The use case sounds exactly like git-annex.

As a bonus you get a system that tracks how many copies of files and where you have them.

ELI5?

Do you happen to know any more recent documentation that would have similar diagrams?

Ugh, those GitHub comments are horrible. If I was the author, I would just walk away from the project. People have no shame in making demands for free work.

Sounds pretty close to Debian as far as I remember. In Debian those symlinks are called alternatives, and can be configured with update-alternatives. Not sure about the Python libraries though.

Are these made similarly to how Debian handles python2 and python3 for instance?

I’m not sure that anything short of a package manager that would compile everything from sources would be able to provide capability to pick and mix specific package versions.

Heh, Distrobox came to my mind when writing my comment. I haven’t used it enough to recommend it yet though.

I recall there are some other development container projects, but can’t remember the names right now.

Development containers are nice in theory. In practice, sometimes development environments are so complex that it might not be worth the trouble. But it’s good to have options.

Distro packages don’t really matter much in my experience. You either use project-specific package management or install stuff with Homebrew or Nix package manager. Sometimes maybe even containers.

One problem with distro packages is that you can only install one version. And in practise a lot of software projects have outdated dependencies. Sometimes you have multiple projects with conflicting version dependencies.

When I checked a long time ago, there wasn’t.

And not only failures, often it’s useful to get mail for all executions.

I guess cron continues to have its place.

Is there any easy way to get mail of the runs like with cron?

De facto standard for how to write commit messages (and thus usually changelog messages).

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?h=v2.36.1#n181

Valve hasn’t heard of imperative mood for changelog entries, it seens.

Everything except mobile support points towards Emacs org-mode indeed.

If you can find something even close to it, I would be interested to know as well.

Thanks for taking the time to write this!

Interesting, I didn’t know about that.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

Do you use dropbear and manually input the password to unlock the LUKS partition, or have you scripted something to automate that?

Thanks for the comments. I agree on the general consensus, that once an encryption key enters the VPS, the encryption is compromised.

However, I’m thinking more in practical terms, eg. the service provider doing just casual scanning across all disks of VPS instances. Some examples could be: cloud authentication keys, torrc files, specific installed software, SSH private keys, TLS certificates.

Wow, I didn’t know reads deteriorate SSDs. What’s the reason? Is the rate significant?

5 k€? No wonder no one uses tape for home usage. You can come up with a lot of cheaper alternatives for that price.

Do unplugged SSDs eventually lose the data?