What have you found bad about bash arrays? I have some simple usage of those (in bash) and they work fine.

Yes. All Flatpak apps can be used on any distro.

I’m using the Fedora Flatpak Firefox on Debian, because Fedora’s Flatpak runtime supports Kerberos authentication, the Flathub runtime doesn’t.

Every Flatpak vendor

So who’s that? Flathub and Fedora, the latter of who automate the Flatpak builds from distro packages anyway.

If you’re using a smaller distro which is not backed by a huge security team then this is probably an advantage of using Flatpak, not a negative.

aiui apt will compare downloads from repositories against the repository signing key, whereas downloading a deb and installing it manually with dpkg bypasses that.

So theoretically the Debian website could get compromised and provide you a malicious deb package. That has happened to other Linux distros before so it’s not entirely unrealistic.

Practically I think that’s very unlikely.

I know apt has the --download option if you’d like to fetch deb packages on the commandline, though I’m not sure if apt compares the package with the key during this process. I hope it does. You could probably run apt in verbose mode and hopefully see this happen.

Some references:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/131397/what-is-a-repository-key-under-ubuntu-and-how-do-they-work
• https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Same. My alias is dit for “dotfile git”.

I’ve tried several dotfile managers, but after adding my files I interact with them so infrequently I forget how to use them.

The thing which finally stuck is this method from Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Your entire home directory is a bare git repo which ignores untracked files. It’s just plain git so there is no additional tool to learn or forget.

I’ve put my vim plugins as git submodules so they’re easily and efficiently tracked and updated too.

I don’t care but it’s annoying that they won’t put a normal application name into $PATH.

There is a denied GitHub Issue for it but I can’t be bothered finding it. It’ll never happen so it doesn’t matter.

Hello, great to see you on here! I’ve followed your previous helpful posts about this in the past and I have looked at the source of the Buster-based XFCE image exactly as you said. I should check out your Bookworm source too.

I also used to think Debian was a good distro lacking good config, and that was the advantage which Ubuntu brought to the table. Then I started using Debian full time and realised I was wrong. Once you set a graphical theme and make a few tweaks there isn’t a great amount of difference from more friendly distros like Ubuntu or PopOS. I suspect this also has something to do with just how good Bookworm is. I’m also arguably an advanced user (Linux-curious since 99 and full time since 07, patches in many open source projects, my job is fixing Linux) so I don’t find the things which Spiral does are difficult to understand or to do myself if I want.

SpiralLinux wasn’t the only factor in why I ditched Ubuntu and switched to Debian, but you definitely helped me to see that Debian is a viable good desktop distro and that it really doesn’t need a lot of changes from the base install, and for that I’m very grateful. Thank you.

For me, the thing holding me back from doing SpiralLinux installs is Calamares. I want to do a custom partition encrypted LVM install and Calamares just can’t do that. So unfortunately in this way, Spiral is worse than plain Debian for me. If Spiral offered an install iso which used the proper superior debian-installer that would be quite compelling to me, but maybe additional needless work for you.

In any case, if you are bringing new users to Debian then it’s a win.

It is pretty nice but ultimately it’s just Debian with a slightly different package set and a theme. You can boot the regular live image and set the theme to Adwaita-dark and there’s not really much difference.

Then post your credit card number, expiry, and CVC

I am a huge Vim nerd, but I do a lot of copy-paste with one-off minor formatting in between. Sometimes Vim is more efficient at this, but often it really isn’t and I’m quicker to use a dumb Notepad-like.

I’ve previously used Gedit in Gnome 2, Pluma which is MATE’s equivalent, Xed which is Linux Mint’s equivalent, and currently on Mousepad which is XFCE’s equivalent. That’s also mostly the history of my desktop environments over the last two decades.

No it doesn’t, Termux is just a set of Linux packages which are compiled to use the Android Termux application data directory as the base install path. There is no separation from the host system like a container does with Linux kernel namespaces. The only permission in Termux is what Android itself enforces.

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Make one with a bunch of arcade buttons and an RP2040 running the GP2040 firmware:

https://gp2040-ce.info/

However, having done this, you will learn NOT to cheap out on buttons. Cheap Chinese clone buttons absolutely suck. Once you buy a set of proper arcade buttons or keyboard switches, plus a bit of wire, you’ll have spent as much as the 8BitDo stick costs anyway.

I gave Tangram and Ferdium a look but the rendering engine they use is awful and makes my eyes hurt. Old Chrome/Chromium used to have the same problem years ago. I’ll stick to Librewolf pinned tabs.

It means feeling of affection, mostly used by anime weaboos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_(slang)

You going to be most interested in learning the video decode and encode capabilities of mini-PCs:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Core_Next

I don’t know any specific community or how-to about this, but most people seem to run Plex and it just works.

Use an open source 2FA which lets you export

You can store your recovery codes as files in KeepassXC

McMurphy’s Mansion

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mcmurphy-s-mansion-271

A puzzle solving text adventure where you go around your relative’s estate trying to uncover 12 gold bars. I have fond memories of playing this as a child with my Scottish grandmother.

Alphaman

https://www.mobygames.com/game/21019/alphaman/

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/alphaman-315

A humorous post-apocalyptic roguelike starring Elvis and Donald Trump (the 90s version).

I worked with the creator Jeff to release the original source code, and it’s seen a little bit more recognition in roguelike circles recently

https://github.com/superjamie/alphaman-src