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The Buttercup project is coming to an end

I've spent a long time debating this decision, but it's one that I need to make, since the project has all but stagnated. You've probably noticed or suspected this, if you've come into contact with any of Buttercup's repositories recently. While many of you have helpfully been reporting issues, there have been few responses (especially from myself) and even fewer PRs addressing them.

I wouldn't call this burn-out, first and foremost.. I honestly feel fine and excited by the prospect of developing OSS even. That being said, I do feel substantial relief at the thought of putting Buttercup onto potentially permanent hiatus. The project is enormous in scope - it would be for a small team of developers, let alone a single dev working full time who lacks both the energy and motivation to support the project. I've tried getting more serious help on board too, though since Sallar (the other co-founder) left it's honestly been just myself holding the fort. It's a passion

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Install NixOS with BTRFS and IN-RAM root

1. Format and partition the hard drive

Create the GPT partition table
- $ parted /dev/sdX mklabel gpt
Create the UEFI FAT32 partition (which will be /dev/sdXY)
- $ parted /dev/sdX mkpart esp fat32 1MiB 512MiB
- $ parted /dev/sdX set 1 esp on
- $ parted /dev/sdX set 1 boot on

$ mkfs.fat -F 32 -n UEFI /dev/sdXY

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Feature comparison

A/V calls in Conversations

Encrypted Btrfs storage setup and maintenance guide

Initial setup with LUKS/dm-crypt

This exemplary initial setup uses two devices /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc but can be applied to any amount of devices by following the steps with additional devices.

Create keyfile:

dd bs=64 count=1 if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/cryptkey iflag=fullblock
chmod 600 /etc/cryptkey

	(cors) {
	@cors_preflight method OPTIONS

	header {
	Access-Control-Allow-Origin "{header.origin}"
	Vary Origin
	Access-Control-Expose-Headers "Authorization"
	Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true"
	}

	<?php

	/**
	* Pico redirect plugin
	*
	* Adds a `Redirect` meta header to redirect to other URLs. The meta header
	* supports URL substitution variables, namely %base_url%, %plugins_url%,
	* %themes_url%, %assets_url% and %theme_url%.
	*
	* Example:

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# credit: https://github.com/a-schaefers/themelios

	set -euxo pipefail

	die() {
	[ $# -gt 0 ] && printf -- "%s\n" "$*"
	exit 1
	}

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# This file echoes four gradients with 24-bit color codes
	# to the terminal to demonstrate their functionality.
	# The foreground escape sequence is ^[38;2;<r>;<g>;<b>m
	# The background escape sequence is ^[48;2;<r>;<g>;<b>m
	# <r> <g> <b> range from 0 to 255 inclusive.
	# The escape sequence ^[0m returns output to default

	SEPARATOR=':'