Less Ties With A Machine - Desktop Customization & Workflow
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(18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: I guess the best way, first way I can think of, to have nothing as a Thin client and then a server which gives all the environment (SSH, X11 forwarding, drawterm... :P). Then you need a good connection, but that is a great deal of device-independence! Oops, but what about ties with the server which powers it? Then the question comes again... (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: But the real disadvantage now is that usually a lot of binaries are There could be a /arch/amd64 /arch/i386 /arch/armhf... and then an export PATH=$PATH:/arch/$(uname -m) (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: backups No "backups". More like duplication, mirroring... Git is good at this, and I keep my e-mail safe like that. Git only store incremental changes, and in case you mess up a repository, you can `git init` a new one, move the index/pack/objects files. After all, with the maildir format, every mail is a text files, so git works very well. (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: What to backup, how to backup, and how to deploy it. Every time I use a new machine, I git clone everything on it. That acts as a backup. Even if I wanted to delete my own data forever (password on dotfiles...), I'd have a hard time doing so. Even with a hammer. :P Text files are not very big, so that is possible. (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: By second memory I mean an extension of your thoughts, thinking, and Interesting. Let’s list all the places where I keep my memories as a personal example: I'm thinking about making a wiki or notetaking system. Then I can forget something, it would be easily available. It seems that I mostly remember the path to access to things in internet than making real bookmarks. But then if the path changes, I'm screwed. Another approach is instead of storing links to documents, storing the actual document. For whatever .ps, .pdf, .txt, it's easy. Then you can probably do a full text search on your own machine. :P (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: No, there’s nothing wrong with having your machine helping you remember Books have had this role before hard drives. Oh, so this is my grand parents like their bookshelf this much? And the mere fact of saying "I want to remember this so I put it in a safe place" make me remember that thing more than any other with no effort. Maybe it acts as a signal to my brain to: "Store this in a safe place" wherease "I'll remember it later" makes my memory filter it out... (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: list of whatever you have installed My take on this is having a tiny (stupid) portable package manager that I can use on all distros (besides Windows and *maybe* plan9) and have a build recipe for all package I really care about (mail client, text editor, git, rsync, libressl...). They get installed in ~/.local/{bin,lib,share/man}. Pretty weird? But hey, it works and I can have packages for things that are rarely packaged (suckless tools). (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: So that means having everything in your home, having a transportable home. That might be taking things a little bit too far, as then you have configurations in /etc, /usr/local/etc, /var, /home/username, /home/git, /root... But I do this, hehe. (18-04-2018, 11:22 AM)venam Wrote: The script that sets everything up. AKA poor man's puppet. :P |
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