I don’t know if you’ve tried Kate, but it does most of this. It can act as an IDE, but it’s first and foremost a text editor, which is similar to Notepad++ (iirc, it’s been a while). The toughest requirement to meet would be

-User created language rules and formatting (An example use case is a personal path of exile’s loot filter) … without too much of a learning curve

https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/highlight.html is the documentation for how you’d do that, and https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/tree/master/data/syntax has all of the built-in syntax highlighters.

It also runs on Windows, so you can give it a spin and see what you think. It’s unfortunate that NP++ is tied so directly to Windows APIs, but I wonder how hard it would be to use winelib to make a decent Linux version.

What features from Notepad++ are you wanting in an editor?

You’ve got it backwards. Of the two, Windows is closer to the open source ethos. Apple is a total control freak. Obviously both are bad, though.

This has placed the prime minister in a political vise. If he commits to postwar Palestinian rule in Gaza and begins acting seriously to establish it, he loses the far right. But if he commits to resettling Gaza, he loses the Israeli majority and the international community. And so, as he has often done in the past, Netanyahu has chosen not to choose

Oh, he’s chosen.

I’ve been happy with btrfs. No issues with gaming. There’s even a pretty good Windows driver, which I’ve used successfully to transfer data between Linux & Windows. Though I haven’t installed Windows itself to btrfs, which is apparently possible!

Don’t go to https://massgrave.dev/ and follow the instructions there, that would be copyright infringement and would deprive an already insanely wealthy corporation of some funds.

I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch as those who did not learn repeat it.

Technology and policy matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

I’m useless no matter what OS I use ;)

Is there a reason this requirement doesn’t apply to iMessage as well?

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can’t keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

Yep. But,

sudo tee /usr/local/bin/nvim <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
flatpak run io.neovim.nvim "$@"
EOF
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nvim

(I haven’t tested this, that I use similar code for a different program)

It sure would be nice if flatpak bundled some functionality to do this for you, though.

@oldfart@lemm.ee

I think its biggest weakness is also its biggest strength: isolation. Sometimes desktop integration doesn’t work quite right. For instance, the 1password browser extension can’t integrate with the desktop app when you use flatpak firefox.

I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.

Here, I drew the word “Just” in this post

[Caption for the visually impaired: “Atlas holding up the celestial globe” by Guercino]

IMO the best way to ensure that traffic always goes through a VPN is to use network namespaces. The wireguard website has an article describing the process. In a nutshell, you create a dedicated namespace to put the physical interface in, create the wireguard interface in that namespace, then move the wireguard interface to the root (“normal”) namespace. That way the only way to get traffic out without the VPN is to run a program in that dedicated namespace.

Headline has real “you want to improve society yet you participate in it” vibes

Glad to hear it!

Well, that’s your problem. sub?id is what defines which uids and gids are available to a user for purposes of making user namespaces. It’s strange that those files don’t already exist; useradd should create them automatically. What distro are you using?

Regardless, you can create those files yourself. Here’s a line from subuid my machine: administrator:100000:65536. The first field is the username (you can also use a uid), the second is the starting uid for the block of uids, and the third field is the number of uids in that block. So uids from 100000-165535 (inclusive) are allocated to the user administrator.

See https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7.html and https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/subuid.5.html for more details.