Clay_pidgin

I don’t like the idea on general, but I agree with the developer whose thread I read that suggested systemd was a good place to store the data so we don’t end up with several layers from kernel to distro publisher to DE trying to roll their own.

That was gonna be my question.

I really appreciate your detailed suggestion and description of what you’ve done. Especially, I like that you attribute the app developer. You’re a good egg.

Do you need any particular kind of fire stick? Do they require an Amazon login?

That seems like a good tip.

Or don’t execute she’ll commands written in the email, and instead have a plain English command that, if detected, triggers a specific shell command. That way nobody could arbitrarily run code, only the commands you’ve built into the listener.

Gotcha. That probably is true.

I’m sorry, it seems to me that your first statement and supporting paragraph are taking the opposite position.

I don’t understand why they bother with the “modern” method if the fallback works so well and is much simpler and cheaper.

Arch is a linux distribution

Hyperland tiles the windows (so they fill up the screen instead of floating)

Helix is a text editor

Kitty is a terminal / console

LibreWolf is a Firefox version

Helix is the only part that really answers your question. https://helix-editor.com/

That’s what I use too.

Don’t recall but you’re probably right.

Want Gnome? services.displayManager.gdm.enable = true; services.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;

Want KDE? services.displayManager.sddm.enable = true; services.displayManager.sddm.wayland.enable = true; services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;

Yeah, home still gets ugly if you are adding/removing stuff all of the time.

I’m looking at adding impermanence to wipe everything every boot, and keep my non nix files (like games) in another partition.

But it’s worth noting that as with regular Linux distro, you can get easily switch the DE. I think it’s only two lines of config.

I’ve no idea what’s underneath, really. I’ll ask and see what I learn.

I honestly think we provide a significant impetus for improvement on their side. They have lots of other customers, but most aren’t as involved and embedded in the data as we are.

That’s not a bad idea. Usually, so far, their frontend team doesn’t hear about the changes either!

They have accepted the penalties as the cost of doing business, and the decision makers on my side are worried about opening it up again. It’s a custom hardware + custom software thing so there aren’t that many options!

That’s a good thought. It’s a connection to one or more databases on their side, but it’s read only. I suppose that’s possible!

We’re both in a really niche market and the other vendors don’t seem much better!

I’m 3,500 miles from the vendor’s devs, sadly.

Asking them to put the swagger file itself behind the API is a good idea. Their dev backlog is 3-24 months.

I used the same trick to determine the required headers and parameters - I checked their website which uses the same API.

The source of their delays is that different devs or teams “own” different endpoints and make their changes without documenting. It’s annoying, stuff like the same data being in field “hostId” on one endpoint but “deviceId” on another.

Appreciate the input. You aren’t wrong!