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AbidanYre, in Is there a tool to real-time encrypt folders?

Tomb might fit your needs

dyne.org/software/tomb/

wontbowyoung, (edited )
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Thanks I will look into it. But tomb also seems to not have dynamic sizing

AbidanYre,

You can increase the size of a tomb, but IIRC it’s an offline process.

wontbowyoung,
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Yeah, I think as of now I will go for it

cypherpunks,
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tomb looks like a nice wrapper around LUKS but it doesn’t appear to support creating a sparse file, so, it will immediately use however much space you allocate to it.

(I think it doesn’t support a sparse backing file because I searched the word “sparse” on their github, and for the word “seek” (which is the dd argument for creating a sparse file) in the tomb bash script, and both searches yielded no results.)

LainOfTheWired, in Using GNOME Flashback makes Ubuntu more customizable!!
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I love the fact that Arch chan is showing up in more and more of the community

azvasKvklenko, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?

Vanilla Arch Linux, AirPods work better than on Android (which was super unreliable), but I also don’t care about automatic profile switching as I actually prefer to switch manually to whatever I need at the given moment.

selokichtli, in What's your experience with bluetooth audio?

For me, Bluetooth in general is a problematic technology that’s been trustworthy only when the device comes with a pre-paired Bluetooth emitter.

VHS, in Other dual panel file managers similar to Krusader?
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I’m not sure if it meets all your requirements, but Dolphin has a dual-panel mode if you press F3 and has lots of other configuration options as well

HouseWolf, (edited )

I actually didn’t know this! feel abit silly now but I’ll check it out thanks :)

fakeman_pretendname, in Using GNOME Flashback makes Ubuntu more customizable!!

I didn’t realise this option existed - and it’s an interesting one, perhaps giving the ease-of-use of Mate/Cinnamon/Gnome 2, without sticking with the older code.

AProfessional,

Flashback is based on old GNOME 2 code but unlike MATE it’s not maintained or improved.

fushuan, in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

It’s the best if you convince your boss that you need it for work in your non admin privilege system because you can sudo inside there so you can install whatever.

christophski, in COSMIC Edit with project-wide search

Nice! I’m intrigued by pop os

Sentau, (edited ) in [SOLVED] configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError when launching flatpak steam

Nevemind I figured it out. Was trying to give a new drive read write access for backups and the error stemmed from the fact the name had a ℅ in it.

Edit - It was the path to the folder not the drive with had %

AProfessional,

This is still a bug in the package, please report it.

Sentau, (edited )

Is it supposed to replace the % with %%? Because that is what it seemed like it should do from the code.

If this is the bug you are alluding to then i will report the bug or else please tell me what the bug you referring to so i can report the correct thing

AProfessional,

The bug is that they parse a glib keyfile with configparser which is a different format. So what is valid in one isn’t in the other.

Sentau,

Thanks for the correction. I will report the bug

AProfessional,

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  • Sentau,

    Thank you. Cool people like you are the reason why morons like me are able daily drive linux

    perishthethought, in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

    Only you can say what it’s worth to you.

    I have it installed on my Win 11 work laptop but never use it.

    Resol,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    Even I stopped using it.

    Maoo, in Using Linux for the first time
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    Different distros are better for different things. For example, some require give you more control over the OS but are more difficult to learn, or require learning more things at once. Others will be easier to try out but may make choices on your behalf that you don’t like - or distribute software in ways you don’t like.

    Linux from Scratch will have a fairly steep learning curve. Nothing wrong with that, but you’d want to prepare yourself to be cool with things breaking or not making sense for a while.

    Puppy Linux is minimalist, which is something people usually only want after they’ve tried out something else that’s not minimalist. I would recommend trying out something more general-purpose and try out different desktop environments and applications first.

    just_another_person, in Question about ram usage in Unraid

    Ram usage in this case would be localized to data “in-transit”, meaning there is an in-memory buffer that is eventually cleared and written to disk in seconds. Unless you have some crazy equipment that can transmit 20Gb/s, don’t worry about.

    LunchEnjoyer,
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    Oh okay, thanks for the explanation 👌

    aaaa, (edited ) in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

    WSL has replaced my use of the command prompt in Windows for anything (and I used it more than most, I think).

    In my job, I develop Linux applications to support industrial automation, and WSL is capable of building and running most of what I make. It isn’t a full Linux machine, and can behave unexpectedly when trying to do things like changing certain network configurations.

    So it’s great for what it’s for, really. But if you want a full VM, this isn’t really for that.

    Resol,
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    Point taken.

    just_another_person, in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

    There’s honestly not a lot of practical uses for it when you have the option of just running a Linux Distro anyway. It’s mostly to keep people who NEED to run Linux for work in Windows as an OS. Otherwise, I’ve found no purpose for it. Neat I guess? Useful, no.

    Resol,
    @Resol@lemmy.world avatar

    I guess that’s one way of looking at it.

    jvrava9, in brand new rice
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    OP is a buffoon. Check his post history, he just wants clout and doesn’t know what he is talking about.

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