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Cake day: February 19th, 2025
  • Emma Livtocats@lemmy.world•Somebody had an adventureEnglish
    0•1 day ago

    I originally agreed with your first comment here (which you’ve changed) and I still do agree with the basic premise: that cats should not be allowed outdoors unsupervised.

    But tbh, now you’re just coming across as a bit of a dick who hates cats, which I don’t abide at all.

  • Emma Livtocats@lemmy.world•Somebody had an adventureEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    I have adopted a feral cat. I’ve also worked with them in the past (adoption preparedness at a no-kill shelter). Bringing them indoors, getting them used to being on a lead and harness outdoors (or otherwise supervised and contained), is one of the kindest thing you can do for them. For the ones living in colonies outdoors and incapable of being re-domesticated (the ones you wouldn’t try to adopt in the first place), there’s a reason TNR - trap, neuter, return - is a thing.

    Cats started associating with us all those thousands of years ago precisely because, generally speaking, they enjoy the comparatively “easy life” of living with ammenities and low stress. Perhaps we should have never encouraged their domestication in the first place; I’d leave that discussion for another day. But we’re here now and we have a responsibility.

  • Emma Livtocats@lemmy.world•Somebody had an adventureEnglish
    6•2 days ago

    I don’t understand why you’re being downoted. Didn’t even say cats don’t belong outdoors, just that they don’t belong outdoors unsupervised which a completely true take. For the record, I absolutely love cats which is why mine don’t go outside unsupervised. Two of mine have no interest in leaving the comfort of home (one does enjoy the balcony, on a harness for safety of course) and my third enjoys going out on his harness with me when the weather is nice (he has zero tolerance for snow though).

    All three are extremely affectionate, loving, and sociable and by all measures happy and content.

  • Emma LivtoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user’s experiencesEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    For backing up my home folder, I just plug in my external drive and use rsync from the terminal, like so (change to your user name; mine is gecko. Double check the paths and edit as necessary)

    rsync -av /home/gecko/ /media/gecko/media/emmahomebackup/ --delete --dry-run (test first, check for errors at the end of output, there shouldn’t be any unless you messed up the paths)

    then,

    rsync -av /home/gecko/ /media/gecko/media/emmahomebackup/ --delete

    This command will back up your home folder the first time you run it, and on subsequent runs will sync any changes that have occured since the last run.

    To restore, reverse the paths.

    For backing up my system files (basically, everything outside of my home folder) I just use Timeshift.

  • Emma LivtoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user’s experiencesEnglish
    4•2 months ago

    Config files for programs are in hidden folders in ~ (as you discovered) OR in ~/.config OR in ~/.local/share (yeah it’s a bit of a mess)

    Config files for flatpaks can be found under ~/.var/app (usually, some flatpaks have permissions to write outside that directory).

  • Emma LivtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?English
    13•2 months ago

    Just as my two cents, as a user - I like flatpaks because I can have up to date versions of certain applications on a more stable Debian base. I also like that application configs all go in one spot (~/.var/app/com.Example.example), and having granular permissions management per application. As for immutable distros, I’d happily use one if I wasn’t already getting all the stability I need from LMDE :)