

Additionally, at least for my use-case btrfs benefits me since it is less picky about drive sizes being the same and duplicating everything correctly - letting you essentially just throw additional storage at it as you acquire it.
Additionally, at least for my use-case btrfs benefits me since it is less picky about drive sizes being the same and duplicating everything correctly - letting you essentially just throw additional storage at it as you acquire it.
The rss feed should be accessible here but it’s unfortunately a little buggy, been meaning to spruce it up for ages.
xdg-open
is very nifty, especially due to its ubiquitousness on a variety of distributions.
You can even have a look inside to see that it is actually a shell script yet again invoking other ‘opening’ scripts in the background!
I wrote a little bit about it and an alternative to it called mimeo
not too long ago.
That one can even open things by advanced filters such as regexes. So you could e.g. open https://eff.org
in Firefox and http://localhost:3000
in a different application or other advanced shenanigans - though I’ve never used such advanced features much.
Mutt (and neomutt) has very nice search capabilities, supporting regex search within specific mailboxes. However, it is a relatively slow search - unbearably slow for full text search in large mailboxes.
Here, notmuch is usually used to complement mutt. It’s a very fast (full-text) mail indexer, which can be directly integrated in mutt and allows much faster searching (among other things such as advanced mail tagging, virtual mailboxes and more).
It is generally a royal pain to set up with so many moving parts but once you do it is a very fast, comfortable mail environment if you’re comfy with the terminal.
Fully agreed with the usefulness of topgrade.
Topgrade is not just for archlinux but will happily upgrade Debian-/RedHat-Derivatives, Gentoo, Void, some BSDs and I think even Mac and Windows, though I’m not sure how those work.
The link you provided also goes to the unmaintained original version, while there is a community fork here: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade which sees more development (but is also looking for maintainers!)
I’m also using topgrade and it is wonderful to upgrade the system dependencies but even the content of unrelated package managers such as pipx, vim, zsh plugin-managers, cargo programs, R packages, npm/yarn packages, and importantly for this thread flatpaks and snaps with one command. It really is lovely.
Someone forgot to put the unix in the porn.
The terminal-based file browser space is so filled today but for my part I love what vifm has done for the dual-pane midnight commander concept - it’s the same basic idea, uses (somewhat) vim-like bindings by default and is super extensible.