The video he apparently got sued for.

And here a follow-up video where he repeats the trick on a freshly delivered lock (cause the company was whining about allegedly foul play).

SyncThing only syncs when both devices are online at the same time.

So a comon scenario is: You change the DB on your laptop, then shut it down. You open the DB on your desktop. Since the lapotp isn’t online at the same time, you are working with the old DB version. If you change it, you have two competing versions.

I don’t know exactly what happens then; I’m facing it and am procrastinating dealing with it ^^

One addition: On the right, “A computer from this decade?” — I think this can easily be widened to “A computer older than 15 years?” (swapping “yes” & “no”, of course). The laptop on my lap is exactly 10 years old, wasn’t high end back then, and runs OpenSUSE with KDE easily. Well, in all fairness, it’s now got 12 GB RAM, but that’s mostly for development purposes. Perhaps one could ask directly: “At least 8 GB RAM?”

Konversation is pretty nice

+1 for Kate

+1 for used Brother models. Mine is a MFC 27XX YY, which has decent Linux support and accepts third-party toner without complaints.

Yeah, unless one happens to have one of the beefier Raspi 4 or Raspi 5 variants (which, of course, would be an overpriced choice if their sole purpose is to be a home server). To give specific recommendation for cost-effective beefier home server hardware: Used Thin Clients. For example, Dell T530 Wyse (or T520, or T540, or the 6x0 series).

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

A few months ago I wrote out some recommendations around the same theme here. Extracts:

A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven’t use Fish yet, but it’s said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

Also, I hugely recommend reading at least one book about Linux. I’m now almost through with the O’Reilly book “Classic Shell Scripting” by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). Despite the fact that it’s 20 years old, it helped me hugely – primarily with the shell and its commands, but also with understanding things like file structure.

It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one’s just starting out, the book “Learning the Unix Operating System” may be better.

I think so, yes.

As someone who’s been on NixOS for about a week, this video is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

It’s still workable for sure.

Above all, memorize one thing: When you update, and then reboot, keep an eye on the computer during reboot, especially during the early stages. That’s because every month or so, when the drivers have gotten updated, you will be presented with a (often blue) screen about MOK Enrolment, i.e. you need your UEFI that the new drivers are trustworthy. If you miss this screen, you’ll boot into a black screen or so without anything telling you what the error is, and to fix it you’ll have to enroll those keys manually – this is not prohibitively difficult, but annoying. (That’s if you have UEFI secure boot enabled. If you have it disabled, there is practically no pain at all, ever. You lose a bit of security though. Personally I have it disabled.)

I recall these times. As experience grows, one needs to do it less and less often :)

Also, if your filesystem is Btrfs (which is usually a great choice), check out Snapper. With it, when an update goes wrong, you can often revert your system to a previous state.

On Fedora, it doesn’t come by default, so you’ll have to install it. I don’t use Fedora, but this guide looks like a decent introduction: https://dustymabe.com/2025/01/07/fedora-btrfs-snapper-the-fedora-41-edition/ Or for something shorter: https://www.andotech.net/installing-snapper-on-fedora-a-comprehensive-guide/

For its usage, this tutorial from openSUSE should be quite transferrable: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial

If you have an AMD graphics card (or use Intel graphics), one of the biggest pain points is already nonexistent. If on the other hand you have a NVidia card, getting that to run often comes with (recurrent) pains. What is your graphics card?

FreeTube is awesome. Need regular updates though, as every month or so YouTube seems to install a new way to break it (or Invidious, on which mostly it relies).

But there’s also Piped, which I haven’t tried yet, but I think it’s disjoint to Invidious.

While on my laptop I have to use some bluetoothctl (I think) with stupid pin-less setup and cannot use KDE’s own bluetooth applet. We’re both on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

Does rofi-bluetooth help you a little bit with things?

Cool!

Thanks for updating your post with the solution that you found! Best also prepend something like “[Solved]” to the post title.

Also, if you don’t have a machine to just experiment on, swapping an internal SSD drive back and forth may be cumbersome. If you’ve got the extra 15 Euros, buy a (preferably used) NVMe-to-USB3 adapter/housing, so that you can connect your SSD externally via USB. Such an adapter is very useful anyways. (This setup is still way better than permanently using a regular USB drive.)

Like I said: it can be gamed to some degree, but what system can’t?