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Cullen Hoback directed another HBO miniseries documentary about QAnon. He’s not a Q weirdo himself.

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On this same train of thought: there’s also git sparse-checkout which uses the skip-worktree bit under the hood, and may have an easier interface. I’m not sure though, I haven’t used it yet.

I haven’t seen git update-index --skip-worktree mentioned yet. You can read about the motivation for this feature in the git scm docs.

I have used it in the past when a professor wanted us to clone repos for assignments that included some opinionated settings for VSCode that I didn’t want to use. Skipping the work tree for that directory allowed me to change or delete the config files without git complaining every time I pushed or pulled or whatever, and the changes I made remained local.

You could set up a couple git aliases to “freeze” and “thaw” your config files on the second drive.

I’m a baby dev trying to collect some brain wrinkles. Can you expand that last point? What’s the downside of client side decorations? What’s a better alternative?

Maybe. Maybe knot.

^I’m ^^so ^^^sorry

It’s unfortunately not possible to swap between list and grid views with the gtk file-chooser. It’s a common complaint, but there doesn’t seem to be any movement to allow greater configuration.

There are some limited configuration options for the file-chooser exposed through dconf. The most accessible way to modify these is with Dconf Editor. You can find file-chooser settings at /org/gtk/settings/file-chooser/ and /org/gtk/gtk4/settings/file-chooser/, but it’s mostly things like whether to show hidden files by default or sort by a certain column by default.

I’m in the same boat as you; I wish the file-chooser had some more config available, but I just kinda live with it. It does seem like you can replace the gtk file-chooser though. the XDG Desktop Portal framework was originally designed to allow Flatpak applications to use native environment tools like file choosers, but it seems like you can use it to force a different file-chooser.