Oh wow look at that beautiful website that made uBlock shine like a Christmas Tree ! What a beautiful specimen !

<— That Community episode is a real banger XD —>

There are some functions that do not work in the Office365 web Excel ! So that’s also not a solution if they need it for work ://.

I’m not expert in sed or awk. I always have to Google. For me though, it’s generally that you can do a great deal in just one line of awk or sed.

Same here ! I recently used a one liner awk piped into sed, piped into another command to find duplicated lines and merge both files.

Writing a python script would have taken an unknown amount of time !

You’re right ! And because OP want to archive Reddit pages I propose an alternative to reduce that bloated site to a minimum :).

From my tests, it can go from 20MB to 700Bytes. IMO still big for a chat conversation but the readability from the alternative front-end is a + !

True ! But there is a resurgence of ROMs. Squeezing any precent as low as possible is their goal, killing open-source/alternatives as much as they can !

I really hope hardware/software alternatives in the phone market get some funds to get away from the big tech monopoly.

Don’t know either, other than they can’t stand the thruth for a good reason? :/ We have been using iptables for years and now we have to relearn everything?

For reddit, SingleFile HTML pages can be 20MB per file ! Which is huge for a simple discussion…

To reduce that bloated but still relevant site, redirect to any still working alternative like https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib or old reddit and decrease your file to less than 1MB/file.

Debian as a server is fine and probably the best ! However as a daily drive OS I don’t think it’s the best choice.

I have always seen Debian as server distro and that’s probably what they meant ?

I have debian as my server distro since the beginning of my Linux journey (NEVER failed me !) However I can’t see how Debian as daily drive is a good idea. Sure they try to catch up with testing repo for those who wan’t a more up to date distro, but it’s seems harder to keep up when something breaks along the way.

That’s where Arch and derivatives shine, if something goes wrong it’s fixed in a few days.

This is exactly why proprietary stuff sucks !

Edit:

But I’m glad you’re holding to that old iPod without throwing it away ! 👍

Back in the day, that’s what I did ALOT on Windows. Specially because of piracy and my younger me having no idea what he was doing XD !

Still happens on Linux with EndeavourOS but not for the same reasons ! There are millions times more ways to break stuff on Linux but I always learn Something new during the process.

Story time:

Learned the other day that some config files are loaded in a specific order and depending what display manager is installed. That was kinda eye opening to understand cause my system didn’t load .profile when .bash_profile was present and I didn’t understood why ! Thanks Archwiki !

Schrödinger’s SVG?

For those not aware, nepenthes is an example for the above mentioned approach !

While I do agree with the general sentiment to rewire your expectation when switching from Windows -> Linux, I do not agree with the following statement:

Linux is NOT for you, your personality precludes you from using it.

Linux is for everyone… Though I do also agree if you’re doing something wrong (and you will…) Don’t cry or reflect your frustration on your OS. If there are 1000 ways to break Windows, there are a million times more ways to break your GNU/Linux OS. But most of the time, you’re a doing something wrong. However, sometimes an upstream update can Bork your system… (Yeah this happens 🤷‍♂️).

Is that even possible? I’m already in panic when I remove a package and it’s dependencies with pacman 😅.

Sure I did replaced Thunar with Nemo, but a few things don’t work exactly how it should, like opening the download directory from Firefox (Known issue BTW) even though all mime-types are correctly set !

Even switching from Alternative -> Base distro seems like a really difficult task :/

Yeah I justed edited my answer, because OP needs to sync everything (Tabs, History, extensions…)

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

Is the newer version rewritten in rust ! And probably OPs best bet :)

because Floccus doesnt sync Firefox Android.

You sure about that? From memory It did work with floccus (though it does it in a weird way).

Open Tabs: cant live without it.

Yeah that’s probably the tricky part in your workflow ! Not sure if syncing your directory will keep the open tabs. Though I may be wrong here because I personally don’t use that functionality !

Yeah maybe my instructions are ment for backups rather than keeping a workflow in sync with all your devices. Sorry for my bad reading skills !

Dunno if a self-hosted Firefox sync does sync Open Tabs between devices, if it does It’s probably your best bet !

Also, syncing your whole profile between Desktop/laptop and your phone won’t work that easily… They behave very differently and do not have the same directory structure/files on your phone.

Edit: Here’s the self-hosted Mozilla Sync storage server

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

After skimming through the docs it seems to sync everything (bookmarks, tabs, history, extensions…)

I do use Syncthing one way sync to a server to sync the whole Firefox directory and it does work quiet well !

I already did a backup test and It works without data loss. However, not sure this is a great way to accomplish this task… Why? Because while in use your Browser writes a lot of data and could potentially cause sync issues, specially it’s databases.

A better way would be to sync all your bookmarks to a WebDAV server with floccus and save your LibreWolf override.cfg

The downside is that you need to reinstall and reconfigure your addons, haven’t found a satisfactory solution for those :/

Edit: Maybe a better solution in your case would be to make an automated daily backup of your user directory while your browser is not in use.

Edit2: However not sure your tabs are getting saved that way !

Yeah I learned that the hardway when comparing MacOS/linux USB speed…

Took like “seconds” on Linux. I looked quite dumb asking a question and asking for help on Lemmy while shitting (again) on my Mac !

I have somewhere in my notes a command to show interactively how the memory cache gets dumped into my USB stick.

Kinda boggus that’s an over 20 years old known “issue”.

The 2 big players in the self-hosted community are:

• Mealie

• Grocy

I have them both on my to do list but haven’t gotten into to give any feedback :/