Woah, AI maybe not so bad after all?

Goddamnit. Rsync, of all things.

KeePass is just an app that opens files, so yeah, you can access it on as many devices that you want yo setup file syncing with. Syncthing seems to be a popular choice.

You can setup vaults to be accessible with multiple passwords, if that fits your criteria. Me, I already share the vault with my wife, so that mostly covers the need for emergency access by someone else. If I ever wanted more, I’d probably just put some basic info into my will about how to access the file.

Why the hell is anyone using anything other than KeePass?

Tell you what, I’ll just link a couple of recent posts/comments from elsewhere:

https://midwest.social/comment/22303985

https://midwest.social/post/42063982

Vast improvements. No regrets. Still working through a few growing pains, though.

No no, nothing like that. There just seems to be a baseline attitude in the blog post that monetization is the end goal of all OSS. Like, the idea that OSS developers deserve to be compensated fairly for their work, I fully support, but I don’t read that as the argument being made here. It reads more as “OSS is no longer a viable way to make money, so I’m going closed-source.”

There’s a big difference between being an adult and seeing everything exclusively through the lens of how it can be used to turn a profit for yourself or some other capitalist.

No shade at all on this guy’s expertise or work, or even the point about LLMs being made. But based on this I’d have to say this is not written by a software developer. This is written by a businessman in the software industry.

It’s a hobby that allows for a LOT of different types of creative expression, does not require any monetary investment to get started in, or to pursue long term, and even has a small chance to MAKE you money, if it turns out you enjoy it enough to purse that end. It has the potential to make a GREAT hobby.

Drug money.

I mean, the trouble is you gotta move the fridge to get to it, yeah? So surely nothing you’d want to get at frequently.

Christmas/Birthday presents?

Really rare house supplies? Like, say, light bulbs?

One of them portable fireproof safes with important documents?

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.

Denial of Service is the concept of overwhelming a system (digital/computer or otherwise) with bogus usage, to the point that legitimate users can no longer access it. Imagine submitting thousands of FOIA requests to your local city government. Legally, they have to respond to them, even if it’s to reject them as bogus. So, if anyone else submits one, it’s just gonna get buried in the pile. Maybe they get to it, eventually, or maybe it actually just gets lost, or even accidentally thrown out when they decide to just throw away all the bogus ones.

Now, if you were to actuallly do this, your city government would probably just start binning all your requests, immediately, when they realize you’re not submitting them in good faith. Hell, maybe they even get you banned from the building, for harassment. That’s where “Distributed” comes into play. To combat this, what you’d do is get a whole bunch of your friends (you’ve got thousands of friends willing to waste time dealing with the government, right?) to each submit just one or two applications. They can no longer just throw them out based on the name of the submitter, they have to again spend more time inspecting each one, to see if it’s legit, and then process it, if it is. MUCH tougher to defend against.

I think maybe you misunderstand how selling a home with a mortgage works? To be fair, it’s possible I don’t fully understand as well, but as my understanding goes…

The buyer doesn’t just assume ownership of the loan, and start making the same payments as you.° They have to get approved for their own mortgage for the sale price of the house (or buy it outright), and then you use that money to pay off your mortgage’s remaining principle.

So, if you have a $400,000 house where you’ve only paid $50,000 towards the principal over 10 years, out of a 50-year mortgage, and you want to sell it, The buyer pays you $400,000, then you use that to pay the remaining $350,000 of principal, leaving you with $50,000 to go buy a new house. Likely you’ll need another mortgage of your own, but you can probably use that $50,000 as a downpayment, to knock down the monthly, or take a shorter term.

So, that’s 10 years of mortgage payments, totaling say $250,000, and you only have $50,000 worth of value to show for it. Contrast that with a 15 or 30 year term, and you’d be getting a MUCH larger chunk of your payments back in value.

Having a mortgage isn’t the same as renting (it’s starting to get pretty comparable with this 50-year shit, though), you are actually building value for yourself as you make payments, no matter how long you live there.

° Technically, Mortgage Assumptions are a thing, but they’re EXTREMELY rare. It has to be an option written into the mortgage agreement, from the beginning. In the US, it basically only exists for military personnel and veterans, as a perk that the government mandated to make it easier for military families to move across the country at a moment’s notice. Also, it’s really just about keeping the interest rate, the buyer still has to come to an agreement with the seller to buy out their accumulated value.

I fail to see where in this article they present “The Real Reason Kim Davis Never Stood a Chance”. Unless they mean the whole bit about “Obergefell is entrenched as precedent, and widely supported by Americans”, in which case, that’s horseshit. This SCOTUS has shat on much older and much-more-popular precedents than this, with no hesitation, and no valid reasoning.

Don’t be fooled that they’re the ones responsible, and just went against the Democrat leadership. There’s a REASON that all of them are retiring, and can’t be voted out. Schumer and his cohort WANTED this, knew people would be pissed, and arranged the votes to minimize the fallout.

Are you me and your friend is also me?

This sounds a HELL of a lot like my scenario. I swapped to Bazzite from Mint on account of NVidia/gaming issues, and IMMEDIATELY noticed a big improvement, but I’ve had a handful of issues dealing with the flatpak of JetBrains Rider, and Firefox for that matter.

One thing I figured out early was to configure permissions to allow Rider to access the filesystem outside of its sandbox. That seems to be not something that flatpaks are setup for, by default.

More recently, I found that flatpak sandboxes don’t inherit PATH or other global system variables. Which makes sense, but I haven’t figured out the solution yet.

I would definitely take a shot at another KDE distro, cause I also have liked KDE/Plasma (that’s what Bazzite runs, right?) more than I did Cinnamon, but I don’t know anything about what Bazzite does to get great NVidia performance for gaming, or how I might replicate it on a non-immutable distro.