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@ gi1242 @lemmy.world

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  • Using fd vs indexed searches (baloo)

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  • I would love to have content indexing with full text search in files and emails. I used to run namazu / notmuch mail to index it (back when I would fetch it using offlineimap). But sadly my mail lives on an IMAP server now and isn't searchable locally. And Baloo was simply taking too long to index all my files.

    I'm really surprised that an indexed search takes roughly as much time as a directory search. I guess it shows how much the filesystem and tools have evolved... back in the day, a full tree search through even 10GB would be slow and noisy...

  • Using fd vs indexed searches (baloo)

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  • Thanks; KDE integration is a big plus. But I haven't been tagging or rating files ... 🙄 so several of these queries are not useful for me. A fuzzy matching based on the whole file name seems to best fit my workflow... and there doesn't seem to be an option to fuzzy match, or match on the whole path in Baloo.

    I was hoping dumping a long list of matches to fzf would give me a performance gain (because of Baloo's indexing), but right now the performance difference seems negligible.

  • Using fd vs indexed searches (baloo)

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  • My images etc. are on a separate partition (300GB, not indexed). I certainly have tonnes of data in .git folders, which fd ignores. But the exclude_folders setting in baloofilerc seems to ignore most of these by default.

    I agree metadata and context makes a huge difference. Looking at my work flow, I've put all the data I need into the file names 😄. The metadata is borked for most of them cause many were download some 20+ years ago. So I put the author names and title into the filename to make it easy to search...

    Unfortunately the full path is ignored by Baloo. There's main.* file in several folders; the parent folder name is ignored by Baloo search, so I dump all Baloo results to fzf and search there....

  • Best Foss and convenient Pdf viewer that saves page where you last read?

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  • i use zathura on Linux which does this...

  • Is a daily-driver computer built on top of a hypervisor a bad idea?

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  • honestly I think you're better off trying to figure out how to get it all done in one distro. two other vms hogging resources in the background is not something that can be optimized well. but two applications in the background can be optimized excellently by the os

    but that said, keep us posted on what u do and how it works out...

  • I switched from Arch btw to fedora kionite AMA

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  • honestly, it's going to take a lot for me to switch distros. i had Gentoo for 5y. finally ran out of time to compile and dispatch config. used Debian for 10y. finally bought a new machine where I needed latest Wayland, kernel and drivers, and Debian testing didn't cut it. switched to arch.

    to switch now id need something essential that absolutely can't be done in arch.

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • thanks for this. I've been using xournal since 2006, and switched to xournal++ maybe 7 or 8 years ago. didn't think I would ever switch again. but rnote looks like it's good enough for me to make the switch.

    1. strong defaults. most things did what I wanted without me having to configure anything. i configured xournal++ a lot
    2. invert brightness!! i basically start a new file everytime I had to switch from dark to light with xournal++. with rnote I can just hit the invert colors button...
    3. better handwry, zoom, drag, interface

  • I'm wired to a bed in a hospital for a week. AMA

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  • sorry to hear that man. wishing u luck.

    jobs come and go but family is forever. so hopefully u get that sorted

  • I'm wired to a bed in a hospital for a week. AMA

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  • what's your job and family situation? how will missing a week affect things

  • Yet another distro choice help post

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  • arch.

    though honestly the distro doesn't matter that much, as long as it supports the majority of your software stack. almost everything is in the big distros (arch fedora Debian), so just pick whatever ur most comfortable with...

    i must say I like the rolling release of arch. and the fact that it's very up to date...

  • Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus

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  • what I'm amazed by is that those who would benefit most from socialism are the ones who call it "handouts" and vote against it

  • Removed

    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • the only social media I have is Lemmy and mastodon. I prefer Lemmy to mastodon. (I also have kbin)

    I quit Facebook, Reddit, Twitter etc. because of content manipulation. They suppress posts against their agenda and promote those for their agenda. I always knew this, but when I realized I was being influenced, I deleted my accounts and quit.

    Only things I'll use now are open source, decentralized, and non profit owned. (I'll gladly donate)

  • Dual Boot dilemma

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  • can u boot Linux of a USB? some USB drives give 1000mbps read so should be nice and snappy for a root fs

  • How to delete a certain element present on all pages of a pdf?

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  • pdftk can split it into pages, and then recombine the pages. not sure how to automatically remove an element from each page unfortunately.

  • What extensions would you absolutely recommend to someone who use Firefox?

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    • ublock origin
    • dark reader
    • firenvim
    • vimium
    • containers
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    I build bots, websites, apps and AI tools, open to gigs or collabs

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  • any chance you can build me a bot that pretends to be a rich Prince that wants to give me a lot of money... but asks me to pay a small collection fee first?

    asking cause u posted in programerhumor

  • What would make you change distro?

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  • I went Gentoo to Debian to Arch.

    Gentoo took too much time to maintain. (Not just compile time. But also human time editing config files).

    Debian was great, until I had new hardware that needed a recent kernel and Wayland. i tried testing but that wasn't stable enough and took too much of my time maintaining.

    I'm using arch now. i would only switch if they do something egregious (push ads, malware or snap)

  • Get a ThinkPad+Gentoo they said. It will be fun they said.

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  • lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it's the only distribution I don't recommend.

    it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to dispatch-config afterwords.

    do Debian or arch.

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    Distro for a really low spec PC

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  • honestly most distros will be fine. what matters more is your desktop environment. pick something light where Bells and whistles can be turned off. i used fvwm for many years on a lower spec system. now I use kde/plasma on wayland.

    I've used arch and Debian on low spec systems. both were fine. slightly prefer arch cause it's more up to date

  • What long-standing tradition, ritual, habit .etc have you finally parted from?

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  • vim, fvwm and Debian after 10 years of use.

    I found firenvim which allowed me to edit text boxes in Firefox using neovim. couldn't do it with vim, so I switched. love it

    I bought a new laptop with a 4k screen. had to have different scaling on my external monitor and laptop screen. fvwm wouldn't handle it... switched to kde/plasma and arch.

    not sure if this is the kind of habits u were looking for 😃