linux machine do the work so you can save your device’s battery life. This is how I code at least.

I’m not sure either. I think arch used to be one of the less popular distros (because of the more involved install process, solved now by the arch-based distros with friendly installers), despite having some of the best features, so it required more “evangelism”, that’s unecessary now. Arch-based distros are now some of the most popular ones, so its not necessary.

Others have commented on why its so great, but the AUR + Rolling releases + stability means that arch is one of the “stable end states”. You might hop around a lot, but its one of the ones you end up landing on, and have no reason to change from.

In that case flatpak is basically a hack for OS’s with broken or improper dependency manangement systems. Either those OS’s should fix their broken systems, or ppl should move to OS’s that do it properly, as that’s one of the most important functions of your OS anyway.

Which ones? Everything in the arch main repos are compiled for your system, and most things in the AUR can either be built from source, or have -bin installs.

Can someone explain why flatpak isn’t necessary for distros that have proper OS dependency management like Arch-based distros or Nix?

Seems like flatpak is solving a problem for OS’s that don’t have proper dependency management.

Why, it’s totally unnecessary.

Same, endeavorOS has been my default install for years now.

Distrowatch does their rankings by page hits, it’s not the best indicator of either usage or popularity.

Gemini is such a great idea (or any web browser that’s basically as simple as reading markdown documents.

Mainly what it needs, is a service to convert existing web pages to its markup, either on the fly, or an archive.is type service, so that ppl can have a safe web experience.

1 month later:

Searches for how to view pictures, videos, and browse via the terminal

I have no idea what your setup is so you’ll need to do your own research on rsync.

Syncthing is very much alive.

Rsync then.

Nightly rsync job in crontab works well enough, if its an external hard drive.

If you’re going over a network, syncthing.

Read the issue above for why. Vote manipulation is a real problem, but making all votes public is not the solution anyone wants. Limiting vote viewing to admins and mods is decided on as the best of both worlds.

Also that tool can only be used by specifically malicious instances whose goal it is to snoop and expose all votes. Those instances can and should be blocked.

We’ve opened up issues on other services many months ago about retaining user vote privacy, because lemmy users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on.

I want to remind everyone that since users overwhelmingly don’t want their votes snooped on (for good reason), we will never add anything like this inside lemmy, lemmy-ui, or jerboa.

While there’s nothing we can do to snoopers making tools like this, it requires a lemmy server admin login.

If you know of servers which are giving admin access to this tool, let us know, so we can add it to our blocklist.