• dan@upvote.au
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    15 days ago

    but please don’t hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it’s not set.

    Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Oh, no. Don’t even make it a hidden folder, it needs to be right there, front and center. And make sure you use a bunch of capital letters in the name, because you’re so fucking important.

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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        15 days ago

        Hey! Would you mind guiding me as to what is going on in this picture? Is this an APP that allowed to SSH into your server? You got my attention with this picture, and I’m curious to hear more.

        • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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          15 days ago

          It’s Termux, basically a fully fletched terminal for Android. So you can install various tools via apt, and use them, for example yt-dlp, ffmpeg, gcc, python etc. And yes, you can also use SSH, both as server and client. I use it very often to connect to my servers on the go.

          You can even use chroot to basically run a distro of your choice.

            • Magnetic_dud@discuss.tchncs.de
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              14 days ago

              It’s also incredibly useful to backup /sdcard via rsync or Borg every night automatically

              Or access the contents of your phone via SFTP

              • tritonium@midwest.social
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                12 days ago

                I like using syncthing. It syncs all my apps that are backed up with neobackup, my pictures, files etc. to my NAS. Then my NAS runs borg on that directory as well as all the other important NAS directories to make the legit backups.

                I have termux installed but I honestly rarely use it. Hate typing on the phone in the terminal… if I need to do it then I’ll just adb connect from my computer and do it from there on a real keyboard.