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@kungtotte

Hmm, when you say it doesn't track files outside of ~, do you mean "just in the ~ dir itself" or "~ and it's subdirectories"? (I.e., can it still track files in `~/.config` ?

@trawzified @kensanata @chozron

How do y'all deal with secrets in your config files? Or has that not come up?

Minimalist approaches like that sound good to me, but the secrets issue is what pushes me towards other solutions (thinking particularly of my `.muttrc` file)

^^^ cc @kungtotte —your recent toot about YADM was what reminded me that I really ought to get this set up.

@jeffalyanak yeah, agreed. I was recommending K&R if they do have a background in coding and just want to learn C

@dragnucs @brandon I don't get that feeling from a phone call, but I get it all the time from reading a good book.

(… what that may or may not say about my personality is left as an exercise for the reader)

@FreeCAD welcome to #fosstodon! I hope you like it as much as the rest of us do :-)

@naavis welcome to #fosstodon—sounds like you'll fit right in :)

@johanv is your friend who wants to learn C new to programming or just new to C?

If the former, I recommend the Harvard CS50 course (free online) the first half of it is all in C and does a really good job of laying out basic CS principles while also introducing C.

If they are just new to C, I think it's tough to do better than K&R, even after all these years

What do y'all think: cron jobs or systemd.timers?

(Given that I'm running a distro that already has systemd as its init system.)

Slightly put off by the third link—which is a live link to the page the user is *currently on*. Why do websites ever do that? Do they think I'm going to print their site? But they don't even have a url, so that wouldn't work …

#ui #ux

@WB welcome to #fosstodon!

@remy welcome to #fosstodon—from that introduction, it sounds like you'll fit in great!

@rtwx @njha what was the video? I'd be interested in learning more about Wayland versus x

@schlink @retrohacker I haven't read that article yet, but I'm a fan just based on the pun in the headline!