I’m trying out ivpn, and find it a viable alternative so far (comparing a Mullvad Wireguard config vs. ivpn app, on resp. Linux & Android)

You can have a look at Roblox’s Exodus report, if you’re curious about the trackers/permissions. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/729804/

Didn’t know all of them, thanks for sharing! Also stumbled upon Helix, which looks pretty neat

Exciting you’re interested in the terminal. Personally I find it an invaluable tool, it’s powerful and versatile, suitable for almost any task. So as you learn, I’d encourage you to be concious about what you find interesting or fun, whether it is the coding-, problem solving-, automation-part, or an entiely different aspect.

There are several gamified introductions to programming, scripting and using the shell, which may be a good start. Some of my favourites (off the top of my head) are:

• “The Bandit” on Over the Wire to get familiar with the basics of the shell (terminal).
• Rustlings a collection of small exercises, and a great intro to tge Rust programming language

Care to elaborate?

Dumb question here, but you did remember to point at a directory to mount the share to, right?

Part from that, I’ve encountered needing to provide the domain as well (typically WORKGROUP) as the credentials for a user with access to the given share. Furthermore providing username and password on the command-line is known to have some issues, thus I encourage you to provide them in a credential file, which would look something like this:

username=value
password=value
domain=WORKGROUP

My typical command, changed for your case, would be:

mkdir -p ~/mounted_music
sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/creds //DESKTOP-N840KKP/My\ Music ~/mounted_music

Not sure I’ve encountered it myself, but some shares doesn’t support Unix Extensions which can be disabled with “nounix”, you might want to define access rights then either “rw” or “dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777”. (0777 is not a good practice, but it’ll do for testing) thus something like the following options argument.

-o credentials=~/creds,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,nounix

Looks interesting, I’ll have to dig a bit deeper into it! Thanks for sharing :)

I did use the previous one. Liked it well enough, despite having some config issues. (definitely my own fault though)
But then it entered maintenance mode, and I had a few alternatives to try out … It’s good to see it lives on though, so I’ll keep an eye on it as I might give it another go, thanks :)

Perhaps it is time I delved into the world of Emacs. I’ll check org-mode out, thanks :)

Thanks for sharing, looks really cool! Especially with how prevalent markdown is.

Hopefully this isn’t too off topic/thread derailing:
As a longtime LaTeX enjoyer, lately I’ve become increasingly infatuated by Typst. With Excalidraw quickly winning my favour as well …
However I find myself daydreaming of some of Obsidian’s powerfull features for knowledge graphing/“second brain”-ing, but given various reasons, never successfully convinced myself to use it. (Primarily: markdown seemingly a bit too simplistic for my preference, and Obsidian, to my knowledge, not being open source(?))
Instead I’ve tried some alternatives, each with excellent ideas, unfortunately none really hitting home with my wierd brain. e.g. Zim, LogSeq, SiYuan, ...

As such I’m curious to hear about others’ setup, and thoughts. - Is Some(Quarkdown + Obsidian) perhaps what I’ve truly been longing for for?

I think the people behind Session cares for their mission, and it might align with OP’s, so maybe. Although I personally am not too fond of about all their choices.

The omission of Forward Secrecy for instance doesn’t sit well with me. Each to their own though, and they do go into their reasoning on their blog: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

Likewise their last audit from 2021, lists quite a handful of critical/moderate issues in their apps, hopefully they’ve fixet it. Afterall it’s been a while since 2021. https://getsession.org/faq#security-audit