I’m a professor of Religious Studies with a research focus on medieval Islam, particularly with regard to Sufism, the occult sciences, and manuscript culture. I also interested in all things linux, occult, scifi, UFO, and anarchist.
I’m guessing you’re not old enough to remember Ronnie Reagan calling the Soviets “the evil empire.” Tensions were incredibly high in the early 80s, and the Republicans were super hawkish about it. I was a kid at the time and convinced we were all going to die in a nuclear holocaust.
I’ve been using tmsu for years to manage thousands of pdfs and images for my academic research.
It can be set up to work with a webdav database. So yes, you could self-host the database and access it from clients with local zotero installs.
I’m on it now on arch. TBH it’s kinda making my life harder because some things I’m used to using have moved. I’m sure I’ll see the advantages of it at some point.
That’s impressive even just from a n/vim perspective. Thanks.
With that minimal self-hosted version, do you know if you can log into it using the firefox extension on linux? The only client they mention is the iOS one.
The irony is that once you find your way around through the default keys and search a little you soon discover how easy it is to reset them with “sane” settings. Same for window frames, etc. But yes, there’s definitely a learning curve.
Like, in a bad way?
endeavourOS
spiral linux
Why porteus? That seems like a very specialized distro, and the fact that it’s optimized to run on usb sticks might have something to do with the filesystem issue. If this is just for a laptop or desktop then I’d recommend running a mainstream distro meant to be used on a pc. If you do that then ext4 will work fine. If you’re comfortable with ubuntu and not too freaked out by working in the terminal then why not try endeavourOS or something along those lines?
undefined> “Could be interpreted”; “veiled threat” — that’s not news writing.
“Could be interpreted”; “veiled threat” — that’s not news writing.
It’s not news reporting, but it is news analysis, which is entirely valid and practiced at all mainstream media (and hard-right) publications as well. I agree that Truthout can sometimes be a bit melodramatic about it though.
When I lived in New Orleans in the '90s “rockstar” meant “crackhead,” and I still laugh when I see it used in a positive sense.
I’d have to say China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station.
I’ve been trying to get into the first Gormenghast book and finding it difficult to get into the swing of. Does it get any easier as you go?
For my research (humanities) I self-host linkding to keep track of web stuff and use tmsu to tag all my local files (pdfs, images, etc). I also use zotero for biblatex/word processor integration. I admit it gets a little clunky working across those systems, but the key for me is keeping the tags consistent across all of them. I guess I’d be interested in an all-in-one solution, but I’m years deep into this setup, so I can’t imagine the effort it would take to transfer everything over.
I write for a living (academic) and have also been keeping personal journals since I first learned to write. For my academic writing I’m all digital, but I always journal by hand. In my experience there are quite very different types of thought and composition involved between the two, and I value them both immeasurably. So now, I don’t think paper is ever going away.
Digital is also shitty for long-term text storage, frankly. Data formats change constantly, software to read stuff changes constantly, disks go bad, the power goes out, and so on. The only thing that comes close to rivaling the durability/reliability of paper kept in a dry dark place and free of bookworms is clay tablets, and they’re a real hassle to make and lug around. Archivists know that if you really need to preserve a text you print it on paper and store it appropriately.
I love linkding, couldn’t live without it.