MonkderDritte @ MonkderDritte @feddit.de

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Could you send some evidence

No i can't. All i know is that there was some uproar about this a week ago.

Optimizing your system for space is usually wasted effort in Linux, this is not Windows. To get what uses all the space, there's plenty of storage analyzing tools like Baobab, qdirstat, etc.

• It’s an attempt to replace cross site tracking methods, which are terrible

Doesn't work with total cookie protection anyway.

You can of course not give users a choice. And a lot of applications do their own thing, having their own variables like GOPATH or a cli option like --config or some way to do that in a config file like Idea IDEs. But implementing XDG from start is miles simpler for all parties, it's good practice to have your paths and variables somewhat organized in code anyway.

In this case it would be XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/config. That simple.

This standard makes your software's paths user-configurable, giving users a choice.

And i wish there was a separate XDG_LOG_HOME or $HOME/.local/log, with logrotate preconfigured to look there.

What language? Python has PyXDG.

In shell it's simply

    
XDG_DATA_HOME="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-"$HOME"/.local/share}"
XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME"/.config}"
etc.

  

Where did i read this... basically, the .file being hidden being a bug in the early unix filesystem, which got misused to hide configuration files.

Offenders despite XDG-variables set and with no workaround:

• .android: hardcoded in adb and i guess something in mtp too
• .pki: some tool/library Firefox and Chromium sometimes use.
• .steam: yes, that

Btw, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

Yeah, why would you do sports in death valley?

I mean, i'm swiss and we did a thing called "Geistige Selbstverteidigung", mental self-defense, with mythos of Wilhelm Tell & focus on independence in WW2. But we don't anymore. Why do you still do?

But may still be a cult thing.

Well, less people are listening new releases each year, more are listening old songs...

You were in grade school when this was made.

Guys, younger than 30 giving tipps to older than 30. Younger to older.

Why is everyone giving relationship advice as if it were the reverse?

Lol no, that statement is way too comprehensible for Trump.

pushed against secret service to face cameras and have his head exposed for a long period of time?

Ok, that's in the range of "you don't have anything to hide if you're innocent", shut up.