And, again. You cannot do that from GUI either. There’s no default option that allow you open tabs by default. Thanks God it opens new location in a new tab when I press things like Ctrl + Enter. But even opening downloads dir from Firefox opens the new window by default, if I’m not wrong right now. I just stopped using that feature because of that. But I doubt it’s fixed.

And seems like nobody cares to even reply three months later.

Well, there’s my comment. But thanks for the first link! Haven’t seen it, or I don’t remember it.

It’s quite similar to what I want. Not exactly, but today’s situation is just wrong. I open two paths and each is a new window. I’d love to have the option to just add tabs to my current window. But at least having a set of paths to be opened in one window, instead of one window for each path, it’s just useless.

I see French bloated my system to the fullest!

How can I make it a default?

When I open a new Nautilus instance, it’s always a new window. There’s no way to open a tab, not a window. The only way I know is to press ctrl + t in the app. Or open a new window, new tab, drag the tab I need to window-1, and close just opened tab-2 on the window-2.

I have automations that open new Nautilus windows with given paths (e.g. all the directories I need for a particular project I’m working on), all of them are opened with new windows. When that’s just one new window it’s irritating, but manageable. But if I open even three new paths that way, I have three new windows, which is useless and irritating even on my huge 27” Quad HD display. On top of that, Nautilus likes to crash if I suddenly open three new windows. (My computer is plenty powerful.)

Last time I checked (which wasn’t too long ago, half a year or so) that wasn’t a thing, and the developers stated it’s a complication they never plan implementing. All I need is just one fucking cli parameter, not even a ‘open tabs by default’ checkbox.

I assume folks who downvoted me are not aware of this, obviously.

Dolphin has this and works perfectly. But it’s too bloated to my liking. I really like Nautilus, so I just live without this feature and manage my work projects with CLI file managers. (Usually ranger, but not limited to it.)

I’m curious about Jellyfin-tui and its uses. Is it that your music on your server, and you just stream it with your laptop? Sounds as something I’d like to try too. Do you have something to comment on this?

Oh, thanks, I missed it. It’s a very long thread. I’ve read only the first 40 messages so far, so I cannot really comment on that. But here is a nice advice from there:

FWIW It is possible to run Syncthing via Termux — it’s not as integrated but it runs fine.

What is wrong with the fork from F-Droid? I use it. I see no difference with the original, I’d say it’s even better. If you don’t trust them for some reason, why discard Syncthing as a project? I assume it can be built then. But I have no idea how.

By the way, I’m happy to use Sushi Train on iPhone. Works very well, and is lovingly polished. Now Syncthing is a centrepiece of my workflow to sync my files.

File manager to open new tabs, instead of windows.

The easiest way would be getting the cheapest SSD (even 30 GB is enough for most distros), swap your current disk with it, play around, and return where you were, if you don’t like anything.

It’s like you’d do anything than read some short book on Linux basics and learn these 15 new things you never knew about, so you’d actually understand at least something about the system you’re going to use all your life.

Here I mean a computer operating system. Whatever you’d use, you don’t have many options, and assuming you’d not stop using a PC, kinda makes sense to learn the basics.

I don’t know, Windows kinda sucks. It’s literally the worst, you wouldn’t find a system that is worse, would you?

If you’d at least said same things about macOS, which is polished and truly was the best polished system (at least pre macOS 26). But Windows. LOL, it’s like a North Korean someone boasting how cool their country is, the best quality of life in the world. Same vibes. Looks rather miserable.

Have you tried a non-tech solution, like putting the drives into some noise absorbing materials, or isolating the sound with the hard case, things like that? That may sound not really obvious, but my guess is that you can at least get some noise off with a solution like this.

I won’t go with SSDs for a NAS as it’s very expensive. But if money of no concern, that Beelink thing looks impressive.

Just for the record, Arch USB ISO has arch-chroot command that does everything needed. So it’s quite easy to troubleshoot, when needed. Just mount what you need and arch-chroot there.

It was today when I first heard of it!

Using Arch for ~7 years or so! Both servers and desktops. Always just manually vimdiff’ed things.

I wanted one to run Linux as on a smartphone (with a battery), and to use the keyboard. So, without any hardware modifications. But it looks like it’s not cheap, even if I’d find it somewhere. So I gave up on the idea. Maybe, I’d just buy some tiny laptop for that.

Definitely overkill. Depends on your use case though. I have the same computer that I use for HTPC. It’s running Kodi + Transmission. The OS is Fedora, but I could get away with LibreELEC. It’s just that I had Fedora already and didn’t bother to reinstall.

What I don’t like about this computer is that it’s very power hungry if compared to a less powerful one. I have a separate Orange Pi Zero and I’m super happy about it. It serves two functions: downloads torrents and shares them via UPnP (with miniDLNA package). So it’s turned on 24/7, while this big computer is on only when I want to play something.

Immich, I don’t know. I’m yet to discover how it works. I think maybe I’d turn it on when I need it, so that may be an option. This potential computer of yours, if you could turn it on via Wake on LAN, that could help tremendously, if you care about power consumption. Most of the computers I saw have this feature in their bios.

If you don’t care about power consumption, I think that’s a decent computer. It can run everything, or almost everything no problem. I think you can run a lot of services with it.

All the computers in my infra are super cheap used devices, the first one was hands me down computer some people wanted to throw away, so they asked me to utilise, if I could. I took it, and only later I realised it can be utilised this way. That computer is mostly off, as it’s even more power hungry.

To learn, you can restore literally any computer. To run something long-run, best is N100 or similar mini computers. They are cheap, run cold, some have no active coolers (so, silent), and sip power. That’s what I plan to implement to my home, once I’d settle on what I need.

Thanks for not much, I have never heard of it before.

Did anyone try CLI clients, like (neo)mutt for that? I expect it can be set up on a server (if we consider self-hosting) and do this job automatically. While all the AI thingy feels like magic, my practical experience shows that there are just some keywords or even just the sender, with which mails can be sorted.

Yeah, they did drop a missile without any explosives in Lviv. Just a piece of fucking metal. That’s certainly new. Was worth panicking for the US embassy.

I surely underestimated them. Next time they’d shoot some garbage from Moscow, I guess. Like rotten apples or a missile full of dead rats. They has to demonstrate they haven’t even started to fight with their full might.

Because it’s not really safe to install random unverified software. You’re supposed to review the make file before running it.

However, there are helpers, look for paru or yay, then it’s as simple as installing with pacman.

Well, civilians is their primary target, and always was. I have some experience of living in Russia, some long time ago, so, back in 2022, I was genuinely surprised they have something to make war longer than a week or two. I thought everything was stolen. But turned out I just understood their culture and especially history not well enough. So, I’m not surprised about seeing donkeys in their attacks on the front lines. As, again, their primary target is us, civilians. Here, they improve their attacks, as I see it. But I cannot believe they can do anything new that we haven’t seen before. They tried everything already. Even nukes wouldn’t be as significant, only the damage is bigger, apparently.