@David delete the answer

(already did)

I noticed.

where did you read that deleting would remove the ad?

I had not found that bit of info anywhere

@David I mean, why wouldn't it

It worked too, see blender.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2440

People give chrome a hard time for sending all your datas to the google cloud, but man it is nice to just have to login and have all your stuff, extensions and all, right back where they were after you were forced to reset your OS.

@GiantCowFilms Any of you guys ever tried Vivaldi Browser it is based on Blink engine but with a nice customization layer on top, minus all the Google spying funk

Been using it for the last few years and it is relatively decent alternative, apart from a few occasional bugs. As of yesterday it also supports sync

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos Why choose that over firefox? Firefox really seems to be the defacto browser for those who don't trust mega-corporations.

I did use Firefox before, I'm considering coming back. With the new quantum addons some power features were lost though, and Vivaldi does offer a few nice gimmicks and conveniences not easily found elsewhere

@GiantCowFilms I just copy my profile over

I'm my own cloud :P

That can get a bit much when you need to copy a profile for every single piece of software you use.

I have a ~/.dotfiles directory which contains the configuration files for most things I use

which I symlink into place with stow

And I use git to synchronize it between different machines (with branches to track machine-specific differences)

admittedly I don't have firefox's and thunderbird's stuff in there

Huh. You are your own cloud. Interesting idea.

It's been working surprisingly well I'd say :P

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos I've heard of it, but didn't see much to interest me

Especially since it's proprietary..

But I have been thinking of trying something like qutebrowser

Do you hate mice? :P

lol

my mouse has a small keyboard on its side..

lol

And I thought having six programmable buttons was fancy.

I have 12

Which mouse is it?

newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104674

It even has a shift key so you can bind every button twice :P

@gandalf3 That is clever.

Incidentally, one of my mouse's buttons is bound to the actual shift key.

interesting

TBH, I basically never use them.

@gandalf3 Interesting technique On windows I mostly portable apps, they keep settings in the application folder, then sync the files around. Though I admit I do very little jumping around different machines these days

@GiantCowFilms I was about to ask what you use the shift bind for..

I'm still looking for more button ideas :P

Well, I added Alt and Ctrl because Alt and/or Ctrl Scrolling is a thing. I then added shift just for completeness sake.

So far I mainly use them for jumping between desktops, plus I have one bound to super for window dragging

@GiantCowFilms ah, that makes sense

@gandalf3 Multiple desktops......

@GiantCowFilms I don't have a pager, so I use them quite a lot

10 per monitor, but sometimes I run out

a pager?

like, the thing which shows minimized windows

I want to set up some application specific desktop which only appear when I open certain windows, but I haven't gotten around to it yet

...a bare approach. I like that

@gandalf3 Right..... definitely don't need that.

lol

hehe

When you talk about your os has/doesn't have its like someone casually mentioning their car doesn't have seats but has a minibar.

which you can sit on too

\o/

Exactly.

eheheh

I do really like the idea of symlinking application preferences.

I might start implementing that

I'm sick of applications putting important stuff in the AppData folder that then gets lost when you have to do any kind of major OS maintence.

:P

The only major problem I've encountered is entropy

@GiantCowFilms Portable apps all the way, I have the bare minimum formally installed these days, mostly only when I need shell integration

some custom batch launchers take care of changing app data for most apps that aren't natively portable

Portable is awesome.

I install new things and don't bother putting their stuff in ~/.dotfiles, as I don't know if I really want to keep using it, and eventually I have loads of stuff which isn't symlinked :P

Or the other way where I replace some things and their stuff is still there, but I don't want to delete it just in case

I also like it when apps have a simple feature to make themselves at home in the OS (like adding start menu shortcuts or services). For example with Apache, you can just run an install feature and it would do everything you normally would use an installer for.

BTW Vivaldi is not entirely proprietary. While source code has indeed never been released officially, part of it is based on modified Chromium which is open source, and the rest is mostly built in javascript, and distributed in plaintext anyway

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos Aren't they much bigger? If each they bundle all their needed libraries?

@DuarteFarrajotaRamos Interesting, good to know

@GiantCowFilms That is a god send, along with those extractable installers you can just unzip the contents

@gandalf3 Not really, most apps contain all needed libraries anyway, few have external dependencies

Well, the value with that is if it needs to edit Registry keys/environment variables, add services or guff like that, it can do that.

huh

TBH, my (probably not achieveable goal) would be to be able to go from zero to running with a single script file.

that way I could re-install my OS at a whim.

Every time I've installed arch I've tried to do as much as I can remember all at once with a big one liner

lol

I've yet to get very far :P

Sadly, in windows land, there are alot of GUIs you need to go through to install stuff

@GiantCowFilms Now that is an enviable goal. I haven't really achieved that but my current setup is basically impervious to OS loss, since most of it is not OS integrated and "installed" in a separate drive, if computer fails I basically have to copy one large folder back from a daily backup

The finally question of this OS fiasco will be whether I can get git to work with SSH again.

:O

Someone rewrite blender's physics now lol

That blender fluids addon was actually pretty good. I just wish there was a plan to open source it (i.e. a kickstarter).

yes

nice music too, reminds me of CBL

Didn't get to hear the music. I am keeping my speakers off and headphones unplugged to combat my youtube addiction.

@gandalf3 Yes it's pretty impressive ...

@GiantCowFilms Smart move, I'm listening to the whole album now...