Absolutely. A mix of sshfs, rsync, unison. Only standard core utilities.

Gave up on other people’s solutions and wrote a giant shell script that does exactly what I want it to do. Calendar, tasks, reminders, everything. This is the promise of free computing! (Well, you did ask.)

Two-finger scroll won me over to the trackpad and I never looked back. A mouse is an annoying complication IMO - and on the way out along with desktop computers, despite what the out-of-touch geeks in this forum wishfully think. Might as well get ahead of the game.

Mouse? What is this thing you talk of?

Dupe post. Please delete one of them.

on Windows they keep waking up when nobody asks for it

Good to hear.

This is why we (still) need a Flattr-like service to somehow gain critical mass.

Ignore all the well-meaning geeks here urging you to become a full-time programmer, go with either of the choices you suggest, and just follow the prompts. You’ll find it’s all incredibly easy and that you’re worrying for nothing.

If you want to tweak things, then think about that later. Just get started.

This is from 20 years of experience. Personally I use nothing but the terminal and a web browser. But the reality is that you only need the latter in today’s computing.

Immigration policy, hmm?

Positive sign. This country is always ahead of the curve.

More irrelevance about desktop market share in a world where soon almost nobody will have a desktop computer.

The boss being an asshat doesn’t automatically disqualify a product made by his employees.

You are confusing middle-class Americans with everyone else in the world.

Even if it were 26% it would be somewhat irrelevant. Ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more. To repeat (because in this community there’s a lot of stubborn resistance to this fact): ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more.

To be clear, I do, and you do. But we are a small and shrinking minority.

Good question. Some are saying that you won’t get enough eyeballs on dedicated support forums, but by that logic we should just have one community called “General” which the whole world can spam freely on any topic. Personally I don’t want to have to wade through obscure threads about command syntax here, I want to read news about Linux.

By the way, if ever you want to discuss that subject, please consider doing it here rather than at lemmy.ml! There are more users there but IMO this is a better home for the flagship Linux community.

So, a bookmarks list basically.

Prediction: you’ll never actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

ITT: lots of generic VPN advice by people who have no experience with the specific problem.

Since this can be easily pulled off from the laptop, I want it to be encrypted

And the laptop can be easily pulled off the desk so you might want that encrypted too.

This is the only answer you need to read. It’s a non-problem if you just do this, and there’s no reason not to do it.