Not with --attributes-only.

To back them up, perhaps cp -r --preserve=xattrs --attributes-only (or --preserve=all if you don’t want only xattrs)

I’m partially very sad but also kinda glad that I never got to use 10.4 or other previous versions (first one I used was Ventura). The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like I would have absolutely loved it and would be incredibly mad right now at the changes they made since.

I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It’s a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it’s also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.

AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:

• it conflates app sandboxing with app distribution
• it mandates using bespoke APIs to work in sandbox mode instead of the established APIs (to the point where I’ve heard “we can’t implement X, it needs to work in Flatpak”)
• these APIs are often very Flatpak-focused but regardless become the standard for non-Flatpak because there is no existing alternative
• it ships its own builds of code that should be part of the system (for example, UI toolkits which would otherwise load global plugins, breaking stuff such as IME or themes)

Some of that (and why it’s necessary in the first place) is due to Linux’s incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS’s Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.

My three operating system hills:

• Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
• macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
• Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem

My #1 advice is to keep domain and mail/whatever else hosting separate. You can transfer your domain to another registrar, and then get an email hosting service that allows you to use your own domain.

That way you can move your email to another provider without also having to move your domain and vice versa.

My domain registrar is INWX, and I host my mail server on my own VPS so I can’t speak to the quality of any mail service but Hostinger allows you use an external domain.

That DNSSEC status does not have anything to do with being able to transfer your domain AFAIK, that is instead generally something different called Transfer Lock.

To transfer your mails, what I did in the past was just connect the two mailboxes via IMAP to a local client and copy everything from the old mailbox to the new one (or to a local one first, whatever). As long as both sides support IMAP, you don’t have to have any special support from either provider. But it’s probably nice to have.

You can connect non-Gmail mailboxes to the Gmail app but there are better alternatives. Thunderbird as you said, for Android there’s K9-Mail. Personally I use KDE’s KMail and Apple’s Mail app on my computers/phone. YMMV.

Sans has a variable variant and the other two do not, I think.

Decoder skill issue. If ImageMagick or whatever other open-source software can read it, everyone else has no excuse.

(That said, if I could pick, I’d pick JPEG XL)

IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!

This is not a distro-specific thing, but a desktop-specific one. It was probably written for Gnome primarily.

Not sure how other software that reads this setting handles it, but imo doing it correctly it should only look at it if the current desktop is Gnome. Plasma has a setting like this too, which probably works similarly.

Carl Poppa

Holy shit, memories unlocked. Uploaded 10 years ago…

I’ll need to listen to all the others again.

Jolla C2 looks pretty interesting.

I started using openSuSE full time on my laptop after the disastrous Windows 8 upgrade (it kept bluescreening and had problems suspending on that laptop.*), I guess I was 11 at the time.

But I’ve been messing around with Live CDs on my parents’ computer that came with a computer magazine my dad subscribed to for a while before that. I remember spending a lot of time in Knoppix specifically. Probably mostly playing the games that came on it.

* Windows 10 still has the same issues on it last time I checked lmao

Can you export it as an email archive file and copy it to a USB stick or upload somewhere accessible from your personal computer?

sudo is MIT also (or something that looks like MIT at least). https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/

The more critical part wrt license is real coreutils which they also want to replace.

Just tested it to see what you’re talking about, I’ve never seen that before. Yeah that’s bullshit. It logs you out of the account (kind of?) and when you log back in, it logs out the other computer. What the hell.

Yeah.

(I know he apparently didn’t actually say that. Sssshhhhh.)

Don’t let existing workflow block a better potential design

Well duh, I just came up with it on the fly instead of actually spending time thinking about what the right design would be for this. I don’t know why you expect otherwise.