TIL. Looks like I will be installing Nushell. This is neat. Especially how everything returns the final value.

I don’t know of any comprehensive source but there are a few basic things you that I do.

1. Ensure sudo is on the system so that root account is not used.
2. Get a secure browser that with add ons to protect against malicious sites (https everywhere, JavaScript blockers, etc…)
3. Download software from trusted repositories and verify with GPG keys or hashes. Be wary on installing anything using a shell script with super user access.
4. Use keys instead of passwords for ssh if you are going to use ssh.
5. Password tools like Vaultwarden and KeePass can help secure passwords.
6. You can encrypt your hard drive with LUKS before you install Linux with many distros.
7. Flatpak (Docker as well) can allow you to run applications with limited access to your system much like phone apps on Android. This can be more secure but comes with larger app sizes and limits what you can do with the app sometimes (e.g. browsers not being able to upload files because they don’t have full filesystem access)
8. If you want a firewall on your workstation (not needed much anymore with hardware firewalls from routers), UFW makes it easy
9. If you want to check for viruses use ClamAV (ClamTK for a GUI app).

A raspberry pi 4 or 5 and some fast USB 3 hard drives.

PyLoad isn’t a container I run 24/7 because the use cases are a bit limited. Basically, if I have a large list of files that I want to pass to my NAS (perhaps a list from something like DownThemAll) that won’t complete in a short sitting, I will pass that list to PyLoad so it can just run the background.

I once downloaded about 2,000 or so office files and tools like this have let me do that automatically.

Exactly, since KasmVNC can run GUI programs in the browser and the Linux server.io base image is just Debian, it was trivial to just run it with Emacs instead. I much prefer Emacs over VS Code because of Org Mode. While VS Code works well in a browser. It isn’t what I wanted.

Here is where I have posted my Emacs Dockerfile. It might be a little out of date. Emacs Docker

EDIT: The Dockerfile also installs the fonts I like for Emacs along with git and hunspell.

EDIT: You could also probably achieve something similar with a Docker container run ning Apache Guacamole.

You can use the Linuxserver.io VSCodium Image and replace VSCodium with Emacs in the Dockerfile.

• Calibreweb
• FreshRSS
• Grampsweb
• Emacs
• Gitea
• Stirling-PDF
• Vaultwarden
• Pihole
• Pyload
• Glances
• Syncthing
• Homepage
• Karakeep

Firefly III is an option, but I found it difficult to set up and the importer tool works well for Europe but not the US.

You could also just create your own Docker container which has Skrooge, GnuCash, or KMyMoney in it. I have done this with Skrooge since it imports data well and is simpler than GnuCash.

With the Linuxserver.io KasmVNC base image and install any GUI application to run it from a browser.

I think in many ways it feels like a more traditional spreadsheet, but I could see where it could also be a bit more difficult for some than Org tables.

All the cells and numbers are similar to that such as other spreadsheet programs like Excel (A1, B1… etc). Formulas are entered below at the bottom of the buffer using Emacs lisp. These will be hidden unless you widen the buffer. This could be a challenge for some compared to the syntax for Org tables. Although, if you are comfortable juggling all the parentheses in Excel formulas, Lisp should be similar in many ways.

Here is a good Outline.

For those who don’t know. Emacs has a built in spreadsheet called Simple Emacs Spreadsheets or SES.

Alternatively, tables in Org mode can also be set up to act like spreadsheets as well and they come with robust options for calculations, plotting with Gnuplot, or importing the data into source code blocks.

If you want to increase the speed of Emacs and you have a lot of Emacs Lisp files in your .emacs.d directory, compile angel is a neat tool that will compile your Emacs Lisp files so that it runs faster.

Compile Angel

Yes, just because the source code is available doesn’t mean it is licensed for others to take. Now we have AI tools that have scraped the web for all of its content and won’t see the difference between source available, open source , and free and open source. It is possible that those who use AI tools could be unknowingly using code without the license to do so.

This argument in this article is poor. An analogy would be:

“Because donating free food to the poor might feed future criminals, we should no longer provide free food.”

Here is a quick trick to start. I recently discovered the identity function in Emacs lisp which can be useful when combined with other Emacs lisp functions. For instance, to take any Emacs lisp list and create a string separated by a space, you can do the following:

(mapconcat #'identity mylist " ")

Very useful for making lisp to create strings that work on the command line.

I haven’t tried Lem in Emacs (yet) but you could always convert your favorite communities to an RSS feed and then browse that with Elfeed. That is what I did with Reddit. You can covert a Lemmy feed to RSS with these directions https://openrss.org/blog/lemmy-rss-feeds