I use syncthing all over the place for this sort of thing. I have some sync directories that are multi way synced across multiple devices, others that are one-way drop targets to a specific device, others that are for operations like backing up photos. It’s quite excellent with a good sync algorithm that rarely results in conflicts.

Another suggestion for Darktable. It handles this case of mixed types transparently. It’s a big thing to learn, but extremely powerful and capable, and you don’t have to know all the corners of it, just enough for your workflow.

Address already in use is the key - something else has already bound to that address:port combination. Next step is to find out what process is listening on it. Try ss, netstat, lsof to name a few hints.

FreeCAD. It’s fantastic but takes some getting used to. I recommend the Ondsel fork - it’s still free and open source except for the cloud storage which you can ignore. Ondsel includes some newer features and some interface changes.

When I’m forced to, and not before then. X works perfectly well so there’s no reason for me to switch to something else with less features.

Reboot to the snapshot you took of the root fs before starting the update, then just rerun the upgrade. If you are using btrfs (or ZFS) make use of its features so you never have this sort of problem.

ESP boards are so cheap that in my opinion this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense - it’s probably going to be more expensive than distributing ESPs around due to the wiring, and I guess I’d argue the distributed nature of HA/ESPHome is one of the best things about it, versus centralized alarm panels, for example, that used to be common decades ago, bringing all wiring back to a single location. Optimizing for unused GPIO pins isn’t really something that bothers me, personally. What I like about my ESP projects is just the opposite - that I can sprinkle them around the house close to the things they measure and control.

I don’t mean to be super negative - of course you should do it however you want to, but that’s my opinion - for what it’s worth (i.e. nothing).

Just don’t open the drawer if you don’t want the drawer - doesn’t that make the most sense versus looking for something with few features? Never look to Apple for the right answer - that is always a good place to start.

Nova launcher lets you customize how the app drawer is opened - so you can turn off gesture opening via one of the other options. Nova is a great launcher, I switched to the paid version a couple of years back and found it to be my favorite. I just wish they’d launch Nova 8 which has been in beta for 2 years already.

Nope, Plan9 is too old - I run Hurd.

(Yes, this is a joke)

So what do I have wrong here?

Nothing, as far as I’m concerned. I guess DEs have to constantly change or they become stale to some people. I’m an older guy than the normal demographic here too and stale is exactly what I want. I run i3 with a bunch of terminals, a browser, and sublime text when vi in a terminal isn’t enough (yes, it’s really vim, but it’ll always be vi to me), and I xsetroot the classic weave pattern for my background. That’s it. I don’t need or want menus, widgets, themes, file managers or anything else. I guess someday Wayland will win, and I’ll be forced to do something different, but until then, not changing this extremely productive and efficient environment.

One thing with Reolink, for anyone seeing this, just be sure to get one of the hardwired (for power) cameras. I have a wired Reolink doorbell (which is quite nice) and a solar+battery powered Argus which is practically useless other than as a deterrent. The battery powered devices don’t integrate well, no video streams, and have very weak object detection.

urxvt is the only terminal I’ll use. Every time I try something else I come back to it because of some basic thing that’s not right - usually font rendering which urxvt is one of the few that works well with scalable fonts. It’s fast and simple and does everything I need without any bloated stuff I’ll never use.

Just install arch if that’s what you want.

Otherwise, RTFM - debootstrap.

Yep, all desktop environments have this - whatever text editor is handy. :⁠-⁠)

Maybe they are, but this is the way the medium works - you don’t get to control what people post (unless you are mod). Scroll past and move on.

Nope - that’s the whole point of ZFS - you don’t need any special hardware, nor do you want that layer hiding the details since ZFS manages the drives. Plus, you probably want to use RAIDZx with spare drives to absorb failure.

rxvt-unicode - lightweight and nearly perfect, and one of the few that handles fonts well.

100% all this. Canonical has been pushing snaps for awhile, and I wonder if the 12 year LTS for Ubuntu is part of that strategy - want something newer? It’s in the snap store. snap is terrible, worse than flakpak and appimage - but just as you say, as an arch user I don’t have to care. Whatever I want is probably in the AUR if not the main repos. Rolling distros, done right (arch), are an amazing experience.

It’s a good question - I don’t know, because I haven’t used it. If it’s 100% compatible with i3 down to its configuration and features, then sure, it’s palatable.

In a word - yes - i3 is incredibly productive and customizable, but it’s not for everyone. I’ve been using i3 with no DE or DM for about a decade. Every time I try to use a full DE like KDE, Gnome, etc, it’s just so slow and bloated, and gets in the way. And there’s 100’s of extra packages that get installed, and be updated, that I don’t use. I don’t need anything but terminals (of which I have about 40 open in 12 different virtual desktops), a browser, and an editor when vim isn’t enough. So for me, it’s perfect and simple. I don’t know what will happen when Wayland finally wins, but that’s 5-10 years away before it really wins.