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Please use .config ðŸ˜
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Please use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (and other XDG base dies)
Use xdg-ninja to help clear out unwanted files not in your home folder, and give tips to move them into a normal folder like .config
laughs in home-manager
Laughs in NixOS
Nixos still slaps your home route with a bunch of . Files
Yes, but I never have to look at them
but please don't hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it's not set.
Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)
On macOS, the correct thing to use is usually NSUserDefaults API, or - [NSFileManager URLsForDirectory:inDomains:] with NSApplicationSupportDirectory (gives a list of paths to find your config file in, like XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)
Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.
You feel the curling of the monkey's paw; the entire app is now in ~/.local/AppName
Even better, ~/.local/share/
XDG? OpenDesktop? Dunno what that is, time to dump everything into ~/.myawesomeapp
Just dump it in ~
Oh, no. Don't even make it a hidden folder, it needs to be right there, front and center. And make sure you use a bunch of capital letters in the name, because you're so fucking important.
Android Studio
And Arduino.
At least it gives you the option to change it
I’ve been forcing myself to learn to use NixOS with home-manager just to avoid this. Not to worry, it’s just my home.nix that’s a dumpster fire now
I've been using Nix for a little more than a year, I don't think I've touched my configs in better than 6 months. I'm honestly not entirely certain what would constitute a dumpster fire in a Nix config
I've probably only modified 50 or 60 lines of the default configs.
I do have a folder full of shell.nix files when I need to do a special workflow, like I have one that kicks up wine and sets up mp3tag, another that sets up rust, another sets up Python, and one that sets up for yt-dlp. But I don't carry anything in my base configs that I don't use in a given week
I set up a nix os for a friend once. Forgot the master password. It's been 5 years. Oh well.
It's still a lot better that creating random .folders per application in your home.
KeePass user 🫡
Of course. Everything else is hosted on other's servers, and here I have the choice between dozens of storages, mainly selfhosted ones. The only exception being KeePassXC - but that's what rclone/rsync are for. So the DB resides on a WebDAV share on my Nextcloud now.
Everything else is hosted on other’s servers
You can self-host bitwarden with vaultwarden.
The font in the screenshot makes me angry.
I like it. Makes me think of teletext
Idk what happened there either. After updating from Android 12 to 13, this is how it was ever since. And now I'm used to it.
Konsole once did that to me, and started inserting random tabs.
Hey! Would you mind guiding me as to what is going on in this picture? Is this an APP that allowed to SSH into your server? You got my attention with this picture, and I'm curious to hear more.
It's Termux, basically a fully fletched terminal for Android. So you can install various tools via apt, and use them, for example yt-dlp, ffmpeg, gcc, python etc. And yes, you can also use SSH, both as server and client. I use it very often to connect to my servers on the go.
You can even use chroot to basically run a distro of your choice.
Damn, that sound pretty cool, thanks for the info!
Nah just put it in ~/.thing-config.d/01-0x45- 110100100-main.options-extra2cache.swp along with three godzillion other files like it's normal and very sane for users who edit such files to have the big picture of the default configuration dreamed up by some utterly deranged lunatic be spread across enough files to represent all known stars in the galaxy, standards are for losers amirite ^/s^
It really depends for what. I don't think nginx config should be in $HOME/.conf/
Right? It goes into ~/Documents/
SMH my head
Everything into ~/Downloads/ until the partition is full.
First thing I do on a new install is purge the home folder of every default folder, and symlink Downloads to another partition.
Whoever standardized that shit in there like Templates needs to be shot with a ball of their own feces.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
You can actually change those locations rather than using symlinks. I have them as subfolders in ~/xdg/ on my system.
Unless it's running as your own user as part of your session. /etc for system-wide and ~/.config for your own user makes a lot of sense.
They want ~/etc/ in their home, which just seems like a renamed ~/.config/.
Just give me ~/etc/
Isn't that just .config?
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
I think this picture would be an upgrade from my current situation. It is perfectly normal to have to use sudo find from root to locate anything, isn't it? It's especially fun when you don't remember what the thing you are looking for is called and are trying to guess the name to find.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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