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Ahh, so this is where the concept of “rollover minutes” went, into bubbles

Believe it or not, it’s still less work than NixOS (at least for a daily-driver OS)

Incredibly simple, free, and quick thing to add for user confidence. Doesn’t sit well with me they can’t be bothered, what else does that attitude apply to in the OS?

It’s 2025, the EFF and certbot exists, but no https? Interesting.

Any who, thanks. I’ll check it out, but I’m a little bit turned off by the above.

This reminded me of my old friend DSL, had to check up on it. Didn’t realize they re-released it!

https://damnsmalllinux.org/

No longer at the 50MB size, but still 700MB would be great for a small OS on this odd piece of older hardware.

No differently than it’s used in Windows, plus a few more key-chords that utilize it. That’s the default in GNOME and KDE at least, and probably other DEs as well.

I’m more interested in what people do with that strange menu key sitting next to my touch-starved right-CTRL. I know it’s for pulling up the context menu, but I have literally never used it for any reason. When I’m 100% keyboard, I’m probably in a terminal and it won’t do anything any way.

Others have said it, but SyncThing all the way. Open source, been around for a decade, battle tested, no cloud, full control over everything.

I didn’t see this mentioned, but you can also tell KeePass to auto reload the database if the file gets updated elsewhere. Makes it so you can run the same KeePass database on multiple devices with live/realtime updates. I’ve used this setup instead of vaultwarden/passbolt on several IT teams to keep the important stuff separate from the normal systems. It’s not on by default usually, but right in the Basic Settings page under File Management.

I have KeePass+SyncThing on 3 laptops, 2 androids, and a home server. If I add a password to one of my androids while I’m out and about (and I have cell data), next time I sit down at my desk it’s already available. Vice versa works, too. If my home server dies, the other devices don’t care and keep syncing amongst themselves. I think I’ve had some version of this setup going since SyncThing released, I can’t imagine using anything else.

Do note that since there is no cloud or infrastructure behind it, sync conflicts do happen when a device in the network goes offline for a while. It’ll never get rid of files if there’s an error syncing, but instead create a second copy with a timestamped filename. If this happens to your password db file, KeePass can then merge the two copies together and sort things out mostly automatically. Over the many years I’ve been using this, it doesn’t happen as often when you’re the only person using any of the devices that sync. It can happen a lot when you share the setup with someone else, though.