• Ahrotahntee@lemmy.ca
    11·
    6 months ago

    Attention electron developers: under no circumstances do I want your entire app in .config.

      • lengau@midwest.social
        4·
        6 months ago

        I mean… At least that’s more correct… If the monkey’s paw is giving us things that are better but not ideal i’m gonna use the fuck out of it.

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      As an alternative, how about my entire cache in .config?

      Looking at you VSCode, with 3 unique cache folders.

  • dan@upvote.au
    9·
    6 months ago

    but please don’t hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it’s not set.

    Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)

  • DeaDvey@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 months ago

    I keep my home directory nice and tidy in terms of visible files/folders, but as soon as you ls -a there’s so much random shit

  • Xylight@lemm.ee
    1·
    6 months ago

    Use xdg-ninja to help clear out unwanted files not in your home folder, and give tips to move them into a normal folder like .config

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      6 months ago

      Nah just put it in ~/.thing-config.d/01-0x45- 110100100-main.options-extra2cache.swp along with three godzillion other files like it’s normal and very sane for users who edit such files to have the big picture of the default configuration dreamed up by some utterly deranged lunatic be spread across enough files to represent all known stars in the galaxy, standards are for losers amirite /s

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
        0·
        6 months ago

        Hey! Would you mind guiding me as to what is going on in this picture? Is this an APP that allowed to SSH into your server? You got my attention with this picture, and I’m curious to hear more.

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
          1·
          6 months ago

          It’s Termux, basically a fully fletched terminal for Android. So you can install various tools via apt, and use them, for example yt-dlp, ffmpeg, gcc, python etc. And yes, you can also use SSH, both as server and client. I use it very often to connect to my servers on the go.

          You can even use chroot to basically run a distro of your choice.

            • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              6 months ago

              It’s also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically

              Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP

              • tritonium@midwest.social
                1·
                6 months ago

                I like using syncthing. It syncs all my apps that are backed up with neobackup, my pictures, files etc. to my NAS. Then my NAS runs borg on that directory as well as all the other important NAS directories to make the legit backups.

                I have termux installed but I honestly rarely use it. Hate typing on the phone in the terminal… if I need to do it then I’ll just adb connect from my computer and do it from there on a real keyboard.