Yes, and in fact, the complete jetbrains toolbox works fine on Linux. Setup is commonly done by simply unzipping an archive.

Remmina is nice to manage remote access, see https://remmina.org/

I heard negative criticism of rustdesk in terms of security, can anyone confirm or refute this?

Hey, I changed my desktop background and color theme… but yes, customization for me is copying all my scripts to ~/bin and set a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal. I’m-old-Gandalf-meme around here

edit: yes, .vimrc as well

This is quite cool. They shattered a 40 year-old conjecture on map-insertion speed boundaries. To understand the practical impact I have to read the paper, but given their abundance in CS the potential is huge.

I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.

Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.

In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.

Frescobaldi as a front-end for Lilypond is quite nice as well

What do you recommend?

If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It’s likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.

Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, … (now, I’m here, using 4+ solutions).

If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.

1. Password Safe Pro
2. My Expenses
3. FL Studio, formerly Fruity Loops (also: Desktop)
4. Threema
5. Through the Ages (boardgame adaption)

Otherwise, I usually prefer free open source solutions (FDroid), but I regularly donate to keep the projects alive. 1 and 2 are small dev studios that I am happy to support.

Just wanted to add that it’s a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

edit: refering to the Desktop version

I could provide a low-effort option…

iconic!

My daughter wishes to contribute

Like this?

love the hat and also the grumpy face for the tech-duck (seemingly, you beat me to the idea)

Wenn man dem Wortlaut folgt ist doch die mau gesicherte Software selbst das strafbare Programm, das geeignet ist Daten auszuspähen. Das Passwort zum Zugriff auf Daten anderer Kunden hatte die auftraggebende Firma ja offenbar bereits vom Hersteller, und der ‘schurkische’ Programmierer hat verifiziert, dass das PW auch plain in der executable lebt. facepalm