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Cake day: July 20th, 2025
  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•rmlint: Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
    191·
    3 days ago

    Hey Dessalines

    I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

    I found fclones to be much better and safer.

    Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

    Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

    CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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    Usage

    fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

    group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

    remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

    link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

    dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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    I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

    test_dupes 186 files

    scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

    fclones group . >>dupes.txt

    dupes.txt

    remove duplicates to another directory

    /home/user/Desktop/dupes

    fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

    fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

    test_dupes now has 173 files

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•Linux - Recreating old problems with new tools
    2·
    5 days ago

    A similar theme here from 2022 slagging off fedora

    Some up his own arse wanker: Dedoimedo is owned and run by Igor Ljubuncic: former physicist, contemporary IT nerd, fantasy & sci-fi book author, and persona extraordinaire.

    and of course clickbait, bullshitter extraordinaire.

    https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/r/Fedora/comments/jtbkv1/fedora_33_review_by_dedoimedo_i_dont_know_about/

    a few opinions

    I’m of the same opinion when it comes to Dedoimedo.

    I used to enjoy his stuff but it sounds like he’s soured on Linux distros in general over the years. Most of his complaints boil down to typical Windows users complaints about Linux. Which is fine, because I suppose that’s the audience whose views he’s trying to reflect (people who want their systems to “just work”), but it places unfair expectations on Linux distros to be something they’re no

    I, too stopped trusting Dedoimedo’s reviews quite some time ago. The issues he has always seem to be the same and often are things I can’t reproduce. Also often, like in this review, his qualms are more with the chosen DE not the actual distro. Why would review a GNOME distro if you hate GNOME? Just so you can then complain about it?

    The irony is, that his review on KDE was glowing and with KDE he seems to be more than willing to ignore all the little niggles or they magically disappear on his usually fickle machine.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•5 reasons to switch to an immutable Linux distro today - and which to try first
    22·
    13 days ago

    ZDNET’s key takeaways

    A very hard sell, all positive, shill work.

    1. Immutable Linux distributions are the future. sounds like ai promotion!
    2. There are several reasons why immutable is the way to go. only positive reasons!
    3. From security to predictability, you can’t go wrong with immutable. of course not!

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    1. Improved security: you might consider it on a server being DDoS all day or poorly set up by the maintainer.

    Security is great on linux, You dont this on a desktop distro.

    1. Better reliability: you might consider it on a server being DDoS all day. or poorly set up by the maintainer.

    reliability is great on linux, You dont this it on a desktop distro.

    I have been using linux for 20 years and never borked anything.

    This includes distro’s: Kali, ParrotOS, Debian, linux mint, unbuntu, manjaro, arch, Archman, Blackarch, Endeavour, raspberry pi, sparky linux and the old ArcoLinux, on and on.

    1. Atomic updates : A/B partitioning system

    sounds more like androids a/b partitioning system. and look how delicate that is

    apt, npm, AUR, pamac and pacman etc, have been working great for years,

    never had a package break! at install.

    1. Simplified maintenance: My god, what!

    Suitable for experienced users and lazy bastards.

    1. Reproducibility:

    With an immutable system, you are always guaranteed to have a bootable system. The updates for an immutable system have been well-tested by the developers, which means the updates are easily reproducible

    All those shitty updates I installed over 20 years, none failed, and all the updates had been tested by the developers.

    and more and more reasons not to go with immutability

    too much hard sell

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@programming.dev•What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land?
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    17 days ago

    My niece, same age. no problems so far

    I installed linux mint xfce on an old laptop for her.

    we set it up together and she loves it. Themes icons and all that jazz.

    I have hidden and removed items from the start menu. Just to keep it simple.

    I also set up some aliases so she just has to open a terminal and type “update”. she loves that. Thinks she’s a hacker now and impresses her friends.

    I have set up an alias to call bleachbit, so she just types “cleanup” in the terminal, types her password, and she can watch bleachbit do its thing. I explained to her how important it is to keep her machine clean, like housework at home.

    I must say, Kids are a nighmare for attracting viruses and malware using windows, its not the best age to suddenly be thrust into the slop of the internet.

    They are young and excitable and will click on anything and everything that catches their attention without giving it a second thought.

    Its a big plus not worrying about viruses and malware on linux.

    To stop her having free reign and accidentally seeing porn on the internet and protect her from the worst crap, I installed Mullvads DNS on linux and in the librewolf browser.

    Mullvad have a fabulous family dns filter; https://family.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

    here are the options:

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    I have set the search engine to Startpage

    I have also taken advantage of Ublock origin and added loads of these is the: my filters list

    just a few of many to stop access to certain websites from the search pane

    This one stops amazon links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“.amazon.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.amazon.”]:upward(1)

    This one stops ebay links appearing in the startpage search

    startpage.##.g:has(a[href=“ebay.”])

    startpage.##a[href=“.ebay.”]:upward(1)

    I spent more time on this than anthing else;